Permission

Intro: Dm   Bb   F   C

Dm           Bb
I've been an ace girl
           F              C
Offering much, grumbling low
           Dm                     Bb
And I gave all,     all that was asked of me
                 F                 C
When order was slow and vision was unrelenting

Dm                     Bb
I       never stopped long enough
     F               C
To swim against the tides of old
    Dm                   Bb
And I     was single-minded too much
     F               C
To look toward this new true north
So now

F                 C
  Permission to be
                Dm
Permission to slow
           Bb                          F
And do the only things that matter to me
                 C
The freedom to flow
                   Dm
To where genuine flows
           Bb
And do the only things that matter to me

     Dm                Bb
And sure, I've had my fun
                F
Played with my roles
                  C
With time for a break hard-won
      Dm           Bb
But then after a while
                 F
So much done by rote
              C
No longer by inspiration

Dm                    Bb
I've   never stopped long enough

    F                   C
To see whose was this blind ambition
    Dm                   Bb
And I      was not sanctioned to stop
        F                  C
And realize whose was this old mission
So now

F                 C
  Permission to be
                Dm
Permission to slow
           Bb                          F
And do the only things that matter to me
                 C
The freedom to flow
                   Dm
To where genuine flows
           Bb
And do the only things that matter to me

            C            Dm              C
With this space by the dropping of weights
        Bb         C
This license to obey
           Dm           C
With this time really wait
So now

F                 C
  Permission to be
                Dm
Permission to slow
           Bb                          F
And do the only things that matter to me
                 C
The freedom to flow
                   Dm
To where genuine flows
           Bb
And do the only things that matter to me

F            C                Dm
Oh, oh, oh, ooh, oh, oh, oh, ohh
     Bb                           F
The simple things that matter to me
            C                Dm
Oh, oh, oh, ooh, oh, oh, oh, ohh
     Bb                           F
The simple things that matter to me