Chords for Vic Mensa - We Could Be Free - Radio 1's Piano Sessions

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[Fm] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[Cm] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _
[Fm] _ I'm _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[Cm] _ _ _ _ [Ab] going to sing a song [C] called We Could Be Free.
We could [Fm] be free
_ _ [Bb] _ If we only [Cm] knew we were slaves to the [Ab] pains of each other
One [Fm] thing I believe
[Bb] I could learn
To [Cm] see my enemy [Bb] as [Ab] my brother
[C]
We could [Fm] be free _ [Bb] Truly _
[Cm] And love could wash [Eb] away [Ab] all the sorrow
I'm not afraid to bleed
If [Bb] it means
We [Cm] may go better today, not [Ab] tomorrow
[C] _ _ [Fm] _ One day I dream [Bb] of telling my mama
You ain't gotta work [Cm] no more
Same for my [Ab] father born in Ghana
Down on that dirt road [Fm] floor
Far as he came, [Bb] I can't complain
[F] Pain is so [Cm] subjective, spend so much time
[Ab] Counting issues I [C] forget to count
My [Fm] blessings, watch my cousins back at [Bb] home
Getting water out a well
[Cm] While I watch my brothers stack a [Ab] stone
Whipping water by the scale, [Fm] trying to get a meal
On the other side, [Bb] they ain't got a meal
We don't know [Cm] we in heaven, so we think we live in hell
[Ab] It's been getting kind of hard to [C] tell
_ [Fm] Sometimes I wake up [F] and I look up in the sky
[Cm] Asking why I'm alive
[Ab] So many [Eb] brothers died
[F] But my pride won't let me give up, Lord
Hard as I [Cm] try
In those times I tried to remember
That we could [Fm] be free
_ _ [Bb] _ If we only [Cm] knew we were slaves to the [Ab] pains of each other
One [Fm] thing I believe
[Bb] If I could [C] learn
[Cm] To see my enemy [Ab] as my brother
[C] We could [Fm] be free _ [Bb] Truly
_ If the [Cm] love could wash away all [Ab] the sorrow
I'm not [Fm] afraid to bleed
[Bb] If it means
We [Cm] make a better today, [Ab] not tomorrow
[C] _ [Fm] Love
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Love
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[Fm] Love
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[Cm] We'll make a better today, not tomorrow
[C] _ _
[Fm] I don't wanna wait for the [Bb] afterlife
I don't wanna vigil by [Cm] candlelight
I don't wanna be the new [Ab] sacrifice
I don't wanna turn into a [Fm] poltergeist
Be a ghost at night, full of broken [Bb] dreams
Mama [C] crying at an open [Cm] casket
Cold as ice in a suit [Ab] three-piece
All [C] dressed up for Sunday [Fm] masses
Pastors say put [Bb] faith in God
But faith alone can't make [Cm] things right
Hypocrites that [Ab] patronize [Eb] somebody's son who daddy [Fm] died
Why they flood Baton [Bb] Rouge?
Why the [Eb] city singing Alton's blues?
Why, why, why, why I feel like Jadakiss [C] every time I watch the [Fm] news
What I [Cm] got to lose?
So [Bb] I'm down to bleed if it means things [Eb] improve
Fools say all lives matter but it's [C] black lives you refuse to [Fm] include
Blocked from the [Cm] polls, locked in a hood [Bb] tryna stop you from [Gm] voting
Stop you from [Cm] growing, cops keep blowing and blowing
Keep blacks [C] rocking the cotton and want you to own [Fm] it
Sometimes [F] I wake up and I look up in the [Cm] sky
Asking why I survived [Ab] all the days I [Eb] could've died
[Ab] Who am I in my place [F] to contemplate suicide?
[Cm] In those times I tried to [C] remember
That we [Fm] could be free, _ [Bb] truly
If we only [Cm] knew we were slaves to the [Ab] pains of each other
One [Fm] thing I believe
If [Bb] I could learn
To [Cm] see my enemy [Ab] as my brother
[C] We [Fm] could be free
We [Bb] could be free
[Cm] And love could wash away [Ab] all the sorrow
I'm not [Fm] afraid to bleed
I'm not [Bb] afraid to bleed
If it [Cm] makes it better today, [Ab] not tomorrow
[C] _
[Fm] Love, _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
[Cm] love, _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ _
[Fm] love
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[Cm] We'll make it better today, not [C] tomorrow _
[Cm] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[Cm] _ _ _ _ [Ab] Yeah
[Eb] _ _
[Fm] Oh-oh, oh-oh [Bb] Yeah
_ Oh [Cm]-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh [Ab] Mmmm
[Eb] _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Oh yeah!
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