Chords for J. Cole & Rapsody - Sojourner

[Cm] _ _ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, [D] yeah, [Cm] yeah, yeah, [Eb] yeah, yeah, yeah, [Cm] yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, [Dm] yeah.
[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Cm] _
_ _ I _ _ _ [Bb] _
[Cm] _ _ _ _ [Ab] swim for miles but only to realize the [Cm] current is fighting against me [Ab] and I'm so tired of floating [Cm] out.
_ _ All from here on [Ab] out, [Fm] I've got [Cm] to realize the power of learning to let go and just let
God enjoy the ride.
Born in the pain, alcoholic [Fm] veins, [Cm] over analytical brain, a product [Fm] of the shame, [Cm] and running
from a past that's checking [Fm] like a game.
[Cm] Somewhere along the way somebody snatched my peace and main.
Maybe that's the reason I spent decades [Gm] seeking fame [Cm] and fortune hoping that a proper portion
[Gm] would contain [Eb] the sadness in my eyes.
Remember when I came in this music business, all [Ab] the questions [Gm] were the same.
[Cm] Why you never smile in your pictures?
I [D] refrained [Eb] from giving you [Ab] the answer because that answer [Fm] wasn't plain.
[Eb] Enough for me [Ab] to see because at the time I knew [Fm] my name, [Cm] but didn't know myself and so
I dealt with shit [Gm] the same.
[Cm] As a fugitive of running from the truth [Fm] and shit, I shoot [Eb] the shit with niggas, but they
[Cm] never knew the shit [Fm] that's hidden deep [Eb] within the crevices like ever since I was a child.
See my mama with the pistol [Gm] pointed at her, know me how.
[Cm] And the fuck did you expect from me to ever be the best little me that I can be when time
is deep inside of me [Bb] like IV [Eb] fluid pumping through the blood of wifey while she's giving
birth to my [Cm] child.
I know my thoughts are running wild.
[Gm] Bear with my [Cm] style, it's just a trial run.
Just heard these kids don't know [Fm] about Malcolm and [Cm] I'm sorta heartbroken cause the eldest
[D] law is hoping are [Cm] you.
And here I sit, dead [Eb] in the middle, not a little boy [Cm] no more, but not quite old yet.
Waking up [Gm] in cold sweat, [Cm] scared that I'm too [Ab] disconnected from the [Fm] kids' perspective.
[Eb] The world ain't got [Ab] no patience for some shit that's [D] introspective.
[Cm] So where in the fuck that leave me irrelevant?
[Gm] I guess went [Cm] from heaven shit to hell a bit.
Intelligent, but stressed.
_ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
_ _ [Cm] _ Look at me [Ab] and I'm so tired of floating [Cm] out.
_ _ _ [Cm] _ _ [Fm] I got [Cm] to realize, learn to let go and just let God show the right.
Swim good and go to ride.
If they arrive, thank God that I'm alive.
Yeah.
Swim good and go to ride.
If they arrive, thank God that [Fm] I'm alive.
_ [Gm] [Abm] Permanent vacation [Fm] for forever.
[Gm] Some things you [Ab] gotta leave behind.
Some people just like weather [Eb] and seasons for that reason.
I [Ab] know I always have a leg up.
[F] Weatherman for [C] cast me dead last.
[G] Think I'm just another nigga.
[Cm] Maybe I'll be the [Ab] next black beetle like Sway Lee.
[Fm] Yeah, I [Gm] know my worth.
These [Abm] colonizers [Gb] got to pay me.
Yeah, I [Fm] had to go first [Gb] cause the rest would never last.
[Fm] I had to show the [Gb] positives for those that couldn't add.
[Eb] Looking [Ebm] at the ads, they only love us if I ask.
Out and so I'm out.
I got an Audi and it's bad.
[F] I said that [G] line cause niggas [B] only respect you if you brag.
[A] They don't work on me the same.
They'll [G] give a fuck about [Ab] what you have.
Everybody claiming boss.
None of you niggas got no staff.
[E] They don't measure up the same.
[Eb] What's a quarter to a half of a whole [Gm] lot of problems?
[Gb] Nigga, who taught you to add?
[Gm] Where I'm from, we don't recognize that as [Fm] good math.
If you don't teach the [Bb] ones that's coming [Ab] up to multiply their [Fm] cash.
Think [Bb] for themselves.
[Ab] Think beyond sales.
[Fm] Everything [Gm] worth don't come [Ab] with some whistles and some bells.
[Fm] The ones that [Gm] gotta leave [Ab] behind are the ones that [Fm] got bail.
Meek [Gm] milling, working hard, ain't [Ab] too soft.
I'm a meek mill to [Gm] keep it real.
The realest niggas [Ab] I know always kept it real.
[Fm] And I'ma [Gm] tell you black on [Ab] black murder been whack.
[N] Knives turn me up so [Ab] they can hear me getting back.
Yeah, and that's pretty [Gm] hard for me.
[Cm] When you see hoes for niggas, they're where they ought [Fm] to be.
[Eb] Scared to grow [Cm] wings, birdman with a bunch of [D] car to be.
[Cm] That's old news.
Look, nigga, you're talking to modern me.
Smarter.
We had better conversations [Fm] sitting with barbers [Cm] putting hearts in heads of niggas who don't think of [Fm] him.
Who taught [Cm] you?
School yard, school yard.
Welcome to the school yard.
Teach you how to make moves without [Gm] needing a U [Cm]-Haul.
I was on you [Ab] all when I was [Fm] growing up.
[Cm] Now it's you all that's all on these nuts.
[Fm] I'm balling, [Cm] having a ball, and I got the [Ab] ball to stay [Bb] it.
Who need [Cm] inspiration?
Well, you know where you can play it.
Carolina to the heart.
Nobody here gon' play it.
The day that we expired, Carolina's where to lay it.
[Dm] I woke up [Cm] feeling like Aaliyah.
Yeah, a million and one bucks.
Told these niggas I don't give a single million and one fuck.
Rap.
_ _ Oh, I've swam [Ab] for miles.
Don't realize the current.
[Cm] It's fighting against me, and I'm so tired.
It's floating out.
_ _ Oh, I'm from here [Ab] on out.
[Fm] I've got [Cm] to realize.
Don't learn to let go and just let God enjoy the ride.
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