The Main Character
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Intro G7 C F7 G F C
[Verso 1]
C Am C7 F F7
I'm that first-person they talk about in all the books
C Am C7 F F7
I'm that perspective you can not doubt, see how I look
C Am C7 F F7
Control the narrative reliably, baby, it's all about me
C Am C7 F F7
And I wrote the book about throwing the book at those who don't do it by it
E Am
So now I'm holding myself hostage, Stockholm lust just looks like justice
E Am A
And enough lefts don't make the right but two wrongs do, oh man, Sun Tzu would
Love this
Dm G C C7M Am Am7
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!
[Refrão]
F G C Am
So God forbid I'm seen just as an average human being
F G C A7
I mean, imagine if protagonists just died in the first scene
F G E7 Am
I'm the gap between a tragedy and comedy
Fm/D G C
Don't come at me, I'm the main character and you have to like me
( C F7 G F C )
[Verso 2]
C Am C7 F F7
I loot plot armor from NPC's, well, they are to me
C Am C7 F F7
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 super-ego! The underdog
F7
You cheer for
C Am C7 F F7
Villains are everywhere, that's how I know that I'm the hero
E7 Am
So tie me to the train tracks, laugh and snidely twist your mustache
E7 Am A
Snidely Whiplash, Boris Badinov, ignorin' me's bad enough
Dm G C C7M Am
Where do you get off? Da, dasvidaniya, darling, Daleks in high collars
Am7 F G C C7
Monologue and I outsmart them with a ray-gun and a tweet
[Refrão]
F G C Am
So God forbid I'm seen just as an average human being
F G C A7
I mean, imagine if protagonists just died in the first scene
F G E7 Am
I'm the gap between a tragedy and comedy
Fm/D G C
Don't come at me, I'm the main character and you have to like me
( C F7 G F C )
( C F7 G F C )
( C F7 G F C )
E Am
Judge me by what my cover shows, author becomes beyond reproach
E Am A
You don't know the prose, or if the spine is still intact
Dm G C C7M Am Am7
Oh, like Alice fell to wonderland come Astroturf my Overton
F G C C7
And bolden my demand to live by alternative facts
F G C C7M Am Am7
Her majesty says (the royal we demand a standard of loyalty
F G C C7
An agreement to be reverent, lick the emperor's new boots)
F G E Am
The court fool got the guillotine, the witches the stake, you the dopamine
Fm/D C
And Siemens made the Zyklon B but we all still get the flu
F G C7
We all do what we need to to get through (It's nothing new)
Fm/D G C C7
But I ain't done one fucking thing to you!
[Refrão]
F G C Am
So God forbid I'm seen just as an average human being
F G C A7
I mean, imagine if protagonists just died in the first scene
F G E7 Am
I'm the gap between a tragedy and comedy
Fm/D G C
Don't come at me, I'm the main character and you have to like me
How to play The Main Character
Use the controls above to change the key and text size. Follow the highlighted chords while listening, then practice each section slowly before playing at the original tempo.
What is the starting chord?
The first identified chord is G7. 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.