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[Intro]
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C#m Amaj7 Dmaj7sus2 Bm
F#sus4
[Verse 1]
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C#m
Another shooting on the southeast side. This a driveby, midday,
Amaj7 Dmaj7sus2
Outside of the bus stop, by Fuller and Franklin. Or near there.
Bm F#sus4
Not far from the park. About a block from where the other shooting was last month.
Or was it last week?
[Verse 2]
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C#m Amaj7
Shots were fired from an SUV heading northbound, Eastown,
Dmaj7sus2 Bm
The target a rival but they didn't hit the target this time.
F#sus4
They hit a kid we think had nothing to do with it.
[Bridge 1]
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F#m A E F#m
And I travel backwards through time and space and I disintegrate, become invisible.
I want to see it where I couldn't when it happened.
[Chorus (1)]
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D C#m
I want to see it all first hand this time.
F#m D C#m
I want to know what it felt like.
F#m D C#m
So I float behind police lines, reconstruct the scene in fragments of memories.
F#m D C#m
I want to know what his mother looked like up close, I want to see her leaning
over his body.
F#m D C#m
So I float there, transcend time. I want to capture it accurately.
F#m D C#m
I want to know what the color of the blood was spilling out from the tarp onto
the concrete.
[Post-Chorus 1]
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A F#m
I want to write it all down so I can always remember.
Bm A
If you could see it up close how could you ever forget how senseless death, how
precious life.
E
I want to be there when the bullet hit.
[Verse 3]
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F#m A E6 F#m A E6 F#m A
And the crowd poured out as the shots drowned into siren sounds, out
E6
of their houses now
F#m A
And over front yards, all the way up to the place where the police tape ran to mark
the crime
E6 F#m
Scene. Everybody trying to catch a glimpse of what was happening,
A E6
Of what was going on between the ambulance and all the cop cars.
F#m A E6
Everybody gossiping, "Whose kid got hit? Where'd it hit him? And who could've fired
it?"
F#m A E6
Everybody wondering, "How did it happen again? And is he dead? These children. Our
kids."
F#m A E6
Everybody wondering how far they were from where the victims lived.
[Verse 4]
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F#m E6 F#m A
And I visit them, their houses. Inside my dream I visit them.
F#m E6 F#m E6
My spirit, soaring high and high up over King Park, leaves the crime scene, travels
F#m
further back
A F#m
Till far before the shooting, through their windows, to their living rooms.
E6 F#m
I see them younger this time, playing games and doing homework.
[Verse 5]
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Amaj7 F#m
All these marks of youth soon transformed coldly into stone for fights and stupid
feuds.
E F#m Amaj7
For ruins wrapped in gold. And cruelly I recall why I have come: To find a reason. But
F#m E F#m E A
There cannot be a reason, not for death, not like this. Not like this.
[Bridge 3]
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Bm | Bmadd9 | G | E7sus2
F#m | E | A | Bm
Bmadd9 | G | E7sus2 | F#m
E | A
[Verse 6]
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Bm Bmadd9 G
Three days later they made funeral plans. The family.
E7sus2 F#m E
Three days later a mother had to bury her son.
A | Bm | Bmadd9 | G
E7sus2 | F#m | E | A
[Verse 7]
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Bm Bmadd9 G
Not far away the shooter holed up in a hotel near to the highway with a friend and
the gun.
E7sus2 F#m E A Bm Bmadd9 G
That same gun. He'd fled immediately but was identified by
witnesses, his picture on TV.
E7sus2 F#m E
Only 20 years old, they called him "Grandpa." He was older than the others by
a year,
A
Maybe two.
Bm Em C
And he was safe for awhile until somebody saw him there and notified the authorities
[Verse 8]
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Am
Who surrounded the hotel, first arresting an accomplice while attempting to flee,
Em G C
Then chasing him up the staircase to the floor where he'd stayed. He closed the
door hard
Behind him, locked himself in the room.
Em C Am
They could've kicked in the door but knew the gun was still with him,
One he'd already used and so they feared what he'd do.
Em G
I floated up through the window of a room to the West.
C
I hovered out to the hallway, tried to listen in.
Em C
I heard them trying to reason, get him to open the door.
Am
His uncle begging and pleading, halfcollapsed to the floor.
Em G
He preached of hope and forgiveness,
C
Said, "There is always a chance to rectify what you've taken, make your peace in the
world."
Em C
I thought to slip through the door, I could've entered the room,
Am
I felt the burden of murder, it shook the earth to the core.
Em G C
Felt like the world was collapsing. Then we heard him speak,
[Chorus (2)]
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Em C
"Can I still get into heaven if I kill myself?
Am
"Can I still get into heaven if I kill myself?
Em G
Can I ever be forgiven 'cause I killed that kid?
C
It was an accident I swear it wasn't meant for him!
Em C Am
And if I turn it on me, if I even it out, can I still get in or will they send me
to hell?
Em G
Can I still get into heaven if I kill myself?"
C
I left the hotel behind, don't want to know how it ends.
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