Belle Andamp; Sebastian It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career Lyrics

It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career Lyrics

He had a stroke at the age of 24

 It could have been a brilliant career

 Painting lines in a school that was too well known

 Painting lines with a friend that had gone before

 She challenged everyone to a fight

 But the prefects all backed down

 And they ran her out of town

 Cause she drank and swore and spoke

 Out of turn, she was the village joke

 

 She had a stroke at the age of 24

 It could have been a brilliant career

 Getting clients to finance her strategies

 Filling time in on Safeways on Saturday

 She wears the clothes of an emperor

 But her paintings are a sham

 And they're going for a grand

 When the dealers come to view

 Do they ever see the real you?

 

 He had a stroke at the age of 24

 It could have been a brilliant career

 Selling lies to the boys with the old Dansettes

 Pulling the wool, playing the fool, it's no wonder that

 He is dribbling spit tonight

 And the one he sent away

 Was the only one who stayed

 With a spoon and a decent book

 And you can tell by the way she looks he is sorry and resigned

 As he wets himself for the final time