Chords for Brother Ali - Rain Water

_ _ _ [C#m] The question was raised to me the other day, _
[F#m] why I seem [C#m] to always have joy.
[B] [D#] Well I'd like to take time to set [F#m] the record straight.
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ All the joy I've ever [A] known [D] has been for a fleeting [D] thing.
[G] In the motherfucking [Gm] thin air, like it's never even [D] been there.
Manzo let me out.
_ _ _ _ [G] _
[Gm] You don't know what it feels like.
Shit, I never [D] had a plan. _ _
_ God's rainwater flowed through the same gutter that we walk today.
Gotta stay brave [Gm] brother, keep your lips stiff, keep your fists [D] clenched.
At times you gotta kick your way through this bitch, and I can't stop feeling guilty smiling.
A wise man once told [G] me that every cloud has a [Gm] silver lining.
I wanted to believe him, but it's a [D] trick to find him when the people around me continue dying.
Granddad was in the twilight of his life when he closed [G] his eyes tight and opened his [Gm] wrist wide.
What makes you his crown fighter with a [D] winning score?
Decide he need to throw a towel for the whistleblower?
Maybe I'll never know, but I inherited his poetic [G] soul.
So the symbolism's [Gm] yet to show.
Was life so obscene that death's more [D] green?
Or was an old author trying to write his own closing scene?
Nothing seems like knowing that the woman that gave me this [G] life is being eaten from the [Gm] inside.
I thought we'd never make shit right.
I [D] wish I'd have viewed it once near before you were done here.
That's two in one year that I let leave [G] here.
Loving me without shedding one single [Gm] tear.
Either I'm one of the strongest people [D] left, or y'all's just no need for even trying to steal breath.
God's rainwater flowed through the same gutter that we walk [G] today.
Gotta stay brave [Gm] brother, keep your lips stiff, keep your fists clenched.
[D] At times you gotta kick your way through this bitch.
And God's rainwater flowed through the same gutter that we walk [G] today.
Gotta stay brave [Gm] brother, keep your lips stiff, keep your fists [D] clenched.
At times you gotta kick your way through this bitch.
They say shit's crap, but you all by yourself ain't ya?
Damn [G] straight I got a jail cell [Gm] nature.
Been locked up, but I never been [D] settled in.
Him got tough, started developing leather skin.
I learned to make that face that tells predators it's [G] better to reassess just who you're about to [Gm] wrestle with.
I'm on one like the first kick [D] from a beat.
Clear my lungs, spit blood on the street.
They telling me we got nothing to fear but fear itself.
But I [Gm] fear I have no human fear left.
Someday I'm gonna wanna peel back these [D] calluses and really feel life again.
And that's where my challenge is.
I've been kicking and biting for so long.
And [G] when they throw me a rescue rope I'll be [Gm] too weary to hold on and see the light.
So I [D] sing through the tears and the key of life the way a wounded eagle might.
And God's rain's gonna flow through the same [G] gutter that we walked today.
Gotta stay brave, [Gm] brother.
Keep your lips still.
Keep your fist [D] clenched.
At times you gotta kick your way through this bitch.
And God's rain's gonna flow through the same [G] gutter that we walked today.
Gotta stay brave, [Gm] brother.
Keep your lips still.
Keep your fist clenched.
[D] At times you gotta kick your way through this bitch.
Watch your own back, baby, now.
She don't show her face around [Gm] his house.
Every time she comes she gets [D] chased off.
So she can't live.
If it wasn't for me, swear he wouldn't know the sun was out.
I hate it if he weren't to come out of his [Gm] fucking mouth.
Ladies, freedom's special.
Don't know [D] nothing about him.
They saw what his wife see.
They wouldn't fuss about him.
He can't sit right for rap and make babies.
Babies need daddy at home consistently.
[Gm] But rap keep daddy on the road religious.
[D] So even in that she loves my soul so conflicted.
My son came into this world innocent.
He deserves everything that he needs to [Gm] live in it.
And this room I made for him is broken.
[D] I'm hoping his love for me will never grow thin.
It hurts daddy to no end and no when.
You're crying at the [G] hospital.
I'm out trying to rock [Gm] the show.
I made it loud that we'd never be broke [D] again.
And I'd never be a burden on another friend.
So when I'm sweating on my farewell [G] stage.
And wrote my last book and my last rhyme [Gm] hook.
When I get my last nod of approval from my [D] family.
This is the man that I have to be.
God's rainwater flow through the same gutter that we walk today.
Gotta stay brave [Gm] brother.
Keep your lips stiff.
Keep your fist clenched.
[D] At times you gotta kick your way through this bitch.
God's rainwater flow through the same gutter that we walk today.
Gotta stay brave brother.
[Gm] Keep your lips stiff.
Keep your fist clenched.
[D] At times you gotta kick your way through this bitch.
God's rainwater flow through the same gutter that we walk today.
Gotta stay brave [Gm] brother.
Keep your lips stiff.
Keep your fist [D] clenched.
At times you gotta kick your way through this bitch.
Rainwater flow through the same gutter that we walk today.
Gotta stay brave brother.
[Gm] Keep your lips stiff.
Keep your fist clenched.
[D] At times you gotta kick your way through this bitch.
At _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ [D] times you gotta kick your way through this bitch.
At times you gotta kick your way through this bitch.
At times you gotta kick your way through this bitch.
At times [Gm] you gotta kick your way through this bitch.
At times you gotta kick your way through this bitch.
[D] At times you gotta kick your way through this bitch.
At times you gotta kick your way through this _ _ bitch.
[Gm] At times _ _ _ [D] _ you gotta kick your way through this bitch.
At times you gotta kick your way through this bitch.
_ _ [G] _ _ _
[Gm] At times you _ gotta [D] kick your way through this bitch.
At times you gotta kick your way through this bitch. _ _ _
[Gm] At times _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
you gotta kick your way through this bitch. _ _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _