Acts Of Man

Tom: C

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


Chorus 1 chords: [play intro/verse riff thru-out]
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


Chorus 2 chords:
    Am                              C[verse riff]
Not here, not here, heroic acts of man
    Am                              C[verse 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 chords:
        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


Chorus 3: [use chorus 1 chords]
Not here, not here, heroic acts of man
Not here, not here, heroic acts of man


Verse 5 chords:
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


Chorus 4 chords:
    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] x2