F#5
Major | 4/4 Swing | 60bpm
Int: D#min C# F#5 F#5
A5 : Eb5 C# F#5 F#5
the problem's not a gun, not a color, not a hundred dollar bill
Eb5 C# F#5 F#5
we think the struggle can be won with simple thoughts like 'come together, be good-willed'
B1: B5
C#4 D#min D#min
the gap between the rich and poor is spreading out all the more or so they say,
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we ignore the claims
C1: B5 F#5 C#5 D#min B5 F#5 C#5 C#5 C#
o my soul, faint not, no, faint not
B5 F#5 C#5 D#min B5 F#5 C#5 D#min C# F#5 D#min C# F#5
o my soul, keep up, up, in love, faint not
A2: it's not that we don't know, or we're not shown the proof of poverty
it's not that we don't have the tools to go and break this yoke of slavery.
B2: we quit because it's not an easy fix and then forget that they are even there,
we forget to care
C5 :
D5 : B5 B5 F#5 C#5
where there is hatred, let me sow love
B5 B5 F#5 C#5
where there is injury, let me pardon
B5 B5 F#5 C#5 B5 B5 B
where there is darkness, let the light come, come
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Outro: D#min C# F#5 F#5