[Intro]
C F G G7 C
[Verse 1]
C Am C7 F
I’m that first person they talk about in all the books
C Am C7 F
I’m that perspective you cannot doubt, see how I loathe
C Am C7 F
Control the narrative reliably, it’s all about me
C Am C7 F
And I wrote the book about throwing the book at those who don’t do it by it
[Pre-Chorus]
E
And I’m holding myself hostage
Am
Stockholm lost its looks for justice
E Am
And enough lefts don’t make the right but two wrongs do
A
Oh man, Sun Tzu would love this
Dm G C Am
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]
F G C Am
So god forbid I’m seen just as an average human being
F G C Am
I mean imagine if protagonists just died in the first scene
F G E7 Am
I’m the gap between a tragedy and comedy
Am
Don’t come at me
Fm C
I’m the main character and you have to like me
C Am C7 F
So I loot plot armor from NPC’s
F
That’s all they are for me
C Am C7 F
Trite, tropes, traits, traumas, trinkets, and treats; it’s all XP
C Am C7 F
Look in the sky, it’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s superego!
I’m the underdog you cheer for
C Am C7 F
And villains are everywhere, that’s how I know that I’m the hero!
E Am
So tie me to the train tracks, laugh and snidely twist your mustache
E Am A
Snidely whiplash Boris Badenov, ignoring me’s bad enough
Dm G
Where do you get off? Da, das vedanya, darling
C F
Daleks in high collars monologue
G C C7
And I outsmart them with a raygun and a tweet
[Chorus]
F G C Am
So god forbid I’m seen just as an average human being
F G C Am
I mean imagine if protagonists just died in the first scene
F G E7 Am
I’m the gap between a tragedy and comedy
Am
Don’t come at me
Fm C
I’m the main character and you have to like me
E Am
Judge me by what my cover shows, the author’s now beyond reproach
E Am A
You don’t know the prose or if the spine is still in tact
Dm G C Am G F
Like Alice fell to wonderland, come mastro-turf my over-tim
F G C C7
And then bolden my demand to live by alternative facts
F G C Am
So her majesty says the royally demand a standard of loyalty
F G C C7
An agreement to be reverent, lick the emperor’s new boots
F G E7 Am
The court fool got the guillotine, the witches the stake, you the dopamine
F C
and Siemens made the Zyklon B but we all still get the flu
F G C
We all do what we need to to get through, it’s nothing new
F G C C7
But I ain’t done a fucking thing to you
[Chorus]
F G C Am
So god forbid I’m seen just as an average human being
F G C Am
I mean imagine if antagonists lacked any evil scheme
F G E7 Am
I’m the gap between a tragedy and comedy
Am
Don’t come at me
Fm C
I’m the main character and you have to like me
[Intro]
C F G G7 C
[Verse 1]
C Am C7 F
I’m that first person they talk about in all the books
C Am C7 F
I’m that perspective you cannot doubt, see how I loathe
C Am C7 F
Control the narrative reliably, it’s all about me
C Am C7 F
And I wrote the book about throwing the book at those who don’t do it by it
[Pre-Chorus]
E
And I’m holding myself hostage
Am
Stockholm lost its looks for justice
E Am
And enough lefts don’t make the right but two wrongs do
A
Oh man, Sun Tzu would love this
Dm G C Am
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]
F G C Am
So god forbid I’m seen just as an average human being
F G C Am
I mean imagine if protagonists just died in the first scene
F G E7 Am
I’m the gap between a tragedy and comedy
Am
Don’t come at me
Fm C
I’m the main character and you have to like me
C Am C7 F
So I loot plot armor from NPC’s
F
That’s all they are for me
C Am C7 F
Trite, tropes, traits, traumas, trinkets, and treats; it’s all XP
C Am C7 F
Look in the sky, it’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s superego!
I’m the underdog you cheer for
C Am C7 F
And villains are everywhere, that’s how I know that I’m the hero!
E Am
So tie me to the train tracks, laugh and snidely twist your mustache
E Am A
Snidely whiplash Boris Badenov, ignoring me’s bad enough
Dm G
Where do you get off? Da, das vedanya, darling
C F
Daleks in high collars monologue
G C C7
And I outsmart them with a raygun and a tweet
[Chorus]
F G C Am
So god forbid I’m seen just as an average human being
F G C Am
I mean imagine if protagonists just died in the first scene
F G E7 Am
I’m the gap between a tragedy and comedy
Am
Don’t come at me
Fm C
I’m the main character and you have to like me
E Am
Judge me by what my cover shows, the author’s now beyond reproach
E Am A
You don’t know the prose or if the spine is still in tact
Dm G C Am G F
Like Alice fell to wonderland, come mastro-turf my over-tim
F G C C7
And then bolden my demand to live by alternative facts
F G C Am
So her majesty says the royally demand a standard of loyalty
F G C C7
An agreement to be reverent, lick the emperor’s new boots
F G E7 Am
The court fool got the guillotine, the witches the stake, you the dopamine
F C
and Siemens made the Zyklon B but we all still get the flu
F G C
We all do what we need to to get through, it’s nothing new
F G C C7
But I ain’t done a fucking thing to you
[Chorus]
F G C Am
So god forbid I’m seen just as an average human being
F G C Am
I mean imagine if antagonists lacked any evil scheme
F G E7 Am
I’m the gap between a tragedy and comedy
Am
Don’t come at me
Fm C
I’m the main character and you have to like me
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