Tonalité : C minor
Intro 1
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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
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E
Tropical sun,
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that's life in the '60s comin' from the Caribbean
C
You know Ian, Delroy, Vivian,
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Winston
E
Who got drafted to England
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Windrush babies from Kingston to Brixton
Am
To say they're the life of the party,
you're wrong
Bm
Em
My Jamaicans the entire party,
you can't see?
F
Dm
Big Notting Hill carni, you
can't see?
Bm
And the ride's fiber glass,
E
G, you wan' see?
Dm
Imagine a place where you
raise your kids
C
The only place you live says
you ain't a Brit
G
They're deportin' our people
and it makes me sick
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'Cause they were 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
F
indefinitely to remain
Dm
But for some who were children then,
Bm
that was a false promise
Dm
"Thirty- seven years of
paying taxes
C
And I got a letter saying
I was an illegal immigrant
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I came to England at the age of ten
E
and I've lived here all my life"
Verse 3
Am
Look, imagine a world that's flawed
and full of evil
Bm
Where dictators and leaders
Em
are persecutin' your people
F
The bodies of the innocent
Dm
are pilin' to the steeples
Bm
The ironic part is they're preyin'
on the feeble
Dm
That's life in the 90's, you're
Eastern European
C
And you seein' people dyin' 'cause
they're fightin' for their freedom
G
Bm
And show you violence
for havin' a voice
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You move out with your kids in hope
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of havin' a choice
Am
Life throws you a spanner,
you can't handle the pain
C
So you gamble and you drink and then
you gamble again
F
You argue with your wife and then
Dm
you sleep on the couch
You hit your children,
E
then start freezin' 'em out
Dm
You try and work things out,
but it's never the same
C
All the women in your household
are livin' afraid
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Bm
When you look into the mirror
G
you're reminded again
E
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That you've become the dictator
E
you were fightin' against
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It's like
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We're fightin' for our rights, for
Verse 4
G
all our mothers
Em
F
And then we, we
Dm
We are fighting for our homes
E
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We are fighting for our
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
Dm
And every day the sun rises
a little later
Bm
That's how it is when your
E
oppressor is your liberator
Dm
That's right now livin' in
C
the Middle East
Praise Allah for the peace
G
Death from a sky littered with stars
E
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You run away with your kids
E
so you can give them a chance
Am
But your asylum has got you in
a different war
G
Bm
Because the British wanna know
Em
what you're livin' here for
F
We rely on migration more than
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ever before
They're key workers,
E
but they couldn't even get in the door
Dm
When you're at Heaven's Gates,
what you tellin' the Lord?
C
You wouldn't even let a kid
into some steadier shores
G
That's a life they may never afford
Bm
E
Surely you would wanna give
your people chances
That were better than yours?
Verse 6
No?
Am
"In ten years of conflict
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More than twelve- thousand children
have been killed or injured"
F
Dm
"The children here are just a
tiny fraction
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E
Of the estimated six- million
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In need of emergency humanitarian
assistance
C
It's thought perhaps,
as many of three- million
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No longer live in their own homes
And up to two- million children no longer
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E
at tend school
Am
The opportunities of this generation
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Em
C
Have been changed forever by this conflict"
Interlude 1
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Verse 7
Am
"I went to silence when I need to who the,
C
E
who the fuck I was, bro
G
Like, I won't hear anyone else,
C
shut everyone else out
Am
So I could just hear myself, bro
Dm
You know what I'm sayin'?
'Cause we live in this world, yeah
G
Dm
F
You stand still, the way the tides set up
C
It will take you away from yourself,
Am
you feel me?
E
So then I was like "Aight, cool"
G
But, I had to get silent,
C
but it's not like mans goin' against the tide
'Cause goin' against the
Am
Dm
tide still makes it about them
E
Still makes 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
G
It's who the fuck I am, bro,
you know I'm sayin'?
C
It's like the tide will tell me that
Am
Dm
bein' black is an obstacle
E
See what I'm sayin'?
G
Dm
I had to, switch rivers, bro
Am
It's like bein' black is an asset
I am who I am because I'm black
And I love everything about
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it, you feel me?
And that's who the fuck I am"
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