Lockdown Chords by Anderson .Paak

_ _ _ _ You _ _ should have been downtown, the people are rising.
We thought it was a lockdown.
They opened a fire, them bullets was flying.
Who said it was a lockdown?
Goddamn lie.
Oh my, time heals all, but you out of time now.
Judge gotta watch us from the clock down.
Little Tigg has cleared the whole place out.
I'll be back with the hazmat for the next round.
We was trying to protest and the fires broke out.
Look up for the secret agents, they be planted in the crowds.
Said it's civil unrest, but your sleep so sound.
Like you don't hear the screams when we catching beat now.
Staying quiet when they killing niggas, but you speak [Ab] loud when we riot.
Got opinions coming from a place of prison.
Sicker than the COVID, how they did them on the ground.
Speaking of the COVID, is it still going around?
And won't you tell me about the loot and what's that really all about?
Cause they throw away black lives like paper towels plus unemployment rate.
What, 40 million now, kill the man in Broadday, might never see a child.
We just want to break things like slaves in the South,
started in the North end, but we in the downtown.
Riot cops tried to block, now we got a showdown.
You _ [Gb] should _ _ [A] _ _
have [E] been downtown.
The people are rising.
We thought it [Gb] was a [Ebm] lockdown.
They opened the fire. _
Them bullets [E] was flying.
_ Who said it was a lockdown?
Black [Abm] down, black down.
Come on [B] YouTube, dawg, look how they do us.
Knee on our necks, bullets in [Ebm] backs.
Stimulus checks strictly for blacks.
[Ab] History repeating.
People scared to eat a chicken.
[Abm] Everybody going vegan, what they put in it.
Look at the world [E] we live in, and they got us shook in it.
You going, you jogged in, [Ebm] your color might get you took in it.
The man in the mirror can't [Ab] look away, you got to look at it.
Black lives matter, so what [E] it means when they shoot at it.
Generation genocide, what happened to Enterprise?
Had the man infiltrated, [Ebm] Black Panther re-energized,
ain't nothing to [Ab] figure out.
They trying to kill [E] us out.
If I take a nail, see my fist, I'm a killer now.
Just think, bullshit, you got to filter out.
Are you really ready for [Ebm] the smoke like a Swisher house?
Ready for the [Ab] revolution, who ready to ride?
When we televised, so [E] tell me who ready to die?
If downtown going up, where we at with this shit?
We at the liquor store, nigga [Ebm] about to get us a fifth.
Know they about to start looting, grab [Ab] the gloves and mask.
Watch out for them tanks when [E] they rolling past, shit.
_ Never understand why they do it.
Someone cut the channel off the news before I lose it.
I ain't even tripping, if you with it, then we looting.
Let me put this Louis in the back of Suzuki.
Oh, he had to break it down so smoothly.
They gonna say it's not about race, but we moving.
Fuck it.
I'm a pop, got the trade pound.
I have to put them in my name.
We should need to play now.
On [Ebm] any given day, I'll be headed to the pulpit.
[Ab] Say it low, pray, matter of fact, I need to.
[E] I'm a fool, won't he do it?
Won't he do it?
This ain't 92, so we in the new rules.
[Ebm] Niggas got hips, so we don't lose the projects.
[Ab] I did Rodeo with my little cousin Marcus.
[Abm] I went through a whole break in the Neiman Marcus.
[E] Tell me, put the whole mannequin in the charter.
[Gb] You should have been downtown.
The [Ab] people are rising.
We [E] thought it was a lockdown.
They opened the fire. _
[Gb] Them bullets was flying.
Who [A] said it was a lockdown?
Goddamn [Abm] lie.
Ooh, we ain't got _ [E] a slot.
Cause they tell us [Ebm] Louis downtown.
Where I [C] got [Gb] popped [Cm] with a rubber [Ab] bullet trade pound.
Got it in my name now.
I'm a [Bb] shoot it up now.
We ain't [Ab] got a slot.
Cause they tell us [E] Louis downtown.
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