I am the colour

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[Verse 1]
[Am]Wanna make the people feel something
[G]But [C]if I can't speak the tru[Dm]th,
don't feel [C]nothing[Dm]
I gotta speak my mind
It's a lot on [Em]my mind
Scared of what I'll [Am]say next[Em] I'm[Dm]
just waiting for the same tex[Am]t
Cause the real is just too real
They [G]don't care how [C]I feel
I'm a brown [Am]boy livin' in a white [Dm]world
Little shame to my brown skin
Not brown enough,
but too brown can[Em]'t win
They don't even have to
say a dam[G]n thing
[Am]It's what [Dm]they do and that's
the same thing
[Am]Same thing
Dirty lips at the airport
Cause [C]I'm lookin' like [G]a
thug in my track[C]suit
Who even cares what I look [Am]like?
[Dm]They care, they care[Am]
[G]It's [Am]not fair,[Em] it's not [Am]fair
Express slangs,
express ways about [G]the feeling about [C]me
I'm good enough but not [Dm]good
enough to say [Am]anything
[G]My [Dm]opinion matters only if it's just about me,
[Em]not them
[G]Cause they don't
wanna hear [Am]a thing
They just want me to sing
[G]They don't wanna hear a thing
They [C]don't know anything
[Am]They [Dm]just want me to sing
[Am]But [C]I'm more[Dm] than that[Am],
[C]I'm more than tha[Am]t
[Em]I'm [Am]more[G][Am]
I am the color
I [Dm]am, [Am]I am,[G] I am[Am]
You are the color
You [Dm]are, [Am]you a[G]re, you [Am]are
[Dm]I am the color
We are, we are, we [G]are
We the color
[Dm]Yeah[Am]
I am [G]the color of [F]you
You are the color [Em]of m[Dm]e
[C]Hey, [Em]yeah
I am the col[G]or of [F]you
Chains are now broken,
[Am]praise to th[G]e young boy[F]
Blessed to have my [Am]grandmother's
blood an[G]d this golden s[F]kin
I used to try to keep [Am]up,
all [G]time I've been [F]more than enough
[Am]More than [G]enough
[F]For every hand that you've dealt us,
put it up [Am]an d say that you help us
[G]We build from [F]the ground up, oh thank
God that you found us
[Am]So you can surround us[G], oh
[F]Put them up, put them up high,
them come [Am]busting through in [G]the night.
[F]It's going down, down, down.
[Am]That's how we keep our head
up in [G]the clouds, oh [Am]yeah.
I am the color.
I am, [G]I am, I am.
[Am]You are the color.
You [Dm]are, you [G]are, you [Dm]are.
I am the color.
We are, we [G]are, we are.
We are the color.
You are, yeah.
[Am]I am the gun
Say, yeah, yeah, [G]yeah, yeah, [F]yeah
are the gun
You are, you [Em]are
[Dm]I am the gun
Said, don't [C]you know that you are
You [Em]are the [A]gun[Em]
[Am]Uh, I was born and raised in
A -Town
Out of
Nui by the [C]playground
And I [Am]put up for my city, though
Same city haters cause our [C]face brown
[Am]Same time,
same city love me cause the flow
was the coldest
And it's so [Am]sick, I spread the
COVID
And the cops lock [Am]me up because my [C]nose big I'm
[Am]from the east side streets, through the
concrete I [Am]grew like a rose did
The
Pacific
Ocean, we [Am]rode it
And I own shit before
you [C]knew what a boat is
I am the [Am]color of the truth
and you know this
On my shoulders,
the future hope has been
bestowed
And I [Am]never fold it
I'ma go in and take back
[Am]everything that was [C]stolen
[Am]I am the color