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:
      E                  Am
So now I'm armed to the teeth with qualities, identities, and diagnoses
      E                   Am        A
Well any friend of an enemy´s got the transitive property part of the axes
  Dm        G      C      Am
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
        F               G        C
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:
  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
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Where do you get off? Da, das vedanya, darling
Daleks in high collars
   F        G        C       C
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
  F         G          C
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
     F       G        C
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
   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
  F         G        C
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