Permission

	  		
Intro: Dm   F   C   G 

Dm                 F 
I've been an ace girl 
                 Dm                 F 
Offering much, grumbling low 
            Dm                          F 
And I gave all,     all that was asked of me 
                       Dm                   F 
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           F 
And sure, I've had my fun 
            Dm 
Played with my roles 
            F 
With time for a break hard-won 
       Dm               F 
But then after a while 
               Dm 
So much done by rote 
                 F 
No longer by inspiration 

Dm                     Bb 
I've   never stopped long enough 

      F                         C 
To see whose was this blind ambition 
       Dm                  F 
And I      was not sanctioned to stop 
            Bb                       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              Bb 
With this space by the dropping of weights 
             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                              F 
And do the only things that matter to me 

C       Bb      Dm                         F 
             The simple things that matter to me 
C       Bb      Dm                         F 
             The simple things that matter to me?