{"id":1479,"date":"2021-05-10T17:40:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T17:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2026-02-16T22:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T22:10:06","slug":"an-innocent-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/an-innocent-man\/","title":{"rendered":"An Innocent Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre class=\"xNWlr hjutX PBFx0\" style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Studio Version, for live version drop down a full step.\r\n \r\n[Intro]\r\n| <span class=\"iGhjU xXjiq VcfKs\" style=\"color: var(--ug-color-text-primary);\" data-name=\"C\">C<\/span> | % | % | % |\r\n \r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[C] Some people stay far away from the door\r\nIf there's a [Dm] chance of it opening up\r\n[F] They hear a voice in the [G] hall outside\r\nAnd hope that it just passes [C] by\r\n[C] Some people live with the fear of a touch\r\nAnd the [Dm] anger of having been a fool\r\n[F] They will not listen to [G] anyone\r\nSo nobody tells them a [C] lie\r\n \r\n[Refrain]\r\n[Gm7] I know you're only pro-[C\/G]-tecting yourself\r\n[Bb\/F] I know you're thinking of [F] somebody else\r\n[G] Someone who [NC] hurt you\r\n \r\n[Verse 2]\r\nBut [C] I'm not above making up for the love\r\nYou've been [Dm] denying you could ever feel\r\n[F] I'm not above doing [G] anything\r\nTo restore your faith if I [C] can\r\n[C] Some people see through the eyes of the old\r\nBefore they [Dm] ever get a look at the young\r\n[F] I'm only willing to [G] hear you cry\r\nBecause I am an innocent [C] man\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n[C]  I   [F] am an innocent [Bb] man[F] \r\n[G] Oh yes I [C] am\r\n \r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[C] Some people say they will never believe\r\nAnother [Dm] promise they hear in the dark\r\n[F] Because they only re-[G]-member too well\r\nThey heard somebody tell them be-[C]-fore\r\n[C] Some people sleep all alone every night\r\nInstead of [Dm] taking a lover to bed\r\n[F] Some people find that it's [G] easier to hate\r\nThan to wait any-[C]-more\r\n \r\n[Refrain]\r\n[Gm7] I know you don't want to [C] hear what I say\r\n[Bb] I know you're gonna keep [F] turning away\r\n[G] But I've [N.C.] been there and if \r\n \r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[C] I can survive I can keep you alive\r\nI'm not [Dm] above going through it again\r\n[F] I'm not above being [G] cool for a while\r\nIf you're cruel to me I'll under-[C]-stand\r\n[C] Some people run from a possible fight\r\nSome people [Dm] figure they can never win\r\n[F] And although this is a [G] fight I can lose\r\nThe accused is an innocent [C] man\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n[C]  I   am [F] an innocent [Bb] man [F] \r\n[G]  Oh yes I [C] am [F] [C] \r\n[F] An [G] innocent [C] man\r\n \r\n[Refrain]\r\n[Gm] You [N.C.] know you only hurt your-[C]-self [N.C.] out of spite\r\n[Bb] I guess you'd rather be a [F] martyr tonight\r\n[G] That's [N.C.] your decision \r\n \r\n[Verse 5]\r\n[N.C.] But I'm [C] not below anybody I know\r\nIf there's a [Dm] chance of resurrecting a love\r\n[F] I'm not above going [G] back to the start\r\nTo find out where the heartache [C] began\r\n[C] Some people hope for a miracle cure\r\nSome people just [Dm] accept the world as it is\r\n[F] But I'm not willing to [G] lay down and die\r\nBecause I am an innocent [C] man\r\n\r\n{ CHORUS } [C] I am [F] an innocent [Bb] man [F] \r\n[G] Oh yes I [C] am [F] [C] \r\n[F] An [G] innocent [C] man <\/span><\/pre>\n<div class=\"vxv2A\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">X<\/span><\/div>\n<pre class=\"xNWlr hjutX PBFx0\" style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studio Version, for live version drop down a full step. [Intro] | C | % | % | % | [Verse 1] [C] Some people stay far away from the door If there&#8217;s a [Dm] chance of it opening up [F] They hear a voice in the [G] hall outside &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/an-innocent-man\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An Innocent Man<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,195,116,117,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-x-bill-chase","category-billy-joel","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-love-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29896,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions\/29896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}