Ignorance & Privilege chords by John Gorka
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Verse 1
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I was born to ignorance,
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yes, and lesser poverties
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I was born to privilege that I did not see
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Like a pigment in my skin,
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one of free and easy
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I didn't know it, but my way was paved
I grew up a Catholic boy
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in a northeastern state
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A place when asked where you from,
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some people tend to hesitate
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Reply a little bit late,
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as if maybe you didn't read
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I was born to ignorance and privilege
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My dad ran a printing press,
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a tag and label factory
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May have seen it as a child,
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now a distant memory
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Almost too faint to see
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Dark red brick factory
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Didn't know it but my way was paved
We moved from a city street
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Shortly after I arrived
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To a house on a gravel road
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Where I learned to be alive
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Where I'll walk, run, and ride
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That's where I want to come alive
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Didn't know it but my way was paved
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If the wind is at your back
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And you never turn around
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You may never know the wind is there
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You may never hear the sound
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Oh, got to grow and go to school,
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work at home and dream at night
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Even be a college fool,
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like I had any right
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Never went through a war,
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never great depression bore
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Didn't know what my way was paved
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Nose to the grindstone,
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shoulder to the wheel
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Back against the wall,
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maybe you know how it feels
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If the wind is at your back
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And you never turn around
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You may never know the wind is there
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You may never hear the sound
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I was born to ignorance,
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yes, and lesser poverties
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I was born to privilege that I did not see
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Like a peck mounted by skin,
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one of free and easy
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Didn't know it but my
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way was paved
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Cause I was born to ignorance
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and privilege
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Ignorance & Privilege
John Gorka
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