The Block Chords by Akua Naru

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_ _ [C#] Walk [Fm] in the _ [F] black, yeah, _ _ _ [Fm] _ [C#] [Fm] I can see [A#m] _ _ clearly. _ _ _
[A#] _ Oh [A#m] _ [C] _ _ _ _
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_ _ Lord, _ _ _ another body drive.
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[F] Somebody _ just got [G] shot. _
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_ _ _ _ _ [C#] [C] Can [G#] you hear [C] _ me? _ _ _ _ _
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[A#] _ [A#m] _ Oh, _ _ _ [C] _
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_ [Fm] _ _ _ another black, cockroach, your cops [Cm] gunshots, [C#] another body drop.
Creamer waking at the [Fm] bus stop.
Count your letter in the mailbox.
How she [C#] sweats.
He should bring the hands on the porch to get that extra [Fm] buck.
We'll get your face and rock bottom.
[C#] Great.
She bounced back on [A#m] top.
American dream, a nightmare.
Please make a stop.
Neighbors watching.
Hell modern [C] day dress.
God's clinging [Fm] rocks.
Black boy, white tank top, baggy jeans, red locks, [C#] streaming of that drop top.
Nonstop Chinese spot.
[Fm] Let me get a black and my navigate [C#] liquor stores, project floors [A#m] and baking.
We need [Fm] to have not when we have we [G#] become what [C#] we got.
Another car ride by system.
Not that new [A#m] shit.
Pedestrian shot.
Hip hop.
Going to stay a [C] track in the block.
The pain [G#] of back in the watch.
Single mother's hustle to punch the time clock.
Crime of cash [C#] crops.
Somebody wanted to die.
Drop ice. [Fm] Real master.
Kind heart.
That's hot.
Talks father.
[C#] The holograms.
Sun's waiting for the day to snuff.
[Fm] Uncle Sam.
Why not?
No [G#] sympathy for that [C#] man.
He get what he deserved.
[A#m] I said he get what he deserved.
Your look.
[C] And he get what he deserved.
Your [Fm] they keep telling me.
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[C#] I _ [Fm] can see. _ _
[C#] _ I heard my [G#] sister.
[Fm] _ _ _
[C#] _ _ [A#m] Tell the world.
I'm sure.
Can you hear [C] me?
_ Another woman.
Rape.
Choke.
Batter.
Body found in the attic.
Contents of a purse scattered.
Leftover.
We shatter.
Clothes tattered.
Lipstick smeared.
Broken glass.
No news reports on the matter.
Nobody [C#] gathered.
Nothing changed.
Asked around about her name.
Some said Tamika.
Some claimed Lorraine.
The tag on her foot said Jane.
I wonder who she was.
Did she give and receive [G#] love?
Did [C] she fight back or just gave up?
She laid [Fm] there.
Legs cold.
Hair gold.
Framed in a [C#] child's pose.
Bruised nose.
Seamless.
Stayed [Cm] pantyhose.
Shot [Fm] dead.
On the radio.
Sorrow.
Singer through the window.
[C#] I wonder if pain has a temper.
I better [Fm] slow.
Streets survive.
Never lived.
Then we die.
[C#] Dreams of fur.
Glass.
Still and hot.
Born on the wrong [A#m] side.
Is there a right side?
Classified.
I label.
[C] Sober.
Nickel and dime.
And [Fm] who decide?
Our lives by a sign.
In order.
Down the line.
They treat.
They [C#] gentrified.
Push us outside the city lines.
Sirens.
[Fm] Frame the evening.
Robots for being nonwhite.
Reason.
[C#] Walking the streets.
Board cops.
They feening.
Probable [Fm] reason.
No donut shops to tease them.
[G#] Roll up.
[C#] On a couple cats.
Spanish speaking.
Mexicans.
But [A#m] they screaming Puerto Ricans.
They thinking they all the same.
[C] Fuck em.
Blow out their brains.
[Fm] Killing season.
It's war hour.
Wish they could take us all out.
Let the dogs [C#] out.
Niggas should be hanging from trees.
Auction off [Fm] now.
Load em up.
Blast until they all down.
Fire [C#] shots at full force now.
They never see the [Fm] courthouse.
Y'all.
[C#] They never see the [Cm] courthouse.
[C#] Y'all.
They never see [D#] the courthouse.
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[Fm] _ _ _ never see the [F] courthouse.
[G] They [C#] never see it.
_ [D#] _ [C#] _ _ Siren.
Keep telling me.
_ _ _ _ [Fm] I heard [C#] my brother say.
_ Scream.
[A#m] _ You [C] hear.
_ _ Tell the [Fm] world. _
_ _ [C#] _ [Fm] Yea.
Through the.
House.
_ [C#] _ _ [G] _ [G#] [Fm] Another body drop.
[Cm] _ [C#] Somebody just got shot.
_ [A#m] Look your watch.
[G#] Today on the block.
[C] Today on the block.
Today on the block. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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