Caged Birdsong Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[Am][Dm]
[Am]Yeah[C][Am]
S'a few things that [Dm]I[Am]
I wanna get [Dm]off my chest[C]
[Dm]So I'ma get 'em off
[Am]The drugs the streets the thugs
that beat they women
The hate and the violence the guns
the bullets that sent them
The ice the jewels the fools
that's killing to get [Dm]them
Or [C]heist with tools [Am]strategically
placed in their denim
The corner, the store, the spirits,
the wine, the liquor
The sinning, it's venom,
[Dm]it's making society sick[Am]er
The henny, the 'tron, the dale,
the goose, the crown
[Dm]The pimp[C]s is up,
[Am]the hoes is usually down
The kids in the hall that piss in the corner,
the rats
The chicks be watching,
the watchers be watching them back
The fatherless babies,
the mothers that live in despair
[Dm]The tene[Am]ment builders with roaches
just chilling in there
The silence is never the sirens
be scraping the air
It kills to ignore it [Dm]but it
doesn't hurt you to care
[Am]It hurts to ignore it but it
doesn't kill you to care
It kills to ignore it but do you
No

[Verse 2]
[Am]You have a soul
[C]And it's [Am]worth more [F]than gold
[Dm]Worth more than [Am]gold[Dm][C]
Hop[E]ing [Am]you're mine
Let it unfold
And you will [Dm]find
Treasures untold
That are [Am]worth [C]more
[Am]than gold

[Verse 3]
If heaven is a place on earth [Am]Then
there ain't no way [Dm]a dollar
could replace your worth
I [Am]hope you know that you're priceless
This life gets the point that you feel like
[Dm]You could point [Am]your steel
right to the temple
It's so simple
The capitol hill is the capital killers
Bills passed to bill us back
for stamps and [Dm]keys
The sys[Am]tem is so diseased
Ain't a vaccine to cure it
[Dm]And if your skin [C]like mine,
[Am]we gonna have to endure it
Until we can birth a new nation
Mature it to the level of ancient
African civilizations
Half of us up in this nation
Now I know about the hoops we share
[Dm]Peace to m[C]y people
[Dm]who's already [Am]there
It's a family affair,
sisters and brothers of one soul
Before we hit the heav[Dm]ens above,
this world gold
[Am]Before we hit the heavens above,
this world gold
Before we hit the heavens, do you
Know

[Verse 4]
You [Am]have a soul
[C]And it's [Am]worth [F]more than gold
[Dm]Worth more [Am]than gold[Dm]
[C]Jus[Am]t let me help you
Carry your load
Open [C]your [Am]heart[Dm]
Share what it [Am]holds
[C]'Cause it's [Am]worth more than gold

[Verse 5]
The wait is up now [Am]I'm throwing
it around
The [Dm]hate you handing out
I throw [Am]it to the ground
Too black, too strong for this
[Dm]Nev er thought that I [C]would sit
and write [Am]a song to this
But what you expect when a hunger
in your stomach so strong
That when you hear the radio
you wanna vomit
And when you look at the TV
your heart plummet
It shame me to see how
they be showing us on it
[Am]
[Am]