{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2159859,"song":"Facts","artist":"Lecrae","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11465379-facts-chords-by-lecrae/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2159859?type=chord","rating":0.0716,"votes":0,"content":"[Intro: Ekemini Uwan]\r\nPeace does not come before salvation and salvation does not come without truth\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI will only tell the truth[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                       [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI will only tell the truth[/tab]\r\nIncoming!\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nTruth, truth, truth, truth[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nTruth, truth, truth, truth, truth[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nPeople wonderin', \"Is he woke or just a new slave?\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nOld religion, he just covered it with new chains[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nChoppin' out the church, he ain't really fake[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nHe divisive, he don't rep the King, he just want the fame[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAw man, now they actin' like I'm suddenly political[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nTold me shut my mouth and get my checks from Evangelicals[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWhere my momma raised me, on Angela and Eldridge[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                             [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nChuck Berry made it, but the credit went to Elvis[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nKnow you never knew that, know you think I'm too black[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]               [ch]Dm[/ch]                      [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nI just think I'm too real, I grew up on 2Pac[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nYou grew up thinkin' that the Panthers was some terrorists[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                           [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nI grew up hearin' how they fed my momma eggs and grits[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\n\"'Crae, they say you should follow in the steps of King\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                   [ch]Dm[/ch]              [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nI say, \"You've forgotten how they shot him in the streets\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI ain't really changed, it's the same old rebel[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                                      [ch]Dm[/ch]         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nStill a radical, I'm passionate, it's just another level (leggo!)[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAT told me I should fight back[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThey don't like that (they don't)[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nJust know if you rock the boat you better have a life raft (what?)[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBJ told me I should fight back[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThey don't like that[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nJust know if you rock the boat you better have a life raft, woo![/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus: Ekemini Uwan]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]            [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI will only tell the truth (facts)[/tab]\r\nPeople cannot abide by a truth. They prefer fantasy over reality... (facts)\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI will only tell the truth[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI am for truth no matter who tells it[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI will only tell the truth[/tab]\r\nI am for justice no matter who it is for or against (facts)\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nRose up out the dungeon[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI was feelin' haunted[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nNow I'm bein' hunted[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd I'm on a hunnid[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nHit the gas, gunning[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSkip the past running[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nTell 'em they could bring that[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]              [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nIf they really want it[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI, I'm on the hometeam[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nYou just running with the wrong team[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nNever take 'em with the heavyweights or, boy, you'll die and need a little protein[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSouthside on the Yellowstone, had a ham bone and a white tee[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd a 12-pack of that real talk and I'm drunk, tell 'em, \"Come find me\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                            [ch]Dm[/ch]        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nDraped up, dripped out, covered in the blood[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                         [ch]Dm[/ch]        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nMan, I hang where they cripped out, sippin' on the mud[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWhere they swingin', got the whips out, watch 'em pop trunk[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nYeah, I know it's hella dark, but I'm tryna light it up[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nNow these people swear they on me, sendin' out threats[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nTold me keep my mouth shut, told me be a Stepin Fetchit[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI will not oblige to your colonized way of faith[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nMy Messiah died for the world, not just USA[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThey say, \"Jesus was Conservative\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nTell 'em, \"That's a lie\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nNo, He not a Liberal either if you think I'll choose a side[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThey say, \"'Crae, you so divisive, shouldn't be a black church\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                               [ch]Dm[/ch]              [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nI say, \"Do the math, segregation started that first!\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nHey, you want unity? Then read a eulogy[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nKill the power that exists up under you and over me[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI said, you want unity? Then read a eulogy[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nKill the power that exists up under you and over me, woo! (facts)[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Spoken]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSo reconciliation or conciliation requires defrauded parties to be made whole. Not just apologizing for the offense[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\nN.C.\r\nI was waitin' for the right time to tell y'all how I feel\r\nN.C.\r\nAnd, yeah, I know that it hurts, but look, it's gon' heal\r\n[tab][ch]Cm[/ch]\r\nI waited 'til I was on prime time before I let y'all know[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                           [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAnd you prolly won't wanna hear my music no mo'[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Gm[/ch]                         [ch]Cm[/ch]\r\nBut it's all good, man, I love y'all[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\nHope you know that I'm black black[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                           [ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nTraded my Smart Car for a Cadillac, can you handle that?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm[/ch]\r\nAnd I love God[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI love Jesus, the one out of Nazareth[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nNot the European with the ultra perm and them soft eyes and them thin lips[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Cm[/ch]\r\nAnd I'm still hood[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\nBeen in the 'burbs for quite some time[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Dm[/ch]                   [ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nBut I still might hit the gas station for the Lemonheads and the pork rinds[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Cm[/ch]\r\nAnd I'm on one[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\nYeah, 116 been real[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                          [ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nBinghamton, Tennessee, from Third Ward to Ceiling Hill[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Cm[/ch]                                         [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd I live in multiple world, call me a hybrid 'cause I'm so black[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]                                                   [ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nYoung theologian who educated, but still be at that Chicken Shack, yeah[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Outro]\r\n[tab][ch]A#[/ch]\r\nLemme get a two piece[/tab]","plain_text":"[Intro: Ekemini Uwan]\nPeace does not come before salvation and salvation does not come without truth\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\nIncoming!\n\n\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus: Ekemini Uwan]\n\nPeople cannot abide by a truth. They prefer fantasy over reality... (facts)\n\n\n\nI am for justice no matter who it is for or against (facts)\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Spoken]\n\n\n[Verse 3]\nN.C.\nI was waitin' for the right time to tell y'all how I feel\nN.C.\nAnd, yeah, I know that it hurts, but look, it's gon' heal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Outro]","chords":["Am","Em","Dm","C","Cm","F","Gm","A#"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"Cm":{"barres":[3],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,3,4,2,1],"frets":[-1,3,5,5,4,3]},"Dm":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,3,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,1]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"Gm":{"barres":[3],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,1,1,1],"frets":[3,5,5,3,3,3]}}}