Intro
D# A# Gm F
Gm Dm Gm Dm
D# A# Gm A#
D# D#m A#
[Verse 1]
Gm
We grew up into lives scrawled on back of
F D# A#
Mediated maps in their lines visibly entrapped
And this birthright more like a birth mark whose area
Gm
And edges grow ragged with age.
F D# A#
A# malignancy untested, it consumes us anyway
D# A# D# A# F
It consumes us anyway. It consumes us anyway
[Verse 2]
A# Gm F
I grew up near the White Shore without ever knowing that name
D# A#
Just how lines starkly drawn will check you in one box or another.
Gm
And in the space between past and passing, we have
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Classroom discussions of Amy Tan novels but this is personal.
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Family is always personal. History is always personal
[Chorus 1]
A# D# Gm
I will not condemn what anyone did to survive
F A#
But I will not defend a culture that makes us decide
D#
To assimilate or die or that defines survival as
Gm F A# D# Gm
Running as fast as you can from the places you came from
F A# D#
Forgetting the things that have made us
Gm F A# D#
'Til all that is left is the burning in our lungs or
F
The pounding in our hearts that only has space for
D# A#
Contempt for the ones who couldn't quite make it.
[Chorus 2]
D# Gm
That we are all the same: what a happy myth,
F
Where race records become erased records
A#
With time and meter to help us forget,
D#
Or to take away the sting as we define survival as
Gm F A# D# Gm
Running as fast as you can from the places you came from
F A# D#
Forgetting the things that have made us
Gm F A# D#
'Til all that is left is the burning in our lungs or
F
The pounding in our hearts that only has space for
D#
Contempt for the ones who couldn't quite make it.
[Outro]
Gm Gm
F F A
- 1. Chord Gitar Defiance, Ohio - The White Shore Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar B)
- 2. Ganti Chord Gitar Defiance, Ohio - The White Shore Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar B)
- 3. Author Lagu Andra Ramadhan