Good Mourning chords by Talib Kweli, Hi-tek, Reflection Eternal
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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What's the meanin of ghetto fabulous
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Not ridin the back of the bus
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I'm a revolutionary antagonist
Some playas is mad at us for just doin
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our music out of love
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Some underground heads is hatin
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cause we have fun at clubs
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I'm probably on some government
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list for my rhymin
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You a fool if you don't think they
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already tapped your line
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Medicine is big business so
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my remedies is herbal
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It's music is for the people so
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we Reflection Eternal
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Listen, you hear the difference between
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science and science fiction
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We blow it out like if you leave on
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every appliance in the kitchen
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at once, still rolling kind bud
in Cuban blunts
On the corner watchin how kids comin
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to Brooklyn for they fronts
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Niggas run past what they need
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chasing after what they want
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Fuckin chumps,
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you walk down the street and get jumped
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Brooklyn cats like to bubble out
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of town no lookin back
When you a ghetto chef you mastered
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the art of cookin crack
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Some get caught sleepin on the Mother
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City so when they go
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They come back as tales of niggas
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we used to know
Never looked up to see the stars
in all they heavenly glory
Just straight ahead cause the peripheral
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is buildings with mad stories
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Not floors but dramas is played out,
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shorties get laid out
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like respect and fade out like TV sets
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into the banks of our memories (let it
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be) we'll never forget you
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Lyin on your deathbed askin for God
Verse 2
to bless you
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Good mourning, good afternoon,
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good night
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What have you done with your life?
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Everybody time comes to be
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embraced by the light
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You only scared to die when you ain't livin right,
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man
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I'm puttin up a hellafied fight
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Verse 3
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I need you all to be clear on
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exactly what I'm sayin
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With your attention span I understand
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that I ain't playin
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You mistaken if you somehow
think it's just me you facin
Starin me down while your enemy
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is standin adjacent
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My heart is racin but I know
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just what I stand for
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We chasin death carelessly like
+Jessica+, I +Care Moore+
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Who said, "Just because no one can understand
how you speak
don't necessarily mean that what
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you be sayin is deep"
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In case you die in your sleep you
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ask the Lord for a blessin
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Sometimes they sneak up so quiet that
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the silence is deafenin
You'll never know who the assassin
is until it's your time to go
Your life is flashin,
askin for forgiveness but you move too slow
Now the people that you love bear
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the pain that you once harbored
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You was livin for yourself so you
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could never be a martyr
Life is hard,
death is harder; you somebody baby father
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Someone's lover, son of your mother,
somebody brother
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Somebody nigga,
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now your spirit in the air like a whisper
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Hearin your name mentioned when
we pourin out some liquor
The days go by quicker and the nights
don't seem to differ
It's gettin cold,
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so I shivered and asked my soul to be delivered
Verse 4
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Good mourning, good af ternoon,
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good night
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What have you done with your life?
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Everybody time comes to be
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embraced by the light
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You only scared to die when you ain't livin right,
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man
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I'm puttin up a hel
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lafied fight
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Verse 5
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Yo, the time come for everybody
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It ain't somethin'
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you can really prepare for
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Yo,
Verse 6
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yo, Mad Duke,
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rock rock on and
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Curtis Mayfield, rock rock on and
Grover Washington, rock rock on and
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My Aunt Hazel, rock rock on and
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Big L, rock rock on and
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Freaky Tah rock rock on and
Jerome Green, rock rock on and
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Slang Ton, rock rock on and
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We celebrate life
Good Mourning
Talib Kweli, Hi-Tek, Reflection Eternal
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