Tallahassee Days chords by Dead Prez
Verse 1
Em
Let me now turn to our program
for the future.
...economy right now...
Bm
It's extremely supporting of
Em
the president and his policies...
...FBI scientists have
found chemical traces
consistent with a bomb or a missile
on a piece of wreckage...
...police using clubs
and tear gas against demonstrators...
C
...motherf***** so -and -so
and a white fascist...
...they say you're getting some
D
Em
of your own medicine...
D
Tellin' lies to our children,
C
Bm
tellin' lies to our children,
Em
D
C
tellin' lies to our babies
Bm
Only truth can take us
Em
You can't fool all the people all of the time
D
But if you fool it right once,
then the rest is far behind
C
Tell me who's got control of your mind
Bm
In your worldview, is it the news
Em
or the movie you taking your girl to?
Know what I'm saying,
cause Uncle Sam got a plan
D
If you examine what they telling us,
then you will understand
C
What they planting in the seeds
of the next generation
Bm
Feeding our children miseducation
Em
No one knows if there's UFOs
or any life on Mars
D
Or what they doing
when they up in the stars
C
Because I don't believe a word
of what the President said
Bm
He feeling our head with lies,
got us hypnotized
Em
When he be speaking in cold words
about crime and poverty
D
Drugs, welfare, prisons, guns, and robbery
C
It really means us,
there's no excuse for the slander
B
What was good for the goop
Bm
Em
is still good for the gander, see
I don't believe
Bar Marley got the cancer
D
31 years ago
I would've been a panther
C
They killed Huey
cause they knew he had the answer
Bm
The views that you see in the
Em
news is propaganda
D
Telling lies to our bitches
C
Bm
Em
Telling lies to our children
D
Tellin' lies to our babies
C
Bm
Only truth can take us home
Em
I don't want no computer chip in my arm
D
I don't wanna die by a nuclear bomb
C
I say we all rush to Pentagon
Bm
Pull out guns and grab the intercom
B
Bm
My first words will be,
Em
I believe man made God
Out of ignorance and fear,
D
an d God made man
And why the hell would he put us here?
C
I thought he's supposed
to be the all -loving
B
The same God who let Hitler
Bm
Em
put the Jews in the ovens
We don't fall for the regular shit
D
They try to feed us all this half
-assed leadership
C
Flip a position, they turn politician
And shut the hell up and follow tradition
Bm
Boy, your TV screen
is telling lies to your vision
Em
Every channel got some brainwashed
cop shit to watch
D
Runnin' up in niggas' cribs,
claimin' that they earn shots
C
It's a plot, but bust it,
can you tell me who's greedy?
Bm
Are the big corporations,
the pigs, or the media?
Em
Sign of the times,
terrorism on the rise
D
Commercial airplanes fallin'
out the skies like flies
C
Make me wonder what secrets
went down with Ron Brown
Bm
Who burned the churches
B
to the ground
Bm
with no evidence found
Em
It's not co incidence,
it's been too many steady incidents
D
It could've been the Klan
who put that bomb at the Olympics
C
But it probably was the FBI
Debate the cause,
Bm
cause if they make us all panic
They could start martial law
Em
I don't believe Bob
Marley died from cancer
D
31 years ago I would've been a panther
C
They killed Huey
cause they knew he had the answer
Bm
B
The fuse that you see
Bm
in the news
is propaganda
Em
I don't believe Bob
Marley died from cancer
D
31 years ago, I would've been a panther
C
You killed Huey
cause you knew he had the answer
Bm
The views that you see in the news
B
Em
is motherfuckin' propaganda
D
What telling lies, fooling millions?
C
What are they teaching our kids
D
Bm
C
in these school buildings?
Em
Televised, enterprise,
D
waking up, camping
C
Controlling our lives
Bm
Em
This ain't livin', no this ain't liv in' FBI,
D
C
B
Bm
CIA, ATF, KKK, IRS, TNT, CBS, NBC
Em
D
C
F .B .I. C .I .A. A .T .F. K .K .K. I
Bm
B
Bm
.R .S. T .N .T. C .B .X. N .B .C.
Em
D
Tellin' lies to our babies
C
Bm
C
Tellin' lies to our children
Em
D
Telling lies to our babies
C
Bm
Only truth can take us
Em
D
From here
We view each other
C
with a great love
D
and a great understanding
Bm
Em
And that we try to extend this
D
to the general black population
C
and also people, oppressed people
D
all over the world.
Bm
C
Em
An d I think that we differ
D
from some other groups
simply because we
understand the system
C
better than most groups
B
understand the system.
Em
And with this realization,
D
we've attempted to form a
C
strong political base
based in the community
with the only strength that we have,
And that's the strength of a
potentially destructive force
if we don't get freedom.
Tallahassee Days
Dead Prez
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