A Strange Loop - Inner White Girl chords by Misc Musicals

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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?