These are The Pretender chords by Lewis Capaldi on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.
[Intro]
A
[Verse 1]
A
I will be your shoulder
to cry on
F#m
I will make you laugh
if you need
E
I will play the part
if you say so
D
Yeah, I'll be anybody but me
[Pre-Chorus]
A
To tell you the truth,
E
I'm a mess, I'm a fool
D E
You don't know that
F#m
And you never will
E
In my mind, it's instilled
D
not to show that
[Chorus]
A
I spend almost all of my time
A/E
Feeling like I'm falling
even further behind
F#m D
And I know I'm so
good at seeming
A/E
Like I'm not on the
Asus2/E
edge of a knife
D
I'm the pretender,
F#m
what can I tell ya?
Asus2/E
Designed to deceive
D
So tell me who you
A
want me to be
[Verse 2]
A
I can wear a million faces
F#m
'Cause I don't like
the one underneath
E
Always found it
easy to fake it
D
Yeah, I'll be anybody but me
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[Pre-Chorus]
A
To tell you the truth,
E
I'm the fraud in the room
D E
You don't know that
F#m
And you never will
E
In my mind, it's instilled
D
not to show that
[Chorus]
A
I spend almost all of my time
A/E
Feeling like I'm falling
even further behind
F#m D
And I know I'm so
good at seeming
A/E
Like I'm not on the
Asus2/E
edge of a knife
A
I feel like everything
I do is a lie
A/E
And all the words just further
pull the wool over my eyes
F#m D
I know I'm no good at being
A/E Asus2/E
Who I am away from the light
D
I'm the pretender,
F#m
what can I tell ya?
Asus2/E
Designed to deceive
D
So tell me who you
A
want me to be
[Bridge]
E
And I'll be
D
Be my best impression of
F#m
what you expect from me
E D
But what you don't see is
[Chorus]
A
I spend almost all of my time
A/E
Feeling like I'm falling
even further behind
F#m D
And I know I'm so
good at seeming
A/E
Like I'm not on the
Asus2/E
edge of a knife
A
I feel like everything
I do is a lie
A/E
And all the words just further
pull the wool over my eyes
F#m D
I know I'm no good at being
A/E
Who I am away from
Asus2/E
the light
D
I'm the pretender,
F#m
what can I tell ya?
A/E
And I'm an imposter,
Asus2/E
my head is a mender
D
I'm the pretender,
F#m
what can I tell ya?
Asus2/E
Designed to deceive
D
So tell me who you
A
want me to be