Key: G
Introduction:
G
America's on fire
There's protests in the street
C9
Her conscience has been looted
And her soul is under siege
Am C9
Another mother's crying, as history repeats
G
I can't breathe
G
God damn those 8 long minutes
Lying face down in cuffs on the ground
C9
Bystanders pleaded for mercy
As one, cop shoved a kid in the crowd
Am
When did a judge and a jury
C9 G
Become a badge and a knee on these streets?
C9 G
Stay alive, stay alive
Am G
Shine a light, stay alive
Em7 G C9
Use your voice and you remember me
G
American reckoning
G
I'll never know what it's like
To walk a mile in his shoes
C9
And I'll never have to have the talk
So it don't happen to you
Am
Three little words written 'cross the chest
C9
Of a twelve year old who hasn't lived life yet
G
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C9 G
Stay alive, stay alive
Am G
Shine a light, stay alive
Em7 G C9
Use your voice and you remember me
G
American reckoning
Em7 C D
Em7 C D
Am C9 G
G
Is this a moment or movement?
Is this the tide or a flood?
C9
Is our American reckoning?
Our story written in blood
Am
Or in love
C9
Or in peace
C9 G
Stay alive, stay alive
Am G
Shine a light, stay alive
Em7 G C9
Use your voice and you remember me
G
American reckoning
C9 G
Stay alive, stay alive
Am G
Shine a light, stay alive
Em7 G C9
Use your voice and you remember me
G
American reckoning
In our American reckoning