A Man of Great Promise chords by The Style Council
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I bought the paper
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yesterday and I saw the obituary
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And I read of how you died in pain -
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Well I just couldn't understand it
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If I could of changed that,
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then Lord knows I'd do it now
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But there is no going back -
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And what's done is done forever
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Verse 2
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But you were always chained and
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shackled by the dirt -
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Of every small town institution and every big
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town flirt
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And I think
Verse 3
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of what you might have been,
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a man of such great promise
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Oh but, you seem to forget the dream -
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And the more you saw you hated
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But let's not talk of blame,
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for what is only natural
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Like a moth going to a flame -
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You had a dangerous passion
Verse 4
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But you were always chained
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and shackled by the dirt -
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and every big town flirt
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All the things that you might have
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been - but who am I to say?
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Still I wonder -
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If it's in the cold earth
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you prefer to lay -
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If it's in the cold earth - you prefer
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to stay
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A Man of Great Promise
The Style Council
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