Own Light (What Hearts Are For) chords by
Brother Ali

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Key: Db major

Intro 1

Verse 1

You're not using your heart for

What hearts are for

Verse 2
F F 
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They've been trying to shut
us down our whole life
Em Em 
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I thank God for healing
F F 
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You ain't got to get me lit,
I got my own light
Em Em 
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Thank God for listening, listen
F F 
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You've been trying to build
me up my whole life
Em Em 
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I thank God for building
F F 
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You ain't got to get me lit,
I got my own light
Em Em 
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I thank God I'm living

Verse 3
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Sometime I feel like a stranger,
maybe I ain't from here
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World going crazy,
how could that be unclear?
F F 
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Know that I'm a soldier,
heart's on my battleground
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Sword in the holster,
had to come back around
F F 
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I ain't trying to hide away,
I just had to meditate
Em Em 
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I ain't got a lot to say but the
ancestors may
F F 
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Speaking to the whole globe,
numbers don't occur to me
Em Em 
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You can listen solo 'cause
you're the whole world to me
F F 
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I jump in with both feet, nothing low-key
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You You can find me where I'm s'  posed be,
where my folks be
F F 
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If you listen very closely you
know who chose me
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Nothing that I own owns
me and so I'm so free
F F 
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I remember being hungry,
needing groceries
Em Em 
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Nighttime getting no  sleep
'til my nose bleed
Got a message to the police
F F 
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You're not using your heart for
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what hearts are for

Verse 4
F F 
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They've been trying to shut us
down our whole life
Em Em 
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I thank God for healing
F F 
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You ain't got to get me lit,
I got my own light
Em Em 
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Thank God for listening, listen
F F 
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You've been trying to build
me up my whole life
Em Em 
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I thank God for building
F F 
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You ain't got to get me lit,
I got my own light
Em Em 
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I thank God I'm living

Verse 5
F F 
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Not for one second I believe
what you're telling me
Em Em 
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I know you invented disease
and sell the remedy
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Universe is sending me
centuries of memories
Em Em 
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So the very breath that I
breathe is all I ever need
F F 
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I got that Muhammad Ali
up in my pedigree
Em Em 
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Yes I be speaking my piece
up in my seventies
F F 
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Ain't worry bout ya threatening me,
I'm just being honest
Em Em 
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I ain't buying fear just because
it's all you got left
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We just want to make love
'til we wake up
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I believe whoever made us
envisioned greatness
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And you know they want to paint
us with the same brush
Em Em 
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Wanna enterchain us 'til we
fill our grave up
F F 
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Alright okay but when it's all
said and it's all done
Em Em 
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And I look back at the trophies I won
F F 
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I will only count one
Em Em 
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I'm using my heart for
what hearts are for

Verse 6
F F 
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They've been trying to shut us
down our whole life
Em Em 
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I thank God for healing
F F 
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You ain't got to get me lit,
I got my own light
Em Em 
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Thank God for listening,
listen
F F 
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You've been trying to build
me up my whole life
Em Em 
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I thank God for building
F F 
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You ain't got to get me lit,
I got my own light
Em Em 
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I thank God I'm living

Verse 7
F F 
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And I know who I am
I know whose I am
On your wings, I fly
Em Em 
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And in your shoes, I stand
F F 
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I'm animated by love,
I don't move by chance
Em Em 
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Any stage I touch or any place I stand
There y'all land,
F F 
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living in the world as it is
Cracked vessel,
Em Em 
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I am  no more and no less than a man
F F 
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Any po-sessions that that I have
are just in my hand
Em Em 
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I'm balancing the best that I can
F F 
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I'm not making no claims but
I'm using my heart for
Em Em 
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what hearts are for

Verse 8
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All the beauty in this whole life (uh)
Em Em 
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I   thank God for healing
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And You ain't got to get me lit,
I got my own light
Em Em 
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I thank God for listening, listen
F F 
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You've been trying to build
me up my whole life
Em Em 
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I   thank God for building
F F 
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You ain't got to get me lit,
I got my own light
Em Em 
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I thank God I'm living
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Am Am 
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Just reflecting all the beauty in this whole life

Outro 1
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F F 
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Am Am 
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Em Em 
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F F 
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