When I Was Cruel No. 2 Chords by Elvis Costello

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[Fm] _ _ _ [Ab] _ [Fm] _ _ I exit through the [Ab] spotlight [Fm] glare _ I step out into [Ab] thin [Fm] air
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[Fm] Into a perfume so rarefied [Eb] _ _ [Ab]
Here [Fm] comes the bride
[F] _ [Ab] Not quite aside this [Fm] night, she's [Ab] number [Fm] four _
There's number three just by [Ab] the [Fm] door [Eb] _ Those [Ab] in the know don't even flatter
If [Fm] they go [Eb] on and better [Ab] She was selling [Fm] speedboats in [Ab] a trade show
and it [Cm] mattered _ [Fm] Look at [Db] her now, [Fm] she's starting to yawn
She looks like she was born [G] to it But it was [Db] so much [Fm] easier
When I was cruel _ [Ab] _ [Fm] _ _ She reaches out her [Ab] arms to [Fm] me _ _
Imploring another [Gm] melody [Fm] _ [Eb] _ So [Fm] she can dance her husband out on the [G] floor
The captains of [Fm] industry just lie there with their fall _
In an old, pale _ carnation _ A satin sash in [Ab] velvet [Fm] elevation
[Eb] _ She [Fm] straightens the tipsy address of her spouse
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[Ab] While [Fm] herds recall [Ab] her honey [Fm] [Cm] house _ There'll be [Db] no sorrows left to [Fm] drown _
Early in the [Bb] morning in your [Fm] evening [G] gown [Db] But it was so much [G] _ [Fm] easier
When I was cruel
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entrance hall was arranged with [Ab] hostesses [Fm] and ushers
[C] Who [Fm] turned out to be the younger wives, [Ab] nurse and [Fm] schoolgirl [Eb] crushes
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Potting the waves of those few faint [Fm] [Eb] friends [Ab] Figures once [Fm] offered now are too [Ab] heavy to [Fm] [Cm] extend
The [Fm] ghostly first [Db] wife glides upstage whispering to [Ab] raucous talkers
Spilling [Fm] family [Bb] secrets out to flunkies and [Db] castrato rockers
See that girl, watch that [Fm] scene, taking the dance to queen _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Bb] _ _ [C] _ [Fm] Cute [Eb] _ _ _
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newspaper editors like playground [Fm] sneaks
_ Running a book on which a demon's [Ab] gonna last a [Fm] week
_ [Eb] One of [Ab] them [Fm] calls to me and he says, [Ab] I know [Fm] you
_ [Eb] You [Fm] gave me this tattoo [Ab] back in [Fm] 82
[Cm] _ You were a spoiled [Db] child then with a wreck of [Fm] plugs
_ And I was a [Bb] shaven-headed [Ab] seaside [Fm] thug
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[Fm] Things haven't [Db] really [Ab] changed that [Fm] much One of us is still getting paid too [Cm] much
[Fm] _ [Cm] _ There are some [Db] things I [Fm] stand for part
Remember how I was last retarded
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But it was [Db] so much _ [Fm] easier
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[Fm] at [Db] me now, just starting [Fm] to yawn _
She looks like she was born to [G] it
But [Db] it was so much [Ab] [Fm] easier
_ When I was cruel
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