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At The Seams by Kimya Dawson
At The Seams
[Verse 1]
C
Left hands hold the leashes and the right hands hold the torches
G7 G
And grandpas holding shotguns swing on porch swings hung on porches
Am
And the grandmas in their gardens plant more seeds to cut their losses
G
And the poachers with the pooches and the nooses preheat crosses
C
And the pooches see the grandpas and they bare their teeth and growl
G7 G
While their owners turn their noses up like they smell something foul
Am
And they fumble with their crosses and they start to mumble curses
G
And they plot ways to get grandpas off of porches into hearses
C
But the grandpas on the porches are just scarecrows holding toys
G7 G
And the grandmas in the gardens are papier-mâché decoys
Am
While the real grandmas and grandpas are with all the girls and boys
G
Marching downtown to the city hall to make a lot of noise saying
[Chorus]
C
Saying Hands up don't shoot I can't breathe
G7 G
Black lives matter no justice no peace
Am
I know that we can overcome because I had a dream
G
A dream we tore this racist broken system apart at the seams
[Verse 2]
C
Sometimes it seems like we've reached the end of the road
G7 G
We've seen cops and judges sleep together wearing long white robes
Am
And they put their white hoods up try to take the black hoods down
G
And they don't plan on stopping til we're all in the ground
C
Til we're dead in the ground or we're incarcerated
G7 G
'Cause prison's a big business form of enslavement
Am
Plantations that profit on black folks in cages
G
They'll break our backs and keep the wages
C
It's outrageous that there's no place we can feel safe in this nation
G7 G
Not in our cars not at the park not in subway stations
Am
Not at church the pool the store not asking for help
G
Not walking down the street so we've gotta scream and yell
[Chorus]
C
Hands up don't shoot I can't breathe
G7 G
Black lives matter no justice no peace
Am
I know that we can overcome because I had a dream
G
We tore this racist broken system apart at the seams
[Verse 3]
C
You tweet me my own lyrics tell me to stop
G7 G
Letting a few bad apples ruin the bunch
Am
Don't minimize the fight comparing apples to cops
G
This is about the orchards poisoned roots not loose fruits in a box
C
Once the soils been spoiled the whole crop's corrupt
G7 G
That's why we need the grassroots working from the ground up
Am
And we look to black twitter to stay woke and get some truth
G
Instead of smiling cops and black mugshots from biased corporate news
C
'Cause if you steal cigarillos or you sell loose cigarettes
G7 G
Or you forget your turn signal will they see your skin as a threat
Am
Will they kill you and then smear you and cover it up and lie
G
Will they call it "self defense" will they call it "suicide"
[Chorus]
C
Hands up don't shoot I can't breathe
G7 G
Black lives matter no justice no peace
Am
I know that we can overcome because I had a dream
G
A dream we tore this racist broken system apart at the seams
[Verse 4]
C
Decades of cultivation starts from tiny seeds that were once planted
G G7 G G7
And we mustn't take the gardens that our elders grew for granted
Am
Though it is up to our youth how new rows sown are organized
G
Because movements can't keep moving if old and unsharpened eyes
C
Can't see the need to hear what those on the ground hafta say
G G7 G G7
In Ferguson and Cleveland Staten island the east bay
Am
Charleston Phoenix Detroit Sanford Waller
G
Seattle Chicago Los Angeles Baltimore
C
Climbing flagpoles taking bridges locked together to the bart
G G7 G G7
Speaking up about injustice in our music and our art
Am
Storming stages to ask candidates when they're gonna start
G
Really directly addressing issues breaking our hearts
[Chorus]
C
Hands up don't shoot I can't breathe
G7 G
Black lives matter no justice no peace
Am
I know that we can overcome because I had a dream
G
A dream we tore this racist broken system apart at the seams
[Chorus]
C
Hands up don't shoot I can't breathe
G7 G
Black lives matter no justice no peace
Am
I know that we can overcome because I had a dream
G
A dream we tore this racist broken system apart at the seams
[Verse 5]
C
And if the altars are torn down we'll just keep on placing flowers
G G7 G G7
For the boy whose body was in the road for more than four hours
Am
We will honor the dead of every age and every gender
G
'Cause we can't just have it be the brothers' names that we remember
C
Black boys with skateboards and black boys with hoodies
G G7 G G7
And little black girls who are on the couch sleeping
Am
And all of the black trans women massacred
G7 G G7 G
Too many black folks killed and brutalized too little justice served
C
After the lynchings of our people by the murderous police
G7 G G7 G
Who stand like hunters 'round their prey gasping helpless in the street
Am
Feet from the teen sister they tackled, locked handcuffed in the car
G
Feet from her twelve year old brother dying... While no one did CPR
C
And we'll keep on planting flowers and we'll fight until the day
G7 G G7 G
That we don't have to pick them all to put them all on graves
Am
Yeah we'll keep planting flowers and we'll fight until the day
G
That we don't have to pick them all to put them all on graves
[Chorus]
C
Hands up don't shoot I can't breathe
G7 G
Black lives matter no justice no peace
Am
I know that we can overcome because I had a dream
G
A dream we tore this racist broken system apart at the seams
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