[Intro]
Em G Em G Em G Am C
[Verse 1]
Em G
Jimmie takes his time as he washes his eyes
Em G
and then makes his bed up and then heads for the outside.
Em G
And it doesn't make a difference every once and a while
Am C
if you've got nothing to do but sit around and think about
Em G
how nothing he could do would ever feel good but he knows
Em G
you gotta get a job if you're looking to move on
Em G
Like everybody else but it's the same thing
Am C
Always the same dream keeping him from moving, saying
[Chorus]
Em G
I don't want to do nothin but be in a rock band
Em G
I don't want to get a job, I don't want to be a man
Em G
I don't want to do nothin but be in a rock band
Am
I don't want to do nothing at all
C
I don't want to do nothing at all
[Verse 2]
Em G
But then the bills pour in and he fakes it like to swim,
Em G
but he still don't go anywhere.
Em G
Until he gets too weak, they got him swimming in his sleep
Am C
And then he needs grab something to get some air.
Em G
And so he pulls a job down at the landfill,
Em G
and he don't mind the working outside looking out on the turnpike.
Em G
But the days fly by and the fire in his side tells him
Am C
he'll never be right until the day that he dies, saying
[Chorus]
Em G
I don't want to do nothin but be in a rock band
Em G
I don't want to get a job, I don't wanto be a man
Em G
I don't want to do nothin but be in a rock band
Am
I don't want to do nothing at all
C
I don't want to do nothing at all
[Instrumental]
Em G Em G Em G Am C
[Bridge]
D C
All his words fall down through the cracks in between,
D C
and spread like sunlight down on the world underneath.
D C
But up here they fall to nowhere they're just a feeling he needs,
Am
as he drives through the weeds,
C
and through the swamps and through the trees,
[Verse 3]
Em G
As he's talking like he's holding a gun in his hand,
Em G
but there aint nobody there, it's just him waving his hands.
Em G
And then he drives on to his guy at the van to get his
Am C
cup of coffee with three sugars for two dollars.
Em G
And back to work another day another hour,
Em G
he gets older by the minute but there's nobody around him
Em G
who can understand, looking at a young man feeling
Am C
like no one ever notices, they live the same day over and over
[Chorus]
Em G
No, I don't want to do nothin but be in a rock band
Em G
I don't want to get a job, I don't wanto be a man
Em G
I don't want to do nothin but be in a rock band
Am
I don't want to do nothing at all
C
I don't want to do nothing at all
