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