Acts Of Man chords by Frightened Rabbit

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: G+G C majorC E MajorE A augmentedA (G+G C majorC E MajorE A augmentedA)

Artist: Frightened Rabbit
Song: Acts of Man
Album: Pedestrian Verse



Standard tuning


Intro/verse riff:
  C majorC
e|---------------------------------|
BB|------1-------1-------1------1---|
G+G|----0-------0-------0------0-----|
D MajorD|-------------------------2-------|
A augmentedA|-3------3-------3------3---------|
E MajorE|---------------------------------|

Intro:
play C majorC or use intro/verse riff:

Verse 1 chords:
play intro/verse riff thru-out:

C majorC
I am that dickhead in the kitchen
    FF      G+G      C majorC
Giving wine to your best girl's glass
C majorC
I am an amateur pornographer
FF     G+G      C majorC
Unpleasant publisher by hand

Chorus 1 chords:
play intro/verse riff thru-out:

C majorC          FF   G+G    C majorC
Not here, not here, heroic acts of man
C majorC          FF   G+G    C majorC  (C,F,G,C)
Not here, not here, heroic acts of man

Verse 2 chords:
play intro/verse riff thru-out:

C majorC
I see stumbling pinstriped trouser
FF     G+G     C majorC
Flecks of sick on an office shoe
C majorC
Part of the fatty British average
FF        G+G   C majorC
Who lives in the houses around you

Chorus 2 chords:
  A minorAm  G+G  A minorAm  FF   G+G       Cverse riff:
Not here, not here, heroic acts of man
  A minorAm  G+G  A minorAm  FF   G+G       Cverse riff:
Not here, not here, heroic acts of man


Verse 3 chords: play intro/verse riff thru-out:
C majorC
Let's all crowd 'round the cowering body
       FF    G+G     C majorC
Throw stocky fingers, bricks and stones
C majorC
Let's promise every girl we marry
FF      G+G         C majorC
We'll always love them when we probably won't


Verse 3: play intro/verse riff thru-out:
C majorC
While the knight in shitty armour
     FF     G+G   C majorC
Rips the drunk out of her dress
C majorC
One man tears into another
    FF    G+G     C majorC
Hides a coward's heart in a lion's chest

Verse 4 chords:
    A minorAm             G+G A minorAm
Man, he breeds although he shouldn't
       FF    G+G    Cverse riff:
He's breeding just because he comes
     A minorAm         G+G A minorAm
Acts the father for a minute
     FF   G+G     Cverse riff:
Till the worst instincts return

Chorus 3:
  A minorAm  G+G  A minorAm  FF   G+G    C majorC
Not here, not here, heroic acts of man
  A minorAm  G+G  A minorAm  FF   G+G    C majorC
Not here, not here, heroic acts of man

Verse 5 chords:
C majorC
I have never wanted more, to be a man
C majorC     FF   G+G   C majorC
To build a house around you
   G+G
I am just like all the rest of them
FF             C majorC
Sorry, selfish, trying to improve

Chorus 4 chords:
  G+G     FF           C majorC
I'm here, I'm here, not heroic but I try
  G+G     FF           C majorC
I'm here, I'm here, not heroic but I try

Outro:
G+G - FF - C: x2