Will Wood – The Main Character (Guitar)

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[Intro] G7 C F7 G F C [Verse 1]
C   Am   C7                      F                F7
I'm that first-person they talk about in all the books

C   Am   C7                      F                F7
I'm that perspective you cannot 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 like 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/D                            G                C
Don't come at me, I'm the main character and you have to like me
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/D                            G                C
Don't come at me, I'm the main character and you have to like me
[Instrumental] C F7 G F C x3 [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/D                           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/D            G               C   C7
But I ain't done a fucking 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/D   Bbdim7
I mean, imagine if antagonists lacked any evil scheme

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