Intro:
   G7
   C  F7  G  F  C

Verse 1:
C    Am  C7                      F               F7
I'm the first-person they talk about in all the books
C    Am  C7                      F                F7
I'm the perspective you can not doubt, see how I look
     C   Am  C7              F               F7
Control the narrative reliably, baby, it's all about me
    C            Am   C7                                  F              F7
and I wrote the book about throwing the book at those who don't do it by it

Pre-chorus 1:
            E                                Am
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
 Dm              G                  C       Cmaj7     Am  Am7
Beating my dead high horse off the high road to low ground
                F                   G                  C                       C7
‘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
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

Interlude: C    F7    G  F  C

Verse 2:
C  Am   C7               F                       F7
I loot plot armor from NPC's,  well, they are to me
   C     Am      C7                             F              F7
Trite, tropes, traits, traumas, trinkets, and treats; it's all XP
              C          Am            C7                   F                 F7
Look in the sky, it's a bird! It's a plane! No, it’s super-ego! The underdog you cheer for
     C              Am  C7                              F   F7
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
                 Dm              G               C    Cmaj7     Am
Where do you get off? Da, dasvidaniya, darling, Daleks in high collars
Am7  F               G                C                 C7
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
         Dm             G              C    Cmaj7   Am  Am7
Oh, like Alice fell to wonderland come Astroturf my Overton
     F           G              C                 C7
And bolden my demand to live by alternative facts

Bridge:
     F                 G          C      Cmaj7       Am    Am7
Her majesty says “the royal we demand a standard of loyalty
       F            G                 C                  C7
An agreement to be reverent, lick the emperor’s new boots”
     F                   G              E                          Am
The court fool got the guillotine, the witches the stake, you the dopamine
      Fm                             C
And Siemens made the Zyklon B but we all still get the flu.
   F               G                C7
We all do what we need to to get through. (It’s nothing new)
    Fm                G               C   C7
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
 Dit arrangement is de eigen interpretatie van de inzender, gedeeld voor privéstudie, educatie en niet-commercieel gebruik. Het onderliggende nummer, de songtekst en de muziek blijven eigendom van hun rechthebbenden. Om verwijdering aan te vragen, zie Juridische verklaring.