Intro: play C or use Intro/Verse riff
Verse 1 chords: play Intro/Verse riff thru-out
C
I am that dickhead in the kitchen
Giving wine to your best girl's glass
I am an amateur pornographer
Unpleasant publisher by hand
C
Not here, not here, heroic acts of man
C
Not here, not here, heroic acts of man
Verse 2 chords: play Intro/Verse riff thru-out
C
I see stumbling pinstriped trouser
Flecks of sick on an office shoe
Part of the fatty British average
Who lives in the houses around you
AmCVerse riff
Not here, not here, heroic acts of man
Am Cverse riff
Not here, not here, heroic acts of man
Verse 3 chords: play Intro/Verse riff thru-out
C
Let's all crowd 'round the cowering body
Throw stocky fingers, bricks and stones
Let's promise every girl we marry
We'll always love them when we probably won't
Verse 3: play Intro/Verse riff thru-out
C
While the knight in shitty armour
Rips the drunk out of her dress
One man tears into another
Hides a coward's heart in a lion's chest
Verse 4:
Am
Man, he breeds although he shouldn't
CVerse riff
He's breeding just because he comes
Am
Acts the father for a minute
CVerse riff
Till the worst instincts return
C
Not here, not here, heroic acts of man
C
Not here, not here, heroic acts of man
Verse 5:
C
I have never wanted more, to be a man
C
To build a house around you
G
I am just like all the rest of them
FC
Sorry, selfish, trying to improve
GFC
I'm here, I'm here, not heroic but I try
GFC
I'm here, I'm here, not heroic but I try
Outro: GFC (2x)
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