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