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Intro 1
(C major) (B minor) (E minor) (D major) (B minor) (E minor) (B minor) (E minor)
(B minor) (A minor) (C major) (E minor) (B minor) (C major) (E minor) (B minor) (C major) (E minor) (B minor)
(C major) (E minor) (B minor) (C major) (B minor) (C major)
(B minor) (C major) (E minor) (B minor) (C major) (E minor) (B minor) (C major) (B minor)
(C major) (B minor) (C major) (B minor) (C major) (B minor)
(C major) (B minor) (C major) (E minor)
(B minor) Yeah
Verse 1
(C major) (B minor) (C major)
Yes (B minor)
(C major) (E minor) (B minor) (C major)
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Verse 2
I wanna be as free as (E minor) the spirits
(B minor) of those who left
I'm talk (C major) in' Malcolm, (E minor) Col trane, (C major)
my (B minor) man Yusef
Through (C major) death grew concep (E minor) (C major) tion,
(B minor) new breath and resur (C major) rection
For (E minor) moms, (C major) new steps (B minor) in a direction,
(G major) in the (C major) right way
(E minor) Told her, "In (B minor) side is where
the fight lay
And everything (C major) a nigga do may (B minor) not
be what he might say"
Chicago (C major) nights (E minor) stay, (C major) (B minor) stay on the mind
But I (C major) write many lives,
they lay on these lines
Wavin' signs of the times
Many (B minor) say the grind's on
the mind (C major)
Shorties blunted- eyed (B minor) an
d everyone wanna rhyme (E minor)
Bush pushing lies, (B minor) killers immortalized
(C major) We got (E minor) arms but (B minor) won't
reach for the (C major) skies
Waiting for the (E minor) Lord to (B minor) rise
I look into my daughter's eyes
(C major) And real (E minor) ize I'ma (B minor) learn through her
(C major) The Messiah might even re (B minor) turn through her
If I'ma do (C major) it,
I gotta change the world through her
Furs and (E minor) a Ben (C major) z,
gramps (B minor) wantin 'em
Demons and (C major) old friends,
pops, they (B minor) hauntin' him
The chosen (C major) one from (E minor) the
land of the (B minor) frozen sun
Where drunk (C major) night (E minor) s get remembered
more than (B minor) sober ones
Walk (C major) like (E minor) warriors,
we were never (B minor) told to run
Explored (C major) the world to (E minor) re turn
(C major) to where my (B minor) soul begun
Nev (C major) er looking back (E minor) ,
(C major) or (B minor) too far in front of me
The (C major) present is a gift, and I just wanna be (be,
Outro 1
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(B minor) (C major) (B minor) (C major) (B minor)
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