[Intro]
Em D C/G D (x2)
[Verse One]
Em D
My god, do you even know my name?
C/G
Are you changing up your mind over changes
D Em D
I never made for you? We are no more than we'll ever be
C/G
With heaven on my mind, and hell, well I believe,
D Em D
In the stage lights, come down, breaking over me
C/G
Heaven heaven is a dream, heaven heaven is a dream,
D Em D
I believed but never would've been,
C/G
Heaven heaven is a dream,
D Em
Heaven heaven is a dream, I
[Chorus]
Em D C/G
I would do anything for you to love me
D Em
Like I'm an American hero, baby
D
Star-spangled in my manner shaking
C/G D Em
Every man's hand in the presidential manor you see
D C/G
I would do anything to hear you say
D Em
There goes an American hero, darling
D
Call the press and tell 'em all
C/G D Em
"He's got a front page picture face with all of the amenities."
[Post-Chorus]
Em D C/G
If you really don't mind, take me as I am
D Em
Take me as I am, when you get a chance
D C/G
Take your time, I understand, believe me
D Em
When I say I carry all my sins
D C/G
And I would do anything for you to love me
D Em D C/G
Call me an American hero
D Em D C/G
Call me an American hero
D Em
Call me an American
[Verse Two]
Em D
I'll leave, if and when you want me to
C/G D Em
When and if I've haunted you and if I miss you when you do not
D
Real talk, do you read fuck-up in my walk?
C/G
Do you see fuck-up on my face? do I mean anything at all?
Em D
Don't say you love me if you do got nothing
C/G
Else to say to me when heaven is a dream
D Em
And reality is fictional! fictional!
D
Constantine and every host of christendom
C/G D
What carried them, buried them, with every last one of us
Em D
America is just a dream
C/G
Just a dream, pretty thing
D Em
Nothing's ever what it seems
D C/G
Just a dream, I still scream in my sleep,
D Em
in my sleep I still scream that
[Chorus]
Em D C/G
I would do anything for you to love me
D Em
Like I'm an American hero baby
D
Star-spangled in my manner
C/G D Em
Shaking every man's hand in the presidential manor you see
D C/G
I would do anything to hear you say
D Em
There goes an American hero darling
D
Call the press and tell 'em all
C/G D Em
"He's got a front page picture face with all of the amenities."
[Post-Chorus]
Em D C/G
If you really don't mind, take me as I am
D Em
Take me as I am, when you get a chance
D C/G
Take your time, I understand, believe me
D Em
When I say I carry all my sins
D C/G
And I would do anything for you to love me
D Em
Call me an American hero
Call me an American hero
Em D C/G
Call me an American hero
D Em D C/G
Call me an American hero
D Em D C/G
Call me an American hero