It Could Have Been a Brilliant Career chords by 
Belle & Sebastian 
Key: E major•
Verse 1
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He had a stroke at the age of 24
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It could have been a brilliant career_
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Painting lines in a school that
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was too well known
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Painting lines with a friend
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that had gone before
Verse 2
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She chal_ lenged everyone to a fight
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But the prefects all backed down
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And they ran her out of town
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Cause she drank and swore an_ d spoke
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Out of turn,
Verse 3
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she was the vil_ lage joke
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She had a stroke at the age of 24
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It could have been a brilliant career_
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Getting cli_ ents to finance
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her strategies
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Verse 4
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Filling time in on
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Safeways on Sat_ urday
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She wears the clothes of an em_ peror
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But her paintings are a sham
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And they're go_ ing for a grand
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When the dealers
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come to view
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Do they ever see the real you?
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He had a stroke at the age of 24
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It could have been a brilliant career_
Verse 6
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Selling lies to the boys with
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the old Dansettes
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Pulling the wool, playing the fool,
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it's no won_ der that
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He is dribbling spit tonight
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And the one he sen_ t away
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Was the only
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one who stayed
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With a spoon and a de_ cent book
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And you can tell by the way she
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looks he is sorry and resigned
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As he wets himsel_ f for the fi_ nal time
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