A tale told by an idiot chords by The nighty nite

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Verse 1
D 
I'm not living like I should,
G 
leave no witness
A 
D 
I keep showing up in life,
A 
leave no witness
D 
A never ending song,
A 
D 
I'm heading for the most predictable cadence
A 
You're a librarian burning books, love
D 
A 
A lion, a witch, and a wardrobe
D 
Bm 
D 
G 
A human hurricane, derailing train
A 
D 
You've made horror,

Verse 2
you've made a horrible mess and
G 
Gm 
G 
Who do you think you are
D 
to question the tower?
A 
To jump in the choir and sing like
D 
it's something you'd offer?
Bm 
And who do you think you woo when
D 
you ponder the yonder?
A 
Or shake your fist high at the sky,
D 
tell me, why should we bother?
G 
Who do you think you are,
D 
all piggish and stipend?
A 
The storm is the bastard,
your face is the face that it's slapping
D 

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Verse 3
And there's a woman that I
know with some syndrome
Ab 
A 
D 
She frantically decorates
Ab 
her sweet home
D 
Bm 
She boards up the cracks
D 
A 
D 
To ward off attacks from the wind and,
and, and, and, and
And she kisses me there
A 
on the hearthstone
D 
But deep down,
A 
we both know we're alone
Bm 
We're hu  man hurricanes,
G 
spinning weather vanes
A 
D 
We've made horror,

Verse 4
you've made a horrible mess and
G 
Who do you think you are
D 
to question the tower?
A 
To jump in the choir and sing like
D 
it's something you'd offer?
Bm 
And who do you think you woo when
A 
D 
you slumber a slaughter?
A 
Or shake your fist high at the sky,
F#m 
tell me, why should we bother?
F# 
Why bother?
F#m 
The storm

Verse 5
G 
slaps your wrist
You'll drip dollars and cents
D 
Over back beat accents
A 
and piano suspense
D 
A 
While the ocean's intent
and the patrons lament
D 
On the horror
G 
When the flare light is blinding
but yet it's inviting
D 
The writers  keep writing,
the typewriters typing
A 
The poets are pining, the actors are lying
F#m 
It's horror, you've made
A 
a horrible mess and

Verse 6
G 
Who do you think you are
D 
to stare at the mountain?
A 
To join in the fire and stew like
D 
it's some warmth you'd offer?
Bm 
And what do you think you prove
D 
when you murder a monster?
A 
Or scream out the words, "Tell me why,
D 
why the fuck should we bother?"
G 
What do you think you prove all
D 
piggish and stipend?
A 
To stare at your navel and
D 
constantly pick out your coffin?