Capo 5th fret

Standard (EADGBE)

I was born to ignorance yes and lesser poverties

 I was born to privelige that I did not see

 Lack of pigment in my skin, won a free and easy in

 Didn't know it but my way was paved

I grew up a catholic boy in a northeastern state

A place when asked, "Where you from?"

Some people tend to hesitate, reply a little bit late

As if maybe you didn't rate

I was born to ignorance and privilege

My dad ran a printing press in a tag and label factory

May have seen it as a child, now a distant memory

Almost too faint to see, dark red brick factory

Didn't know it but my way was paved

We moved from a city street shortly after I arrived

To a house on a gravel road where I learned to be alive

Crawl, walk, run and ride, that's where I learned to come alive

Didn't know it but my way was paved

 If the wind is at your back

And you never turn around

You may never know the wind is there

You may never hear the sound

Got to grow and go to school, work at home and dream at night

Even be a college fool, like I had any right

Never went through a war, never Great Depression poor

Didn't know it but my way was paved

 Nose to the grindstone, shoulder to the wheel

Back against the wall, maybe you know how it feels

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If the wind is at your back

And you never turn around

You may never know the wind is there

You may never hear the sound

I was born to ignorance yes and lesser poverties

I was born to privelige that I did not see

Lack of pigment in my skin won a free and easy in

Didn't know it but my way was paved

 'cause I was born to ignorance and privilege