Somalia chords and lyrics - K'NAAN

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[Intro 1]
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[G][C]
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[Verse 1]
[Em]Uh,
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[C]Yeah,[G][C]
Somalia

[Verse 2]
Yeah, [C]I spit
it for my block,
It's an ode, I admit it.
[G]Here [Em]the city code is lock and load
Any minute is rock and roll
[G]And you rock and roll,
And feel your soul leavin'.
[C]It's just the wrong dance
That'll leave you not breathin'.
I'm not particularly proud
Of this predicament but,
[Em]I'm born and bred
In this tenement, I'm sentimental, What?!
[G]Plus it's only right to
represent my hood
And what not.
So [C]I'm about to do it in the music,
in the movies.
Cut to the chase pan across
[G]to the face
I'm right [Em]there.
Freeze frame on the street [G]name
[C]Oops [G]wait a minute,
This is where the streets have no [Em]name
[G]And the drain of [C]sewage.
You can see [G]it in this boy
[C]how the [G]hate is brewin'
[C]Cause when his tummy tucks in
[G]Fuck the pain is fluid.
[Em]So what difference does it make,
Entertaining threw it.
[G]Some get high mixing coke and gun powder,
[C]sniffin'.
She got a gun but could have
been a model [G]or physi[C]cian.

[Verse 3]
So what you know bout [C]the
pirates terrorize the [Em]ocean.
To never know a simple day
without a big commotion.
[G]It can't be healthy just to live
with a such steep emotion.
[C]And when I try and sleep,
I see [Em]coffins[G][C]
closin'. (Repeat)
Yeah, Yeah,

[Verse 4]
We used [C]to
take barb wire
Mold [G]them around [Em]discarded bike tires.
Roll em down [G]the hill in foot blazin'.
Now that was our version
[C]of mountain [G]bike racing
[C]Damn!
Do you see why it's amazing,
When someone comes out
of such a dire [G]situ[Em]ation
And learns the English language,
Just [G]to share his obser[Em]vation!
[G]Probably get a Grammy without
a grammar education.
[C]So fuck you school and fuck
you immigration!
And all of you who thought I wouldn't
amount to constipation.
[G]And now[Em] I'm here without the
slightest fear and preservation,
They [G]love me in the slums and in
the native reservations.
[C]The world is a ghetto with
ministerin' deprivation.
My mommy didn't raise no
fool did [Em]she hooyo?
I promise I would get it and
remain strictly [Am]loyal.
[Em]Cause when[G] they get it then
they let it all switch and spoil.
But [C]I just illuminated it like kitchen foil.
A lot of main stream niggas is
[G]yappin' about [Em]yappin'
A lot of underground niggas is
[G]rappin' [Em]about rappin'.
[G]I just wanna tell you what's
[C]really crackalackan
Before the tears came down
this is what happened.

[Verse 5]
So what you know bout [C]the
pirates terrorize the [G]ocean.
[Em]To never know a simple day
without a big commotion.
[G]It can't be healthy just to live
with a such steep emotion.
[C]And when I try and sleep,

[Outro 1]
I see coffins closin'. [Repeat: x2]
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