Chords for Charles Bradley can finally talk about his tragic life

I have never found _ _ _ _ [G] true love, honesty, _ pureness from the heart. _
_ _ _ _ They always want something from me.
They don't want my depths or my soul.
[Am] _ [G] _ [C] _ _ _ _
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_ [C] _ _ _ _ [Am] _
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There's been [F] time in [Dm] my life _ [C] _ _ _ _
when [F] the road was [C] long, _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] can't find a friend _
_ [C] _ _ anywhere _ [F] at all.
_ [Dm] _
My mother [G] didn't, _ she was a beautiful lady and wild and _ _ running _ around.
She had a lot of,
she was a beautiful lady, a lot of men liked her and she [Ab] just was seeking her own dreams
of [G] what she wanted to do.
She did the best [Ab] of her ability of doing it, _ but I just got tired
of getting _ whippin'.
I ain't gonna say that I was an all good child, every [F] child do something bad
and once in a while.
_ And when I got 14 years old, I just said, if I'm not wanted, I'm gone. _
[Cm] And I left. _ _ _
_ [Bb] Why?
_ It's [Eb] so hard! _ _ _
_ [Dm] I was living in the streets, living in subway trains, living anywhere I could
live at, [A] _ [F] _ _ being abused by so many things. _ _
[C] _ [Abm] And I saw myself going down.
_ Everybody was [A] at that time
was using drugs, shooting up, getting [Am] high.
And I was [Eb] afraid of needles and through my faith in God,
it just _ kept me afraid of needles [Cm] so I never _ endorsed taking any drugs. _
[Bb] A land _ [Eb] with _ _ _ milk and
_ [Cm] honey, _ _ _ [Bb] a land _
_ [Eb] supposed to be filled with [G] love.
And I graduated from being a cook [A] and _ then I got me
a _ [Ab] band.
I had a band in Job Corps and that's what really made me [C] like it. _
And everybody was starting
to be [Abm] friendly toward me.
They was always friendly [G] toward me, but I was wondering why they being too
friendly toward me because in the hood, in the ghettos, everybody ain't friendly to you.
When
they're friendly, they want something [C] from you.
But in Job Corps, everybody just want to be friends. _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ This _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ waitress asked me for a medium-rare burger.
Now I know [N] how to do this so well.
So this lady did not like what I did.
She took the burger.
She said, I don't like this.
Give me
another one.
So I gave her three burgers.
She didn't like them.
So I got a little angry.
I took
the burger, went to you and said, excuse me, sir.
Anything wrong with this burger?
He said, I was just
getting ready [Gm] to leave.
[G] I said, are you happy?
He said, thank you very much.
So the lady, you don't come
out here and bother my customers like this.
I said, madam, if you just do your job and start making my
job so difficult, I would have to go through all these changes.
_ She said, oh, you're just a light.
That's what she said to me.
I said, it takes one to know one.
She said, I'll fix you.
_ I didn't know what
she was talking about.
_ I came to work the next day [Cm] doing my same setup.
_ [Ab] _
_ This [E] guy came in the kitchen,
[N] _ big guy, _ 200 something pounds, picked me up, _ _ threw me against the wall, knocked me out cold.
_ I fell on the floor. _
Then I _ snapped back.
I said, what's wrong?
He grabbed me.
And I said, man,
listen to my side of the story.
_ You're messing with my old lady.
I said, man, come on.
He started
beating me in the face.
And I look under the freezer. _ _
And I saw this pig fork.
And I grabbed
the pig fork.
He jumped off me. _
_ Policing came and came and put the gun on my head and said, you move
again, you're dead.
I said, man, this guy, I don't want to hear that you got to [G] say.
I went in jail,
stayed in jail _ [F] _
about two [C] months, three months. _
[Cm] And they let him go. _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _
Why is it so hard _
[Cm] _ _ _ to [Bb] make it in _ [Eb] America? _
_ _ _ My mom said, [Cm] son, _ come home.
[Em] Let me know you.
_ You're not coming home to a stranger.
I [C] know
what you're going through.
[G] _
Come on.
_ _ I came home.
_ _ I got [C] very sick.
[Dbm] I saw [Fm] myself [G] leaving this room.
_ _ I had gave up.
_ _ When you leave it is you go to a tunnel.
_ [N] So peaceful.
_ The body just don't want to [G] fight them off. _ _
And most of them _ son _ snap out of that.
My sleep alone.
_ Let me [A] sleep.
_ They call him a lounge _ [E] took me to [Gm] Woodhull. _
_ _ [Ab] They put me in [C] isolation.
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _
_ [G] Give me penicillin.
[C] I'm totally allergic to penicillin.
_ _ I was going out of this room.
_ [G] My brother came down, look over and saw me. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ He said, [C] _
_ [Ab] _ _ _ _
if you don't want to live [G] for yourself,
please, brother, _ _ live for [D] me.
[F] _ _ [C] _
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[C] I said, God, _ _ _ _ _ let me live.
[F] I'll call me home.
I'm tired of suffering.
[G] _ _ _ _ _
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_ [F] _ It _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _
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was _ _ _ _ [Am] _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
hard to sing the lyrics, _ but it's had to start from the bottom _ _ in me to come [Ab] out of me. _ _ _
And now [C] I'm beginning to _ _ be able that I can _ [Gm]
sing it and talk it. _
Before I couldn't do that. _ _
[Fm] I would just take any of James Brown's song that would [Bb] joyful [E] and get on the screen and hollow
[N] and just have fun with it. _
But now _ _ [Am] the world give me a chance to let me know I have a voice.
Now I got to go inside _ [C] the deepness and bring it out. _
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