Chords for Mos Def - History ft. Talib Kweli

[Ebm] Let's do it.
Kweli say, everybody act according to the season
that they born in.
Some in the night, some in the morning, [B] some at noon.
[Bbm] _ [Gb] Some in winter, some [Bbm] in June. _
[B] [Gb] It's [Bbm] all cool.
_ [B] [B] It's a natural.
[Bbm] _ _
[B] Science is [Bbm] the jewel.
[B] For me and my, it's [Bbm] yours and yours. _
[B] _ [Bbm] Let's move. Let's move.
[B] _ _ [Gb] Say a little [B] bit about my.
Yo, [Bbm] I was born in a [B] season where the world was [Bbm] quiet and cold.
[B] Celebrations were going [Bbm] on.
Some were [B] happy, some were [Bbm] sad.
Some felt [B] bad for being good.
[Bbm] Some felt good for being [B] bad.
The feelings passed and [Bbm] changed, but they never leave.
[B] They here to stay.
[Bbm] [B] Holiday, holiday, happy birthday.
[Bbm] Teenage love, the first [B] drop.
Run [Gb] deep.
So long, flesh.
This is the [B] Brooklyn [Bbm] streets.
Year of the [B] ox, seven and [Bbm] three.
MJ, [B] the history.
[Bbm] Every [B] soul got one [Bbm] day.
It's where [B] you been and where you [Bbm] be.
And without [B] understanding, you cannot proceed [Bbm] completely.
[B] To start and to [Bbm] end.
[F] Then it just go [Ebm] round again, _ [Db] again, [Ebm] again, and again.
Brand [Db] new, [Ebm] again and again.
So [Eb] fresh, [B] again and [Bm] again.
[Bbm] I was born in [B] the decade.
A [Bbm] decade is when they worship what they have.
[B] Born was president through [Bbm] the map.
What was ended when [B] the North Vietnamese
stormed [Bbm] the city of Saigon.
[B] We was like fire.
We [Bbm] was gone.
Let [Gb] bygones be bygones.
[Bbm] I'm gone.
Spread love.
It's [B] the Brooklyn way.
Where they [Bbm] hug you with the [B] fire.
I'm shot on.
Like new [Bbm] school clothes.
Black star [B] officially.
Smash from [Bbm] the new show.
Facts, no [B] mystery.
I'm down with [Bbm] the crew like Mussolini [B] in Italy.
I rock with [Bbm] the fruits like the given tree.
[B] Powerful, [Bbm] bigotry at work.
Me and my people [B] got history.
Rappers dumb [Bbm] it down considerably.
[B] We get it popping like [Bbm] a hit chorus.
The flow [B] is historic.
They can't [Bbm] get rid of us.
You [Gb] pick with us.
And we made a law like [Bbm] Viticus.
10 years [B] ago we made [Ebm] history.
So they miss us.
And don't call it a comeback in particular.
We've been enveloping into ephemera.
Our fate into peripheral transmission of the ministers.
Original broadcast clear without diminisher.
Black star so top burning.
Soul temperatures and menace less.
Alkaline aminos and minerals.
Essentias served over dillard time signatures.
It's miracle material.
Your remembrance right now for otherness. _ _ _ _