Key: D major•
Verse 1
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Bm
Gm
D
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Bm
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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D
Black and brown faces,
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No, I don't wanna be this way
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Gm
This is how America raised me
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Gm
And you're probably exactly the same
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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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Bm
Every single day of my life
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I said, come on, don't you think
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G
And she just shook his head
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I am a racist
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Black and brown faces
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Now, I don't wanna be this way
Bm
Gm
This is how America raised me
Bm
Gm
And you're probably exactly the same
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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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The lengths to which some
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Gm
desperate people go
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dollars on my couch
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G
With a note that kindly read
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Bm
And of this, there's little doubt
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D
Black and brown faces
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Oh, I don't wanna be this way
Bm
Gm
This is how America raised me
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Gm
Em
probably exactly the same
I fought it desperately
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But it was so easy
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G
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
I am a racist
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Bm
And of this there's little doubt
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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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I am a racist, yes
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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
it's running in my veins
Gm
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