Intro/verse riff:
C
e|---------------------------------|
B|------1-------1-------1------1---|
G|----0-------0-------0------0-----|
D|-------------------------2-------|
A|-3------3-------3------3---------|
E|---------------------------------|
Intro: play C or use intro/verse riff
Verse 1 chords: play intro/verse riff thru-out
C
I am that dickhead in the kitchen
Giving wine to your best girl's glass
I am an amateur pornographer
Unpleasant publisher by hand
C
Not here, not here, heroic acts of man
C
Not here, not here, heroic acts of man
Verse 2 chords: play intro/verse riff thru-out
C
I see stumbling pinstriped trouser
Flecks of sick on an office shoe
Part of the fatty British average
Who lives in the houses around you
Am C verse riff
Not here, not here, heroic acts of man
Am Cverse riff
Not here, not here, heroic acts of man
Verse 3 chords: play intro/verse riff thru-out
C
Let's all crowd 'round the cowering body
Throw stocky fingers, bricks and stones
Let's promise every girl we marry
We'll always love them when we probably won't
Verse 3: play intro/verse riff thru-out
C
While the knight in shitty armour
Rips the drunk out of her dress
One man tears into another
Hides a coward's heart in a lion's chest
Verse 4:
Am
Man, he breeds although he shouldn't
C verse riff
He's breeding just because he comes
Am
Acts the father for a minute
C verse riff
Till the worst instincts return
C
Not here, not here, heroic acts of man
C
Not here, not here, heroic acts of man
Verse 5:
C
I have never wanted more, to be a man
C
To build a house around you
G
I am just like all the rest of them
F C
Sorry, selfish, trying to improve
G F C
I'm here, I'm here, not heroic but I try
G F C
I'm here, I'm here, not heroic but I try
Outro: G F C (2x)