Key: A major
Intro 1
C
G
Am
Am
F
F
C
G
C
C
Verse 1
C
Turn my mic up louder
I got to say something
G
Lightweights stepping aside
When we come in
Am
Feel it in your chest
The syllables get pumping
People on the street
They panic and start running
F
Words on loose leaf
Sheet complete coming
I jump on my mind
I summon the rhyme I'm dumping
C
Healing the blind
I promise to let the sun in
G
Sick of the dark ways
We march to the drumming
C
Jump when they tell us
They want to see jumping
G
Fuck that, I want to see some fist pumping
Am
Risk something
Take back what's yours
Say something that you know
They might attack you for
F
'Cause I'm sick of being treated
Like I had before
Like it's stupid standing for
What I'm standing for
C
Like this war is really just
A different brand of war
G
Like it doesn't cater the rich
And an abandon the poor
Pre-chorus 1
Am
Like they understand you
In the back of the jet
F
When you can't put gas in your tank
C
These fuckers are laughing their way
To the bank and cashing their check
G
Asking you to have compassion
and to have some respect
Am
For a leader so nervous In an obvious way
F
Stuttering and mumbling
For nightly news to replay
C
And the rest of the world
Watching at the end of the day
G
In the living room laughing
Like what did he say?
Chorus 1
Am
F
Amen, amen
C
G
C
Amen, amen, amen
Verse 2
C
In my living room watching
But I am not laughing
'Cause when it gets tense
G
I know what might happen
Am
The world is cold
The bold men take action
Have to react
Or get blown into fractions
F
Ten years old is something to see
Another kid my age drugged under a jeep
C
Taken and bound and found later under a tree
G
I wonder if he thought
the "next one could be me"
C
Do you see?
The soldiers they're out today
That brush the dust
G
from bulletproof vests away
Am
It's ironic
At times like this you pray
But a bomb blew the mosque up yesterday
F
There's bombs in the buses, bikes, roads
Inside your markets, your shops, your clothes
C
My dad, he's got a lot of fear I know
G
But enough pride inside not to let that show
Pre-chorus 2
Am
My brother had a book
he would hold with pride
F
A little red cover with a broken spine
C
In the back he hand wrote a quote inside
G
"When the rich wage war,
it's the poor who die"
Am
Meanwhile the leader just talks away
F
Stuttering and mumbling
For nightly news to replay
C
The rest of the world
Watching at the end of the day
G
Both scared and angry
Like what did he say?
Chorus 2
Am
F
Amen, amen
C
G
Amen, amen
Outro 1
Am
With hands held high
F
Into a sky so blue
C
As the o cean opens up
G
To swallow you
Am
With hands held high
F
Into a sky so blue
C
As the o cean opens up
G
To swallow you
Am
With hands held high
F
Into a sky so blue
C
As the o cean opens up
G
To swallow you
Am
With hands held high
F
Into a sky so blue
C
As the o cean opens up
G
To swallow you
Am
With hands held high
F
Into a sky so blue
C
As the o cean opens up
G
To swallow you
Am
With hands held high
F
Into a sky so blue
C
As the o cean opens up
G
To swallow you
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