Common - When We Move ft. Black Thought, Seun Kuti Chords

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_ Lousy, mystic, realistic, as simplistic, [E] spirits visit how [Am] we livin', it's [Gm] intrinsic,
[Am] it's mystic, [Gm] it's meant like lipstick.
[Am] Colorful on our souls, a mouth full of gold or a drummers role.
Stories get told about us, that's why things so fly without us.
Wherever we are, you can feel the [Gm] prowess, whenever we move [Am] yo we turn [Ab] the style up.
I'm a [Am] just get black power flowers, whether in the projects or [Dm] the palace.
Even [Am] when the pale horse tried to gallop, it's earth stirred it up.
We kept it balanced, we moved in silence, we moved the loudest.
Ancestors in my dreams, they moved [A] the wildest.
They prayed about us, praised and shouted.
Picture this country [Am] being brave without us.
A slave's nostalgia, moved through the woods with vigor.
When we got free, the world moved with us.
Now they wanna change bodies, go [E] figure.
Used [Am] to call us, now they wanna be niggas.
We the rivers that move through the jungle, yo.
When we move, we make the world wonderful.
When we move, _ the whole world follow in our back.
_ _ [Eb] [Am] When _ we move, _ the whole world follow in our _ _ _ [Gm] _ [C] _ _
_ back.
And who can move like this?
Let me see what I can do right quick.
My people were made and who's like this?
Boy, fly niggas [Dm] ain't ever flew like [A] this.
Pitch black butterfly from the other side.
Somebody's style was lost, it wasn't mine.
I'm in a small [Gm] demographic, the [Am] real ones dealing with all things classic.
King's fabric, linen and silk from the home of the solid gold, honey and milk.
The ones who built it from the mud, soil, sand, [G] and the black [C] man.
The world in the skin of his hand.
Popped at a stop when I shined beyond stellar.
Fella, [Am] Kwame and Crummer, Mandela, Leah, truth [A] teller, the ink well dweller.
My [Am] pen signs are New York Times bestseller.
When I move, y'all move in my wing.
BD energy, I generate.
How to never move weak, I demonstrate.
Celebrating my peeps when I innovate.
From my gods and devils, we're [G] in odds and evils.
To [C] the non-believers, vagabonds and heathens, achievers.
We ain't satisfied with [Gm] dreaming, [A] long as I'm still [Gm] breathing.
Watch how I move. We [C] move.
_ _ _ We're following our path.
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[Am] We move.
_ _ _ We're following our path.
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[Dm] _ _ [C] _ _ [E] The old [Am] world's following our path.
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[Db] We're moving.
[Am] _ The old world's following our path.
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[Gm] _ Wouldn't [F] be nothing like [Gm] we do.
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_ [Bb] [C] Wouldn't get crazy.
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No one care has.
[Ab] No one [Am] care has.
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move, _ _ [Dm] move, the whole world's gonna see us _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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