Chorus:
            Eb
I just want time in a tree
         Cm
I need a place just for me
              Ab
Somewhere that I can be free
         Bb             Ddim
Keep the faith and just be

What you'll be

Verse 1:
        Eb
I guess rules are there to break
           Eb
But I make mistakes
               Eb
Like they were handed on a plate
                                   Ab
And I try to leave sometimes, I'm standing in the way
                          Bb                                Ddim
I'm on the edge of crying all the time, 'cause I can't human right

Verse 2:
          Eb
What a state
      Eb
I get wound up from the ground up
                 Cm
And I don't know why
         Cm
Turn the sound up, drown the noise out
                      Ab
Swallow (whoa), don't cry
                                                                  Bb
Got an anxious heart and it's stone made, can't take paper or heartbreak
                          Ddim
Did Billy Joel have self esteem?

Maybe Vienna wouldn't wait for me

Chorus:
            Eb
I just want time in a tree
         Cm
I need a place just for me
               Ab
Somewhere that I can be free
         Bb
Keep the faith and just be

What you'll be

Verse 3:
Eb
Do you ever feel like you could live a real life?
               Cm
Like everybody else in the real world, you could be a real girl?
                   Ab
I could be a wizard, I could be an astronaut

You could write fiction, you could tame raptors
     Bb                               Ddim
Most days I struggle and I get snappy

xxxx all that, I just wanna be happy

Verse 4:
Eb
Swimming against the current, am I wrong?

Can you show me a warrant?
                 Cm
Honestly, I'm a bomb, abhorrent

I'm on it, I get it, I've got it,

I wanna be ten again, just me and Sonic
     Ab
and nobody telling me I should be more than I am
                  Bb
Back when I had a plan, I...

Chorus:
            Eb
I just want time in a tree
         Cm
I need a place just for me (for me)
               Ab
Somewhere that I can be free (can be free)
         Bb             Ddim
Keep the faith and just be (just be)

What you'll be

Bridge:
Eb                                     Cm
I seen things that I never should have seen
                              Ab
Said too many things I didn't mean
                              Bb
Hurt myself too many times to count
                Ddim
I need to let it out
          Eb                          Cm
And just release been lying to myself too long
                             Ab
Been trying by myself too long
                             Bb
I can't relax, I'm too distracted
           Ddim
I can't hack it, hmm
Eb
I'm needy, greedy

Love me, feed me
Cm
Let's be a family
                                 Ab
It will take a village to make a man of me
                    Bb
So why couldn't you love me
         Ddim
It's all I need

Chorus:
            Eb
I just want time in a tree
         Cm
I need a place just for me
               Ab
Somewhere that I can be free
         Bb             Ddim
Keep the faith and just be

What you'll be

Outro: Eb Cm Ab Bb Ddim
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