Patience Chords by Nas & Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley

[Start]

[Intro]
Am Em             Am             Em     
■  ■  Here we are ■  here we are ■  yeah
Am7 Em Am Em
■   ■  ■  ■ 
                           Em        
This one right here is for the people


[Chorus]
Am     Am7    Am     Em       Am
Sabali Sabali Sabali yonkonte ■ 
              Em         
Sabali Sabali Sabali kiye
        Em  
Ni kera mogo
Am7           Am     Em      
Sabali Sabali Sabali yonkonte
Am                   Em   
Sabali Sabali Sabali kagni
        Em  
Ni kera mogo


[Verse]
Am                                                               Em     
Some of the smartest dummies can't read the language of Egyptian mummies
                             Em                                      
Plant a flag on the moon and can't find food for the starving tummies
Am                                                                     
Pay no mind to the youths 'cause it's not like the future depends on it
Em                                                                       
But save the animals in the zoo 'cause the chimpanzee them make big money
Am7                                                            Em      
This is how the media pillages on TV the picture is savages in villages
                        Em                        
And the scientist still can't explain the pyramids
Am                                                                  
Evangelists making a living on the videos of ribs of the little kids
                 Em                                               
Stereotyping the image of the images and this is what the image is
    Am7                                                        
You buy khaki pants and all of a sudden you say a Indiana Jones
Em                                                                    
And thief out gold and thief out the scrolls and even the buried bones
        Am                                                   
Some of the worst paparazzi's I've ever seen and I ever known
        Em                                                                      
Put the worst on display so the world can see and that's all they will ever show
       Am7                                                                 
So the ones in the West will never move east and feel they could be at home
Em                                                                               
Get tricked by the Beast but where them gon' flee when the monster is fully grown
Am                                                                 
Solomonic linage where them can't defeat and them could never clone
   Em                                                         Am Am7 
My spiritual DNA that print in my soul and I will forever own ■  Lord


[Chorus]
Em                           
Sabali Sabali Sabali yonkonte
Am            Em     Am Am7     
Sabali Sabali Sabali ■  ■   kiye
        Am7 
Ni kera mogo
       Em                    
Sabali Sabali Sabali yonkonte
       Am                     Em
Sabali ■  Sabali Sabali kagni ■ 
Em          
Ni kera mogo


[Verse]
Am7                                        
We born not knowing are we born knowing all
Em                                          
■  We growing wiser are we just growing tall
Am                                      
Can you read thoughts Can you read palms
Em                                            Am    
Can you predict the future Can you see storms coming
Am7                                                      
The Earth was flat if you went too far you would fall off
        Em                                                                  
Now the Earth is round if the shape change again everybody would start laugh
    Am                                                                       
The average man can't prove of most of the things that he chooses to speak of
    Em                                                                      
And still won't research and find out the root of the truth that you seek of
Am       Am7                                                           
Scholars teach in universities and claim that they're smart and cunning
Em                                                                    Am     
Tell them find a cure when we sneeze and that's when their nose start running
                                  Am          
And the rich get stitched up when them get cut
Em                                                       
Wanna heal them broken bones in the bush with the wet mud


[Chorus]
Am7                                  
Can you read signs Can you read stars
Em                                  
Can you make peace Can you fight war
Am                                          
Can you milk cows even though you drive cars
Em                                     
■  Can you survive against all odds now
Am Am7 Am Em
■  ■   ■  ■ 
              Am                
Sabali Sabali ■  Sabali yonkonte
Em                   Am  
Sabali Sabali Sabali kiye
   Am7      
Ni kera mogo
              Em             
Sabali Sabali Sabali yonkonte
                     Am      
Sabali Sabali Sabali ■  kagni
   Em       
Ni kera mogo


[Verse]
Am7                                                             Em   
Who wrote the Bible Who wrote the Qur'an and was it a lightning storm
                                 Em                      
That gave birth to the Earth and then dinosaurs were born
    Am                                                                       
Who made up words Who made up numbers and what kind of spell is mankind under
Em                                                                      
Everything on the planet we preserve and can it microwaved it and try it
   Am7                         
No matter what we'll survive it
       Am7                       
What's hu What's man What's human
Em                                                   Am  
Anything along the land we consumin' eatin' deletin' ruin
                                               Em   
Tryin' to get paper gotta have land gotta have acres
                                                                          Am    
So I can sit back like Jack Nicholson watch niggas play the game like the Lakers
     Am7                                                    Em     
In a world full of fiftytwo fakers Gypsies seances mystical prayers
                                                                         Am    
You superstitious throw salt over your shoulders make a wish for the day 'cause
                                                                           Em     
Like somebody got a doll of me stickin' needles in my arteries but I can't feel it
                           Em                            
Sometimes it's like pardon me but I got a real big spirit
Am7                                                         Em  
I'm fearless I'm fearless don't you try and grab hold of my soul
                     Em                           
It's like a military soldier since seven years old
  Am                                                        Em
I held real dead bodies in my arms felt they body turn cold oh
                         Em                                   
Why we born in the first place ff this is how we gotta go Damn


[Chorus]
Am     Em Am Em               Am      
Sabali ■  ■  ■  Sabali Sabali yonkonte
Am                       
Sabali Sabali Sabali kiye
        Em  
Ni kera mogo
       Em                    
Sabali Sabali Sabali yonkonte
       Am        Em             
Sabali ■  Sabali ■  Sabali kagni
Em          
Ni kera mogo


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