Storytelling Chords & Tabs
G Bm C D x2
G Bm
Picture a scene in your mind
C A D
Look at all the people and take note of the setting behind
C Bm Am D
Listen, watch, and wait, a plot begins to take shape
G Bm C
There's a story and then, characters will come to you
A D
Relating events as they choose to
C Bm Am D G
But all their words and actions come entirely from you
Am D
G Bm C D#
If you're a storyteller you might think you're without responsibility
G Bm C D#
And you can lead your characters anywhere you want, you have immunity
G Bm C D x2
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G Bm
Have you considered the way
C A D
People might react to all the things that your characters say?
C Bm Am D
And are their actions hand in hand with what you want to portray?
G Bm
Are you sick? Are you crippled? Insane?
C A D
Expressing the desires that daren't speak their name?
C Bm Am D
Are you the one to be blamed?
G Bm C D#
Now you're a storyteller you might think you're without responsibility
G Bm C D#
But in directions, actions and words, cause and effect, you need consistency
G Bm C D x3
G
G Bm
How can you finish the tale?
C
Lives which have played a part
A D
Are summarized from the very start
C Bm Am D
And episodes left out to make it all go your way
G Bm
"It's a might big world
C A
Some of it I've seen
D
But mostly I've only heard
C Bm Am D G
And stories are all fiction from their moment of birth"
Am D
G Bm C D#
You're just a storyteller, you're not trying to escape responsibility
G Bm C D#
If we believe you then you're successful but you don't make claims of verity
G Bm C D x4
G
