The Beigeness Chords by Kae Tempest

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_ _ _ _ [Gm] _ Who's bad?
To the kiddie in a jackal hat, to the kiddie in a rooney shirt dragging back,
the curtains in the room in her daddy's flat, a young girl heard the truth and an alley
cat howling on the next door.
Imagine that all your idols [F] were just like you.
Nothing's
beyond you, [G] do what you want to do if you feel that it wants you to.
Look, true never
meant nothing more than [Gm] it means right now and everything's fake.
[F] But you and your deepest
reaches keeping [C] secrets, know what it takes to [Gm] make a meaning, mean something and moving
through a space that some can't [F] see.
I know this space [Cm] exists, so [Gm] do you if your heart
beats in the oldest groove.
Life is huge but we have shrunk it, we've made it [F] small.
We
usually walk tall, but [Gm] who cares where I am?
Them things you don't show, I can see.
Them things you don't say, [F] speak to me.
Them things
you hide, ain't hiding.
[Gm] No fun [Dm] ground while we ain't [Gm] sliding.
Them things for all you,
let them be.
Nothing you weep or [F] weep.
All life is forward, you will see.
It needs you
to [Ab] need it.
Go ahead, keep it in till it reverses.
[Gm] Move fast, don't stop, you've got things to
[G] do.
Pull yourself up, stand man, it isn't you.
Nod your head and believe that till it's
true.
You can tell it not to show its face when you are trying to hold your space.
What
is in you deepens your sinews [Gm] and it comes out on the coldest days.
See the kid with
a memory he [Dm] can't shake.
See the man with the lover on his [A] mind.
See the lady with the
[Gm] guilt and the heartache.
See the woman trying to battle with time.
See the man with the
blood on his [Dm] hands.
See the girl with her hands on her [A] hips.
[G] Everybody say nothing, stay
blind.
If you don't show it, then it don't [Gm] exist.
Them things you don't show, I can see.
Them things you don't say, speak to me.
Them things you hide, ain't [F] hiding.
No fun ground
while we ain't [Gm] sliding.
Them things for all you, let them be.
Nothing you weep or [F] weep.
All life is forward, you will see.
It's yours when you're ready to receive it.
[G] You're so
focused on finding the differences.
You ignore the bonds that bind us.
Got my hand on my
heart when the rhythm hits.
It's looking for us but can't find us.
In the valley of vanity
it shows.
Full schedules and empty containers.
We're kissing the koshes that cripple us.
Enjoying the vagueness.
Do it your way and I'll find you ridiculous.
Pick apart your
behaviour.
Their scorn ignites what inhibits us.
And then we hate ourselves and our fear
that pickles us.
Sitting in jars that is [C] safer.
[Gm] Some of us are happy to live with it.
But
some of us know it's against our nature.
Them things you don't [G] show, I can see.
Them things
you don't say, [Dm] speak to me.
Them things you hide, ain't hiding.
No fun ground while we
ain't [Gm] sliding.
Them things for [G] all you, let them be.
Nothing you weep or [Dm] weep.
All life
is forward, you will see.
It's yours when you're ready to [Bb] receive it.
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[D] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [G] _
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_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ life is forward,
[Dm] you will see.
All life is forward, [Ab] you will see.
All life is forward, [G] you will see.
All
life is [Ab] forward, you will see. _ _ _