The Main Character (Live)

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