Tonalidad: D major•
Verse 1
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Gm
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Gm
I am a
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racist,
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Bm
and of this there's little doubt
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Black and brown faces,
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they make me nervous
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when it's dark out
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No, I don't wanna be this way
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But what can I say?
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Gm
This is how America raised me
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To always be afraid
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Don't take the blame
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Gm
And you're probably exactly the same
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In college I had a black friend
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Bm
He was cool and if you asked him
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What it was like to be a black man
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Bm
He would laugh and say, let's pretend
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That every single person you see
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out on the street
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Thinks you're carrying a
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gun or a knife
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Yeah, that's what it's like
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Every single day of my life
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I said, come on, don't you think
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That's a little dramatic
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And she just shook his head
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Yeah, that's what the cop said
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I am a racist
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Nervous, there's little doubt
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Black and brown faces
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They make me nervous
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when it's dark out
Gm
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Now, I don't wanna be this way
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But what can I say?
Bm
Gm
This is how America raised me
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To always be afraid,
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don't take the blame
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Gm
And you're probably exactly the same
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When I can't clean my apartment
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Bm
Sometimes I have to outsource it
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That's when Carlos and Zoe come
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Bm
To do the job that I can't get done
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Oh, but before they arrive,
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I'll go and hide
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Gm
Valuable things I want them to find
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Cause you never know
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The lengths to which some
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desperate people go
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Then one time I found a hundred
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dollars on my couch
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G
With a note that kindly read
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I found this under your bed
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Bm
And of this, there's little doubt
Gm
D
Black and brown faces
F#
They make me nervous
Bm
when it's dark out
Gm
D
Oh, I don't wanna be this way
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But what can I say?
Bm
Gm
This is how America raised me
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To always be afraid
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Don't try to change and you're
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Gm
Em
probably exactly the same
I fought it desperately
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Cause I just could not breathe
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But it was so easy
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To see people differently
I looked at other things to blame
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And cast down their names in shame
But the problem always ended
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in the same place
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And that place was me
I am a racist
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Bm
And of this there's little doubt
Gm
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But I am trying to change it
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Bm
Every time it rears it s head about
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Cause I don't wanna be this way
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No mat ter what you say
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I know the damage
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and the role that I've played
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So I'll take the blame
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Seems like a good place
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to start anyway
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I am a racist, yes
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I can't escape it, yes
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I haven't really been
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Troubled in my faith
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I am a racist, yes, but I can't es cape it, yes
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I haven't really been trying my best
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I am a racist, yes,
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but I can't escape it, yes
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Cause I have it breathing,
it's running in my veins
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