The return to innocence lost chords by The Roots
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Intro 1
(A minor) (D minor) (A minor)
(F major) (D minor)
(B flat major) (D minor)
(A minor) (G major) (F major) (D minor)
(A minor) (F major) (D minor)
(E flat minor) (Daug) (D minor)
(A minor)
Verse 1
Muffled (D minor) sound of (A minor) fist on flesh
Blows to (D minor) chest
No breath
Air gasps
(F major) You (D minor) ain't nothing but white trash, bitch!
With (E flat minor) each hit, each (D minor) kick, each,
broken rib
Crack, crack!
Bones are crying
(A minor) Mommy's crying and bleeding
And (D minor) pleading
And then
Daddy wants to fuck
Dick hard, swelled with power rush
And as if all that was
(E flat minor) n't enough
(D minor) Mommy's seven
months heavy with birth
As, Daddy (A minor) grunts and cursed drunk nothings
in her bloodied ear
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Verse 2
First, lullaby (A minor)
First, son, will, ever, hear
And never forget (F major) (D minor)
(C major)
(F major) Mommy almost bled to (D minor) death when she have him, finally
Verse 3
(D minor)
She'd already lost, three
(G major) Uterus- bruised,
(F major) shredded, and weak
From being (A minor) daily beat
And Friday (D minor) nights were the
worse and
Daddy never came (F major) with flowers
(D minor) Instead he (F major) spent hours at
(D minor) some corner spot
With some bar pop named Cookie
Putting his thing (G major) down
Soiling (F major) Mommy's sheets with
Sweet, (A minor) talk shit,
Cookie's cheap (D minor) lip stick,
Hair grease, sperm, and Jeze (Gsus4) bel juice
(F major) To hell with the good news (D minor) that
Verse 4
He was a father for the first time
His thirst for wine and women
(G major) Clouded his vision (F major)
No warm welcome for (A minor) mother and son
Just
The (D minor) rank smell of ass- crack, funk,
and (Gsus4) cum
(G major) But (F major) Mommy's prayerful
strength- her best de (D minor) fense
She, burned the dirty linens
Made a fresh bed
(G major) Laid sleeping First Son (F major) down
And nev (D minor) er made a sound
(A minor) As she purged her (D minor) scourge
With birth- blood and quiet (F major) tears
Watching as her fears an
(D minor) d love and sacrifice
Lie there in his soft skin and (G major) new life
Breathing, dreaming, fresh
from (F major) God's eye
(A minor) Mommy's little survivor
(D minor) Like, her
(Gsus4) Mommy called crazy (D minor) and scorned
Verse 5
Cause she two more born
(D minor)
One boy soon after
The girl much (G major) later and
(F major) Although they were both sung the same
lullabies of hate
(A minor) Her, First Son,
the (D minor) first one
Whose, womb- world was profaned (F major)
(D minor) Came of age playing street games
With Stewie, Rezzie, and Little
Brother
'Till his heart (G major) start to wither
(F major) In pain (D minor) and shame
(A minor) Blamed Mom for (D minor) the wrong she
let Daddy do to her
And him
(Gsus4) Let, sin (F major) s of the Father (D minor) cause his
innocence to wander
Found out amongst thieves
Chose to (G major) squander his dreams
Stopped (D minor) believing in himself
(A minor) Become prodigal with his (D minor) life
Make impossible (Gsus4) shit right with
Gang- ties, (F major) crime, (D minor) lies
Erase (A minor) wise, woeful words of
Mother (D minor)
Replaced them with (G major) absurdities (C major) of others
(F major) Who had also lost their (A minor) way
(D minor) Played a different kind of (F major) street game (C major) now
Verse 6
First Son (F major)
plunged deep
Speak street- (D minor) family vows
Espouse no causes but his own
See, he couldn't (G major) protect Mommy's
(F major) neck from Daddy's grasp
Or, (D minor) (A minor) protect Mommy's ass
from Daddy's wrath
(D minor) Couldn't shield her ears from
(C major) Daddy's foul- mouthed,
liquor- (F major) breath jeers
(D minor) His only de (A minor) fense- served
be (D minor) confidence
Brown (C major) bottles housed his swift (F major) descent
Phones (A minor) called cops on block frequent
(D minor) for his shenanigans
Now, (G major) Daddy and (C major) him twins (F major) in addiction
Driven to (D minor) false- hearted
heavens and friends
By li (G major) quefied demons
(F major) Had become what he (D minor) des
pised from con (A minor) ception 'til end
(D minor) Destined for a demise
(F major) Survived nine lives of staying high
(D minor) Conning, jewelry- (A minor) pawning,
(D minor) arrests, theft
(A minor) Womanizing, only for (F major) money, never for sex
(D minor) Bullet in (A minor) chest, baseball bat to the head
(D minor) Left for dead (F major)
(C major) So, eyes wide and (F major) glassy
Speech, (D minor) slowed (A minor) and slurred
(D minor) Lips twitched with caked-
up codeine (G major) candy
And (C major) mouth corners
(F major) one December (A minor) 24th
Mr. Hide and (D minor) False Friend
Took final (C major) ride to sub (F major) urban supplier
Shots were (D minor) fired by the gray man
With shaky hand
But not shaky enough to (G major) miss
(A minor) Hit, Lost Boy in back
So- called Friend runs for (D minor) door
Leaves First Son (F major) blood- born
Lying alone in blood on cold (D minor) floor
(A minor) Death was the (D minor) cause of Re
Verse 7
(G major)
turning to Innocence (F major)
Lost (A minor) (D minor)
Verse 8
Baby 'S (C major) is awake (A minor) for dawn on
Christmas morn
To Mommy's sobs and shakes (D minor)
(A minor) Daddy's sil (D minor) houettes of regret
(A minor) All (D minor) past, omitted, (A minor) and absolved (D minor) by lost
As they clung to each other (D minor)
Outro 1
Knowing
(D minor) (A minor)
(F major)
The return to innocence lost
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