Chords for The Love - Black Eyed Peas and Jennifer Hudson

[Bb] _ Good evening Ella Baker a giant of the civil rights movement left us with this wisdom _
[F] Give people light
And [C] they will find the way _
[Dm] Give people light
_ _ [Bb] Those are words for our time [F] just a week ago [C] yesterday
The third anniversary [Dm] of the invention of [Bb] Charlottesville _ _ _
[F] Close your eyes remember what you [C] saw on television
Remember [Dm] seeing those neo-nazis remember [Bb] seeing those plans remember
[F] Coming out of fields with money [C] torches pains bulging spewing [Dm] the same anti-semitic vile
[Bb] Across Europe in the 30s remember [F] the violent class that ensued
Between [C] those spreading hate and those [Dm] with the courage to stand against it
[Bb] Remember what the president said when asked he [F] said there were quote very [Bb] fine
People on both sides.
It was a wake-up call for us as a country and for me
call to action
[F] People killing people [C] dying children hurting you hear [Dm] them crying
Can you practice what [Bb] you preach and would you turn the [F] other chief?
Father father father [C] help us send some guidance from [Dm] above these people got me got [Bb] me questioning _
[F] People _ live [C] a lie dang God no mamas
I think [Dm] the whole world's a dicker to the drama only [Bb] attracted to things that are bringing the trauma
[F] Overseas yeah, we trying to stop terrorism, but we still [C] got terrorists here living in the [Dm] USA the KKK
I can't [Bb] believe they still hating blacks today cuz if you [F] only have love for your own race
Then you only [C] leave space to discriminate and to [Dm] discriminate only generates hate and when you [Bb] hate then your body get irate
Yeah [F] madness is what you demonstrate and that's [C] exactly how hate works and operates man
You gotta [Dm] have love if you set it straight take control [Bb] of your mind and meditate let your soul [F] gravitate to love
People killing [C] people dying children hurting you [Dm] hear them crying
Can you practice what [Bb] you preach and would you turn the [F] other chief?
Father father [C] father help us send some guidance from [Dm] above these people got me got [Bb] me _ _ _
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[F] questioning
So the question for us is [C] simple are we ready [Dm] I
Believe we are
[Bb] We must be
We [F] can choose a path of becoming angrier
[C] less hopeful more divided [Dm] a path of shadow and suspicion [Bb] or or we can choose a different path [F] and together
_ Take this [C] chance to heal to reform
[Dm] _ _ Path of hope [Bb] and light
This is a life-changing [F] election
_ This [C] will determine what America is going to look like for a [Dm] long long time
Character is on [Bb] the ballot
_ Compassion is [F] on the ballot _ decency [C] science democracy
[Dm] _ They're all on the [Bb] ballot
Who we are as a nation?
[F] What we stand for most importantly [C] who we want to be that's all [Dm] on the ballot
The [Bb] choice could not be more clear
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