Intro
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D#m C# B F# A# D#m G#m
D#m C# B
I want to live life duty free
F# A# D#m G#m
Let my instincts take the lead
D#m C# B
I want to take what I can get
F# A# D#m G#m
Don't want to choose don't want to beg
D#m C# B
I want down from this family tree
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I don't need no upward mobility
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D#m C# B
I want to unlearn what I've learned
F# A# D#m G#m
Want to unearn what I've earned
D#m C# B
Want to burn my bridges down
F# A# D#m G#m
Find a place I can't be found
D#m C# B
This is my manifesto destiny
A# G#m C#
Tear down this awkward mobility
D#m C# B
'Cause I'm tired of standing upright
A# G#m C#
The taller we become the more dollars we can grab from that highest branch
D#m C# B
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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D#m C# B
I'm no high society man
F# A# D#m G#m
No suit and tie, no Dapper Dan
D#m C# B
I'm no happy family man
F# A# D#m G#m
I'm no husband, ain't no dad
D#m C# B
I'm a goddamn caveman
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This upward mobility is more than I can understand
F# A# D#m G#m
I won't stand, no, I won't stand for it
F# A# D#m G#m
I won't stand, no, I won't stand for it
F# A# D#m G#m
I won't stand, no, I won't stand for it
D#m C# B
I'd rather be all hands and knees
D#m C# B
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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