Intro
[Am] [C] [G] [Am]
I’ve been on the run for so long
[G]
I don’t know, know where I’m goin'
[Am] [C] [G] [Am]
Tryna find my way back to home
[C] [G] [Am] [C] [G] [Am]
I don’t show no signs of slowing (I-I, oh, I-I, oh-ah-oh)
[C] [G] [Am] [C] [G] [Am]
But, we all must stop (I-I, oh, I-I, oh-ah-oh)
N.C.
Eventually, everybody drops
Verse 1
[Am]
Yes, I was a pusher, a pusher?
[C] [G] [Am]
Yes, I was a pushy, pushing, pusher, pushing, pusher
[C] [G] [Am]
I pushed myself hard 'til I couldn’t push no farther
[C] [G] [Am]
My father he told me, “Son, you work too goddamn hard-er”
[C] [G] [Am]
But, lager he stopped me from thinking
[C]
That my drinking, glass clinking
[G]
Never sinking
[Am]
My ability to keep on linking
[C] [G]
To the rhythms of this world
[Am] [C] [G]
I denied myself love, and my self-loathing it grows
[Am] [C] [G] [Am]
I’m wishing for a pause but, my brain it never slows-oh-oh-oh
[C] [G]
Every single thought we grow
[Am] [C] [G]
Every time we stumble there’s a lesson in the blow
[Am] [C] [G]
But, I’m learnin’ so many lessons that I’m begging for them just stop
[Am] [Am]
I’m begging for peace and I’m leaving my thoughts 'cause my brain is about to pop, ha!
Chorus
[C] [G] [Am]
I’ve been on the run for so long
[C] [G] [Am]
I don’t know, know where I’m goin'
[C] [G] [Am]
Tryna find my way back to home
N.C. [Am] [C] [G] [Am]
I don’t show no signs of slowing (I-I, oh, I-I, oh-ah-oh)
[C] [G] [Am] [C] [G] [Am]
But, we all must stop (I-I, oh, I-I, oh-ah-oh)
[G]
Eventually, everybody drops
Verse 2
N.C.
I never made Top of the Pops
[Am] [C] [G]
‘Cause my body went and stopped, like the hands on a broken clock
[Am] [C] [G]
Tick-tock, quick shock, yes, you’re made redundant
[Am]
I swear I’m not cryin', mom, I’m fine I’m choppin' onions
[Am] [C] [G]
It’s hard not to be bitter when your body, it doesn’t work
[Am] [C] [G]
When your brain just gives you pain to live through, fightin' off the hurt
[Am] [C] [G]
Fuck every virus dancin’ with the hemoglobin in my veins
[Am]
Fuck every time a doctor looked at me with pity in his face
[Am] [C] [G]
And fuck fate, If this is fate at work, fate, fuck you
[Am] [C] [G]
How many lessons in this life must I live through?
[Am] [C] [G]
I swear that I had never done anything to deserve this
[Am] [C] [G]
I kept my spirit kind, and yet it’s burning in the furnace
Bridge
[Am]
It’s burnin’, burnin’, worsens, it’s burnin' 'til I'm worthless
[Am]
I feel my body burnin’ up, I’m bleedin' on these verses
[Am]
I’m losin’ sight of purpose, I’m startin' not to care
N.C.
‘Cause you’ve taken all my dreams from me, there’s nothing left there
Chorus
[C] [G] [Am]
I’ve been on the run for so long
[C] [G] [Am]
I don’t know, know where I’m goin'
[C] [G] [Am]
Tryna find my way back to home
[C] [G] [Am] [C] [G] [Am]
I don’t show no signs of slowing (I-I, oh, I-I, oh-ah-oh)
[C] [G] [Am] [C] [G] [Am]
But, we all must stop (I-I, oh, I-I, oh-ah-oh)
[C] [G] [Am] [C] [G] [Am]
Eventually, everybody drops (I-I oh, I-I oh-ah-oh)
[Post-Chorus]
[C] [G] [Am] [C] [G] [Am]
But, we all must stop (I-I oh, I-I oh-ah-oh)
N.C. [Am]
Eventually, everybody drops
Outro
[C] [G] [Am] [C] [G] [Am]
I-I, oh, I-I, oh-ah-oh
[C] [G] [Am] [C] [G] [Am]
I-I, oh, I-I, oh-ah-oh
[C] [G] [Am] [C] [G] [Am]
I-I, oh, I-I, oh-ah-oh
[C] [G] [Am]
I-I, oh, I-I, oh-ah-oh
