The Innocent Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[D][Em][D]
[C][Em][D][Em][D]
[C]
You'll get this [D]now

[Verse 1]
[Em]
Oh yeah
[D]Haha, [Em]ha
I'ma get this now
And I'ma take mine just to get mine

[Verse 2]
You think, I [Em]know
Wide eyes got a narrow scope
You think that they'd know
[G]Not to shoot a man whi[D]le
he on the floor
[Em]That's why these youngins they run before
talkin' to police because they know the deal
See young Trayvon Martin had just left
the market with [G]candy and [D]got his ass killed

[Verse 3]
[Em]No more excuses
[G]We must refuse this
Si[D]lence is useless
[C]Long live the [D]innocent
[Em]They tell us stories
[G]Of star-spangled glory
glory
[D]This is your warning
[C]Long live the [D]innocent
[Em]Whoa, oh, oh (Oh yeah)
Whoa, oh, [D]oh (Oh yeah)
Oh, oh, oh (Oh yeah)
Long [Em]live the innocent
Hey hey
[D]Oh yeah
[Em]Oh, oh, oh, oh yeah
Yeah

[Verse 4]
Eyes of the law [C]do not[Em]
(They don't)
Look anything like my own
(Not like mine)
I can see clearly [G]now
(What they [D]look like?)
That the arraignment is gone
Yes I [Em]did go head up with that cop tryna do me like
Radio Raheem (Take me to him)
I looked at the judge, said "I feared for my life
and I [G]pray that you'll [D]do the right thing"

[Verse 5]
[Em]No more excuses
[G]We must refuse this
Si[D]lence is useless
[C]Long live the [D]innocent
[Em]They tell us stories
Of [G]star-spangled glory
glory
[D]This is your warning
[C]Long live the [D]innocent[Em][G]

[Verse 6]
[D]It ain't what you are[C#m], it's
what you [Bm]can be
It ain't [C#m]what you are,
it's what you [C]can be
[Bm]It ain't what [C#m]you are,
it's what you [Em]can be
[G]And I see you,
my [C]brotha[C#m][Bm][C#m][Bm][C#m][Bm]
[Em]All [G]they know is w[Em]hat you [G]show t[D]hem

[Verse 7]
[Em]No more excuses
[C]We [D]must refuse this
Silence is useless
[C]Long live the [D]innocent
[Em]They tell us stories
[G]Of star-spangled glory
glory
[D]This is your warning
[C]Long live the [D]innocent
[Em]Whoa, oh, oh (Oh yeah)
Whoa, [D]oh, oh (Oh yeah)
[C]Oh, oh, oh (Oh yeah)
Long live the inno[D]cent
[Em]Whoa, oh, oh
Whoa, [D]oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh
[C]Long live the inno[D]cent

[Outro 1]
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