[Intro] G7  C  F7  G  F  C

[Primera Parte]

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I'm that first-person they talk about in all the books
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I'm that perspective you can not doubt, see how I look
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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

[Pré-Refrão 1]

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So now I'm holding myself hostage, Stockholm lust just looks like 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
               F                   G                  C                        C7
‘Cause if you shake your fists at snakes in grass it looks like punching down!

[Refrão 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/D                            G                C
Don't come at me, I'm the main character and you have to like me

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[Segunda Parte]

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
Look in the sky, it's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's super-ego! The underdog
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You cheer for
     C              Am  C7                              F   F7
Villains are everywhere, that's how I know that I'm the hero

[Pré-Refrão 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    C7M       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

[Refrão 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/D                            G                C
Don't come at me, I'm the main character and you have to like me

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[Pré-Refrão 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    C7M     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

[Puente]

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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”
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The court fool got the guillotine, the witches the stake, you the dopamine
      Fm/D                           C
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)
    Fm/D              G               C   C7
But I ain't done one fucking thing to you!

[Refrão 2]

    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/D                            G                C
Don't come at me, I'm the main character and you have to like me >:)