Chords for Look at Us by John Trudell

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At times they were kind, they were polite in their [A] sophistication, smiling but never
[Fm] too loudly.
_ _ [Gb] Acting in civilized [G] manner, an illusion of gentleness always fighting to
get [Cm] their way.
While the people [Bb] see, the people know, the people [G] wait, the people say, [B] the
closing of [G] your doors will never shut [Bb] us out.
The closing [C] of your doors can only shut you
in.
We know the predator, [G] we see them feed on us, we are [Bb] aware to starve the beast is
our [Gm] destiny.
At times they were [C] kind, they were [Cm] polite but never honest.
[C] _
_ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
We see [A] your
technological society [G] devour you before your very eyes.
We hear your anguished cries exalting
greed through progress.
While you seek material advances, the sound of [Fm] flowers dying carry
[G] messages through the wind trying to tell you about balance and your safety.
[F] But your
minds are chained to your [Ab] machines and the strings dangling from your puppeteers [G] hands,
turning you, twisting you into forms and confusions beyond your control.
_ [C] Your mind for a job,
your mind for a TV, _
[Ab] your mind for an air [Gb] dryer, your mind for consumption.
[E] With your [Bb] atom
bombs, your material bombs, your drug [Cm] bombs, your racial bombs, your class bombs, your
sexist [Bbm] bombs, your ageist [G] bombs, devastating your [Ab] natural shelters, making you homeless
on earth, chasing you into illusions, fooling you, [Eb] making you pretend you can run away from
the [D] ravishing of your spirit.
[C] While the sound of flowers dying carry messages through the
wind trying [G] to tell you about [F] balance and your safety, _ _
[Ab] _ trying to isolate [G] us in a dimension
called loneliness, leading us into the trap, believe in their power but not in ourselves,
piling us with [B] guilt, always [C] taking the blame, greed chasing out the balance, trying to isolate
us in a [Gm] dimension called loneliness.
[G] Economic deity seizing [F] power through illusions created,
armies are [Ab] justified, class systems are democracy, God listens to [F] warmongers' prayers, tyranny
is here, dividing conquer, trying to [Ab] isolate us in a dimension called loneliness, greed
a parent, insecurity the happiness [F] companion, _ genocide conceived in [Ab] sophistication, [F] technologic
material [Ab] civilization, irrationalization, [Eb] replacing a way to live, [G] trying to isolate
[Bb] in a dimension called loneliness.
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[Eb] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ To God, [B] we hope you don't mind, but we would like
to talk to you. _
[Dbm] There are some things we need to [Eb] straighten out.
It's about these Christians.
They claim to be from your nation, but man, you should see the things they do [Ab] all the
time, blaming it on you.
Manifest destiny, genocide, maximize profit, sterilization,
[B] raping the earth, lying, taking [Abm] more than they need in all the forms of the greed.
We
ask [Ab] them why.
They say it's God's will.
Damn God, they make it so hard.
[Ab] Remember Jesus?
Would you send him [Eb] back to them?
Tell them not to kill him.
Rather, they should listen,
stop abusing his [Abm] name and yours.
We do not mean to be disrespectful, but you know how
it is.
Our people have their own ways.
We never even heard of you until not long ago.
Your representative spoke magnificent [G] things of you, which we were [G] willing to believe.
But from the way they acted, [F] we know you and we were being deceived.
[Ab] We do not mean you
or your Christian children any [F] bad, but you all came to take all we had.
We have not seen
[E] you, but we have heard so much.
[G] It is time for you to decide what life is worth.
[Ab] We already
remember, but maybe you forgot. _ _
[C] _ _ _ [F] _ _ Look at us.
Look at us.
We are of earth and water.
Look
at them.
It is [Ab] the same.
Look at us.
We are suffering all these years.
Look at them.
[E] They
are [F] connected.
Look at us.
We are in pain.
Look at them, surprised at our anchor.
Look
at us.
We are struggling to survive.
Look [Cm] at them, expecting sorrow be [A] benign.
Look
at [F] us.
We are the ones called pagan.
Look at them on their arrival.
Look at us.
We are
[Ab] called subversive.
[N] Look at them descending from name callers.
Look at us.
We wept sadly
in [Ab] the long dark.
Look at them hiding in technologic light.
Look at us.
We buried the [B] generations.
Look at them inventing the body [F] count.
Look at us.
We are older [Fm] than America.
Look at
them chasing a fountain [C] of youth.
Look at us.
[E] We are embracing earth.
[Ab] Look at them clutching
today.
[C] Look at us.
We are living in the [G] generations.
Look at them existing in jobs and death.
Look
at us.
We have escaped many times.
Look at them.
They [Ab] cannot remember.
Look at us.
We
are healing.
Look at them.
Their medicine is patented.
Look at us.
We are [G] trying.
Look
at them.
What are they doing?
Look at us.
We are children of earth.
Look at them.
Who are they? _
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