Intro:
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   C  F7  G  F  C

Verse 1:
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I'm the first-person they talk about in all the books
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I'm the perspective you can not doubt, see how I look
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Control the narrative reliably, baby, it's all about me
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and I wrote the book about throwing the book at those who don't do it by it

Pre-chorus 1:
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So now I’m holding myself hostage Stockholm lust just looks for justice
            E                                        Am                A
And enough lefts don’t make the right but two wrongs do, oh man, Sun Tzu would love this
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Beating my dead high horse off the high road to low ground
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‘Cause if you shake your fists at snakes in grass it looks like punching down!

Chorus 1:
    F              G              C              Am
So God forbid I'm seen just as an average human being
          F            G              C                  A7
I mean, imagine if protagonists just died in the first scene
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I'm the gap between a tragedy and comedy
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don't come at me, I'm the main character and you have to like me

Interlude: C    F7    G  F  C

Verse 2:
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I loot plot armor from NPC's,  well, they are to me
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Trite, tropes, traits, traumas, trinkets, and treats; it's all XP
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Look in the sky, it's a bird! It's a plane! No, it’s super-ego! The underdog you cheer for
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Villains are everywhere, that's how I know that I'm the hero

Pre-chorus 2:
    E7                                     Am
So tie me to the train tracks, laugh and snidely twist your mustache
          E7                       Am                  A
Snidely Whiplash, Boris Badinov, ignorin’ me's bad enough
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Where do you get off? Da, dasvidaniya, darling, Daleks in high collars
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monologue and I outsmart them with a ray-gun and a tweet

Chorus 1:
    F              G              C              Am
So God forbid I'm seen just as an average human being
         F            G              C                  A7
I mean, imagine if protagonists just died in the first scene
F                G          E7         Am
I'm the gap between a tragedy and comedy
              Fm                              G                C
don't come at me, I'm the main character and you have to like me

Instrumental (x3): C   F7   G  F  C

Pre-chorus 3:
       E                            Am
Judge me by what my cover shows, author becomes beyond reproach
            E                                        Am   A
you don't know the prose, or if the spine is still intact
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Oh, like Alice fell to wonderland come Astroturf my Overton
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And bolden my demand to live by alternative facts

Bridge:
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Her majesty says “the royal we demand a standard of loyalty
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An agreement to be reverent, lick the emperor’s new boots”
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The court fool got the guillotine, the witches the stake, you the dopamine
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And Siemens made the Zyklon B but we all still get the flu.
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We all do what we need to to get through. (It’s nothing new)
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But I ain't done one xxxxxxx thing to you!

Chorus 2:
    F              G              C       Cmaj7   Am
So God forbid I'm seen just as an average human being
  Am7     F           G               C   C      Bbdim7
I mean, imagine if antagonists lacked any evil scheme
    F                G          E7         Am
And I'm the gap between a tragedy and comedy
              Fm                              G                C
don't come at me, I'm the main character and you have to like me
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