Tonalidad: Bb major
Verse 1
D
I heard him call out
G
D
Cm
D
I heard him call for his mother
C
D
And I didn't even call my mother
I wanted to avoid talking about
G
D
G
D
the elephant in the room
The pig on my neck
C
Cm
D
Cm
D
The devil on detail
C
D
C
D
We were born of a people
who were torn from their people
C
D
C
D
For the root of all evil
From it, sprung the trunk, the branches,
and the fruit of all evil
Eb
D
Unless they need you, they act as
C
if they don't see you
D
Besiege you, an d tell you to cooperate
Eb
D
As if it's something you agreed to
Eb
D
Before criminals constitution
nothing's illegal
C
Except people who were once property
destroying property, upheaval
Keep your eye on the sparrow,
D
Eb
Ebm
Db
Ab
C
the bald
eagle
Cm
Defeathered and beheaded at the
C
stoop of the steeple
Guarded by soldiers, stupid yet lethal
Ab
C#m
It doesn't matter if a liar has a republic
G
A
C
Ab
or democracy
Or monarchy, it's malarkey
G
Ab
G
Ab
G
Don't mind me if I seem a little
Ab
Cm
C
G
Ab
off- key, or I sing a little off- key
G
But when we're on keys,
Ab
G
we can unlock things
Ab
G
Souls freed otherwise held hostage
Ab
On the ebony and ivory with
C
G
the heart of a gnostic
Ab
G
Ab
But hands of a locksmith
G
Ab
A pharmacist,
G
Ab
G
a prescription for the toxic
Ab
G
Eating away at our subconscious
Ab
G
Eight- ball in the corner pocket,
Ab
G
Ab
eight- ball on the corner cop it
G
Ab
How can we stop it when the cops
G
Ab
an d the robbers
G
Ab
Money is their religion,
they follow the same profits
G
Ab
C
G
So don't mind me if I seem a little off- key,
Cm
C
G
D
Cm
Ab
G
or I sing a little off- key
Ab
But once we're in tune, oh
G
We can conduct the cosmos,
Ab
con ductor of the orchestra
G
Conductor of the underground
Ab
railroad
Eb
Ab
Don't you see the kick,
G
the thump, the heart
Ab
The crashing cymbals as
G
Ab
symbols of shields?
Abm
G
No Captain America, no cap in America
Ab
If you're Black in a finger snap,
G
fade to black in America
Ab
D
G
So don't mind me if I seem a little off- key,
Ab
or I sing a little off- key
More than mere melody
G
Ab
Using horn and string to
quarantine from a disease
G
Ab
C
G
Ab
That sees us as less as
Cm
G
Eb
Ab
human and more as things
C
G
D
G
Ab
So we don't play music,
we pray music
G
Ab
G
Those same nooses hang useless,
Ab
raise the dead like Jesus did
We don't play music, we pray music
Vivid, lucid dreams
G
Ab
Let loose in the pure hearts with di
G
Ab
C
vine acoustics
Ab
We lay blueprints at the blue note
Ab
I come from a people transmuted,
transformed by song
Ab
Until the musicians are translucent
Until you see through them
Ab
and see through this
Ab
And bare witness to the oneness
Ab
That from nothingness brought
forth all of existence
Ab
So don't mind me if I seem a little off-
key, or I sing a little off- key
G
Ab
It's more than mere melody
I'm in tune
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