We Could Be Free

F#m B C#m A F#m B C#m A F#m7 F#m B We could be free B C#m Bm A If we only knew we were slaves to the pains of each other F#m B One day, I believe I'd learn C#m B A To see my enemy as my brother F#m B Then we could be free, truly C#m B A And love could wash away our sorrows F#m7 I'm not afraid to bleed F#m B C#m B A If it means, we'll make them better today not tomorrow F#m B One day I dream of telling my momma "You ain't gotta work no more" C#m B A Same for my father, born in Ghana, down on that dirt road floor F#m B As far as he came I can't complain, but pain is so subjective C#m B A Spend so much time counting issues, I forget to count My blessings F#m B Watch my cousins back at home, getting water out a well C#m B A While I watch my brother stacking stone, whipping water by the scale F#m7 F#m Tryna' get a mill' on the other side B They ain't got a meal, we don't recognize we in heaven C#m So we think we live in hell B A It's been getting kinda hard to tell C#m But F#m7 B Sometimes I wake up and I look up at the sky C#m A Asking why I'm alive when the realest niggas died F#m7 F#m B And my pride won't let me give up, lord as hard as I try C#m A In those times I try to remember C#m F#m7 F#m B Then we could be free B C#m Bm A If we only knew we were slaves to the pains of each other F#m B One day, I believe I'd learn C#m B A To see my enemy as my brother F#m B Then we could be free, truly C#m B A And love could wash away our sorrows F#m7 I'm not afraid to bleed F#m B C#m B A If it means, we'll make them better today not tomorrow F#m B C#m A F#m7 B C#m A C# F#m7 F#m I don't want to wait for the afterlife B I don't want a vigil by candle light C#m I don't want to be the new sacrifice A I don't want to turn into a poltergeist F#m7 F#m Be a ghost at night full of broken dreams B Momma crying at an open casket C#m Cold as ice in a suit, 3 piece A C# All dressed up for Sunday masses F#m7 F#m E Pastor said put faith in God B But faith alone can't make things right C#m Who the f**k is you to patronize A Somebody's son whose daddy died? F#m7 F#m Why they flood Baton Rouge? B Why the city singing Alton's blues? C#m Why, why, why, why? B A I feel like Jadakiss every time I watch the news F#m What the f**k I got to lose? B So I'm down to bleed if it means things improve C#m You fools, saying "all lives matter" A But it's black lives you refuse include F#m Blocked from the polls B Locked in the hood, trying to stop you from voting and stop you from growing C#m And cops keep blowing and blowing A Keep black people locked into cotton C# They don't want you to own, but F#m B Sometimes I wake up and I look up in the sky C#m A Asking why I survived all the days that I could have died F#m Who am I in my place B To contemplate suicide? A In those times I try to remember A G# F#m7 F#m B That we could be free, truly C#m A If we'd only knew we were slaves to the pains of each other F#m7 F#m B But I believe I'd learn C#m A To see my enemy as my brother F#m7 F#m B Then we could be free, truly C#m A And we could wash away our sorrows F#m7 F#m B I'm not afraid to bleed, if it means C#m A We'll make them better today not tomorrow F#m Love (love) B Love (love) C#m A To love my enemy as my brother F#m (Yeah yeah yeah) B Make a better today not tomorrow