Chords for Robert Glasper - I Stand Alone [feat Common, Patrick Stump]

[Cm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [Am] _ _ [Cm] Yeah.
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] _ [Bb] Sometimes [Eb] we feel alone, [Bb] _ [Cm] but alone ain't always wrong.
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[Ab] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Am] _ _ [Ab] _ [Cm] _
_ _ [Bb] Yeah.
[Eb] _ _ [Gm] _ [Eb] _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [Am] _ _ [Ab] _ [Cm] _
_ [Dm] Alone in a [Eb] crowded room, my [Gm] mind made up like a [Ab] powder room.
I'm the [Bb] sun, giving the [Cm] clouds some room.
I shine, shine like the [Gm] avenue.
[Bb] Tune is to stay in step with everyday [Eb] men [Gm] and women.
The [Ab] rhythm of the realness.
Still, [Bb] I'm legend like Will [Am] Smith.
In the [Ab] presence of the fake, I am a real [Bb] gift.
Open it, open it, there'll be something [Eb] dope in it.
[Gm] Women of the people getting [Ab] motion sick.
[Eb] We [Bb] ride on the highs and the [F] lows of it.
[Cm] On the south side, we got hoes for it.
Standing [Bb] up like rich fire, we [Gm] get fire [Eb] and [Bb] inspired by the prospect to [Eb] get higher.
Messiah [Bb] on the [Cm] throne, grew up around the stones, the rangers.
So I stand alone.
I'm flying high, [Bb] in the sky.
I [Gm] feel my brother love me when I [Cm] hide.
I stand alone.
I [Bb] stand alone.
I [Am] stand alone.
[Cm] I stand alone. _
_ [Bb] I [Eb] stand _ [Gm] _ [Cm] _
alone.
I [Bb] stand alone.
I [Am] stand alone.
I [Cm] stand alone.
Success it is.
[Bb] We blessed to live.
[Gm] Not just my kids, want the best for his.
[Ab] Progression lives, [Bb] where the [C] lessons end.
[Am] I got [Cm] my own.
God bless the kid.
In the mid part of [Bb] Babylon, listening to Farrakhan.
In the parts of Avalon streets, we would [Eb] battle on.
[Bb] The good [Eb] book in my [F] carry on.
[Cm] Life is a race, I'm the marathon man on the [Bb] moon.
Get a voice of [Eb] Rome.
[Gm] Rose from the concrete, [Eb] told you I would bloom.
[Bb] Situation brought out the [G] hero.
A [Eb] little black 13 year old.
The [Bb] voice of the Lord in my [Gm] ear long.
Telling me my purpose, I can see it [Ab] clear on.
Revolution [Bb] in the execution, the literal [Am] spirit [Cm] of Ilstad.
Marvin Gaye, Martin Luther.
I fly up high, [Bb] in the sky.
[Eb] _ _ [Gm] _ [Eb]
I stand alone.
I [Bb] stand alone.
I [C] stand alone.
I [Eb] stand alone.
We [Cm] will be [Fm] testers.
[Bb] First to find out [Eb] the secret.
I [Gm] will not [Eb] die.
I stand alone.
I [Bb] stand alone.
I [F] stand [Cm] alone.
I'm flying high up [Bb] in the sky.
I [Eb] will not run.
I [Gm] will not hide.
I [Ab] stand alone.
I [Bb] stand alone.
I [F] stand [Cm] alone.
We will be testers.
[Bb] First to find [Eb] out the secret.
[Gm] I will not die.
I [Cm] stand alone.
I [Bb] stand alone.
I [Am] stand alone.
[Eb] _ [Cm] _
The [Bb] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [Cm] _
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[Cm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ [Ab] _ _
[C] _ _ irresistible appeal of black [Ab] individuality.
Where has [Bb] all of that gone?
[Am] The very [Ab] people who blazed our path to self-expression
[Bb] and pioneered a [F] resolutely distinct and [Ab] individual voice
have been the ones who have been the ones
who have too [Bb] often succumbed to [Cm] mind-numbing sameness
and been seduced by simply repeating [Bb] what we hear,
what [Am] somebody else said or thought,
[Ab] and not digging deep to learn what we think
or what we feel or what we believe.
Now, it is true that the genius of African culture
is surely its repetition,
but the key to such repetition
was that new elements were [Bb] added each go-round.
[Cm] Every round goes higher and higher.
Something [Bb] fresh popped off the page
[Cm] or jumped from a rhythm
that had been recycled through the imagination
of [Bb] a writer or a [C] musician.
Each [Cm] new installation
bore the imprint of [Bb] our [Cm] unquenchable thirst
to say something of our own
in our own way,
in our [Bb] own voice,
as [C] best we could.
[Ab] The trends of the times began.
[Bb] Thank God we've still [G] got musicians and [Ab] thinkers
whose obsession with excellence
[Bb] and whose hunger [G] for greatness
[Gm] remind us [Ab] that we should all be unsatisfied
[Bb] with mimicking [G] the popular
[Cm] rather than mining the fertile veins
of [Bb] creativity that [G] God placed deep
[Cm] inside each of us.
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