Belle and Sebastian – Storytelling (Guitar)

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Picture a scene in your mind

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Look at all the people and take note of the setting behind

C         Bm        Am            D
Listen, watch, and wait, a plot begins to take shape

G                      Bm                 C
There's a story and then, characters will come to you

A                     D
Relating events as they choose to

    C         Bm        Am             D              G
But all their words and actions come entirely from you

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If you're a storyteller you might think you're without responsibility

            G                    Bm               C            Cm
And you can lead your characters anywhere you want, you have immunity

G                         Bm
Have you considered the way

               C              A                           D
People might react to all the things that your characters say?

              C         Bm      Am               D
And are their actions hand in hand with what you want to portray?

        G                         Bm
Are you sick? Are you crippled? Insane?

  C              A                            D
Expressing the desires that daren't speak their name?

C    Bm      Am       D
Are you the one to be blamed?

              G              Bm                       C         Cm
Now you're a storyteller you might think you're without responsibility

         G                     Bm                     C             Cm
But in directions, actions and words, cause and effect, you need consistency

G                         Bm
How can you finish the tale?

                 C
Lives which have played a part

    A                   D
Are summarized from the very start

    C      Bm       Am           D
And episodes left out to make it all go your way

G                 Bm
"It's a might big world

C                A
Some of it I've seen

            D
But mostly I've only heard

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And stories are all fiction from their moment of birth"

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You're just a storyteller, you're not trying to escape responsibility

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If we believe you then you're successful but you don't make claims of verity

               G                     Bm              C         Cm
You're just a storyteller, you're not trying to escape responsibility

        G                        Bm                   C               Cm
If we believe you then you're successful but you don't make claims of verity