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