Chords for Mos Def - Mathematics (Lyrics Video)

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_ [Eb] Bucca Bucca Bucca [Ab] Bucca Bucca Bucca.
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_ [Eb] You [Ab] know the damn. _ _ _
[C] _ _ [Eb] Supremo [Ab] for all of my people,
Negroes [C] and Latinos [Eb] and even the
Gringos.
_ _ [C] Yo, check it out.
[Eb] _ _ [Ab] Three for the four coming live
[C] future shot [Eb] five dimensions six
[Ab] and seven from having a hell
eight million stories to tell
[Eb] faithfully keeping [Ab] with the universe.
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_ [Eb] _ Extra power.
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[Eb] So how did burn through the [Ab] journal?
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_ [Eb] _ Like [Ab] the nation.
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[Eb] Better keep [Ab] your
alarm set streets to loud to
ever hear freedom rain.
Say it back [Eb] to sleep.
It's dangerous to dream,
but you [Ab] can catch me.
They can do that.
Now, you'll feel [Eb] need blood to
graze the cash.
[Ab] Now, number game, but you don't
add up somehow.
Like I got [Eb] 16 to 32 [Ab] balls
rocket, but only 15% of profits
[C] ever seen my pockets like [Eb] 69
billion in the last 20 [Ab] years
been on national defense.
But folks still [C] live in fear.
Like nearly [Eb] half of America's largest cities.
It's one quarter black.
[Ab] It's why they gave you all [C] sort of crap.
16 [Eb] hours to a pound, 20 more to
a key, [Ab] a five minute sentence
hearing it, you know, the free
[Eb] percent of Americans own [Ab] a cell
phone so they can hear everything
that you say.
What [C] you weigh on my guess.
[Eb] Michael Jackson was right.
You were not alone.
[Ab] Rocky, a hard hat black as you
in the territory for the [Eb] hard
niggas, large niggas, dice
tumblers, [Ab] young teens, a prison
[C] green place, the life numbers
[Eb] crack mothers, crack babies,
[Ab] maids, patients, young bloods
can smell, but they can rock you a PlayStation.
[Eb] Snoop Mathers with a [Ab] motherfucker's ass.
You want to know how to rhyme.
You better learn [C] how to add this map.
[Eb] My [F] mighty most [Ab] simple mathematics.
[Fm] Check it out.
I'm a ball around.
Are [Ab] we talking about _
_ [Eb] mighty
most [Ab] simple mathematics?
[C] Check it out.
[Fm] I'm a ball around.
[Ab] What are we talking about?
[D] _
_ _ _ _ _ You. _
You.
_ _ [Ab] You.
You. You.
You with [Eb] the Persian law, but
to size to every [Ab] story,
three strikes and setting for life, [C] mentally
[Eb] seem murdered in the last
four years, [Ab] I'm trying to be
the fifth one.
My way _ [Eb] is to die from this seven, [Ab] exercise
you found [C] with now you
[Eb] need your
_ _ [C] _ _
_ [Eb] guys [Ab] which
When _ _ the average [Eb] minimum wage
515, [Ab] you best believe you gotta find a new grind to get game
The white [Eb] unemployment rate is nearly more than triple [Ab] for blacks
Frontliners got their gun in your back, bumbling [Eb] crap
Jews after robbery to combat poverty and end up in this low [C]-world yell economy
[Eb] Stiffness stipulations attached to each [Ab] sentence
Budget cutbacks would increase [C] police presence
And even [Eb] if you get out of prison still living
[Ab] Join the other 5 million under state [C] supervision
This is business, [Eb] no faces just lines of statistics
[Ab] From your phone you send code to [C] SSI digits
This is [Eb] the great man channeling women into figures
Two columns [Ab] for who is and who [C] ain't niggas
Numbers are [Eb] hard and real and they never have feelings
[Ab] But you push too hard, even numbers got limits
Why they one [Eb] straw but they camel's back, here's the [Ab] secret
There's a million other straws underneath [C] it
It's all mathematics
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