Em               D
  My god, do you even know my name?
        C/G
Are you changing up your mind over changes
             D   Em               D
I never made for you? We are no more than we'll ever be
     C/G
With heaven on my mind, and hell, well I believe,
D      Em                       D
In the stage lights, come down, breaking over me
       C/G
Heaven heaven is a dream, heaven heaven is a dream,
D Em             D
I   believed but never would've been,
       C/G
Heaven heaven is a dream,
                          D  Em
Heaven heaven is a dream, I


[Chorus]
Em           D                   C/G
  I would do anything for you to love me
                 D   Em
Like I'm an American hero, baby
     D
Star-spangled in my manner shaking
C/G                                        D   Em
Every man's hand in the presidential manor you see
           D                    C/G
I would do anything to hear you say
                   D   Em
There goes an American hero, darling
         D
Call the press and tell 'em all
            C/G                                           D   Em
"He's got a front page picture face with all of the amenities."


[Post-Chorus]
Em                     D                   C/G
  If you really don't mind, take me as I am
                                D     Em
Take me as I am, when you get a chance
            D               C/G
Take your time, I understand, believe me
                       D  Em
When I say I carry all my sins
               D                   C/G
And I would do anything for you to love me
                 D  Em    D   C/G
Call me an American hero
                 D  Em    D   C/G
Call me an American hero
                 D  Em
Call me an American


[Verse Two]
Em            D
  I'll leave, if and when you want me to
C/G                                                     D  Em
When and if I've haunted you and if I miss you when you do not
             D
Real talk, do you read fuck-up in my walk?
  C/G
Do you see fuck-up on my face? do I mean anything at all?
      Em                            D
Don't say you love me if you do got nothing
                       C/G
Else to say to me when heaven is a dream
                        D Em
And reality is fictional! fictional!
                D
Constantine and every host of christendom
     C/G                                                D
What carried them, buried them, with every last one of us
Em                      D
America is just a dream
            C/G
Just a dream, pretty thing
                            D  Em
Nothing's ever what it seems
             D                     C/G
Just a dream, I still scream in my sleep,
                          D    Em
in my sleep I still scream that


[Chorus]
Em            D                   C/G
   I would do anything for you to love me
                 D   Em
Like I'm an American hero baby
     D
Star-spangled in my manner
        C/G                                        D   Em
Shaking every man's hand in the presidential manor you see
           D                    C/G
I would do anything to hear you say
                   D   Em
There goes an American hero darling
         D
Call the press and tell 'em all
            C/G                                            D   Em
"He's got a front page picture face with all of the amenities."


[Post-Chorus]
Em                       D                  C/G
   If you really don't mind, take me as I am
                                D     Em
Take me as I am, when you get a chance
            D               C/G
Take your time, I understand, believe me
                       D  Em
When I say I carry all my sins
               D                   C/G
And I would do anything for you to love me
                 D  Em
Call me an American hero

Call me an American hero
                    Em    D   C/G
Call me an American hero
                 D  Em    D   C/G
Call me an American hero
                 D  Em    D   C/G
Call me an American hero