Permission chords by Alanis Morissette

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