Powerless (Say What You Want) [Alternative Acoustic Mix]

[Verse 1]

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

[Chorus]

’Cause this life is too short

To live it just for you

But when you feel so powerless

What are you gonna do?

[Post-Chorus]

So say what you want

Say what you want

[Verse 2]

I saw her face outside today

Weatherworn, lookin' 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 hidin'

[Chorus]

Oh, this life is too short

To live it just for you

But when you feel so powerless

What are you gonna do, do, do?

Say what you want (Say, say, say, yeah)

[Bridge]

Hey you, the one, the one outside, how are you gonna get in, get in?

Hey you, the one the one outside

How are you gonna get in, get in?

Hey you, the one that don’t fit in, yeah

Hey you, the one that don’t fit in, yeah

Hey you, the one that don’t fit in, yeah, yeah

[Outro]

Yeah, this life is too short

To live it just for you

But when you feel so powerless

What are you gonna do?

Do

Hey you, the one outside

Hey you, the one outside