Powerless (Say What You Want)

Paint my face in your magazines
Make it look whiter than it seems
Paint me over with your dreams
Shove away my ethnicity

Burn every notion that I may have a flame inside to fight
And say just what is on my mind
Without offending your might

'Cause this life is too short to [C7]live it just for [Dm7]you [A7
But when you [A7feel so powerless what are you [A7gonna do
So say what you [A7want, say what you [A7want

I saw her face outside today
Weather worn, looking all [Em]the ɾage
They took her passion [C7]and [Bm]her gaze and [Bm]made a poster
Now it's moccasins we sport
We take the culture and [Bm]contort
Perhaps only to [C7]distort what we are hiding

'Cause this life is too short to [C7]live it just for [Dm7]you [A7
But when you [A7feel so powerless what are you [A7gonna do
But say what you [A7want, say what you [A7want, say, say

Hey you, the are the one outside, are you [A7ever gonna get in, get in
Hey you, the one that don't fit in, how ya, how ya gonna get in
Hey you, the one outside, are you [A7ever gonna get in with your
Broken teeth, broken jaw, broken mojo

Yeah, this life is too short to [C7]live it just for [Dm7]you [A7
But when you [A7feel so powerless, what are you [A7gonna do

'Cause this life is too short to [C7]live it just for [Dm7]you [A7
But when you [A7feel so powerless, what are you [A7gonna do
'Cause this life is too short to [C7]live it just for [Dm7]you [A7
But when you [A7feel so powerless, what are you [A7gonna do

Say what you [A7want, life is too short
Say what you [A7want,
Say what you [A7want, gonna do
Say what you [A7want,
Say what you [A7want, feel powerless
Say what you [A7want to
Say say say, do what you [A7wanna do
Life is too short, just for [Dm7]you
Feel powerless, gonna do