Chords for Iyeoka Okoawo - Revolution

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_ [F] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Ab] _
_ [Bb] _ We play follow [Ab] the leader
_ _ hoping to [Gb] _ learn
_ Something we [C] never knew they [Ab] _
[Bb] say
_ _ one two three red [Ab] _ lights
So we stop [Gb] believing the green _
Will [C] come for _ you
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_ [Bbm] _ So you wait and we [Ab] wait for the red to _
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_ [Fm] _ disappear
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_ [Bbm] _ And we stand so [Ab] _ paralyzed by these _ [Gb] _ times that predicts our [Cm] greatest fear
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_ [Bbm] _ But deep inside, you know, [Ab] you gotta go you hear _
_ [Gb] _ echoes of revolution _
_ [Fm] lingering [Ab] in the air _
_ [Bbm] _ This counts for more than [Ab] just being alive more than step [Gb] aside wait for the greens.
I'll take you [Ab] there _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bbm] So _ rise my friends [Fm] take my hand let's [Gb] all go to this promised land
[Fm] _ _ _ [Ab] _ pick up a [Bbm] pen
_ _ _ _ Make your [Ab] _ demands tell them how
[Gb] _ _ Freedom can rain [Fm] again
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_ [Bbm] _ _ Unchain your voices [Ab] sing me a song that will [Gb] live on and on and on long after [Ab] we're gone _ _ songs [Bbm] like _ _ _ _ _ _
[Ab] la la la la la la la la la [Gb] la la la la la la [Fm] la la la la la la [Ab] la la _ _ _
_ [Bbm] _ I'll sing you a song _
powerful [Ab] and fearless
_ _ Twisted enough to [Gb] throw silence down your throats and crack on your [Cm] higher notes
_ I'll sing you a [Ab] song and [Bbm] teach you how to turn it around and build it [Ab] back to the idea in which it came from
[Gb] _ These are manifestations of truth [Fm] translating [Ab] troubled _ daydreams into [Bbm] effortless sermons of perfect night vision _
[Ab] I'll sing you a song that sounds nothing like lullabies full of [Gb] warning labels will look nothing like multiple [Ab] choice
will sound nothing like pointless [Bbm] propositions put there for the purpose of controlling you [Ab] and wasting your hard-earned precious evening [Gb] time and
_ Searching for words in a [Fm] poem that won't [Ab] confuse you that will confirm [Bbm] elements of life that you already _ [Ab] know
I want to give you a testimony that tells you [Gb] that everybody's gonna get there eventually
Maybe [Fm] not where you [Ab] are, but close enough for [Bbm] them to see the promised land
I'm searching for [Ab] words in a poem that won't make you see higher or [Gb] farther or make you think too differently from [Ab] what you already
Thought was an epiphany a [Bbm] path and obvious inevitable [Ab] inarguable truth
See, we want magic [Gb] and bouts of brilliance that lasts forever
We [Fm] want to discover our [Ab] demons dress them in white [Bbm] twist their souls on a pedestal and turn them back [Ab] into angels
We want drama and [Gb] high-speed risk
We want to live our days [Cm] in the echo of adrenaline highs and [Ab] testosterone [Bbm] trips without the side effects of impotence and [Ab] weakness _ _ _ _
George [Gb] Bush wants to win the war without the protests [Fm] the bad [Ab] press and the death tolls
_ [Bbm] _ Thugs you want to fire your guns [Ab] without the risk of hitting innocent _ bystander
[Gb] We want to survive without the test the tricks [Ab] the false
Hope the self-help books the [Bbm] pop the rock and the hip-hop videos
We want to [Ab] survive without the journals and the diaries [Gb] and the reality TV shows is if the shit in our [Fm] lives ain't real [Ab] enough
_ Wall Street [Bbm] you want all your stocks to rise? _
[Ab] Guys, you want to pull out and just the right _ [Gb] time and ladies you want to invest in [Fm] that sure thing, right?
You [Ab] need him to [Bbm] exist somewhere.
_ I think I found him, but [Ab] I know I'm still waiting to exhale
[Gb] I want him to wake me up before the [Fm] last dawn of the summertime
[Ab] Thrust the [Bbm] waves past the motion of a riptide [Ab] just so we can both see the sunrise in a ribbon [Gb] in a cloud in the sky _ _
[Fm] The simple things [Ab] I want to make my father proud [Bbm] _ and my mother understand because [Ab] they know I chose right this time
You [Gb] see it's quieter than sleep.
And this is the [Fm] stuff in life that can [Ab] make you believe _
That [Bbm] just one turn westward can fast forward [Ab] all your desires and dreams into this clear [Gb] as day reality
I know the world has never [Ab] been that easy
But consider the choice [Bbm] of slowing down to let the air stock [Ab] in this moment run free _
These [Gb] are untrained voices singing you [Fm] songs with familiar [Ab] melodies _ teaching you [Bbm] how to hit that note above and beyond middle C
_ [Fm] _ _ Yeah, and you're a baritone [Gb] singing background _ vocals song full [Fm] of la-las [Ab] and do-re's
Put there for [Bbm] the purpose of filling in the blank beats of a melody created [Ab] and the tag says right now
[Gb] Yes, you _ showing you a simple way to see [Fm] through all four colors of an [Ab] unsolved Rubik's Cube
_ [Bbm] _ Reconfirming elements of life that you [Ab] already know
Sing me a song [Gb] full of false starts flat notes and broken [Ab] bridges and teach me how to turn it around
And [Bbm] we will sing those songs that resuscitate our [Ab] society through heartbeats that justify _ [Gb] humanity
_ _ collectively critically [Fm] cross [Ab] culturally _ a song [Bbm] _ that teaches us _ [Ab] that reminds us how _ _
[Gb] How to just _ breathe _
_ [Cm] _ just _ _ [Ab] breathe
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