Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (
E MajorE 
A augmentedA 
D MajorD 
G+G 
BB E MajorE)
Key: 
E minorEm
Difficulty: Novice
Intro:
E minorEm D MajorD 
C/GC/G D MajorD (x2)
Verse One:
E minorEm D MajorD
My god, do you even know my name?
C/GC/G
Are you changing up your mind over changes
D MajorD E minorEm D MajorD
I never made for you? We are no more than we'll ever be
C/GC/G
With heaven on my mind, and hell, well I believe,
D MajorD E minorEm D MajorD
In the stage lights, come down, breaking over me
C/GC/G
Heaven heaven is a dream, heaven heaven is a dream,
D MajorD E minorEm D MajorD
I believed but never would've been,
C/GC/G
Heaven heaven is a dream,
D MajorD E minorEm
Heaven heaven is a dream, I
Chorus:
E minorEm D MajorD C/GC/G
I would do anything for you to love me
D MajorD E minorEm
Like I'm an American hero, baby
D MajorD
Star-spangled in my manner shaking
C/GC/G D MajorD E minorEm
Every man's hand in the presidential manor you see
D MajorD C/GC/G
I would do anything to hear you say
D MajorD E minorEm
There goes an American hero, darling
D MajorD
Call the press and tell 'em all
C/GC/G D MajorD E minorEm
"He's got a front page picture face with all of the amenities."
Post-Chorus:
E minorEm D MajorD C/GC/G
If you really don't mind, take me as I am
D MajorD E minorEm
Take me as I am, when you get a chance
D MajorD C/GC/G
Take your time, I understand, believe me
D MajorD E minorEm
When I say I carry all my sins
D MajorD C/GC/G
And I would do anything for you to love me
D MajorD E minorEm D MajorD C/GC/G
Call me an American hero
D MajorD E minorEm D MajorD C/GC/G
Call me an American hero
D MajorD E minorEm
Call me an American
Verse Two:
E minorEm D MajorD
I'll leave, if and when you want me to
C/GC/G D MajorD E minorEm
When and if I've haunted you and if I miss you when you do not
D MajorD
Real talk, do you read fuck-up in my walk?
C/GC/G
Do you see fuck-up on my face? do I mean anything at all?
E minorEm D MajorD
Don't say you love me if you do got nothing
C/GC/G
Else to say to me when heaven is a dream
D MajorD E minorEm
And reality is fictional! fictional!
D MajorD
Constantine and every host of christendom
C/GC/G D MajorD
What carried them, buried them, with every last one of us
E minorEm D MajorD
America is just a dream
C/GC/G
Just a dream, pretty thing
D MajorD E minorEm
Nothing's ever what it seems
D MajorD C/GC/G
Just a dream, I still scream in my sleep,
D MajorD E minorEm
in my sleep I still scream that
Chorus:
E minorEm D MajorD C/GC/G
I would do anything for you to love me
D MajorD E minorEm
Like I'm an American hero baby
D MajorD
Star-spangled in my manner
C/GC/G D MajorD E minorEm
Shaking every man's hand in the presidential manor you see
D MajorD C/GC/G
I would do anything to hear you say
D MajorD E minorEm
There goes an American hero darling
D MajorD
Call the press and tell 'em all
C/GC/G D MajorD E minorEm
"He's got a front page picture face with all of the amenities."
Post-Chorus:
E minorEm D MajorD C/GC/G
If you really don't mind, take me as I am
D MajorD E minorEm
Take me as I am, when you get a chance
D MajorD C/GC/G
Take your time, I understand, believe me
D MajorD E minorEm
When I say I carry all my sins
D MajorD C/GC/G
And I would do anything for you to love me
D MajorD E minorEm
Call me an American hero
Call me an American hero
E minorEm D MajorD C/GC/G
Call me an American hero
D MajorD E minorEm D MajorD C/GC/G
Call me an American hero
D MajorD E minorEm D MajorD C/GC/G
Call me an American hero
