Capo 7
Intro/Verse
EAGFCEADmAmGF
I want to live life duty free
CEAmDm
Let my instincts take the lead
AmGF
I want to take what I can get
CEAmDm
Don't want to choose don't want to beg
AmGF
I want down from this family tree
E
I don't need no upward mobility
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AmGF
I want to unlearn what I've learned
CEAmDm
Want to unearn what I've earned
AmGF
Want to burn my bridges down
CEAmDm
Find a place I can't be found
AmGF
This is my manifesto destiny
EDG
Tear down this awkward mobility
AmGF
'Cause I'm tired of standing upright
EDmG
The taller we become the more dollars we can grab from that highest branch
AmGF
And then step on your back given the chance
G
But not me I'm a bipedal backpedaler just as sure-footed as I can
(Repeat verse)
AmGF
I'm no high society man
CEAmDm
No suit and tie, no Dapper Dan
AmGF
I'm no happy family man
CEAmDm
I'm no husband, ain't no dad
AmGF
I'm a goddamn caveman
E
This upward mobility is more than I can understand
CEAmDm
I won't stand, no, I won't stand for it
CEAmDm
I won't stand, no, I won't stand for it
CEAmDm
I won't stand, no, I won't stand for it
AmGF
I'd rather be all hands and knees
AmGF
Yeah, I'd rather be swinging in the trees
With the monkeys and the junkies and bums and sloths and jailbird canaries
G
Yeah that's me I'm a bipedal backpedaler from sea to shining sea
(Repeat verse)