Dagenham Dream chords by Blood Orange

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Verse 1
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We received our bloody circles
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in the mail
Only see what's really im
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portant when it's nailed
As a teen, my Lord and sa
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vior was a male
Tire trucks and six steel string
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s that keep me frail
It's the worst I've ever felt
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when it hails
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Broken teeth and bloody nose but
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least it snowed
Instantly dry, oh,
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I cried and   cut a line
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And my eyebrow acted like
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the boys who tell
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And my teacher told me that
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this made her sad
Had to act just like the others
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to get around
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Friday nights alone in ef fort
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make Ma bored

Verse 2
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Like, growing up I have always heard
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Or like, I was always hyperaware of
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Things that the people around me who were
charged with my care
Or told me, like, be silent or be quiet
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Or be ashamed or hide
Or perform a version of myself
that wasn't really me
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And so, I think that through my life I've
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always been hyperconscious
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And aware of not going in  to spaces
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and seeking too much attention
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Um, because part of survival is, like,
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being able to just fit in
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To be seen as  normal and to, like,
quote-unquote belong
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belong
But I think that so often in society in order
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to belong means that we have to
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Like, shrink parts of ourselves