Chords for Raury - Forbidden Knowledge (Official Audio) ft. Big K.R.I.T.

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Forbidden knowledge _ [G] can destroy mankind.
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_ _ _ _ [F] I spend large hours of my days alone.
[G] I don't believe we share this universe and space alone.
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I think we got a lot from them.
They gave us phones, [G] internet, and now we all know what is forbidden knowledge.
[F] Forbidden knowledge is too great for a man.
[G] Think if man could read your mind, you think that man understands?
How to use it [F] with integrity, not conquering land.
Would [A] it be good if we increased the lifespan?
Well that's forbidden knowledge.
Forbidden knowledge [F] can destroy mankind.
[G] We can grow out of control like cancer under the skin of Mother Nature.
To busy cities much alike to a tumor.
Too many cells, the residents, the bodies pollute.
I [A] say Wuza, Inali, Yup'ich, Chubby Dooby, Judah, Tidal, Jacob.
[G] I know my history, I know we are moved.
There's a [F] universe in her afro.
Hold us back though, [G] there's a power in the black folk.
Well that's forbidden [F] knowledge.
At first they want to keep us separate but equal.
But [E] it's not, and so we fight against the hatred and evil.
[Dm] Now they let us think we got it and they killing our people.
Why does [G] history repeat like a sequel?
Well that's [A] forbidden knowledge.
It's got a man watching TV like people.
[G] Rewinding his favorite parts to playing back like it's TiVo.
[F] Have I wrote this shit before?
It all feels like a re-do.
And Deja [G] Vu is left to die like our dreams do.
But that's forbidden knowledge.
I [F] have some shocking memories as a kid.
Waking up [G] onto a table, a lab, some type of biz.
Too [F] vivid to be a nightmare.
Mom would tell me that shit.
[D] Can't remember anything that they did.
Guess that's forbidden [F] knowledge.
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_ _ [G] _ _ _ Forbidden knowledge.
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_ [Am] Our dreams another kind of preview to heaven.
[C] We manifest a reality based on our personality.
[C] Calmer from shit we did since the day we were seven.
So [A] did you shed boys or did you masturbate at eleven?
[F] I'm just a 90's baby and millennial kid.
[Em] Indigo's on the rise to make perennial shit.
[C] Hope this music stands long as redwoods.
_ [A] Sequoias, pyramids, and stones like stones from Stonehenge.
_ [Am] Come on let the future tell the truth.
Cause you a shell of you, you played your cards [G] wrong.
Now you got hell in you.
Be glad I still retain respect for you.
Cause [D] I got bullets that'll kill you if your vest is [A] hell and heaven proof.
I never understand your corporate greed.
Just a group of people all they want is more than they need.
Signing off on papers blinded to the pain overseas.
Blood resulting from the ink that they bleed.
But that's forbidden [F] knowledge. _
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_ _ Forbidden [F] knowledge. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ So, who [F] put the liquor store across the street from the gun shop?
In the park [G] I hop skipping a dark way from the gun shots.
They [F] rang out in the neighborhood.
Were the youths misunderstood [G] fighting over concrete squares?
Well the law just ain't no good.
[F] I think the agenda's meant to kill us all.
Like [G] what good is education long as you can ball?
Standing [F] on the couch inside the club and hit the mall.
Barely [G] feed a bum, but you buy it all.
I think they laughing [F] at us.
Cause while we watching some cable they was talking [G] about the economy.
Shit croppers and statements.
How to [F] keep a horse running his course.
Give him some blinders [G] so that he like when most fools ever write beside him his [F] own kind.
I pray you dig deeper if you [G]
don't find what you're looking for on [F] the surface.
The knowledge that you need can't be next [B] till chirped.
That you every bit of worth and not worthless.
You kings and queens were meant for better [Gm] things.
Than flexing on the scene or bursting out the seams of your blouse.
That you told yourself you'd never wear outside your mama's [C] house.
Cause the energy it lends put strong women down.
Down.
Brother look, you don't need to go to jail just to read you a book.
I wonder what Malcolm found after going to Mecca.
Or [A] the mind state of Martin after visiting Selma.
[Am] Two leaders that were slain for speaking the topic on the schemers and the reapers of forbidden [A] knowledge. _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] Forbidden knowledge. _