Never Date A Writer Cifras

[Verse 1]
          G
There's a version of you in somebody's head
C                       Am7
Saying mean things that you never said
G
Cruel and unusual dummy by design
C                        Am
Mouth filled up with somebody else's lines
G
Nothing you do, nothing you say
      C                            Am7
Could ever make them view you in another way
              G
They kept the worst most toxic part of you
C
And that's the part they talk to
 
[Pre-chorus]
G                    E7
Never date a writer, never be a muse
Am                        D7
Everything is copy, every trauma gets reused
Bm                             E7
They'll control the narrative, you'll feel misunderstood
Am                   D
Never date a writer, especially if they're good
 
[Chorus]
G
  Everybody wants to own the goodbye,
Am
  Everybody wants to be right
Em
  So if you don't look like the good guy,
Am
  Put the story down in black and white
        Am            Dm               G
And you write and you write 'til your right
 
[Verse 2]
G
Blood on the page and the ink's still wet
         C                      Am7
And they don't forgive and they don't forget
     G
They only remember the worst of you
    C                      Am
The facts are wrong but it still feels true
 
[Pre-chorus]
G                                E7
Never date a writer, they're not trying to be mean
    Am                                 D7
But you'll end up an index card on the corkboard of their dream
Bm                         E7
Sure when you're together, things will feel just fine
    Am                              D
But you were not together, you were researched the whole time
 
[Chorus]
G
  Everybody wants to own the good-bye,
Am
  Everybody wants to be right
Em
  So if you don't look like the good guy,
Am
  Put the story down in black and white
        Am            Dm              C
And you write and you write 'til your right
 
[Bridge]
                     G                                C
  It's your right to work through your life with your art
C                      Em7                   Cmaj7
  But I've heard every word pull us further apart
        Cmaj7          G                  Gm                 Am7
And the more we put it down in lines, the more the facts get blurred
               C                    D
We don't want love, we want the last word
 
[Verse 3]
       G
So you read the book or you see the play
        C                   Am7
And you see yourself in the words they say
     G
They stole your breath and they made their art
         C                          Am
And they wrote their truth and they broke your heart
 
[Pre-chorus]
   G                        E7
So never date a writer, and I'm a writer too
     Am                                 D7
I'll wring you out for feelings, 'cause that's just what I do
Bm                           E7
Sharing all my troubles, for followers and cash
    Am                            D
The pain ends up in print, and the truth goes in the trash
 
[Chorus]
G
  Everybody wants to own the good-bye,
C
  Everybody wants to be right
Em
  So if you don't look like the good guy,
Am
  Put the story down in black and white
    Am            Dm            D             E
You write and you write and you write and you write
        Am            Dm               C
And you write and you write 'til your right
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