Will Wood – The Main Character (Guitar Live)

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[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