WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Nana Grizol - South Somewhere Else Chords | Ver. 1
[Verse]
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
