Robeson chords by 
Saul Williams 
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Key: G major•
Intro 1
G
B
G
C
Cm
C5
Cm
C5
B
Cm
B
C
Be ginning
Verse 1
with the after
B
C
G
B
C
math sayers of sooth who stand aloof to hide their inner laugh
G
B
Depending on the circumstance I show my tools to where
niggas know where I'm just a fishing pants
C
Cm
Beginning with the after math sayers of sooth
C
Cm
C
who stand aloof to hide their inner laugh
B
G
Depend ing on the circumstance I show my tools
B
C
B
to where niggas know where I'm just a fish ing pants
C
I slept
Verse 2
Cm
once,
C
G
C
The dream has yet to en d
It was a purple evening such as this,
Cm
the curtains had been pulled by a hand unattached
C
B
I lay propped on a pillow of eagle feathers on a couch
framed with the skeletons of my uncles and great uncles
I did not intend to close my
eyes but then I did
C
Cm
The night is falling on the moist palms
C
of children too weak to bear it's weight
B
The stars are visibly breathing in fact they
C
almost look as if they are chewing gum
B
The moon is crescented on both sides
while its center remains unseen
I can faintly hear my mother calling me,
or is that my sister singing songs of the railroad?
C
B
Robeson is reflected in a
C
floating mir ror
B
Then I realize that the mirror is not floating but being pulled by a white
C
Bm
B
horse and in great golden chari ot, the horse has human feet
G
B
Bm
B
I look down at my feet and they are hooves. When I look up it is no longer night,
C
C5
C
the sun covers the entire sky as if it were stretched to reach all corners, flames are visible but not threatening.
Cm
C
B
A girl brushes my knee with her tail, she is wearing pink overalls and rollerblades, she signals for me to follow her,
as soon as I take a step towards her I'm flying.
Cm
There are rocky
Verse 3
C
mountains below me,
I decide to land in a small settlement between mountains
Cm
C
B
A man walks up to me, he is my father but he introduces himself as John Galt. I ask him if he is the
Cm
B
C
Reverend John Galt. we begin to say the Lord's prayer together, the whole world seems to join in
C5
C
Cm
The mountains have mouths;
I am standing at an altar,
C
Cm
it takes a second to realize I'm getting married
C
B
The woman beside me, my bride,
C
is sitting in lotus position on an Indian silk pillow
B
C
B
She is holding a white umbrella over her head, I cannot see her, I keep whispering to her,
C
G
B
Cm
C
It's okay love, it's okay love? and she keeps shushing me, and shushing me,
Cm
C
I'm wearing a backpack I decide to take it off and open it up,
G
C
It's filled with col ouring books and I keep thinking
B
G
B
"I have to be done in time to pick Saturn up from school,
C
B
G
C
I have to be done in time to pick Saturn up from school, I have to be done in time
To pick Saturn up from
Interlude 1
school"
C
Bm
B
C
B
B
Verse 4
Cm
My darling Saturn I seem to break your heart daily,
how could I ever neglect to hug you
You are a planet hugged by a rainbow,
forgive me
I sometime become so consumed in the travails
B
of my own heart that I neglect yours
And there is no greater crime I will never commit it again,
for there is no other adultery
You are my child,
God's gift to the world God's will be done, I love you.
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsG B C Cm C5...
G
B
C
Cm
C5
Bm
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