Powerless Lyrics

Powerless

Paint my face in your magazines
Make it look whiter than it seems
Paint me
over with your dreams
Shove away my ethnicity
Burn every notion that I may
have a flame inside to fight
And say just what is on my mind
Without
offending your might

Cuz this life is too short to live it just for
you
But when you feel so powerless what are you gonna do
So say what you
want
I saw her face outside today
Weatherworn, looking all the
rage
They took her passion and her gaze and made a poster
Now it’s
moccasins we sport
We take the culture and contort
Perhaps only to
distort what we are hiding

Cuz this life is too short to live it just
for you
But when you feel so powerless what are you gonna do
But say what
you want
Hey you, the one outside, are you ever gonna get in, get in
Hey
you, the one that don’t fit in, how ya, how ya gonna get in
Hey you,
the one outside, are you ever gonna get in with your
Broken teeth, broken
jaw, broken mojo
Yeah, this life is too short to live it just for you
But
when you feel so powerless, what are you gonna do
Cuz this life is too short
to live it just for you
But when you feel so powerless, what are you gonna
do
So say what you want, say what you want, say what you want