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Shining Down (feat. Matthew Santos) Chords

Music by: Lupe Fiasco
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[Intro 1]
[Dm][C][G]
[Dm][C]
[G]Look Up in the

[Verse 1]
[Dm]Sky.
Look Up in [C]the [G]Sky.
Look Up in the [Dm]Sky[C]
[G]Tho[Dm]ught I was down.
Thought I was [C]gone.[G]
Thought I was [Dm]around.
I left you [C]alone.[G]
Look Up in [Dm]the Sky.
Just look Up in [C]the Sky.[G]
See that I'm [Dm]everywhere
Everywhere
[C]Shining [G]Down on You.

[Verse 2]
[Verse [Dm]1:]
Well, well
Is that our little author?
[C]Coming back,
humming his hymns a [G]little altered
[Dm]Your attention, Put back on the flow
like the department of wa[C]ter
Taken off of the door like [G]little Walter
[Dm]Chess? Yes. Baby I'm Jerry Lawler
[C]Rebel with a cause; Outlaw
[G]with the lawyer
[Dm]Judge jury like a loop, Rap name Lupe,
but [C]my daddy named me Warrior
This is [G]his memori[C]al.
[Hook:] [G]Thought I was down.

[Verse 3]
[Dm]
Thought I was [C]gone.[G]
Thought I was [Dm]around.
I left you [C]alone.[G]
Look Up in [Dm]the Sky.
Just look Up in [C]the Sky.[G]
See that I'm [Dm]everywhere
Everywhere
[C]Shining [G]Down on You.

[Verse 4]
[Dm][Verse 2:]
No, I ain't the nigga trying
to get a liquor line
When [C]I be scriptin lines,
Won't [G]this petition sign
[Dm]It says I'm sick of dimes,
Sick of this prison time
I [C]really love my [G]people. I'm sick
of pimping [Dm]mine.
Now if we autotune that shit,
[C]We can hear the songs from
that opera [G]room fat bitch
Tell [Dm]em' it's not to pursue it, just
shoe it like a blacksmith
We're [C]trapped, and movin round
in circles [G]like it's chap stick
[Dm]An d that's the semi-circle way way of
thinking that we're chapped with
We'll [C]rap is arounded ya head like
[G]the bandana's fabulous
[Dm]used to wrap his hats with
Rather being feds instead of
[C]National Geographic's
Well I'm not [G]having it, [Dm]naw.

[Verse 5]
[Hook:] Thought [Dm]I was down.
Thought I was [C]gone.[G]
Thought I was [Dm]around.
I left you [C]alone.[G]
Look Up in [Dm]the Sky.
Just look Up in [C]the Sky.[G]
See that I'm [Dm]everywhere
Everywhere
[C]Shining [G]Down on You.

[Verse 6]
[Dm][Verse 3:]
So, I say hello and this is for the third time
To [C]everybody out there who
ain't never [G]heard [C]mine
[G]And if [Dm]you haven't you know
you ain't never heard line
Lu don't [C]MOO. No COW WORDS
(cowards(cow-herds)],
you [G]only heard LIONS (lines)
[Dm]Not a facade cherisher,
I'd rather have the scars
I don't [C]idolize America,
I'm [G]dancing with the stars
Uh [Dm]huh. All of them? Yeah, they are, too.
You look [C]up and you see us
Shining [G]Down on [Dm]you.

[Verse 7]
[Hook:] Thought I [Dm]was
down.
Thought I was [C]gone.[G]
Thought I was [Dm]around.
I left you [C]alone.[G]
Look Up in [Dm]the Sky.
Just look Up in [C]the Sky.[G]
See that I'm [Dm]everywhere
Everywhere
[C]Shining [G]Down on You.
[Dm]

[Verse 8]
[C]Shining [G]Down on [Dm]You
[C]Shining [G]Down on [Dm]You
[C]Shining [G]Down on You

[Outro 1]
[Dm][C][G]
[Dm][C]
[G][Dm][C]
[G][Dm]
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