Tonalità: C minor
Intro 1
G#m
C#m
F#
B
E
C#m
A#dim
D#
C#m
B
F#
D#
Verse 1
G#m
Look
Imagine an island where the party
never ends
B
Where it's less about money
and it's more about friends
E
Where the vibes can't done
C#m
It's less about fundin'
and and more about fun
A#m
D#
Tropical sun,
C#m
that's life in the '60s comin' from the Caribbean
B
You know Ian, Delroy, Vivian,
F#
Winston
D#
Who got drafted to England
Gdim
Em
Gdim
D#aug
Windrush babies from Kingston to Brixton
G#m
To say they're the life of the party,
you're wrong
A#m
D#m
My Jamaicans the entire party,
you can't see?
E
C#m
Big Notting Hill carni, you
can't see?
A#m
And the ride's fiber glass,
D#
G, you wan' see?
C#m
Imagine a place where you
raise your kids
B
The only place you live says
you ain't a Brit
F#
They're deportin' our people
and it makes me sick
Gdim
'Cause they were broken by
the country that they came to fix
D#
It's like
Verse 2
G#m
They came at the invitation of the
British Government
B
The passports were stamped
E
indefinitely to remain
C#m
But for some who were children then,
A#m
that was a false promise
C#m
"Thirty- seven years of
paying taxes
B
And I got a letter saying
I was an illegal immigrant
F#
I came to England at the age of ten
D#
and I've lived here all my life"
Verse 3
G#m
Look, imagine a world that's flawed
and full of evil
A#m
Where dictators and leaders
D#m
are persecutin' your people
E
The bodies of the innocent
C#m
are pilin' to the steeples
A#m
The ironic part is they're preyin'
on the feeble
C#m
That's life in the 90's, you're
Eastern European
B
And you seein' people dyin' 'cause
they're fightin' for their freedom
F#
A#m
And show you violence
for havin' a voice
Gdim
You move out with your kids in hope
Gaug
of havin' a choice
G#m
Life throws you a spanner,
you can't handle the pain
B
So you gamble and you drink and then
you gamble again
E
You argue with your wife and then
C#m
you sleep on the couch
You hit your children,
D#
then start freezin' 'em out
C#m
You try and work things out,
but it's never the same
B
All the women in your household
are livin' afraid
F#
A#m
When you look into the mirror
F#
you're reminded again
D#
Gaug
That you've become the dictator
D#
you were fightin' against
G#m
It's like
C#m
G#m
We're fightin' for our rights, for
Verse 4
F#
all our mothers
D#m
E
And then we, we
C#m
We are fighting for our homes
D#
C#m
A#dim
C#m
We are fighting for our
own
B
F#
D#
A#m
Verse 5
D#
G#m
Look, imagine a world
that's fucked and untrue
B
Where the many pay a price for the few
E
C#m
And every day the sun rises
a little later
A#m
That's how it is when your
D#
oppressor is your liberator
C#m
That's right now livin' in
B
the Middle East
Praise Allah for the peace
F#
Death from a sky littered with stars
D#
Gdim
You run away with your kids
D#
so you can give them a chance
G#m
But your asylum has got you in
a different war
F#
A#m
Because the British wanna know
D#m
what you're livin' here for
E
We rely on migration more than
C#m
ever before
They're key workers,
D#
but they couldn't even get in the door
C#m
When you're at Heaven's Gates,
what you tellin' the Lord?
B
You wouldn't even let a kid
into some steadier shores
F#
That's a life they may never afford
A#m
D#
Surely you would wanna give
your people chances
That were better than yours?
Verse 6
No?
G#m
"In ten years of conflict
B
More than twelve- thousand children
have been killed or injured"
E
C#m
"The children here are just a
tiny fraction
A#m
D#
Of the estimated six- million
C#m
In need of emergency humanitarian
assistance
B
It's thought perhaps,
as many of three- million
F#
No longer live in their own homes
And up to two- million children no longer
Gdim
D#
at tend school
G#m
The opportunities of this generation
A#m
D#m
B
Have been changed forever by this conflict"
Interlude 1
E
C#m
A#m
D#
C#m
B
F#
A#m
Gdim
D#aug
G#m
B
E
C#m
A#dim
D#
C#m
B
F#
D#
Verse 7
G#m
"I went to silence when I need to who the,
B
D#
who the fuck I was, bro
F#
Like, I won't hear anyone else,
B
shut everyone else out
G#m
So I could just hear myself, bro
C#m
You know what I'm sayin'?
'Cause we live in this world, yeah
F#
C#m
E
You stand still, the way the tides set up
B
It will take you away from yourself,
G#m
you feel me?
D#
So then I was like "Aight, cool"
F#
But, I had to get silent,
B
but it's not like mans goin' against the tide
'Cause goin' against the
G#m
C#m
tide still makes it about them
D#
Still makes it about the poison
That you've internalized in your mind,
E
you feel me?
It's like "Bro, why am I in this water?
G#m
Man, this water doesn't even like me,
it's not even for me
It's not takin' me where I wanna go, it's
not takin' me where I wanna go
F#
It's who the fuck I am, bro,
you know I'm sayin'?
B
It's like the tide will tell me that
G#m
C#m
bein' black is an obstacle
D#
See what I'm sayin'?
F#
C#m
I had to, switch rivers, bro
G#m
It's like bein' black is an asset
I am who I am because I'm black
And I love everything about
F#
it, you feel me?
And that's who the fuck I am"
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