Chords for REASON - Colored Dreams

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_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Db] Yeah, _ _ [Bbm] _ [Cm] _ _ _ _
mama, I just killed a man.
Body's still [Eb] trembling, can you feel my ass?
[Fm] _ [Db] _
Don't shed no [Bbm] tears, mama.
[Cm] _ _ _ Look, I said, mama, I just killed a man.
Body's still trembling, can you feel my ass?
[Db] Don't shed no tears, mama.
A man convicted in the shooting death of a [Cm] Milwaukee teenager will be behind bars until he's at least 80 years old.
Police said Mario Dinell Jackson [Eb] shot into a crowd during a fight and killed [Fm] a 14-year-old.
A [Cm] court on count one is going to [Cm] impose a life sentence in [Eb] the Wisconsin State Prison System
[Fm] where a felon is going to be required to extend his [Cm] supervision in 56 years.
I guess I just gotta chill for 20 [Eb] years till the judge say that it's [Fm] okay to come out.
I [Db] need an escape, ain't [Cm] no way to run out.
People say that they love me, but you ain't breaking me out.
I'd probably die for this motherfucker.
_ [Eb] Shit, I've accepted [Db] that and now I'm finding peace.
_ [Cm] Long nights, I've been trying to sleep, but I can't.
So let me write you this apology, this for your girl.
Look, I'm sorry, mama.
[Eb] I put a bullet in him.
I took [Fm] your heart from you.
I killed [Db] your man and now you forced to be [Bbm] apart from him.
[Cm] Your daughter walking, who gonna catch her when she start running?
I was only 19, doing foolish things [Eb] for colors.
Your tears in the courtroom, [Fm] I can tell you loved him.
I thought I was being gangster when [Bbm] I took his life.
[Cm] Now I can barely sleep through a night.
I get it now, fuck these colored drinks.
_ [Eb] _ _ [Db] I get it now, fuck some colored drinks.
[C] _ [Cm] _ _ _ [Ab] Fuck these colored drinks.
_ [Eb] _ _ _ [Fm] Fuck some colored drinks.
_ [Cm] Shit, I guess I just gotta chill for [Eb] 20 years.
Shit, might as well [Fm] apologize to the rest.
It's to my brother I claimed I [Cm] love you more than the rest.
If I really loved you, how come I guided you to your death?
You was only 12 when I got locked [Eb] up.
Popped shut, no role [Db] models.
So the block looks like the only option.
[Cm] Should've made you put them Glocks down by the stand.
I showed you how to get it poppin' and you took to it.
Nah, you was [Eb] never shook to it.
Even if trouble [Fm] wasn't around, you would look to [Db] it.
Throwing upset, [Bbm] you let him know [Cm] you wasn't no bitch.
Till you run into multiple crips.
You let them niggas know you would be down for your niggas.
Thinking in your head, big bro would [Fm] be proud of a nigga.
[Db] I hate that had to be the way [Bbm] for you to [Cm] go.
What's even worse, I couldn't make it to your funeral.
Fuck them colored drinks.
_ _ _ _ [Db] Fuck these colored drinks.
[Bbm] _ [Cm] Fuck them colored dreams.
Look, mama, I know I killed that [C] man.
Still [Eb] remember trembling when you felt my [Fm] hands.
Don't shed no tears, [Db] mama.
I [Bbm] know I won't be home [Cm] for years, mama.
I know you feel like a failure to all [Ab] your peers, mama.
You've been a blessing [C] to me.
I've been a curse since [Eb] birth to you.
Made [Db] shit worse for you.
They let me out the second I wasn't even [Cm] searched for you.
Shit, it only make it harder.
Cared so much that you would kill for me.
I get your letters and I wonder how you still love me.
You [Fm] say you pray every night and [Db] you still feel for me.
Shit, [Cm] if you could, I know you'd probably do this bit for me.
Shit, so [Fm] with this being the last time I speak to you,
I want you [Eb] to know I love you with everything in me.
[Fm] It's insane to me you share DNA with me.
We [Cm] polar opposites.
I know I failed you, mama.
Wish I could be your accomplishment.
So as I stand on this chair writing this [Eb] letter,
noose around my neck, the only way I [Fm] do better is if I leave you [Db] now.
Cause you've been beaten [Bbm] down from them [Cm] other things.
I ain't give you shit a mother brings.
I get it now.
Fuck these.
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