E A It was assumed that the south was a thing that took place somewhere else B A E We grew up in a town that our parents just found on a job search and liked it quite well A E B Who had so many friends who arrived just like them so their kids were our kin for a spell E A It was assumed that the south was a thing that took place somewhere else B A E Like the feeling of home was a book on a loan from a college town private school shelf A E B We took in every chapter with interest and laughter but never quite a sense of ourselves [Break] E A B A E [Chorus] A A dangerous narrative, haunting, imperative E B Led us little kids to believe A That the place we were from shed a sheen we should shun E B Like the salt of the sweat dripping down from our sleeves [Verse] E A It was assumed that the south was a thing that took place somewhere else B A E Like the sun that went down on the edge of my town progressed no further west as it fell A E B And on visits to relatives couldn’t quite tell cause our pounding heart sank as they swelled E A It was assumed that the south was a thing that took place somewhere else B A E As if Jim Crow geographies didn’t haunt all of the streetscapes we’d come to know well A E B And not just the old neoclassical mansions we passed or the high school had stories to tell [Break] E A B A E E A B A E [Chorus] A I mean the segregate sounds of that old college town E B Rings so loud to me now I must say A As we worked all white restaurants, trash-talking debutantes E B Our nascent class conscience’ obnoxious displays [Verse] E A It was assumed that the south was a thing that took place somewhere else B A E And maybe it was which I say just because we weren’t noticing where power was held A E B Captivated, the capitol’s capitacratical white liberal logics prevailed E A It was assumed that the south was a thing that took place somewhere else B A E Multiracial resistance to greedful ambitions, cast out in revisionist spells A E B Power concedes ‘bout as much as it leads as we started to see for ourselves [Break] E A B A E E A B A E [Outro] A It was assumed that the south was a thing that took place E In a retrograde rendering of absolute space F#m As though everything left in the world wasn’t traced B By production, subjection, resistance, escape A Seen squarely through this disidentified gaze E And through textbooks and t.v.’s, our modernist ways F#m Could never quite focus, our participating B A E Renewing, rejecting, affirming, negating
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