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You're not using your heart for
What hearts are for

[Chorus]
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They've been trying to shut us down our whole life
Em
   I thank God for healing
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You ain't got to get me lit, I got my own light
Em
  Thank God for listening, listen
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You've been trying to build me up my whole life
Em
  I thank God for building
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You ain't got to get me lit, I got my own light
Em
  I thank God I'm living

[Verse 1]
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Sometime I feel like a stranger, maybe I ain't from here
              Em
World going crazy, how could that be unclear?
                 F
Know that I'm a soldier, heart's are my battleground
              Em
Sword in the holster, had to come back around
                   F
I ain't trying to hide away, I just had to meditate
               Em
I ain't got a lot to say but the ancestors may
                  F
Speaking to the whole globe, numbers don't occur to me
                Em
You can listen solo 'cause you're the whole world to me
                F
I jump in with both feet nothing low key
                             Em
You can find me where I'm s'posed be, where my folks be
                     F
If you listen very closely you know who chose me
                   Em
Nothing that I own owns me and so I'm so free
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I remember being hungry needing groceries
                   Em
Nighttime getting no sleep 'til my nose bleed
                      F
Got a message to the police:
                             Em
You're not using your heart for what hearts are for

[Chorus]
                         F
They've been trying to shut us down our whole life
Em
   I thank God for healing
                         F
You ain't got to get me lit, I got my own light
Em
  Thank God for listening, listen
                       F
You've been trying to build me up my whole life
Em
  I thank God for building
                         F
You ain't got to get me lit, I got my own light
Em
  I thank God I'm living

[Verse 2]
             F
Not for one second I believe what you're telling me
               Em
I know you invented disease and sell the remedy
             F
Universe is sending me centuries of memories
              Em
So the very breath that I breathe is all I ever need
              F
I got that Muhammad Ali up in my pedigree
           Em
Yes I be speaking my peace up in my seventies
                       F
Ain't worry bout ya threatening me, I'm just being honest
                Em
I ain't buying fear just because it's all you got left
                 F
We just want to make love 'til we wake up
                   Em
I believe whoever made us envisioned greatness
                           F
And you know they want to paint us with the same brush
             Em
Wanna interchain us 'til we fill our grave up
                   F
Alright okay but when it's all said and it's all done
            Em
And I look back at the trophies I won
                  F
I will only count one
                    Em
I'm using my heart for what hearts are for

[Chorus]
                         F
They've been trying to shut us down our whole life
Em
   I thank God for healing
                         F
You ain't got to get me lit, I got my own light
Em
  Thank God for listening, listen
                       F
You've been trying to build me up my whole life
Em
  I thank God for building
                         F
You ain't got to get me lit, I got my own light
Em
  I thank God I'm living

[Verse 3]
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And I know who I am

I know whose I am
                 Em
On your wings, I fly

And in your shoes, I stand
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I'm animated by love, I don't move by chance
             Em
Any stage I touch or any place I stand
                   F
There y'all land, living in the world as it is
                  Em
Cracked vessel, I am no more and no less than a man
     F
Any po-sessions that I have are just in my hand
     Em
I'm balancing the best that I can
         F
I'm not making no claims but
                    Em
I'm using my heart for what hearts are for

[Chorus]
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All the beauty in this whole life (uh)
Em
  I thank God for healing
                             F
And You ain't got to get me lit, I got my own light
Em
  I thank God for listening, listen
                       F
You've been trying to build me up my whole life
Em
  I thank God for building
                         F
You ain't got to get me lit, I got my own light
Em
  I thank God I'm living
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Just reflecting all the beauty in this whole life