The Main Character chords by Will Wood

Verse 1:

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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 cannot doubt, see how I look
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Control the narrative reliably, it's about me
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and I wrote the book about throwing the book at those who don't do it by it


Verse 2:
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So now I'm armed to the teeth with qualities, identities, and diagnoses
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Well any friend of an enemy´s got the transitive property part of the axes
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of evil, well you'd have to be to ever dare to disagree
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enough lefts don't make the right but two wrongs do you're punching down!

Chorus:
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So god forbid I'm seen just as an average human being
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I mean imagine if protagonists just died in the first scene
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And I'm the gap between a tragedy and comedy
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don't come at me
I'm the main character and you have to like me

Small piano solo:
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Verse 3:
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I loot plot armor from NPC's
that's what they are to me
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Trite, tropes, traits, traumas, trinkets, and treats; it's all XP
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So look in the sky, it's a bird! It's a plane! No, it’s superego! The underdog you cheer fo'
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And villains are everywhere, that's how I know that I'm the hero

Verse 4:
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So tie me to the train tracks, laugh and snidely twist your mustache
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Snidely whiplash
Boris Badenov, ignoring me's bad enough
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Where do you get off? Da, das vedanya, darling
Daleks in high collars
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monologue and I outsmart them with a raygun and a tweet

Chorus:
    F              G              C       Em     Am
So god forbid I'm seen just as an average human being
         F          G                C     Em           A7
I mean imagine if protagonists just died in the first scene
     F              G          E7         Am
And I'm the gap between a tragedy and comedy
               F                              G                C
don't come at me
I'm the main character and you have to like me

Piano solo:
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Verse 5:
          E                            Am
So 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 intact
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It's a commentary on the world at large based more on how things sound than how things are
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Believe me
I read it somewhere but don't quote me on that now



Bridge:
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Her majesty says the royal we demand a standard of loyalty
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and an agreement to be reverent lick the emperors new boots
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Now the court fool got the guillotine, the witches the stake and you the dopamine
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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
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But I ain't done one fucking thing to you!


Chorus:
    F              G              C        G     Am
So god forbid I'm seen just as an average human being
         F           G               C   G      Am
I mean imagine if antagonists lacked any evil scheme
     F              G          E7         Am
And I'm the gap between a tragedy and comedy
               F                              G                C
don't come at me
I'm the main character and you have to like me