Red Hot Chili Peppers - Power of Equality
Album: Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Tuning: half-step down
Note: you can consider this pretty much an "acoustic version"
F#7b5 x-x-4-5-5-6
x-5-7-7-5-5
DM7sus2 x-5-7-6-5-5
FM7 x-8-7-5-5-5
FmMb11 x-8-6-5-5-5
3-5-3-4-3-3
x-6-8-8-x-x
x-9-8-6-7-6
x-6-6-8-9-6
x-4-6-6-x-x
0-2-2-2-3-0 or x-x-2-2-3-5
0-2-2-0-2-0 or x-4-2-0-2-0
play always as this pattern
or alternatively like this (mini-barré with index finger)
I've got a soul that cannot sleep
at night when something just ain't right
Blood red but without sight
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exploding egos in the night
Mix like sticks of dynamite
red black or white, this is my fight
Come on courage, let's be heard
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turn feelings into words
American equality has always been sour
an attitude, I would like to devour
My name is peace, this is my hour
F#7b5
Can I get just a little bit of power
DM7sus2 FM7 FmMb11
power of equality
DM7sus2 FM7 FmMb11
Is not yet what it ought to be
DM7sus2 FM7 FmMb11
It fills me up like a hollow tree
DM7sus2 FM7 FmMb11
power of equality
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Right or wrong, my song is strong
You don't like it, get along
Say what I want, do what I can
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Death to the message of the Ku Klux Klan
I don't buy supremacy
Media chief, you menace me
The people you say 'cause all the crime
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Wake up motherfucker and smell the slime
Blackest anger, whitest fear
Can you hear me, am I clear
My name is peace, this is my hour
F#7b5
Can I get just a little bit of power
DM7sus2 FM7 FmMb11
power of equality
DM7sus2 FM7 FmMb11
Is not yet what it ought to be
DM7sus2 FM7 FmMb11
It fills me up like a hollow tree
DM7sus2 FM7 FmMb11
power of equality
INTERLUDE
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Well, I've got tapes, I've got CD's
I've got my Public Enemy
My Lilly white ass is tickled pink
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When I listen to the music that makes me think
Not another, motherfuckin' politician
Doin' nothin' but something for his own ambition
I never touch the sound we make
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Soul sacred love, vows that we take
To create straight what is true
Yo, he's with me and what I do
My name is peace, this is my hour
F#7b5
Can I get just a little bit of power
DM7sus2 FM7 FmMb11
power of equality
DM7sus2 FM7 FmMb11
Is not yet what it ought to be
DM7sus2 FM7 FmMb11
It fills me up like a hollow tree
DM7sus2 FM7 FmMb11
power of equality
*break*
Madder than a motherfucker, lick my finger
Can't forget 'cause the memory lingers
Count 'em off quick, little Piccadilly sickness
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Take me to the hick, eat my thickness
I've got a welt from the Bible belt
Dealing with the hand that I've been dealt
Sitting in the grip of a killing fist
Giving up blood just to exist
Rub me wrong and I get pissed
No I cannot, get to this
People in pain, I do not dig it
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Change of brain for Mr.Bigot
[Bass]:
Little brother do you hear me
Have a heart oh come get near me
Misery is not my friend
But I'll break before I bend
What I see is insanity
What ever happened to humanity
What ever happened to humanity
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What ever happened to humanity