Chords for Common - Black Maybe (Feat. Bilal)

_ _ You've seen the way [D] they've done your boy [A#m] and your [D] boy's still [Dm] down Down, [Gm] down
_ [D] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ [D] _ _ [Gm] _
_ Let me [Em] take you [A]
home
[Dm] They know I'm around, [Gm] they don't wanna [D] bring me down
[Dm] No one knows just what's inside, [Gm] you and your pink [C] blue and brown
[Gm] Why they messing with your mind?
[Em] Black lady
[A] _
_ [D] _ _ _ [Gm] I heard a white man's [C] yes is a black maybe
[Dm] I was delivered in this world is a crack baby
[Gm] Hard for me to pay [D] attention and I act crazy
[Gm] Gotta get over from this hip, I watch the fat lady
[Em] Sing a song on [A] how we gorillas in [Dm] warfare
And I'm the king, it's Kong, they say we dreaming [Gm] wrong
Them same strip [D] that them older cats lingered [Dm] on
Now the wall of greens is gone, hope is killed, fiends [Gm] are born
We leaning on the [D] wall that ain't [Gm] stable
It's hard to turn on the hood that made you, to [Em] leave we afraid to
The [A] same streets that raised you and [Dm] age you, but other black birds escaped too
A [Gm] rage up in Harlem and the [D] Southside, brothers are [Dm] starving with their mouth wide open
Floating across [Gm] state, got the workout [D] plan so they can move [Gm] weight
The fate of the black man, woman and [Em] child, maybe
[A] _
_ [Dm] They know I'm around, [Gm] they don't wanna [D] bring me down
[Dm] No one knows just what's inside, you [Gm] and your pink [D] blue and brown
[Gm] Why didn't they send a chump on?
[Em] Maybe
[A] _
_ [D] They [Dm] know I'm around, [Gm] they don't wanna [D] bring me down
[Dm] No one knows just what's inside, [Gm] you and your pink [D] blue and brown
[Gm] Why didn't they send a chump on?
[Em] _ [A] Maybe
_ [D] _ _ He got [Gm] game since he used to hoop [D] and chattle
Neither the [Dm] ghetto nor defenders can trap him
The [Gm] stones had his back and they [D] paddled
He was [Gm] living a life they couldn't fathom
[Em] Colleges getting at him, with [A] all type of scholarships
[Dm] Even if he went, they knew he'd leave college quick
[Gm] For the pros, the [D] one from the hood that was [Dm] chose
The black rose that grew in the jungle, a [Gm] humble stud
[D] Still had rumble in his [Gm] blood, women all around giving him trouble [Em] love
You know the love [A] when you up they down, [Dm] cause you rap with Bobby Brown
Your winner's a [Gm] crown, dudes in a [D] circle he known for [Dm] years
Chat beers and cheers, but chose different [Gm] careers
With paper and [D] fame came they know how to [Gm] react
Them same studs shot him in the back, now [Em] that's black Maybe
[G] _
_ [Dm] They know I'm around, [Gm] they don't wanna [Dm] bring me down
No one knows just what's inside, [Gm] you and your pink [D] blue and brown
[Gm] Why didn't they send a chump on?
[Em] Maybe
[G] _
_ [Dm] They know I'm around, [Gm] they don't wanna [Am] bring me down
[Dm] No one knows just what's inside, [Gm] you and your pink [Am] blue and brown
[Gm] Why didn't they send a chump on?
[Em] Black maybe
[A] _
_ [Dm] _ _ When we talk [Gm] about black maybe, [Am] we [D] talk about [Dm] situations [Gm] of [Dm] people of color
_ [Gm]
And because you are that color, [E] you [A] endure obstacles and [Dm] opposition
_ _ _ [G]
And not all the [Dm] time from _ _ other [G] nationalities
[D] Sometimes it comes from your own [G] kind, _ or maybe [E] even your own mind
[A] _
_ [Dm] You get judged, _ [Gm]
you get [Am] laughed at, [D] you get looked [Dm] at wrong _
_ [Gm] _ [D] You get cited for not being strong, _ _ [E] the struggle of [A] just being you
[Dm] _ _ The [G] struggle of just being us
[Dm] _ _ _ [D] Black maybe
_ [Gm] _ _ [D] _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ [E] Black maybe
[G] _
_ [Dm] They come around, [Gm] they don't wanna [D] bring you down
[Dm] No one knows just what's inside, [Gm] you and your pink [Dm] blue and brown
[Gm] Why didn't they send a chump on?
[Em] Black maybe
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