We Are the Ones chords by The Coup

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Intro 1

Verse 1
Em 
 (E minor) We,
D 
Em 
we are the ones  (D major)  (E minor) 
We'll seal your fate, tear down your state,
D 
go get yo'  (D major) guns
Em 
D 
Em 
We,  (E minor) we came to fight (D major)  (E minor) 
It's yo' disgrace, smash up your place,
D 
Em 
that's just polite  (D major)  (E minor) 

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Verse 2

We, we are the ones

We'll seal your fate, tear down your state,

go get yo' guns

We, we came to fight

It's yo' disgrace, smash up your place,

that's just polite

Verse 3
Em 
 (E minor) Once upon a time when
crack was gold
D 
Em 
 (D major) And  hip-hop was was  (E minor) not
yet platinum sold
I scoured the streets for
stacks to fold
D 
Em 
 (D major) My mood like  (E minor) my hair

Verse 4
was relaxed and blowed
Em 
 (E minor) I hated police and my teachers
were beasts
D 
Em 
 (D major) My heat in the  (E minor) trunk of the
classic Caprice
The one university, I knew the deal
D 
Em 
So I  (D major) cooked it,  (E minor) bagged it, put it on sale

Verse 5

Now philosophically you'd be opposed

To one inhaling coke via mouth or the nose

But economically I would propose

That you go eat a dick

Verse 6
as employment froze
Em 
 (E minor) And I felt like an abandoned child
D 
Em 
 (D major) Left to  (E minor) fend for myself in the wild
While every courtroom, judge and gavel
D 
Em 
 (D major) Were there to  (E minor) bury me
under the gravel

Verse 7
D 
Or at the bottom of the finest malt ale  (D major) 
Em 
Observe,  (E minor) you'll find without fail
That in every neighborhood
and penitentiary
D 
There  (D major) ex ists many others
Em 
who are  (E minor) similar to me and

Verse 8
Em 
D 
Em 
 (E minor) We, we are the ones  (D major)  (E minor) 
We'll seal your fate, tear down your state,
D 
go get yo'  (D major) guns
Em 
D 
Em 
We,  (E minor) we came to fight (D major)  (E minor) 
It's yo' disgrace, smash up your place,

Verse 9
that's just polite
D 
Em 
 (D major)  (E minor) In later years I lost some peers
D 
Em 
Who  (D major) mixed burn (E minor) ers with Belvedere
And took shots from gung-ho cashiers
D 
Em 
The  (D major) world was  (E minor) cold yet hell was near

Verse 10
Em 
So I  (E minor) seek for a kilo
D 
And my stack got a  (D major) little
Em 
bit  (E minor) taller like Skee-Lo
A A street C.E.O.
D 
There was all of this  (D major) hell well
Em 
and  (E minor) not one hero

Verse 11
Em 
The intensity  (E minor) was fortified
D 
As I clenched five  (D major) di gits
Em 
on the  (E minor) forty-five
Barely Barely down at the retail store,
I would detail more
D 
Em 
But I  (D major) don't wish  (E minor) this action
to be glorified

Verse 12
Em 
There was  (E minor) a plan I was eager to listen
D 
To not sleep in the  (D major) park
Em 
in the  (E minor) fetal position
Having to wipe off canine
fecal emission
D 
Otherwise I'd sur (D major) vive
Em 
without  (E minor) legal permission

Verse 13
Em 
It's an equal division  (E minor) and then
we go to prison
D 
Which is a  (D major) little decision
Em 
All I  (E minor) wanted was a Regal to glisten
And my kids would have meat
in the kitchen
D 
And com (D major) plete ammunition
It's a given once the people
Em 
are driv (E minor) en  that

Verse 14
D 
Em 
We, we are the ones  (D major)  (E minor) 
We'll seal your fate, tear down your state,
D 
go, get yo'  (D major) guns
Em 
D 
Em 
We,  (E minor) we came to fight (D major)  (E minor) 
It's yo' disgrace, smash up your place,

Verse 15
that's just polite
D 
Em 
 (D major) Get  (E minor) your work up, get your work up
D 
Em 
Get your work up,  (D major) get your  (E minor) work up
Get your work up, get your work up
D 
Get your work up,  (D major) get your work up
Em 
 (E minor) Get your work up,

Verse 16
get your work up
D 
Em 
Get your work up,  (D major) get your  (E minor) work up
Get your work up, get your work up
D 
Get your work up,  (D major) get your work up
Em 
 (E minor) We are born from the

Verse 17
Em 
 (E minor) mildew,
the rust, the heathenous lust
D 
Em 
The  (D major) dreams in the  (E minor) dust,
the evidence flushed
The grieving is just,
they're thieving from us
D 
Em 
In (D major) sulted and  (E minor) cussed,

Verse 18
this evening we bust
Em 
 (E minor) Appears unstable and under the table
D 
We  (D major) like free speech but we
Em 
 (E minor) love free cable
We're taught from the cradle,
the Bill Gates fable
D 
Em 
Which  (D major) leads to high  (E minor) speeds
in Buick LeSables

Verse 19
D 
We have no excuses just great alibis  (D major) 
Em 
And poker  (E minor) faces you can't
analyze
Our politicians sell our soul and our cries
D 
Em 
With  (D major) blood on their  (E minor) hands,
they can't sanitize

Verse 20
We're the have-nots but
but we're also the gon'-gets
D 
Em 
 (D major) Not just  (E minor) talkin' 'bout the Lex
with the chrome kits
You can get that by yourself
with the four-fifth
D 
Let's  (D major) Let's all own shit then
Em 
 (E minor) toast with Patron hits

Verse 21
Em 
D 
Em 
 (E minor) We, we are the ones  (D major)  (E minor) 
We'll seal your fate, tear down your state,
D 
go, get yo'  (D major) guns
Em 
D 
Em 
We,  (E minor) we came to fight (D major)  (E minor) 
It's yo' disgrace, smash up your place,
that's just polite
D 
Em 
 (D major)  (E minor) 

Verse 22
D 
Em 
We, we are the ones  (D major)  (E minor) 
We'll seal your fate, tear down your state,
D 
go, get yo'  (D major) guns
Em 
D 
Em 
 (E minor) We, we came to fight (D major)  (E minor) 
It's yo' disgrace, smash up your place,

Verse 23
that's just polite
D 
Em 
Em 
 (D major) Get  (E minor) your work up (E minor) ,
get your work up
D 
Em 
Get your work up,  (D major) get your  (E minor) work up
Get your work up, get your work up
D 
Em 
 (D major) Get your  (E minor) work up, get your work up