Anti-Hero Lyrics by Taylor Swift (with Guitar Chords)

Key: E
No capo

Verse 1
A     E                       B             C#m
I have this thing where I get older but just never wiser
A        E                    B     C#m
Midnights become my afternoons
A         E                  B
When my depression works the graveyard shift
   C#m           A             E                   B     C#m
All of the people I’ve ghosted stand there in the room
 
 
Pre-chorus
  A             E                B
I should not be left to my own devices
     C#m                  A
They come with prices and vices
  E                 B           C#m
I end up in crisis (Tale as old as time)
A        E                     B
  I wake up screaming from dreaming
        C#m                     A
One day I’ll watch as you’re leaving
           E                   B
'Cause you got tired of my scheming
         C#m
(For the last time)
 
 
Chorus
A       E
It’s me, hi
B              C#m
I’m the problem, it’s me
  A   E      B       C#m
At tea time, everybody agrees
A           E                 B
I’ll stare directly at the sun
         C#m
But never in the mirror
A             E
It must be exhausting
        B         C#m
Always rooting for the anti-hero
 
 
Instrumental
A   E   B   C#m
 
 
Verse 2
A            E              B     C#m
Sometimes I feel like everybody is a sexy baby
A          E               B     C#m
And I’m a monster on the hill
A          E                  B             C#m
Too big to hang out, slowly lurching toward your favorite city
A               E                         B    C#m
Pierced through the heart, but never killed
 
 
Pre-Chorus
A         E                 B       C#m             A
  Did you hear my covert narcissism I disguise as altruism
E                    B                     C#m
Like some kind of congressman (Tale as old as time)
A        E                     B
  I wake up screaming from dreaming
        C#m                     A
One day I’ll watch as you’re leaving
         E                    B
And life will lose all its meaning
         C#m
(For the last time)
 
 
Chorus
A       E
It’s me, hi
B              C#m
I’m the problem, it’s me
  A   E      B       C#m
At tea time, everybody agrees
A           E                 B
I’ll stare directly at the sun
         C#m
But never in the mirror
A             E
It must be exhausting
        B         C#m
Always rooting for the anti-hero
 
 
Instrumental
A   E   B   C#m
 
 
Bridge
A          E                   B             C#m
 I have this dream my daughter-in-law kills me for the money
A          E                      B    C#m
She thinks I left them in the will
A           E                   B                C#m
 The family gathers 'round and reads it and then someone screams out
         C#m                  A            E                  B      C#m
And then someone screams out,  “She’s laughing up at us from hell!”

A       E
It’s me, hi,
B              C#m
I’m the problem, it’s me
A       E
It’s me, hi
B   C#m
I’m the problem, it’s me
A       E   B    C#m
It’s me, hi,    everybody agrees
     A       E       B     C#m
Everybody agrees…
 
 
Chorus
A       E
It’s me, hi
B              C#m
I’m the problem, it’s me
  A   E      B       C#m
At tea time, everybody agrees
A           E                 B
I’ll stare directly at the sun
         C#m
But never in the mirror
A             E
It must be exhausting
        B         C#m
Always rooting for the anti-hero.
 
 
Outro
A   E   B   C#m