Love Letters To God Tab par Nahko and Medicine For The People

C
Give
Always give what you can
G
Even if your allies draw lines in the sand
Am
And dig, always dig a little deeper
F
Sometimes it's hard to be my brother's keeper
C
Love

So you let love in
G
Baby I am home in the wake of your skin
Am
And it's crazy
                  F
How we wear our ceremony

Always be open to your path and your journey
C
Yes
                    G
She cradles my loneliness
                    Am
A home in a forest nest
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Universal test, feel the weight of my love

put your hand on my chest
     C
And rest
                     G
In the cradle of my arms
Am
The battle that we face is a place where our
            F
scars come from

And to pick up that gun
    C
My love we are destined to teach these ones
G
to be brave

And never run away
Am
Courage is birthed from the womb on the
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first light of day
                                                                       
 C
Yeah, the day you were born you came out perfect never
 
meant to be torn
    G
In silence
                            Am
Never been so loud in the violence
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Never been so proud of our people

When we're fighting for a change
C
Not afraid to lose it all despite all the rage
G
We are animals
                   Am
And we cannot be caged

Provoke us to fight
        C                           G
So we burn a little sage and write poetry
                           Am
Wiser than the enemy will ever be
         F
The minority

And authority
C                           G
Are you here to protect or arrest me?
                                            Am
I can't tolerate the hate, and I'm losing sleep

Can't breathe because they're choking out a
  F
 war in me

Immorality

[Chorus]
C                Em
Love letters to God
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I wonder if she reads them or if they get
  C
 lost
        Am         C             C
In the stars, the stars, in the stars
C                        Em
So many parts to a heavy heart
                 F
If there's no beginning, then where would you start?
Am     C                        C
Start, start, where would you start?
        C
Human souls
                                            
                                  G
So we carve 'em into story Totem poles

Because we're always searching for a certain
  Am
 goal
                          F
A pattern of physics, a role

Don't believe all you're told
     C
And open

Open up your fist
G
A misconception

You can fight like this
     Am
In praise
                   F
With the power of prayer

If God's on our side we can take the stairs
          C
To the heavens

Flipping through my chapter seven
                 G                       Am
I live with the snakes in the great deception
                              F
No court in this country for men

Who steal from their mother on paper with
  C
 pen

And we're tripping
                G
Down a red dirt road

And we're asking
                          Am
Is this the way we should go?
                                      
                              F
Kissing, soft top feet of my goddess
                                      C
We walk the earth, baby yeah we got this
                     G
Focus, and it's redirected
                       Am
Grateful, and I'm resurrected
                 F
Stubborn, But I know the way

You're the skin of my drum
                       C
To your rhythm I will sway

Take my hand
                   G
I won't lead you astray

We will not go gently into the darkest of
 Am
 days
                                       
                                F
Grandma's here, and she says persevere
                                                   
    C
Take a walk in her mocks sees a trail of tears

And our fears, are the same as they ever

 were
 G                                     Am
Beers numb the pain of our holocaust years

Always mobbing and motion
 F
Maybe, baby be an island over an ocean
        C
Your arches, how they bend and contract in
       G
my conscience
                                                
 Am
Never slipped through the grip of my thesis
                                    F
And my theory is I shine in your presence

A deliverance

[Chorus]
C                  Em
Love letters to God
                     F
I wonder if she reads them or if they get
  C
 lost
         Am          C              C
In the stars, the stars, in the stars
C                               Em
So many parts to a heavy heart
                 F
If there's no beginning, then where would you start?
Am     C                            C
Start, start, where would you start?