Fan Fiction
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Afinação: E A D G B ETecla: ECapotraste: Sem capotraste
[Intro]
E
You always loved to play this game
A
That you called "Real-Life Fan Fiction"
E
Where you'd take something real and innocuous and
A
You’d try to sneak in some ridiculous little details
A
To see if you could get away with it... It’d be something like:
[Verse]
E
Paul Revere, he had a secret fear of horses
A B
That's why he rode so fast, he was just trying to get it over with!
E
Charles Darwin wrote a book about some finches
A B
With a chapter on which bird adapted to be most delicious
A B
And I'm a fan of how you fan the flames and make a game of fan,
[Chorus]
E A
Fan Fiction… What if something cool happened instead?
E A
I'm just wishin' for the story to be more like in my head
E
Like Fan Fiction
[Verse]
E A
You'd do this thing whenever we'd go to a grocery store or a farmer's market
E
And you would have me -- we'd pretend not to know each other
A
And you would make me go up and take a sample and say
A
Oh, may I please take one for my partner, as well?
E
And of course, they'd give it to me 'cause it didn't matter
E
And I would scurry back with our little contraband snack
A
And if we liked it we would hit 'em with ol' the double play!
E
And you'd pull the same move on ’em.
E
And I'm sure that this is the standard operating procedure
A
Copied from the couple's playbook and we did not invent this move
B
But you always called this "Robbing the bank"
A
Which I always thought was so dramatic… and fun.
[Chorus]
E A
Fan Fiction… What if something cool happened instead?
E A
I'm just wishin' for the story to be more like in my head
E
Like Fan Fiction
[Verse]
E
So we did this sort of thing all the time
A
Turning our mundane moments into Silver Screen Nonsense To spice things up and make each
other laugh
E
And it was fun when we were gossiping about our neighbors
A
Or making up tragic backstories behind the bones at the museum
E
But I think I got too good at making up stories
A
Thinking I could turn our story into a perfect little screenplay
A
That would wrap up in the third act with a happy-ever-after
B
Because people don't slowly drift apart in movies or fall out of love off-screen
C#m
They have big emotional confessions with dramatic music
B
That make it obvious that things just aren't the same as they used to be
B
And darling I didn't hear a thing when I said
[Bridge]
A
Hey, we should go rob a bank
B
And you looked at me and your eyes were blank
C#m B
How could you forget that? Are you so checked out? Are we okay?
A B
It's like you didn't know my face, moved on from playing silly games
C#m B
But interests shift and passions slip and times move on and people change
A B E
But if that's gonna happen I will fill in all the gaps with Fan Fiction
[Chorus]
A
What if something good happened instead?
E A
I'm just wishin' for the story to be more like in my head
C#m B
And no matter how all this ends, it makes no difference
A B E
I'll be writing my own end with Fan Fiction
E
Fan Fiction
How to play Fan Fiction
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What is the starting chord?
The first identified chord is E. You can transpose without leaving the page.
Can I play it on guitar or keyboard?
Yes. The chord progression works on acoustic guitar, electric guitar and keyboard. Adapt the voicings to your instrument and level.