Tonalité : F minor
Verse 1
Fm
May you live as long as you want,
But never want as long
as you live... babay
Ab
While living in a world of freedom,
Verse 2
Bb
Fm
Ab
Because intelligence... is, uh... is so ex
Bb
pensive...
Verse 3
(Expensive, expensive, expensive)
Fm
Ab
While building a smarter planet,
Bb
is legal,
Fm
Ab
Fm
Yeah... One crime at a time... someone
Bb
just mugged the Eagle...
Fm
(the eagle, the eagle, the eagle...)
Ab
We got to be careful
Verse 4
Bb
what
Bbm
Db
Fm
the words that we use...
Ab
Bbm
If we choose to be wounded healers,
Fm
Ab
Rather than wounded hurters,
Bb
Bbm
We need words of encouragement,
Fm
Words of gentleness...
Ab
Fm
Words of kindness...
Eb
Fm
Words of ennoblement...
Db
Fm
Yeah, we want these sisters
Verse 5
Bb
and brothers of all colors
Fm
To broaden their horizons...
Connect the three dimensions of time,
Ab
Your past, your present an
Db
Ab
d your fu ture...
Fm
Verse 6
Ab
Bb
Bbm
Fm
You got to respect yourself,
Have confidence in yourself...
Cm
Fm
Who told you to doubt yourself!
Db
Fm
Who told you,
Bb
you can't soar like an Eagle...
Fm
Db
Fm
Who told you that you are
Bb
to demean yourselves...
Fm
Straighten your back up,
Db
When you straighten your back up
Fm
, you're going somewhere,
Bb
'Cause folks can't ride your back
Fm
unless it's bent!...
Verse 7
Fm
Bb
STAND the way Sly Stone
said... stand...
Fm
(If you want to be free...)
Ab
You say you got a smart phone
Bbm
Db
Fm
(then you can't be
dumb...)
Ab
But you're still making
dumb decisions...
Bbm
Fm
(If you want to be free...)
Ab
Bb
Your acting like your full grown,
Bbm
Fm
(then you got to get on the one)
When you still need your Mama's
Ab
Fm
Bbm
Fm
permission.
Ab
Always have a deep
Verse 8
Fm
Bbm
sense of connection to the past,
Fm
A subversive memory that constitutes
wind at your back...
Verse 9
Fm
You are who you are because
Ab
somebody loved you,
Fm
Somebody cared for you... somebody
Bb
Bbm
attended to you,
Fm
Make sure that love flows through you,
Ab
That's what it means to keep
Fm
love on the one...
Bbm
Young soul,
Verse 10
Fm
Ab
We love you...
Fm
Bb
Bbm
We know you can be
Fm
grander than you are...
And we know that the funk means
Bb
It's not just about the funk,
But the "K",
Fm
and the "K" is about knowledge,
Ab
Fm
And knowledge is about courage,
Bb
And the courage is about service,
Fm
And the service is about
Ab
Fm
Cm
sac rifice...
Bb
Fm
(If you want to be free...)
Ab
Bb
You know yesterday's trash,
Bbm
Fm
(then you can't be dumb...)
Ab
Bb
Could very well be tomorrows fuel...
Bbm
Fm
(If you want to be free...)
Ab
Bb
And yesterday's prisons...
Bbm
Fm
(Then you got to get on the one)
Ah, could very well be tomorrow's
schools...
Bbm
Fm
(I gotta get a witness...)
Db
Fm
Let us nev er forget the words of the great
Verse 11
Ab
Martin Luther King Jr.
Bbm
Fm
Db
Who said that "Love is the key that unlocks
Fm
Bb
the door to ultimate reality"
Fm
Let us understand the words of James Baldwin,
Ab
when he said,
Bbm
Fm
"Love forces us to take off the mask
we know we cannot live within,
C
Fm
But fear we can not live without".
Ab
That's the kind of love
Verse 12
Fm
"on
Bbm
the one" we talking about,
Fm
Ab
We want to firm one another. We want to
Fm
Bbm
encourage one another...
Fm
Ab
We want to uplift one another...
Fm
That's why James Brown,
Bbm
George Clinton,
Fm
That's why Aretha Franklin,
Ab
that's why Theodore Pendergrass,
Bb
Bbm
Fm
That's why basic colors is only ONE...
Verse 13
Ab
(If you want to be free...)
Whooaah yeah bub...
Bbm
Fm
(You can't be dumb)
Verse 14
Bb
And if you're on a ship of fools,
Bbm
Fm
(If you want to be free...)
Ab
Bb
Let it be said that you are not the captain,
Fm
Bbm
babay...
Fm
(then you got to get on the One...)
Bbm
Keep on pushing... (If you want
Verse 15
Fm
Ab
to be free...)
Verse 16
Bb
Then who's right,
Bbm
Fm
(then you can't be dumb...)
Outro 1
When there's no one left...
Bb
Bbm
What hap pens when love is a
Fm
threat...
Ab
Bb
Fm
Ahhhohhh, circus, circus...
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