Non-Metaphorical Decolonization Cifras

Am                     C
The place I live has a name
             F               G
But there's another one, older
Am G         F
Emerging through the mist
Am            F          G
I saw where I was as it was
                     F
Before we called it anything
 
Am                 C
Now we live in the wreckage
     G          F
Of a colonizing force
                   G
Whose racist poison still flows
Am G           F
So scared of a moment of discomfort now
Am          G
We turn away from the obvious
Am     G       C          G        F
All we have is stolen and can't be owned
 
Am             C             F             G
This "America", the old idea, I want it to die
Am  G            F
Non-metaphorical decolonization
                G
Beneath the one sky
                   F
Let this old world shatter
    Am   G
And transform
Am  G         F
Allegiance to nothing at all
Am                      G
But the burning present moment
Am G      F
I cut the cord connecting then and now
             G
And start again
                              F
I show the kid how to give up everything
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