A Man Misunderstood chords by
Skyscraper Stan
Skyscraper Stan
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Key: B minor
Verse 1
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It was down at the corner cafe
that we first were introduced
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By a mutual acquaintance
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who was known to be bad news
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I said to him, good evening,
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he gave to me his name
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I asked him what it was he did,
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he asked of me the same
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Then he whispered as he shook my hand
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I'm a man misunderstood,
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you understand
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We stepped out into the courtyard
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where he offered me a smoke
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I'll admit I was impressed
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at how he eloquently spoke
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He said he knew someone
who knew someone
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who had some cards to play
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If the proper time and place
were chosen,
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money might be made
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It's then I realized he had a plan
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That man misunderstood,
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you understand
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Well the night was like a blanket
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And the moon was like a bone
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in the feeble light
It seemed just like his face
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was cut from stone
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I couldn't hide my curiosity
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I needed to know
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Cm
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Ex actly what he planned to do
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And how I was involved
He said, follow me
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Keep up if you can't
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I'm a man misunderstood,
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you understand
We went walking over Bluestone,
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behind the busy street
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Where the city slickers
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stumbled to a syncopated beat
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A thick unyielding tempo
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that shook them like a dole
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And sent them reeling
through the evening
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Looking for someone to hold
until the morning
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When they'd wake
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and wash their hands
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Of the man misunderstood,
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you understand
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He said this world of ours is wayward
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It's a dirty rotten mess,
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oh but you and I are different
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We're better than the rest
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He told me if we took the high road
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We'd rise above it all
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Looking back I'd say his flattery
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He was all that made me fall,
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forgiving everything, everything I had
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To the man misunderstood,
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Ab
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you understand
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Fm
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We wasted no time waiting,
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we had reason to believe
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Cm
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The people needed saving,
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and their saviour was me
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So we hit the road that evening,
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headed north along the hewn
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Towards a bigger town
than ours
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where people lived amongst the tombs
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Built by progress and barren land
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Me and that man misunderstood,
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Fm
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do you understand?
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We walked the city
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preaching on deaf ears and blanket eyes
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He told me not to worry
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that our star was on the rise
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Still I couldn't help but notice
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he was looking less than well
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And though that thought set off alarm bells
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I still managed to dispel it from my mind
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And take my stand beside
that man
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Misunderstood, you understand
Then the days had turned to months
And the weeks had turned to years
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And all the rhetoric he
spoke so well
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Could not allay my fears
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That maybe after taking from me
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all that I had given
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This man was just as lost as I
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And if I could escape him
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I'd celebrate every difference I had
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To the man misunderstood,
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you understand
Yes, I had made my mind up
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And in a hotel bar that evening
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Over one last glass of Carlton draught
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I told him I was leaving
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He said that I was foolish
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We were closer now than brothers
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We started in the shouting,
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then we turned upon each other
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And he fell there, by my own hand
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That man misunderstood,
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you understand
Well it's been years now
since the day I left
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That man misunderstood
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Believing he and his philosophy
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were never any good
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I walked alone amongst the bones
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of my own misspent life
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Until I began to wonder
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if the man might have been right
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And I was wrong on the day I ran
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From the man misunderstood,
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you understand
And so this evening when I saw you
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It seemed like a twist of fate
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And I thought perhaps with ample luck
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I might just set this straight
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You had that hungry burning arrogance
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That youthful glow of health
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That re minded me confrontingly
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of my much younger self
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So I told you as I shook your hand
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I'm a man misunderstood,
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you understand
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Yes, I'm a man misunderstood,
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you understand
Oh, I'm a man misunderstood,
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Cm
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you understand

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