Chords for Common - Black America Again (Audio) ft. Stevie Wonder

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[G] Here we go, here we go [Db] again, Treyvon'll never get to be an older [Fm] man
Black children they childhood stole from them, robbed of our names and our language
Stole again, who stole, stole from black folk, same man that stole [Db] the lamp
She black smoke and made the whip [Fm] crackle on her back
Slow made us go through the black door and rapple black bodies on the slave block
Now we slaves to the blocks, on them we spray shots
[Db] Leaving our own to lay in a box, [Fm] black mothers stomach stay in the knot
We kill each other, it's part of the plot, I wish the hating would stop
_ And the battle with us, I know that black [Db] lives matter and they matter to us
[Fm] These are the things we gotta discuss
The new plantation, mass incarceration
Instead of educate they'd rather convict the kids
As dirty as the water [Db] it flint the system is
[Fm] Is it a felony or a misdemeanor?
Maria Sheriff over making more of this arena
It took Viola Davis to say this, the roads are to help [Db] bend the gangsters
Is this really all they gave [Fm] us?
We need Ava's, Tanahasi's, and Koi Booker's
This all of [Abm] the herbs to get us off of [Fm] sugar and greasy foods
I don't believe the news or radio, stereotypes we refuse
Brainwashed in a cycle to spin, we write our own story, [Abm] black America [Db] again
You know, [Ab] one way [Bbm] of solving a lot of problems [Fm] that we've got
[Gb] Is letting a person [Ab] _ feel that they're important
And a man [Gb] can't get himself together [Ab] until he knows who he [F] is
And be proud of [Fm] what and who he is
[Db] And why, and why, [Fm] and why he come
And why, and why, and why he come
[G] Hot damn black America again
[Db] Think of Sandra Bland as I'm staring in the wind
[Fm] The color of my skin, they comparing it to sin
The darker it gets, the less fairer it has been
The hate, the hate made, I inherited from them
But I ain't [Db] gonna point the finger, we got anointed singers [Fm] like
Nina, Marvin, Billy, Stevie, need to hear them [Abm] songs
Sometimes still believe [Fm] me, who freed me?
Lickin' a Cadillac, drinkin' a Battle Raps
Or is it Godspeed that we travel at?
In danger than our own habitat, them guns and dope, man
Y'all can have it back, as a matter of fact, we've them lab rats
You built a project for, now you want your hood back
I guess if you could rap, you would express the truth
That PTSD, we need professionals, you know we're pressure, dude
It make the pipes bust from schools to prison, y'all
They tryna pipe us, to your political parties, invite us
Instead of making voting laws, spite us
You know, you know we from a family of fighters
Fought in your wars and our wars
You put a nigga in Star Wars, maybe you need to
And then, maybe then we'll believe you
See black people in [F] the future
We [Db] wasn't ship here to rob and shoot ya
We hold [Fm] you true to be self-evident
Our men and women are created equal, [Db] including black Americans
You know, you know, [Ab] you know, [Fm] one way of solving a lot of problems
Is letting a person [Ab] be, be, be, be, be, be, or something like that
And a man can't [Gb] get himself together until [Cm] he knows who he is
[F] And be proud [Fm] of what and who he is
_ [Gm] And where he come [Fm] from
And where he come from
[Bb] We [Eb] writing the black American story
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[Bb] We [Fm] writing the black American story
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[G] We [Db] are, we writing the black American story
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_ _ _ We are, we writing the black American story
We are,