Picture a scene in your mind
Look at all the people and take note of the setting behind
Listen, watch, and wait, a plot begins to take shape
There's a story and then, characters will come to you
Relating events as they choose to
But all their words and actions come entirely from you
If you're a storyteller you might think you're without responsibility
And you can lead your characters anywhere you want, you have immunity
G Bm C D x2
Have you considered the way
People might react to all the things that your characters say?
And are their actions hand in hand with what you want to portray?
Are you sick? Are you crippled? Insane?
Expressing the desires that daren't speak their name?
Are you the one to be blamed?
Now you're a storyteller you might think you're without responsibility
But in directions, actions and words, cause and effect, you need consistency
G Bm C D x3
How can you finish the tale?
Lives which have played a part
Are summarized from the very start
And episodes left out to make it all go your way
"It's a might big world
Some of it I've seen
But mostly I've only heard
And stories are all fiction from their moment of birth"
You're just a storyteller, you're not trying to escape responsibility
If we believe you then you're successful but you don't make claims of verity
G Bm C D x4
Look at all the people and take note of the setting behind
Listen, watch, and wait, a plot begins to take shape
There's a story and then, characters will come to you
Relating events as they choose to
But all their words and actions come entirely from you
If you're a storyteller you might think you're without responsibility
And you can lead your characters anywhere you want, you have immunity
G Bm C D x2
Have you considered the way
People might react to all the things that your characters say?
And are their actions hand in hand with what you want to portray?
Are you sick? Are you crippled? Insane?
Expressing the desires that daren't speak their name?
Are you the one to be blamed?
Now you're a storyteller you might think you're without responsibility
But in directions, actions and words, cause and effect, you need consistency
G Bm C D x3
How can you finish the tale?
Lives which have played a part
Are summarized from the very start
And episodes left out to make it all go your way
"It's a might big world
Some of it I've seen
But mostly I've only heard
And stories are all fiction from their moment of birth"
You're just a storyteller, you're not trying to escape responsibility
If we believe you then you're successful but you don't make claims of verity
G Bm C D x4