Powerless (Say What You Want) - Nelly Furtado

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

Say just what is on my mind

That 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

Say what you want

Say, say...

Hey you the one, the one and outside

Are you 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 tooth, 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

Cause this life

Is too short

To live it just for you

But when you feel

So powerless

What are you gonna do

Say what you want (life is too short)

Say what you want

Say what you want (just for you)

Say what you want

Say what you want to (feel powerless)

Say what you want to say

Say, say (gonna do)

Life is too short

Just for you

Feel, powerless

Gonna do