A Wake keyboard

A Wake

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Macklemore - A Wake (feat. Evan Roman)

Capo 3

        Interlude

G
I need love

G
You need love

G
Give me love

                G (or C)
And I'll give you my love


G C Em C x2


        Verse

G
They say thirty is the new twenty

C
And twenty is the new thirty shit I guess, makes sense 

Em
cause fifteen year olds seem twenty

                     C
And twenty five year olds seem ten


G
I used to drink away my paycheck

C
Celebrate the mistakes I hadn't made yet

Em
Our generation isn't the best on safe sex

                        C
We forget the latex, becoming Planned Parenthood patients


G
Synthetic heroin is the new basshead

C
So much to escape, fuck a straight edge

Em
Walk around looking through a fake lens

                C
Apps this good, whose got time to make friends?


G
I wish I didn't care

C
Acynical hispters with long hair. Cocaine 

Em
problems, like my music

                          C
It's not my issue, I can't solve it, yeah


        Hook

G                          C
Say my flight has finally landed down and the

Em                              C
ground has stopped moving all around

G               C
Eyes open, awake for the very first 

Em                      C
time We both forfeit this game of crime


        Verse

        G
They say it's so refreshing to hear somebody on records

C
No guns, no drugs, no sex, just truth

Em
The guns that's America, the drugs are what they gave to us

                        C
And sex sells itself, don't judge her 'til it's you


G
Ah, I'm not more or less cautious

C
The rappers rappin' 'bout them strippers up on the pole, copping

Em
These interviews are obnoxious

                                 C
Saying that it's poetry is so well spoken, stop it


G
        I grew up during Reaganomics

C
When Ice T was out there on his killing cops shit

Em
Or Rodney King was getting beat on and they let off every single officer

C
And Los Angeles went and lost it


G
Now every month there is a new Rodney on Youtube

C
It's just something our generation is used to

Em
And neighbourhoods where you never see a news crew

                        C
Unless they're gentrifying, white people don't even cruise through


G
And my subconcious telling me stop it

C
This is an issue that you shouldn't get involved in

Em
Don't even tweet, R.I.P Trayvon Martin

                         C
Don't wanna be that white dude, million man marchin'


G
Fighting for our freedom that my people stole

C
Don't wanna make all my white fans uncomfortable

Em
But you don't even have a fuckin' song for radio

                                C
Why you out here talkin race, tryin' to save the fuckin' globe


G
Don't get involved with the causes in mind

C
White privilege, white guilt, at the same damn time

Em
So we just party like it's nineteen ninty nine

                        C
Celebrate the ignorance while these kids keep dying


        Hook

G                          C
My flight has finally landed down and the

Em                              C
ground has stopped moving all around

G               C
Eyes open, awake for the very first 

Em                      C
time We both forfeit this game of crime


G C Em C


        Interlude

G
I need love

C
You need love

Em
Give me love

                C
And I'll give you my love


G C Em C

x

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