Chords for Elaine Brown - The end of silence [Black Panther Party] - SEIZE THE TIME

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_ _ _ Have you ever stood in the darkness of night, _ _ [F] _
screaming silently, [Fm] you're a [C] man.
_ _ Have you ever hoped that [Em] _
[Am] a time would come _ [C] when your voice [Ab] could be heard [A] in a noonday [F] song?
_ [C] Have you waited so long till your unheard song _ _ [F] has stripped away your [G] very soul?
_ Well, we'll [C] meet _ [F] _ at [C] the silence's [F] pen and we'll just have [G] to get guns and [C] _
weepin'. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ But the cry of _ _ each day that's dead _ _ _ [F]
made your body _ [Fm] tremble [C] so,
_ _ _ and have unseen _ [Em] chains of [Am] too many years _ _ [C] hurt you so [Ab] bad till [A] you [G] can't shed [F] tears.
And [C] so many vows _ from so many mouths _ _ [F] made you know that words are [G] just _ words.
Well, [C] we'll meet _
[F] _ at [C] the [F] silence's pen and we'll just have to [G] get guns [C] and weepin'. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ You know that dignity, _ not just equality, _ _ _ _ [F] is what makes a [Fm] man a [C] man.
_ _ So your lack of laws, [Em] _
[Am] your silly lot, _ _ [C] that tell you to [Ab] give thanks for what [A] you've already [F] got,
and [C] you can't go on, _ this time one song,
_ [F] _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ We'll meet at [C] _
_ [F] _ _ _ [C] the silence's [F] pen and _ _ _
_ _ [G] we'll just have to get guns [C] and _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ weepin'.
You don't want to think, _ you just want to drink, _ _ [F] both the sweet _ [Fm] wine [C] and the gall.
_ _ _ You've been burning inside _ [Em] [Am] for so long a while, _ [C] till your old [Ab] time is [A] now a crazed [F] man's smile.
[C] And the goal's so clear, _ and the time's so near, _ _ [F] you'll make it or you'll break the [G] _ _
clock.
Well, we'll [C] meet at the [F] _ _ _ [C] _ silence's [F] pen and we'll just have [G] to get guns [C] and weepin'.
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_ _ Each time you know who you really are, _ _ _ [F] and not try [Fm] to whitewash [C] the truth.
_ _ _ You're a man, you see, _ [Am] and a man must be _ _ [C] whatever [Ab] he'll be or [A] he won't be.
[F] _ If [C] he's bound up tight, _ he'll hold back the night, _ _ _ [F] there won't be no light [G] for day. _
So [C] you'll be meeting [F] my friend at [C] _ [F] the silence's pen and we'll just have to [G] get guns and weepin'.
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