Steve Azar - I Don't Have To Be Me ('Til Monday)

From "Waiting On Joe" (2002)
(Steve Azar, Jason Young)

Capo: 1st Fret

INTRO:  [G]   [D]   [Em]   [C]

[G]   I got [D]me a brand new [Em]car
[C]waiting in the driveway
[G]   Shinin’ [D]like a bright new [Em]star
I been [C]wishin’ on it everyday
[G]   To take me a[Em]way from [C]here

[G]   So I called [D]in to where I [Em]work
[C]Told a little white lie
[G]   No my [D]back don’t really [Em]hurt
But [C]that’s my alibi
[G]   My temporary [Em]ticket to anywhere but [C]there

PRE-CHORUS #1:
[Em]  Call it an early weekend
[C]   Call it goin’ off the deep end
Call it [D]what you want I made up my mind

CHORUS:
[G]   I don’t have to be [D]me 'til Monday
[Em]  Friday, Sat[C]urday, Sunday
[G]   I ain’t gonna [D]face reali[C]ty
[G]   Three days without [D]punching a time clock
[Em]  Three nights of [C]goin’ non stop
[G]   No work[D] and all [C]play
I don’t have to be me, 'til Monday

INTRO

[G]   I can [D]do what I wanna [Em]do
[C]Be who I wanna be
[G]   I got no [D]one to answer [Em]to
As [C]soon as I turn the key
[G]   A cash [D]machine, gaso[Em]line and we’re outta [C]here

PRE-CHORUS #2:
[Em]  Call it an early weekend
[C]   Call it goin’ off the deep end
Baby [D]you and me we can leave it all behind

CHORUS

INSTRUMENTAL:  [G]   [D]   [Em]   [C]
               [G]   [D]   [C]

[G]   Three days without [D]punching a time clock
[Em]  Three nights of [C]goin’ non stop
[G]   No work[D] and all [C]play
I don’t have to be [D]me, 'til Monday

INTRO

[G]   I don’t have to be [D]me, 'til Monday [Em]   [C]
[G]   I don’t have to be [D]me, 'til Monday [Em]   [C]
[G]I don’t have to be [D]me, [Em] 'til Monday