Chords for Brother Ali - Own Light (What Hearts Are For) [Official Video]

Greetings to all of you in the language of love, the universal language.
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Beauty is the splendor of truth.
Use [G#] your hearts for what your hearts are [D#] for.
Fill them with light.
Do [B] not fill them with darkness.
The light [F] of the human heart, when it's given faith,
if [G#] it were opened up, it would blind the world.
May [C] this message give us eyes with which to see, ears with which to hear,
and [E] hearts with which [D#] to love each other and to love the [F#] world and to do good. _ _
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You're not using your heart [Cm] for what hearts are for.
They've been [F#] trying to shut us down our whole life.
[Fm] I thank God for healing.
You ain't gotta [F#] give me that.
I got my own life.
_ [Fm] Thank God for listening.
Listen, you've been [F#] trying to build me up my whole life.
[Fm] I thank God for building.
You ain't gotta [F#] give me that.
I got my own life.
[Fm] I thank God I'm living.
Sometimes I feel [F#] like a stranger.
Maybe I ain't from here.
World [Fm] going crazy.
How could that be unclear?
Know that [F#] I'm a soldier.
Hearts on my battleground.
Sword [Fm] in the holster.
Had to come back around.
I ain't [F#] trying to hide away.
I just had to meditate.
I ain't [Fm] got a lot to say.
But the ancestors may.
Speaking [F#] to the whole globe.
Numbers don't occur to me.
You can [Fm] listen solo, cause you're the whole world to me.
Jump [F#] in with both feet up and low key.
You can find me [Fm] where I'm supposed to be.
Where my folks be.
If you listen [F#] very closely, you know who chose me.
Nothing that I [Fm] own, owns me.
And so I'm so free.
I remember [F#] being hungry, needing groceries.
Nighttime [Fm] getting no sleep.
Till my nose bleed.
Got a message [A#m] to the bullies.
[A#m] You're not using your heart [Fm] for
what hearts are for.
They've been [F#] trying to shut us down our whole life.
[Fm] I thank God for healing.
You ain't gotta [F#] give me that.
I got my own life.
_ [Fm] Thank God for listening.
Listen, you've been [F#] trying to build me up my whole life.
[Fm] I thank God for building.
You ain't gotta [F#] give me that.
I got my own life.
[Fm] I thank God I'm living.
Not for [F#] one second.
I believe what you're telling me.
I know [Fm] you invent the disease and sell the remedy.
[F#] Universe is sending me centuries of memories.
So the [Fm] very breath that I breathe is all I ever need.
I got [F#] that Muhammad Ali up in my pedigree.
Yes, [Fm] I be speaking my peace up in my 70s.
Ain't worried [F#] about you threatening me.
I'm just being honest.
I [Fm] ain't buying fear just because it's all you got left.
We just [F#] want to make love.
We wake up.
I believe [Fm] whoever made us envision greatness.
And you know, they [F#] want to paint us with the same brush.
Want to [Fm] entertain us till we feel our grave.
All right.
Okay.
[F#] But when it's all said and it's all done
and I [Fm] look back at the trophies I won, I will only [A#m] count one.
I'm using my heart [Fm] for what hearts are for.
They've been [F#] trying to shut us down our whole life.
[Fm] I thank God for healing.
You ain't got to [F#] get me lit.
I got my own life.
_ [Fm] Thank God for listening.
Listen, you've been [F#] trying to build me up my whole life.
[Fm] I thank God for building.
You ain't got to [F#] get me lit.
I got my own life.
[Fm] I thank God I'm living
and I know who [F#] I am.
I know whose I am.
On your wings [Fm] I fly.
In your shoes I stand.
I'm [F#] animated by love.
I don't move by chance.
Any stage [Fm] I touch, any place I stand, there y'all [F#] land.
Living [D#m] in the world as it is.
Craft vessel [Fm] I am.
No more and no less than a man.
[F#] Any [D#m] possessions that I have are just in my [Fm] hand.
I balance them the best that I can.
I'm not making [A#m] no claims, but I'm using my heart [Fm] for
what hearts are for.
[F#] All the beauty in this whole life.
[Fm] I thank God for healing.
You ain't got [F#] to get me lit.
I got my [F#] own life.
[Fm] I thank God for listening.
Listen, you've been [F#] trying to build me up my whole life.
[Fm] I thank God for building.
You ain't got [F#] to get me lit.
I got my own life.
[Fm] I thank God I'm living.
Just reflecting [A#m] all the beauty in this whole life.
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