A Person

Intro 

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D    A 



[Verso 1]
 
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There's a person with a set of porcelain teeth 
                      A 
And a pair of emerald eyes 
                                                               D 
One time I bethought to plod beneath the warm gold glittering façade 
                 D 
Where in lieu of fleuves of ruby blood 
A 
I found a fougou, got caught in a clotted cream flood 
 


[Refrão]
 
A                     
Well, if I were a person 
                    D 
(And I hope I never am one) 
                 A 
I would try to be less of a person, more of a person 
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Well, if I were a person 
                    D 
(And I hope I never am one) 
                 A 
I would try to be less of a person, more of a person, less of a pers- 
 


[Verso 2]
 
On a whim, down a gravel driveway from a winding well-off road 
  D 
A person gave a push and watched me whoosh! 
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Into the midst of risks I was averse to 
                                 
Out on a limb, coerced toward a court of obelisks 
              D 
The burden of pressure bruised my skin more deeply 
A 
Than the physical impact did  


{Instrumental} 

E  Bm  F#m 

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D    A 

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[Ponte]
 
  D        F#m           G 
Nobody else bore witness to it 
D        A 
Somebody bore it to the witnessing 
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Everybody bored of bearing with me 
E         D       A            E 
But could anybody bear to intervene? No! 
D           F#m 
Inhabiting a captive body 
E           A 
Inhabiting a faceless bag of bones 
         F#m 
My sizzling pancake-battered head 
G                A                            D 
Still keeps score for imaginary battles below, oh 
 


[Verso 3]
 
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There's a person-shaped jam-filled pastry 
D                         A 
Stand in for someone I've known 
                       A              
Ooh whoa ooh whoa ooh, only a pretzel stick stake 

Punched through the piped-in raspberry heart 
    D 
Can break the thick thrall of that glaze 
A                                     E    Bm  F#m 
Spare me more of these saccharine matinees 
E    A 
Oooooh, ba ba da da da da 
 


[Verso 4]
 
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There's a person with a jasper disposition 
D                    A 
And a yellow diamond mind 
         A 
Faced by fire, I tried and trod 
                                    D 
In the mine with that canary crystal clod 
                                  A 
'Til the tawdry lace facets failed 
                                             A 
And I confronted the fraud that the flames unveiled 
 


[Refrão]
 
A                   
Well, if I were a person 
                    D 
(And I hope I never am one) 
                 A 
I would try to be less of a person, more of a person 
A                   
Well, if I were a person 
                    D 
(And I hope I never am one) 
                  A 
I would try to be less of a person, more of a person  
 

Outro 
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Less of a person, more of a person 
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Less of a person, more of a person 
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Less of a person, more of a person 
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Less of a person