The Main Character
[00:09.67] I'm that first person they talk about in all the books
[00:18.70] I'm that perspective you cannot doubt, see how I look
[00:27.20] Control the narrative reliably, baby, it's all about me
[00:36.23] And I wrote the book about throwing the book at those who don't do it by it
[00:45.26] So now I'm holding myself hostage, Stockholm lust just looks like justice
[00:49.51] And enough lefts don't make the right but two wrongs do
[00:52.43] Oh man, Sun Tzu would love this!
[00:54.56] Beating my dead high horse off the high road to low ground
[00:57.75] 'Cause if you shake your fist at snakes in grass
[01:00.67] It looks like punching down
[01:03.32] So God forbid I'm seen just as an average human being
[01:07.57] I mean, imagine if protagonists just died in the first scene
[01:13.68] I'm the gap between a tragedy and comedy
[01:17.67] Don't come at me
[01:19.00] I'm the main character and you have to like me
[01:30.95] I loot plot armor from NPC’s
[01:36.79] Well, they are to me
[01:39.98] Trite tropes, traits, traumas, trinkets, and treats; it's all XP
[01:48.48] Look in the sky, it's a bird! It’s a plane! No, it's superego!
[01:54.59] The underdog you cheer for
[01:57.78] Villains are everywhere, that's how I know that I'm the hero
[02:06.54] So tie me to the train tracks, laugh and snidely twist your mustache
[02:10.53] Snidely Whiplash, Boris Badenov, ignoring me's bad enough
[02:15.04] Where do you get off? Da, das vedanya, darling
[02:17.96] Daleks in high collars monologue and I outsmart them with a ray-gun and a tweet
[02:24.60] So God forbid I'm seen just as an average human being
[02:28.85] I mean imagine if protagonists just died in the first scene
[02:34.96] I'm the gap between a tragedy and comedy
[02:38.95] Don't come at me
[02:40.28] I'm the main character and you have to like me
[03:10.03] Judge me by what my cover shows, author becomes beyond reproach
[03:14.54] You don't know the prose or if the spine is still intact
[03:18.79] Oh, like Alice fell to Wonderland, come astroturf my Overton
[03:23.57] And embolden my demand to live by alternative facts
[03:28.35] Her majesty says "The Royal We demand a standard of loyalty
[03:33.93] An agreement to be reverent, lick the emperor's new boots."
[03:39.78] The court fool got the guillotine, the witches the stake, you the dopamine
[03:45.88] And Siemens made the Zyklon B but we all still get the flu
[03:52.26] We all do what we need to to get through
[03:57.84] (It’s nothing new)
[03:58.90] But I ain't done a fucking thing to you!
[04:02.89] So God forbid I'm seen just as an average human being
[04:07.14] I mean imagine if antagonists lacked any evil scheme
[04:12.45] I'm the gap between a tragedy and comedy
[04:15.90] Don't come at me
[04:17.23] I'm the main character and you have to like me
