Never Date A Writer chords by Philip Labes

• Capo on 2nd
• Difficulty: Beginner

Verse 1:
          F
There's a version of you in somebody's head
A#                       Gm7
Saying mean things that you never said
F
Cruel and unusual dummy by design
A#                        Gm
Mouth filled up with somebody else's lines
F
Nothing you do, nothing you say
      A#                            Gm7
Could ever make them view you in another way
              F
They kept the worst most toxic part of you
A#
And that's the part they talk to

Pre-chorus:
F                     D7
Never date a writer, never be a muse
Gm                         C7
Everything is copy, every trauma gets reused
Am                              D7
They'll control the narrative, you'll feel misunderstood
Gm                    C
Never date a writer, especially if they're good

Chorus:
F
  Everybody wants to own the goodbye,
Gm
  Everybody wants to be right
Dm
  So if you don't look like the good guy,
Gm
  Put the story down in black and white
        Gm             Cm                F
And you write and you write 'til your right

Verse 2:
F
Blood on the page and the ink's still wet
         A#                      Gm7
And they don't forgive and they don't forget
     F
They only remember the worst of you
    A#                      Gm
The facts are wrong but it still feels true

Pre-chorus:
F                                 D7
Never date a writer, they're not trying to be mean
    Gm                                  C7
But you'll end up an index card on the corkboard of their dream
Am                          D7
Sure when you're together, things will feel just fine
    Gm                               C
But you were not together, you were researched the whole time

Chorus:
F
  Everybody wants to own the good-bye,
Gm
  Everybody wants to be right
Dm
  So if you don't look like the good guy,
Gm
  Put the story down in black and white
        Gm             Cm               A#
And you write and you write 'til your right

Bridge:
                     F                                 A#
  It's your right to work through your life with your art
A#                      Dm7                    Cmaj7
  But I've heard every word pull us further apart
        Cmaj7          F                   Fm                  Gm7
And the more we put it down in lines, the more the facts get blurred
               A#                    C
We don't want love, we want the last word

Verse 3:
       F
So you read the book or you see the play
        A#                   Gm7
And you see yourself in the words they say
     F
They stole your breath and they made their art
         A#                          Gm
And they wrote their truth and they broke your heart

Pre-chorus:
   F                         D7
So never date a writer, and I'm a writer too
     Gm                                  C7
I'll wring you out for feelings, 'cause that's just what I do
Am                            D7
Sharing all my troubles, for followers and cash
    Gm                             C
The pain ends up in print, and the truth goes in the trash

Chorus:
F
  Everybody wants to own the good-bye,
A#
  Everybody wants to be right
Dm
  So if you don't look like the good guy,
Gm
  Put the story down in black and white
    Gm             Cm             C              D
You write and you write and you write and you write
        Gm             Cm               F
And you write and you write 'til your right