Reader Meet Author

Intro:
A# Am G C x2
F C Dm G

C                G               
You don't know a thing about 
   D        A
their lives
C                   G            
They live where you wouldn't dare
    D       A
 to drive
C                G                
You shake as you think of how they
 D           A
 sleep
        C               G         
But you write as if you all lie 
      D      A
side by side

A#           Am
Reader, meet author
         G               C
With the hope of hearing sense
        A#             Am
But you may be feeling let down
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       G        C
By the words of defense
         F           C            
He says "no-one ever sees me when 
  Dm     G
I cry"

C                G               
You don't know a thing about 
   D        A
their lives
C                      G         
Books don't save them, books 
           D      A
aren't stanley knives
         C     G            
And if a fight broke out here 
  D            A
tonight
      C                G       
You'd be the first away, because 
              D       A
you're that type

        A#       Am           
And the year two thousand won't 
  G             C
change anyone here
        A#             Am         
As each fabled promise flies so 
          G                  C
fast you'll swear it was never there
             F                  
Oh, have you ever escaped from a 
 C            Dm       G
shipwrecked life?

Solo:
Am D# A# F x4
C G D A    x4

   A#               Am        G  
So safely with your software, 
                  C
miles from the front line
    A#               Am      
You hear the way the sad voice 
                 G             
sings, and you start to imagine 
    C
things
    F             C           Dm 
Oh, any excuse to write more lies
    G


Outro:
Am D# A# F
end on Am