Key: B minor
Verse 1
F#m
that we first were introduced
F#m
B
he gave to me his name
C#m
B
Then he whispered as he shook my hand
C#m
F#m
you understand
B
F#m
We stepped out into the courtyard
who knew someone
F#m
B
who had some cards to play
were chosen,
C#m
B
It's then I realized he had a plan
F#m
C#m
That man misunderstood,
B
F#m
B
you understand
It seemed just like his face
B
F#m
C#m
Ex actly what he planned to do
He said, follow me
C#m
F#m
B
Keep up if you can't
F#m
C#m
I'm a man misunderstood,
We went walking over Bluestone,
F#m
A
G#
stumbled to a syncopated beat
F#m
B
that shook them like a dole
F#m
C#m
And sent them reeling
through the evening
until the morning
C#m
F#m
you understand
F#m
B
It's a dirty rotten mess,
C#m
forgiving everything, everything I had
B
F#m
To the man misunderstood,
C#m
F#m
A
B
A
you understand
B
F#m
B
We wasted no time waiting,
F#m
B
we had reason to believe
F#m
C#m
The people needed saving,
F#m
B
headed north along the hewn
than ours
B
F#m
Me and that man misunderstood,
B
F#m
do you under stand?
F#m
B
preaching on deaf ears and blanket eyes
B
G#
that our star was on the rise
F#m
B
he was looking less than well
F#m
C#m
And though that thought set off alarm bells
G#
C#m
I still man aged to dispel it from my mind
that man
F#m
B
F#m
Misunderstood, you understand
Then the days had turned to months
And the weeks had turned to years
B
C#m
And all the rhetoric he
spoke so well
C#m
F#m
That maybe after taking from me
B
F#m
To the man misunderstood,
E
F#m
B
F#m
you understand
Yes, I had made my mind up
C#m
Over one last glass of Carlton draught
F#m
B
We were closer now than brothers
B
G#
then we turned upon each other
C#m
B
And he fell there, by my own hand
E
F#m
you understand
Well it's been years now
since the day I left
F#m
B
of my own misspent life
C#m
B
And I was wrong on the day I ran
E
F#m
you understand
And so this evening when I saw you
C#m
F#m
And I thought perhaps with ample luck
C#m
G#
I might just set this straight
D
C#m
You had that hungry burning arrogance
C#m
F#m
That re minded me confrontingly
C#m
B
So I told you as I shook your hand
E
you understand
E
F#m
you understand
Oh, I'm a man misunderstood,
E
F#m
C#m
you understand
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