Chords with lyrics
G+G B minorBm C majorC D MajorD x2
G+G B minorBm
Picture a scene in your mind
C majorC A augmentedA D MajorD
Look at all the people and take note of the setting behind
C majorC B minorBm A minorAm D MajorD
Listen, watch, and wait, a plot begins to take shape
G+G B minorBm C majorC
There's a story and then, characters will come to you
A augmentedA D MajorD
Relating events as they choose to
C majorC B minorBm A minorAm D MajorD G+G
But all their words and actions come entirely from you
A minorAm D MajorD
G+G B minorBm C majorC D#D#
If you're a storyteller you might think you're without responsibility
G+G B minorBm C majorC D#D#
And you can lead your characters anywhere you want, you have immunity
G+G B minorBm C majorC D MajorD x2
G+G B minorBm
Have you considered the way
C majorC A augmentedA D MajorD
People might react to all the things that your characters say?
C majorC B minorBm A minorAm D MajorD
And are their actions hand in hand with what you want to portray?
G+G B minorBm
Are you sick? Are you crippled? Insane?
C majorC A augmentedA D MajorD
Expressing the desires that daren't speak their name?
C majorC B minorBm A minorAm D MajorD
Are you the one to be blamed?
G+G B minorBm C majorC D#D#
Now you're a storyteller you might think you're without responsibility
G+G B minorBm C majorC D#D#
But in directions, actions and words, cause and effect, you need consistency
G+G B minorBm C majorC D MajorD x3
G+G
G+G B minorBm
How can you finish the tale?
C majorC
Lives which have played a part
A augmentedA D MajorD
Are summarized from the very start
C majorC B minorBm A minorAm D MajorD
And episodes left out to make it all go your way
G+G B minorBm
"It's a might big world
C majorC A augmentedA
Some of it I've seen
D MajorD
But mostly I've only heard
C majorC B minorBm A minorAm D MajorD G+G
And stories are all fiction from their moment of birth"
A minorAm D MajorD
G+G B minorBm C majorC D#D#
You're just a storyteller, you're not trying to escape responsibility
G+G B minorBm C majorC D#D#
If we believe you then you're successful but you don't make claims of verity
G+G B minorBm C majorC D MajorD x4
G+G