Intro
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You all thought I would just gonna like
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Sit there and accept that
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And not and not and not continue
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Like, like I wasn't about this shit in the first place
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It's all coming down
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Listen up, motherfucker
[Verse 1]
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I woke up for the first time
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In a long time feeling alright
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Then something don't feel right
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Why do I feel like the war just began?
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What do I believe when?
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Satan be evil but angels be sleazy
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It don't get no easier when (Whatchu you talking about)
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They change like the wind and pretend like it's breezy
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Shit ain't alright, I waited all night
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To hear some good news, but this just all right
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I feel my whole life was one big car ride
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And every left turn, I felt the far right (You damn right)
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At least you got something right
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This ain't the best but at least it's progress
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So go ahead and have fun tonight
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Because, tomorrow this blessing will become a lesson
[Chorus]
Fm
You can do what you want
D# A#m
We gonna do what we have to when
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It all falls down, once again
Fm
You can do what you want
D# A#m
We gonna do what we have to when
C#
It all falls down, once again
[Verse 2]
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Fell on some hard times and when y'all die
Fm D#
They resurrect them soft lies
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That big blue wall we all climb
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Then walk along these red lines
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See, I ain't with that
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When they politicin'
Fm D#
Y'all sit back and just sign petitions
Fm
These mishaps ain't of the mystics
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Add up generations of long division
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Do you feel it? Does it effect you?
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Out of sight, out of mind, that's a blurry ass view
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When we kneeling y'all act real indignant
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But you ain't say shit
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When Derek Chauvin did it, bitch
[Chorus]
Fm
You can do what you want
D# A#m
We gonna do what we have to when
C#
It all falls down, once again
Fm
You can do what you want
D# A#m
We gonna do what we have to when
C#
It all falls down, once again
[Bridge]
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Now that I got your attention
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I know we can do better than this
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But the first thing we have to agree on is that we
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We are no better than them
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If we are nothing more
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Than cogs in a machine
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There must be something more
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To America than a dream
[Pre-Chorus]
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(You can do what you want
A#m C# D#
We gonna do what we have to when)
[Chorus]
Fm
You can do what you want
D# A#m
We gonna do what we have to when
C#
It all falls down, once again
Fm
You can do what you want
D# A#m
We gonna do what we have to when
C# Fm
It all falls down, once again