Generations In The Making keyboard

Generations In The Making

• Intro

GENERATIONS IN THE MAKING
As recorded by Abby Powledge
(2025 release)


Capo 2nd fret

To play without a capo transpose +2 steps.


Intro
C    Em    F     C  G


Verse 1
        C
Thought I'd become a better bolder version of myself
    Em
The second that I started packing bags for Nashville
      F
But I hope I never change, oh I'm still a little girl
           C
With messy curls, messy curls
C
Thought moving out would drown it out if I had some distance
         Em
From the weight of all the doubt and always feeling unwanted
      F
But I hope I never change, oh I'll keep shutting it out
       C
Remind myself, remind myself


Chorus
C                                     Em7
That I'm a reincarnate of my mother's beauty
                             F
And every other woman come before me
                                     G
If my parents and grandparents were adored
                                  C
Then somebody has loved my face before


Verse 2
    C
I'm more than teenage boys and all the noise I let them have
         Em7
I'm less spoken than my mom's side, but I'm louder than my dad's
      Fmaj7
I'm a product of it all; oh it's all ancestral
       C       G
As I recall, I recall


Chorus
C                                     Em7
That I'm a reincarnate of my mother's beauty
                             Fmaj7
And every other woman come before me
                                     G
If my parents and grandparents were adored
                                  C
Then somebody has loved my face before
                                   Em7
I'll trace my imperfections in the mirror
                                     Fmaj7
Forgetting this whole reason why I'm here
                                         G
And if all my features took centuries of shaping
                              C
Then I was generations in the making


Post Chorus
                         Em7
I was generations in the making
                                  Fmaj7
All my features took centuries of shaping
                         G
I was generations in the making


Bridge
  C
I have my fathers eyes and my grandmothers curls
   Em7
My mother looked just like me when she was a teenage girl
        Fmaj7
And I'm sure that I'll love someday, 'cause it's somehow guaranteed
      G
As my predecessors found their paths in love before me


Chorus
C                                Em7
I'm a reincarnate of my mother's beauty
                             Fmaj7
And every other woman come before me
                                     G
If my parents and grandparents were adored
                                  C
Then somebody has loved my face before
                                   Em7
I'm living proof of other people's lives
                      Fmaj7
I am every lover amplified
                                           G
And if all my features took generations of shaping
                              C
Then I was generations in the making


Outro
                         Em7
I was generations in the making
                                  Fmaj7
All my features took centuries of shaping
                         G       C
I was generations in the making

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