A Strange Loop - Inner White Girl chords by Misc Musicals

• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: C

Verse 1:
F              C    G
On days his blackness feels like another hurdle
F             C    G
That won't get out of his way
F              C       G
His inner white girl starts kicking like a baby



F              C    G
She wants to come out and play
F            C     G
She doesn't care if she ruffles any feathers
F           C    G
In fact that is her M O
F            C       G
Where he's the king of avoiding confrontation
F               C    G
There's not a bomb she won't throw

Pre-Chorus:

Because
Em         F
White girls can do anything
C   G
Can't they?
Em         F   C     G
Black boys must always obey their mothers
Em         F
White girls can do anything
C      G
Can't they? Can't they?

Can't they? Can't they?

Verse 2:
F              C       G
Some days he feels like his blackness is a treasure
F              C       G
That's under constant attack
F            C       G
His inner white girl protects it from marauders
F            C       G
She always takes up the slack
F            C     G
She lets him feel like a human supernova
F             C     G
Like he could conquer the Earth
F             C      G
Like he's the heir to the power and oppresion
F              C    G
Her kind have wielded since birth

Pre-Chorus:

Because
Em         F
White girls can do anything
C   G
Can't they?
Em         F   C     G
Black boys must always obey their mothers
Em         F
White girls can do anything
C      G
Can't they? Can't they?

Can't they? Can't they?

Chorus:
        F             C
They get to be cool, tall, vulnerable and luscious
        G     Em
They get to be wild and unwise
        F      C
They get to be shy and introspective
         G
They get to make noise
         C
They get to mesmerize
              F             C
Black boys don't get to be cool, tall, vulnerable and luscious
        G     Em
Don't get to be wild and unwise
        F      C
Don't get to be shy and introspective
         G
Don't get to make noise
         G F G
Don't get to fantasi-i-ize

Verse 3:
F             C      G
His blackness doesn't look blue in any moonlight
F             C      G
Which makes him harder to see
F              C      G
That's why he clings to his silly inner white girl
F            C      G
The same one clinging to me

Bridge:
      F
We wanna be free
      C
We wanna belong
        G      F
We want either love or validation
          F
But neither come easily
         C
So hear her siren song
      G     F
Keeps us in total subjugation

Chorus:
       F             C
We want to be cool, tall, vulnerable and luscious
       G     Em
We want to be wild and unwise
       F       C
We want to be shy and introspective
        G
We want to make noise
      C
We wanna mesmerize
        F             C
Why can't we be cool, tall, vulnerable and luscious?
        G        Em
Why can't we express in our own way?
        F           C
Why can't we unleash what's locked inside us?
         G              C
Who made up these rules black boys must always obey?