NELLY FURTADO - POWERLESS (SAY WHAT YOU WANT)
Paint My Face In Your Magazine
Make It Look Whiter Than It Seems
Paint Me Over With Your Dreams
Shove Away My Ethnicity
Burn Every Nothion That I May Have A Flame Inside To Fight
And Say Just What Is On My Mind
Without Offending Your Might
Cause 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
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
Cause 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
So Say What You Want
Say Say...
Hey You, The One Outside Are You Ever Gonna Get In, Get In
Hey You, The One That Don't Fit, 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?
Cause 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
Cause 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
Cause 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
Cause This Life Is Too Short To Live It Just For You (Say What You Want)
Feel So Powerless What Are You Gonna Do (Say What You Want)
So Say What You Want, Say What You Want, Say What You
Cause This Life Is Too Short To Live It Just For You (Say What You Want)
Feel So Powerless What Are You Gonna Do (Say What You Want)
So Say What You Want, Say What You Want, Say What You
Life Is Too Short Just For You
Feel Powerless
Gonna Do
SONG FACTS
Writer(s): Nelly Furtado, Gerald Eaton, Brian West, Trevor Horn, Anne Dudley, Malcolm McLaren
Producer(s): Track & Field, Nelly Furtado
Furtado Is Of Portuguese Ancestry, And In This Song She Calls Out The Practice Of Publicists Doctoring Photos To Make Ethnic Talent Appear More White. Furtado Describes The Song As About Trying To Find Order In A Complicated World.
This Uses A Popular Sample From "Buffalo Gals" By Malcolm Mclaren. The Sample Is Mixed With A Banjo Played By Bela Fleck.