Three rivers Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[Am][Dm][G][C]
[F][Dm][Bdim]
[E][Dm]
[C][G]
[E]

[Verse 1]
[Am]Look
Imagine an island where the party
never ends
[C]Where it's less about money
and it's more about friends
[F]Where the vibes can't done
[Dm]It's less about fundin'
and and more about fun
[Bm]Tropical [E]sun,
[Dm]that's life in the '60s comin' from the Caribbean
[C]You know Ian, Delroy, Vivian,
[G]Winston
Who got drafted to [E]England
[G#dim]Windrush [Fm]babies from [G#dim]Kingston to [Eaug]Brixton
[Am]To say they're the life of the party,
you're wrong
My Ja[Bm]maicans the entire [Em]party,
you can't see?
[F]Big Notting Hil[Dm]l carni, you
can't see?
And the ride's fiber [Bm]glass,
G, you [E]wan' see?
[Dm]Imagine a place where you
raise your kids
The only [C]place you live says
you ain't a Brit
They're de[G]portin' our people
and it makes me sick
'Cause they were [G#dim]broken by
the country that they came to fix
[E]It's like

[Verse 2]
[Am]They came at the invitation of the
British Government
[C]The passports were stamped
indefinitely [F]to remain
But for some [Dm]who were children then,
that was a [Bm]false promise
"Thirty- sev[Dm]en years of
paying taxes
And I got a letter say[C]ing
I was an illegal immigrant
I came [G]to England at the age of ten
and I've [E]lived here all my life"

[Verse 3]
[Am]Look, imagine a world that's flawed
and full of evil
Where [Bm]dictators and leaders
are per[Em]secutin' your people
[F]The bodies of the innocent
are pilin' to the [Dm]steeples
The ironic part is [Bm]they're preyin'
on the feeble
[Dm]That's life in the 90's, you're
Eastern European
And you [C]seein' people dyin' 'cause
they're fightin' for their freedom
[G]And show you[Bm] violence
for havin' a voice
You move [G#dim]out with your kids in hope
of havin' [G#aug]a choice
[Am]Life throws you a spanner,
you can't handle the pain
So [C]you gamble and you drink and then
you gamble again
[F]You argue with your wife and then
you [Dm]sleep on the couch
You hit your children,
then start [E]freezin' 'em out
You try [Dm]and work things out,
but it's never the same
All the [C]women in your household
are livin' afraid
When [G]you look into the [Bm]mirror
you're re[G]minded again
[E]That you've becom[G#aug]e the dictator
you were [E]fightin' against
[Am]It's like
We're fight[Dm]in' for o[Am]ur rights, for

[Verse 4]
[G]
all our mothers
[Em]And then [F]we, we
We are fighting [Dm]for our homes
[E]We are [Dm]fight[Bdim]ing for our[Dm]
own
[C][G][E][Bm]

[Verse 5]
[E]
[Am]Look, imagine a world
that's fucked and untrue
[C]Where the many pay a price for the few
[F]And every day the sun ris[Dm]es
a little later
That's how [Bm]it is when your
oppressor is [E]your liberator
[Dm]That's right now livin' in
the Middle [C]East
Praise Allah for the peace
[G]Death from a sky littered with stars
You run [E]away with your [G#dim]kids
so you can [E]give them a chance
But [Am]your asylum has got you in
a different war
Because [G]the British wan[Bm]na know
what [Em]you're livin' here for
We [F]rely on migration more than
ever be[Dm]fore
They're key workers,
but they couldn't even [E]get in the door
[Dm]When you're at Heaven's Gates,
what you tellin' the Lord?
You [C]wouldn't even let a kid
into some steadier shores
That's [G]a life they may never afford
Surely [Bm]you would wanna g[E]ive
your people chances
That were better than yours?

[Verse 6]
No?
[Am]"In ten years of conflict
More than twelve- [C]thousand children
have been killed or injured"
[F]"The children here are just [Dm]a
tiny fraction
Of the estimated [Bm]six- [E]million
[Dm]In need of emergency humanitarian
assistance
It's thought per[C]haps,
as many of three- million
No longer live in their [G]own homes
And up to two- million children no longer
[G#dim]at tend school[E]
The opportunities of this [Am]generation
Have been changed forever [Bm]by t[Em]his conflict"[C]

[Interlude 1]
[F][Dm][Bm][E]
[Dm][C]
[G][Bm][G#dim]
[Eaug][Am][C]
[F][Dm][Bdim][E]
[Dm][C]
[G][E]

[Verse 7]
[Am]"I went to silence when I need to who the,
[C]who the fuck I [E]was, bro
[G]Like, I won't hear anyone else,
shut everyone [C]else out
So I could just hear my[Am]self, bro
[Dm]You know what I'm sayin'?
'Cause we live in this world, yeah
[G]You stand sti[Dm]ll, the way the tides set up[F]
It will take you away from your[C]self,
you [Am]feel me?
So then I was like "Aight, [E]cool"
[G]But, I had to get silent,
but [C]it's not like mans goin' against the tide
'Cause goin' against the
[Am]tide still makes it about [Dm]them
Still makes [E]it about the poison
That you've internalized in your mind,
[F]you feel me?
It's like "Bro, why am I in this water?
[Am]Man, this water doesn't even like me,
it's not even for me
It's not takin' me where I wanna go, it's
not takin' me where I wanna go
It's who the fuck [G]I am, bro,
you know I'm sayin'?
It's like the tide will tell [C]me that
[Am]bein' black [Dm]is an obstacle
[E]See what I'm sayin'?
[G]I had to,[Dm] switch rivers, bro
It's like bein' black [Am]is an asset
I am who I am because I'm black
And I love everything about
it, you feel [G]me?
And that's who the fuck I am"