Guaranteed (video)

instrumental intro = verse 1

G Bm

1. On bended knee is no way to be free,

G7 C

lifting up an empty cup, I ask silently,

C G

all my destinations will accept the one that's me,

D - D7

so I can breathe.

G Bm

2. Circles they grow and they swallow people whole,

G7 C

half their lives they say goodnight to wives they'll never know,

C G

a mind full of questions, and a teacher in my soul,

D - D7

and so it goes.

G Bm

3. Don't come closer or I'll have to go,

G7 C

holding me like gravity are places that pull,

C G

if ever there was someone to keep me at home,

D - D7

it would be you.

G Bm

4. Everyone I come across, in cages they bought,

G7 C

they think of me and my wandering, but I'm never what they thought,

C G

I've got my indignation, but I'm pure in all my thoughts,

D - D7

I'm alive.

G Bm

5. Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere,

G7 C

underneath my being is a road that disappeared,

C G

late at night I hear the trees, they're singing with the dead,

D - D7

overhead...

G Bm

6. Leave it to me as I find a way to be,

G7 C

consider me a satellite, forever orbiting,

C G

I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me,

D - D7

guaranteed.

+ (humming) = verse 6

(Eddie Vedder, “Into the wild”)