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[Intro 1]
[G][Dm][G][Dm][A]
[G][Dm][G][Dm][G][Dm][G]
[Dm][G][Dm]
[G]Yeah

[Verse 1]
[Dm][G][Dm][A][G][Dm]
He [G]was the most handsome
in [Dm]a class of [D]twenty-two
And And he [G]knew it early on so
his [Dm]confidence kept growing
[G]By thirteen he had been with
[Dm]every girl deemed worth it
[F]To be [G]with in the village,
two years [Dm]either side of his [G]birthday
He played football, boy, could he play
He played every single
day and [Dm]he still [G]does[D]
[G]A scout from Crewe Alexander
[D]came to [G]watch him once
And they said that they were gonna

[Interlude 1]
be in touch
[Dm][F][C][F]
[Em]

[Verse 2]
He was the cap[G]tain of the team
without ever [Dm]asking [G]to be
And without ever being told,
that counts for a lot, still, be[C]lieve it or not
[G]Lo and behold, everyone fel[D]l in lin[G]e behin[Em]d
the [G]hair on his legs and hair on his lip
He was the-
[F][C][Dm][F]

[Verse 3]
[Em]
He could [G]smoke ten a day
and [Dm]still [A]run faster
[D]Than that [G]whippet that could
lap the racetrack [Dm]rabbit
He could [G]dabble in the snow,
rubbing [D]shoulders [A]with the rabble
And still [G]never ever touch
upon a [Em]habit
[F]At age sixteen,
he made his [C]choice to stay
And got [F]a job selling houses
in the [C]village
Which by [Dm]now had bec[F]ome such
a desirable place [C]to settle down
It [F]was classed not as a village,
[Em]but instead as a small town[G][Em][G][Bb][Gm][Bb][G]
(On the sunny, sunny side of
[Gm]the borough)
(You get [G]two brown bins)

[Verse 4]
Fortunately, despite the [G]influx of newcomers including,
for the first time
A [F]genuine authen[G]tic Italian restaurant run [Em]by
a family of [F]fantastic old school Neapolitans
[G]He was still the best at footbal[F]l,
and a most handsome man
Taking solace in that [G]fact as his little
world continued to [F]expand[C]
Woo
[F]

[Verse 5]
[C][Em]
By [G]the time he was [Gm]twenty,
[G]he'd now been wit[Dm]h all the[G] girls deemed worth it in the village
Five years either side of his [Dm]birthday
But it [G]was time to settle down and no
kiss had [Dm]ever felt so electric
[G]As the first he'd ever felt
all those years [Dm]ago
[G]Though she had nev[F]er strayed far,
hemmed in by his shad[C]ow
The torches lining the path of [F]her own dreams had
been growing [C]dimmer by the day and so
[Dm]Faster than [F]a dying star,
she cashed [C]in her chips and checked out
[F]Settled for him and subsequently
[Em]threw all her own ambitions away

[Verse 6]
[G]A promotion followed,
a mortgage, a marriage
A dog and children, a loft conversion
A dead dog, and a second home
on the Costa del Sol
In the hopes of stoking the coals
of two long lost souls
Which comes first,
counselling or keys in the bowl?
Put his own mother in a home
Got made redundant twice,

[Interlude 2]
never once was he on the dole
[G]

[Verse 7]
[G]Light head, black spots on his vision,
room spinning
Clutching the curtain waving from the window,
they thought he was grinning
He was grimacing, begging them to notice [Em]him,
twitching, [G]notice no one is helping him
The grandkids waving through
the rear windshield
As the big elec[Em]tric [G]gate draws
a line in between them
A fine, fine line between
benign and malignant
So [Em]get yourself checked,
book [G]yourself an appointment
So get yourself checked,
book yourself an appointment
So get yourself checked,
book yourself an appointment
So get yourself checked,
book yourself

[Verse 8]
The whole village and most of the town [G]came
out to mourn his end
A full house, he would've been so proud knowing
that no one said a bad [Gm]word about [Dm]him aloud
[G]He [F]wasn't perfect,
but [G]he was [F]my friend
[C]He wasn't perfect,
but he was one of [F]us
He was one [C]of us
[Dsus4]A plaque [G]bears his full name
on a bench by the water's edge
The dates he came [D]and went
[G]And a quote about life and death from a song
he'd [Dm]nev er heard
[Em]'Cause he wasn't too fond
of long [F]songs with lots of words
[C]If I were him,
I'd have never left the village [F]either
But I did, and I know full well
[Em]That there are more handsome men and better footballer
[Gm]s out there [G]in Greater [Gm]Manchester
They would've [D]cut him down to size if they could've,
but [Gm]what good would that do?
He bloomed and he grew and grew,
and still he was doomed
Same as me, same [F]as you
Same as everyone I ever [Cm]knew
You, sometimes still, I think [F]about you
Out [Gm]there, some[F]where,
float[Cm]ing in [C]the ether
[F]Born dyed in the[Gm] wool, never
knowing of a belly half full
So many of us just crabs in a barrel
With [Gm]no feasible means to escape
the inevitable cull
There are those that grow thick skins
quick for the sake of their sins
And the savvy folk that just keep their mouths
[Gm]shut and take it all on the chin
We collide with each other, we submit,
and we bare our teeth
Catch fish using giant metal ships
and scream with laughter
At 4AM staggering home
down moonlit country lanes
We cry because children are dying across the sea
and there is nothing we can do about it
Whilst we benefit [Gm]from the bombs dropped
which we had no part in building
We are sorry, truly we are sorry,
we are just trying to get by too