[Intro]

        

[Verse 1]
         
I'm that first

              
-person they t

             
alk about in a

        
ll the books
         
I'm that persp

              
ective you can

             
 not doubt, se

         
e how I look
         
Control the na

             
rrative reliab

              
ly, baby, it's

           
 all about me
             
and I wrote th

          
e book about t

              
hrowing the bo

              
ok at those wh

             
o don't do it 

   
by it

[Pre-chorus 1]
             
So now I'm hol

              
ding myself ho

              
stage, Stockho

    
lm lust just l

ooks like just

ice
             
And enough lef

              
ts don't make 

              
the right but 

            
two wrongs do,

              
 oh man, Sun T

 
zu would love 

this
            
Beating my dea

             
d high horse o

             
ff the high ro

       
ad to low grou

  
nd
              
‘Cause if you 

             
shake your fis

             
ts at snakes i

             
n grass it loo

              
ks like punchi

         
ng down!

[Chorus 1]
             
So God forbid 

             
I'm seen just 

             
as an average 

       
human being
             
I mean, imagin

             
e if protagoni

             
sts just died 

              
in the first s

 
cene
             
I'm the gap be

             
tween a traged

         
y and comedy
              
don't come at 

          
me, I'm the ma

              
in character a

             
nd you have to

       
 like me

            

[Verse 2]
         
I loot plot ar

             
mor from NPC's

              
,  well, they 

       
are to me
           
Trite, tropes,

            
 traits, traum

              
as, trinkets, 

             
and treats; it

       
's all XP
              
Look in the sk

           
y, it's a bird

            
! It's a plane

              
! No, it's sup

             
er-ego! The un

        
derdog you che

er for
             
Villains are e

          
verywhere, tha

              
t's how I know

              
 that I'm the 

   
hero

[Pre-chorus 2]
            
So tie me to t

              
he train track

              
s, laugh and s

 
nidely twist y

our mustache
            
Snidely Whipla

              
sh, Boris Badi

            
nov, ignorin' 

             
me's bad enoug

h
              
Where do you g

            
et off? Da, da

             
svidaniya, dar

           
ling, Daleks i

     
n high collars
          
monologue and 

             
I outsmart the

             
m with a ray-g

              
un and a tweet

[Chorus 1]
             
So God forbid 

             
I'm seen just 

             
as an average 

       
human being
             
I mean, imagin

             
e if protagoni

             
sts just died 

              
in the first s


cene
             
I'm the gap be

             
tween a traged

         
y and comedy
              
don't come at 

          
me, I'm the ma

              
in character a

             
nd you have to

       
 like me

[Instrumental]
            x3

[Pre-chorus 3]
             
Judge me by wh

              
at my cover sh

        
ows, author be

comes beyond r

eproach
             
you don't know

              
 the prose, or

              
 if the spine 

            
is still intac

  
t
            
Oh, like Alice

             
 fell to wonde

             
rland come Ast

       
roturf my Over


ton
             
And bolden my 

             
demand to live

             
 by alternativ

        
e facts

[Bridge]
             
Her majesty sa

             
ys “the royal 

            
we demand a st

        
andard of loya

   
lty
             
An agreement t

             
o be reverent,

             
 lick the empe

              
ror's new boot

 
s”
             
The court fool

             
 got the guill

             
otine, the wit

              
ches the stake

           
, you the dopa

mine
          
And Siemens ma

              
de the Zyklon 

         
B but we all s

till get the f

lu
             
We all do what

             
 we need to to

        
 get through (

It's nothing n

ew)
          
But I ain't do

             
ne one fucking

             
 thing to you!

[Chorus 2]
             
So God forbid 

             
I'm seen just 

             
as an average 

   
human being
          
I mean, imagin

             
e if antagonis

             
ts lacked any 

    
evil scheme
             
And I'm the ga

             
p between a tr

            
agedy and come

 
dy
              
don't come at 

          
me, I'm the ma

              
in character a

             
nd you have to

       
 like me