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