Lirik dan Chord Lagu Reader Meet Author – Morrissey

Lagu bergenre rock tersebut dirilis pada 1995 melalui label RCA Records.

“Reader Meet Author” muncul dalam album studio kelimanya yang bertajuk Southpaw Grammar.

Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Reader Meet Author” dari Morrissey:

Intro:
A# Am G C x2
F C Dm G

C                          G                         D   A
You don't know a thing about their lives
C                              G                        D   A
They live where you wouldn't dare to drive
C                            G                        D     A
You shake as you think of how they sleep
              C                    G                   D     A
But you write as if you all lie side by side

A#                  Am
Reader, meet author
               G                       C
With the hope of hearing sense
              A#                   Am
But you may be feeling let down
            G               C
By the words of defense
                 F                 C                       Dm     G
He says "no-one ever sees me when I cry"

C                           G                       D    A
You don't know a thing about their lives
C                                    G                              D       A
Books don't save them, books aren't stanley knives
             C       G                    D       A
And if a fight broke out here tonight
           C                       G                               D      A
You'd be the first away, because you're that type

               A#         Am                    G                      C
And the year two thousand won't change anyone here
               A#                   Am                        G                            C
As each fabled promise flies so fast you'll swear it was never there
                       F                                 C                Dm     G
Oh, have you ever escaped from a shipwrecked life?

Solo:
Am D# A# F x4
C G D A x4

      A#                       Am          G                           C
So safely with your software, miles from the front line
       A#                         Am                                  G                      C
You hear the way the sad voice sings, and you start to imagine things
          F                       C            Dm     G
Oh, any excuse to write more lies

Outro:
Am D# A# F
Am