Tonart: D minor
Verse 1
Am
C
G
This is for the children.
Am
C
Am
C
G
This is for
C
Am
C
the children.
D
Watch how you move along in life.
C
G
C
Watch what you're doing.
E
It can get real tricky out there.
Am
C
Praise the
Lord.
D
Am
The black man's still buying
C
things that he can't afford.
D
Am
C
Mass media got our thought
process floored.
G
Am
There'll be no justice or peace
C
till we're on one accord
G
Am
C
Modern day genocide like gang banging
C
TV, another nigga with his
chain swinging
Am
C
Another nigga envious,
gun starts to flaming
Am
C
An other nigga dead,
Am
another nigga hanging
C
It's not where you're at,
D
it's the state your mental's in
cause your mind is in prison
Am
The ones that's oppressed
C
G
supply the fuel for racism
Am
C
And it's name is materialism
Am
Oh how we love things that shine
C
They take control of the mind
D
Am
Thinking, talking, deceiving,
C
still dumb, deaf and blind
You have to make good use
of your time
Am
Cause one wrong move will have that
C
black ass further confined
E
Am
C
To young black youth on the corner
D
Am
If you follow what you see,
C
D
best believe you's a goner
Am
C
Cause life is more than just getting high
D
Am
C
It's like getting dirt in your third eye
Don't go through life squinting
Am
C
From dorms in
Rikers,
Alice
Hills, and
San
D
Quentin
Am
The black man committing crimes
C
keeps the newspapers printing
Am
C
The way we live day
to day's ridiculous
Am
C
Existing poverty for dollars
E
keep corporations in business
Am
C
What happened to consciousness?
D
C
The black medallion and blackfish traded
D
for ice around the black wrist
Am
C
Platinum noose around that black neck
D
Am
No self -love, no self -honor,
D
C
no self -respect
Am
C
Caught in that
Willy
Lynch system
C
D
but really the victim
Adam and
C
Eve when
Satan tricked them
Am
C
Thrown out the guard with no pardon
The devil love it when
Am
C
D
Like arteries, misery loves company
C
And you judge by the kind that you keep
G
That's not the shepherd but the thief
C
That comes to rob, steal,
kill and destroy
Am
C
G
Watch yourself, baby girl, baby boy
D
C
D
Nine times out of ten, it's a ploy
Am
C
To snag your soul
Am
Solomon says seek these things like
Knowledge,
E
Am
C
understanding solves all mysteries
D
Am
Like I've give way to injuries,
Am
C
D
Drink your alcohol and smoke your trees
Am
I know it's from the earth but
Am
C
I once was ultra -blind but now I see
D
Am
C
When I'm walking down the block
5 -0 still yells freeze
Am
C
The tongue is like a double -edged sword
And when I'm swinging my war cry,
it's praise the
Am
Lord.
G
D
C
Lord!
Am
C
Praise the
G
D
C
Lord!
Am
C
Praise the
G
D
Am
C
Lord!
Praise the
Lord!
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