Intro
[F#m] [B] [C#m] [A] [F#m] [B] [C#m] [A]
Chorus
We could be [F#m7]free [F#m] [B]
[B]If we only knew we were [C#m]slaves to the pains of [Bm]each o[A]other
One day, I bel[F#m]believe I'd [B]learn
To see my [C#m]enemy [B]as my [A]brother
Then we could be [F#m]free, tru[B]truly
And love could [C#m]wash away our s[B]sorro[A]orrows
I'm not afraid to [F#m7]bleed
[F#m]If it mea[B]means, we'll make them [C#m]better today not[B] tom[A]orrow
Verse 1
[F#m]One day I dream of telling my [B]momma
"You ain't gotta work no more"
[C#m]Same for my father, [B]born[A]born in Ghana, down on that dirt road floor
[F#m]As far as he came I can't comp[B]complain, but pain is so subjective
[C#m]Spend so much time counting iss[B]issues,[A]ues, I forget to count
My blessings
[F#m]Watch my cousins back at home, [B]getting water out a well
While I [C#m]watch my
brother stacking s[B]stone[A]tone, whipping water by the scale
Tryna' get a [F#m7]mill' on the [F#m]other side
They ain't got a [B]meal, we don't recognize we in heaven
[C#m]So we think we live in hell
It's been [B]getting kinda [A]hard to tell
[C#m]But
Pre Chorus
[F#m7]Sometimes I wake up and I [B]look up at the sky
Asking [C#m]why I'm alive when the [A]realest niggas died
And my [F#m7]pride won't let me [F#m]give up, lord as [B]hard as I try
In those [C#m]times I try to rem[A]remember
Chorus
Then [C#m]we could be [F#m7]free [F#m] [B]
[B]If we only knew we were [C#m]slaves to the pains of [Bm]each o[A]other
One day, I bel[F#m]believe I'd [B]learn
To see my [C#m]enemy [B]as my [A]brother
Then we could be [F#m]free, tru[B]truly
And love could [C#m]wash away our s[B]sorro[A]orrows
I'm not afraid to [F#m7]bleed
[F#m]If it mea[B]means, we'll make them [C#m]better today not[B] tom[A]orrow
Interlude
[F#m] [B] [C#m] [A] [F#m7] [B] [C#m] [A] [C#]
Verse 2
[F#m7]I don't want to wait for the [F#m]afterlife
I don't [B]want a vigil by candle light
[C#m]I don't want to be the new sacrifice
[A]I don't want to turn into a poltergeist
Be a [F#m7]ghost at night full of [F#m]broken dreams
[B]Momma crying at an open casket
[C#m]Cold as ice in a suit, 3 piece
[A]All dressed up for [C#]Sunday masses
[F#m7]Pastor said put [F#m]faith in [E]God
But [B]faith alone can't make things right
Who the [C#m]fuck is you to patronize
Some[A]Somebody's son whose daddy died?
[F#m7]Why they flood [F#m]Baton Rouge?
[B]Why the city singing Alton's blues?
[C#m]Why, why, why, why?
I fee[B]feel li[A]like Jadakiss every time I watch the news
[F#m]What the fuck I got to lose?
So I'm down to [B]bleed if it means things improve
You [C#m]fools, saying "all lives matter"
But it's [A]black lives you refuse include
[F#m]Blocked from the polls
Locked in the hood, trying to [B]stop you
from voting and stop you from growing
And [C#m]cops keep blowing and blowing
Keep black people [A]locked into cotton
They don't [C#]want you to own, but
Pre Chorus
[F#m]Sometimes I wake up and I [B]look up in the sky
Asking [C#m]why I survived all the [A]days that I could have died
Who am [F#m]I in my place
To [B]contemplate suicide?
[A]In those times I try to remember
Chorus
[A]That [G#]we could be [F#m7]free, [F#m] [B]truly
If we'd only knew we were [C#m]slaves to the pains of each [A]other
But I [F#m7]believe[F#m]believe I'd [B]learn
To see my [C#m]enemy as my [A]brother
Then we could be [F#m7]free, [F#m] [B]truly
And we could [C#m]wash away our [A]sorrows
I'm not afraid to [F#m7]bleed,[F#m]bleed, [B] if it means
We'll make them [C#m]better today not tom[A]tomorrow
[F#m]Love (love)
[B]Love (love)
To love my [C#m]enemy as my [A]brother
[F#m](Yeah yeah yeah)
[B]Make a better today not tomorrow
