Whiteboy

[Intro]
F    Gm
 
[Verse 1]
 
  Dm
I cannot feel guilty for shit that I didn't do
  Dm
But I can understand the reasons why you think that I should
  Dm
Yeah I'm white but I never put your neck in no noose
  Gm
And I never burnt a cross or hid my face with a hood
  Dm
You can't just label me racist 'cause I'm related to people
  Dm
Who did some terrible shit way back before I was alive
  Dm
My parents brought me up to treat everyone as an equal
  Gm
I refuse to feel ashamed 'cause of my pretty blue eyes
  Dm
Fuck a nazi, fuck a white supremacist
  Dm
Fuck anyone who labels me as that because of my family genetics
  Dm
The hatred for Caucasians is so fucking pathetic
  Gm
Go be proud that you're black, but don't hate me for some credit
  Dm
I'm not the white devil, neo-nazi, cop tryna pull the trigger
  Dm
You can call me what you want but I'd still never say
  Dm
The white race as a whole ain't the enemy
  Gm
There's racist white people but we're far from that collectively
 
 
[Chorus]
 
  Dm
White boy, don't say that
  Gm
White boy, oh you so bad
          F
White boy you wish you were black
  Gm
White boy, be a white boy
  Dm
White boy, white noise
  Gm
Sayin' shit I can't say with my white voice
  F
White boys, white lies
 
Don't tell me how to see it through my white eyes
 
 
[Verse 2]
 
  Dm
If a black man is sippin' on some Cognac sitting next to me
  Dm
I don't assume that every blacks favorite drink is Hennessy
  Dm
I don't dislike Tanesha 'cause her first name isn't Stephanie
  Gm
Not only is that wrong, it's a fucking waste of energy
  Dm
Ivory or ebony, forty five or seventeen, we all bleed the same
  Dm
Martin Luther King or Kennedy
  Dm
They're angry I'm recitin' the facts
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He white and he raps, and stole the culture right from the blacks
  Dm
Okay, he's fire but we lit the flame, he's siphoning gas
  Dm
So fuck this corny little honky, man, the whitey is wack
  Dm
You letting history perpetuate the hatred within'
 
And then you paint me with the brush you painted slave owners with, yeah
 
 
[Chorus]
 
  Dm
White boy, don't say that
  Gm
White boy, oh you so bad
  F
White boy you wish you were black
  Gm
White boy, be a white boy
  Dm
White boy, white noise
  Gm
Sayin' shit I can't say with my white voice
  F
White boys, white lies
 
Don't tell me how to see it through my white eyes
 
 
[Verse 3]
 
  Dm
I got a mother, a father, a sister, an auntie and uncle
  Dm
And a grandma that I picture when you're openly hatin'
  Dm
And god willing one day, I'll have a kid of my own
  Gm                                Bbm
I refuse to let you blindly hate my wife or my baby
  Dm
So go ahead and hate the racists, I pray for their extinction
  Dm
If you wanna hate the white people, just make a distinction
  Dm
Between the ones who want the best for everyone regardless
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And the ones who built the system just to smother you with hardship
  Dm
Stop before you say it, I know what you been thinking
  Bb
Hows a straight white male in twenty-eighteen bitching
  F
You're making me the villain by demonizing my race
  Gm
For things I didn't do and decisions I didn't make
  Dm
No one that I call a friend has ever owned a slave
  Bb
And neither did our dad's, or our dads dad's, for fuck sakes
  F
Acknowledging atrocities were wrongly committed
  Gm
Is all that I can offer when I'm wrongly convicted
  Dm
I would never hate a man for what god gave him in pigments
  Bb
And I would never plot against him just because he is different
  F
I would never judge a human for the cards he was given or
  Gm
Call them lesser than myself 'cause of the race that he's mixed with
  Dm
White people that you hate aren't your neighbors or lawyers
  Bb
They're the Rockafeller's, Rothschild's, Bush's, and Royals
  F
They're the people who monopolize the water and oil
  Dm
And injected your communities with drugs 'til they spoil
  Dm
Got no patience for nazis, I think they're better off dead
  C                                            Bb
They're fighting hatred with hatred makin' the hate more intense
                        C
I don't want nothing to do with either side of the fence
  Dm
So don't blindly attack me for wearing braids on my head
  Dm
Hate the people who believe you put yourselves in the ghetto
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Hate the ones who teach they children you ain't shit cause they said so
  C
Hate the ones who think you're all the same and judge you profusely
  Dm
'Cause the way that you're portrayed on our news and in movies
  Dm
Bein' white and bein' racist aren't the same man, I promise
  Bb
Know it's hard to tell the difference if I'm just being honest
  F
I deserve the chance to show you I'm not part of the problem
 
And you owe it to yourselves, we got so much in common
 
 
[Chorus]
 
  Dm
White boy, don't say that
  Gm                 Bb
White boy, oh you so bad
  F
White boy you wish you were black
  Gm
White boy, be a white boy
  Dm
White boy, white noise
  Gm                            Bb
Sayin' shit I can't say with my white voice
  F
White boys, white lies
 
Don't tell me how to see it through my white eyes
  Dm
White boy, don't say that
  Gm
White boy, oh you so bad
  Dm
White boy you wish you were black
  Gm
White boy, be a white boy