Josiah and the Bonnevilles - Anti-Hero (Country Version)

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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I have this thing where I get older but just never wiser
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Midnights become my afternoons
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When my depression works the graveyard shift
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All of the people I’ve ghosted stand there in the room

[Pre-chorus 1]
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I should not be left to my own devices
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They come with prices and vices
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I end up in crisis
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I wake up screaming from dreaming
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One day I’ll watch as you’re leaving
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Cause you got tired of my scheming

[Chorus]
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It’s me, hi
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I’m the problem, it’s me
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At tea time, everybody agrees
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I’ll stare directly at the sun
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But never in the mirror
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It must be exhausting
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Always rooting for the anti-hero

[Instrumental]
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[Verse 2]
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Sometimes I feel like everybody is a sexy baby
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And I’m a monster on the hill
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Too big to hang out, slowly lurching toward your favorite city
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Pierced through the heart, but never killed

[Pre-chorus 2]
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Did you hear my covert narcissism I disguise as altruism
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Like some crooked congressman
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I wake up screaming from dreaming
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One day I’ll watch as you’re leaving
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And life will lose all its meaning

[Chorus]
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It’s me, hi
F# G#
I’m the problem, it’s me
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At tea time, everybody agrees
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I’ll stare directly at the sun
G# F#
But never in the mirror
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It must be exhausting
F# G# F#
Always rooting for the anti-hero

[Instrumental]
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[Bridge]
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I have this dream my daughter kills me for the money
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She thinks I left her in the will
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And all my family gathers round and then someone screams out
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“He’s laughing up at us from hell!”

[Chorus]
E B
It’s me, hi
F# G#
I’m the problem, it’s me
E B F# G#
At tea time, everybody agrees
E B F#
I’ll stare directly at the sun
G# F#
But never in the mirror
E B
It must be exhausting
F# G# F#
Always rooting for the anti-hero.

[Outro]
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