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