Fan Fiction Chords

[Intro]
 
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You always loved to play this game
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That you called "Real-Life Fan Fiction"
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Where you'd take something real and innocuous and
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You’d try to sneak in some ridiculous little details
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To see if you could get away with it... It’d be something like:
 
[Verse]
 
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Paul Revere, he had a secret fear of horses
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That's why he rode so fast, he was just trying to get it over with!
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Charles Darwin wrote a book about some finches
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With a chapter on which bird adapted to be most delicious
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And I'm a fan of how you fan the flames and make a game of fan,
 
[Chorus]
 
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Fan Fiction… What if something cool happened instead?
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I'm just wishin' for the story to be more like in my head
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Like Fan Fiction
 
[Verse]
 
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You'd do this thing whenever we'd go to a grocery store or a farmer's market
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And you would have me -- we'd pretend not to know each other
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And you would make me go up and take a sample and say
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Oh, may I please take one for my partner, as well?
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And of course, they'd give it to me 'cause it didn't matter
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And I would scurry back with our little contraband snack
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And if we liked it we would hit 'em with ol' the double play!
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And you'd pull the same move on ’em.
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And I'm sure that this is the standard operating procedure
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Copied from the couple's playbook and we did not invent this move
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But you always called this "Robbing the bank"
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Which I always thought was so dramatic… and fun.
 
[Chorus]
 
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Fan Fiction… What if something cool happened instead?
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I'm just wishin' for the story to be more like in my head
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Like Fan Fiction
 
[Verse]
 
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So we did this sort of thing all the time
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Turning our mundane moments into Silver Screen Nonsense To spice things up and make each other laugh
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And it was fun when we were gossiping about our neighbors
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Or making up tragic backstories behind the bones at the museum
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But I think I got too good at making up stories
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Thinking I could turn our story into a perfect little screenplay
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That would wrap up in the third act with a happy-ever-after
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Because people don't slowly drift apart in movies or fall out of love off-screen
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They have big emotional confessions with dramatic music
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That make it obvious that things just aren't the same as they used to be
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And darling I didn't hear a thing when I said
 
[Bridge]
 
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Hey, we should go rob a bank
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And you looked at me and your eyes were blank
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How could you forget that? Are you so checked out? Are we okay?
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It's like you didn't know my face, moved on from playing silly games
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But interests shift and passions slip and times move on and people change
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But if that's gonna happen I will fill in all the gaps with Fan Fiction
 
[Chorus]
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What if something good happened instead?
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I'm just wishin' for the story to be more like in my head
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And no matter how all this ends, it makes no difference
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I'll be writing my own end with Fan Fiction
 
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Fan Fiction
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