The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived - Taylor Swift, guitar chords

Published: 2024-04-22 14:55
Selection chords: Katie Paterson

Verse:
     F   Bb    F
 Was any of it true
 F      Bb     F
 Gazing at me, starry-eyed
         F         Bb      F
 In your Jehovahʼs witness suit
        Bb       F
 Who the fuck was that guy?
     Gm       Eb       Bb
 You tried to buy some pills
        Gm        Eb         Bb
 From a friend of friends of mine
 Gm        Eb      Bb
 They just ghosted you
     Gm       Eb      Bb
 Now you know what it feels like

Chorus:
Gm                Eb                    Bb
 And I donʼt even want you back, I just want to know
Gm             Eb                       Bb
 If rusting my sparkling summer was the goal
Gm                Eb                     Bb
 And I donʼt miss what we had, but could someone give
Gm                Eb               Bb
 A message to the smallest man who ever lived?

Verse:
     F       Bb      F
 You hung me on your wall
 F          Bb        F
 Stabbed me with your pushpins
    F      Bb        F
 In public showed me off
      F       Bb      F
 Then sank in stoned oblivion
       Gm        Eb        F
 Cause once your queen had come
     Gm        Eb      F
 You treat her like an also-ran
     Gm     Eb      F
 You didnʼt measure up
    Gm  Eb      F
 In any measure of a man

Chorus:
Gm                Eb                    Bb
 And I donʼt even want you back, I just want to know
Gm             Eb                       Bb
 If rusting my sparkling summer was the goal
Gm                Eb                     Bb
 And I donʼt miss what we had, but could someone give
Gm                Eb               Bb
 A message to the smallest man who ever lived?

Outro:
                      Bb                Gm
 Were you sent by someone who wanted me dead?
                      F                  Eb
 Did you sleep with a gun underneath our bed
                    Bb
 Were you writing a book?
                         Gm
 Were you a sleeper cell spy?
                        F              Eb
 In 50 years, will this all be declassified?
                        Bb
 Youʼll confess why you did it
                   Gm
 And Iʼll say good riddance
                  F                      Eb
 ʼCause it wasnʼt sexy once it wasnʼt forbidden
                          Bb
 I wouldʼve died for your sins
                        Gm
 Instead, I just died inside
                 F                         Eb
 And you deserve prison, but you wonʼt get time
                   Bb                           Gm
 Youʼll slide into inboxes and slip through the bars
                F                     Eb
 You crashed my party and your rental car
                            Bb
 You said normal girls were boring
                          Gm
 But you were gone by the morning
                    F                                Eb
 You kicked out the stage lights but youʼre still performing
                         Bb
 And in plain sight, you hid
                      Gm
 But you are what you did
                 F                        Eb
 And Iʼll forget you, but I will never forgive
                        Bb
 The smallest man who ever lived