Chords for Brother Ali - Mourning in America (Official Video)

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[Gb] _ _ _ _ [B] I don't usually deal with those big words because I don't usually deal with [Bb] big people.
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[Eb] _ I [Bb] find you can get a [Dm] whole lot of small people [E] with hell out of them.
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[E] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [Bb]
Murder, [Dm] _ _ _ [E] _ _
[Dm] _ murder, murder.
Chill, chill, chill.
Cannibal walk on earth to get ill blood spilled.
Eyes so deep and they scrawling bones healed.
Fuel for [Gm] survival, most for the [Dm] real. _
Terrorism is the war of the poor.
Holds up a [Gm] mirror so the script get flipped.
[Dm] Cause when it's in the verse it ain't wrong no more.
Cause war better [Gm] than terrorism or the red [E] vest.
_ [Eb] Who's the [D] true [Bb] guerrilla when the [Dm] bomb is on your body?
Killing [E] innocents and millions.
But our life isn't life [Eb] and the killer is a [Bb] killer.
You had a test killer, put [E] somebody in a [Dm] mill here.
See the anguish of the parents when they're carrying the [Eb] body of a baby that [Dm] they cherish.
_ When innocent people perish, it's a [A] very thin line between [Gm] a soldier and [Bb] a terrorist.
[Eb] Murder, murder, murder.
[D] Kill, kill, [Bb] kill.
[Dm] Death and destruction, a cap [E] get filled.
On the hill, [Bb] destroyer rebuild.
Shot still ring out and [E] blood still spill.
Murder, [Eb] murder, murder.
Kill, [D] kill, [Bb]
kill.
[Dm] Death and destruction, a cap [E] get filled.
On the hill, [Eb] destroyer [Dm] [Bb] rebuild.
[Dm] Shot still ring out and [E] blood still [Dm] spill.
Overseas, we can mutilate and bangle
Let me give [A] you an example of what our troops are coming [Dm] back to
Cold cities where the youth are getting strangled
The community in [Gm] peril and our future looking [Dm]
narrow
_ Your school already tells you the boys in blue nail [Gm] you
They salute you [Dm] with the _ parole
The streets are a certified dead zone
Decorated [Bb] with chalk lines and headstones
[E] Far away, lies and every [Dm] night the bullets flying
[Bb] Even if you [Dm] ain't denying you would [E] traumatize the father
When you grow up in a [Eb] climate of [Dm] overriding violence
[Bb] You will [Dm] never get beyond it, it'll always [E] be inside [Dm] you
And death just surrounds you, on [Bb] the classmates' ghost
Hunch, [Dm] crime just calls, hush
Look at what you've walked through, ain't certain if you'll make it
[Gm] And ain't sure you even [Bb] want to
[E] Murder, murder, [D] kill, kill, [Bb] kill
Death [Dm] and destruction, a [E] gap getting filled
On the [Eb] hill, destroy or [Bb] rebuild
[Dm] Shots still ring out of blood [E] still spill
Murder, [Eb] murder, kill, kill, [Bb] kill
[Dm] Death and destruction, a gap [E] getting filled
On the hill, destroy [Dm] or rebuild
[Bb] Shots [Dm] still ring out of blood still spill
[E] In the [Ebm] hands _ [D] _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [F] _ _ [E] _
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[D] of [Bb] those who [A] _ _ [F] _
don't [Dm] die
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[Eb] _ _ [Bb] You see [Am] it, _ [E] die is dying
Got the heart _ [Dm] inside [Bb] you, oh
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[Dm] _ _ _ Now that society forgot you and they locked you in an obstacle course
When nothing's possible
If you strip up and they caught you, they got boxes where they [Gm] lock you
Make a million dollars [Dm] off you
They rule you, too, through the school
They screw you when the [Gm] bulls shoot electricity [Dm] through you
_ Reject death and who you on the television set
And just let it ooze through you
Every [E] time a leader [Eb] try to [D] stand up for our freedom
[Bb] Some would grab him [Dm] with the heater, they pray [E] to God
Making a shame, they feelin' the grieving
And the only [D] way you see him [Bb] is a [Dm] displaced dream
Displaced [E] in a [Dm] museum
They say they built our nation for a reason
And they stained it with the [Gm] bleeding of slaves that never [Dm] seen it
I ain't hatin', I still wanna believe it
And I'm not trying to [Gm] leave it
I just call it how [Bb] I see it
[E] Murder, murder, [D] kill, kill, [Bb] kill
Death [Dm] and destruction, a [E] gap get filled
On the [Eb] hill, destroy [D] or [Bb] rebuild
Shots [Dm] still ring out and blood [E] still spill
Murder, [Eb] murder, kill, [Dm] kill, [Bb] kill
[Dm] Death and destruction, [E] a gap get filled
On the hill, [Eb] destroy [A] or rebuild
[Dm] Shots still ring out and [E] blood still [Dm] spill _
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