Can we fix our nation’s broken heart ?  (2024)     (video)

 

    G - Bm - C - F (2x)

 

   G                                         Bm

1.    Can we fix our nation's broken heart ?

C                                           F

    Are we brave enough to try ?

G                                         Bm

    Can we fix our nation's broken heart

C                                               F

    and leave a better world behind ?

                        Bb           G             D#                             F

    'Cause if we listen to different thoughts and point of views,

                   Bb               G         D#                       F

    oh, my brothers and sisters, we don't have to lose

                 D#               Bb

    humanity, we're family.

                         Cm    - C                                        G

    So can we, please,      fix our nation's broken heart ?

 

   G                                          Bm

2.    Children marching on the boulevard

C                                                    F

    tears are streaming down their face, oh oh oh oh.

G                                        Bm

     The tension in the air is so bizarre,

C                                         F

     love is gone without a trace.

                 Bb                    G               D#                             F

    People pushing and shouting and fighting through the haze,

                       Bb             G                         D#                    F

    and all this sadness, madness, help me take away the pain,

                      D#                                    Bb

    it's gotta change, this can't stay the same

                        Cm       C                                              D#

    So tell me, please, can we fix our nation's broken heart ?

 

                                          Dm                                    Cm

+  Poverty and homelessness, can we do away with this ?

                                         G# Bb

    All we need to is to be giving

Bb                                            D#                                     C7

    For our daughters and our sons, there's a light in everyone

                                          F

    they deserve a new beginning, yeah !

 

    Bb                                         Dm

3.     Will the light we share survive the dark,

D#                                    G#                Bb

    or will it slowly fade away, oh oh oh oh !

                                          Dm

    Will the light of good be torn apart,

D#                                                 G#

     and swept away by crushing waves?

                          C#        Bb             F#                  G#

    We've been floating alone in a dark and bitter cold,

                                 C#        Bb        F#                             G#

    'cause there's a growing ocean of lies that we've been told

                      F#                           C#

    to tear us down, but what I've found,

                      F#                                 - Bb

    is with our truth, compassion and lo…ve

                             C                       G

    we can fix our nation's broken heart.              +  G - Bm - C - F  (2x)

 

   G                                        Bm

5.    Can we fix our nation's broken heart ?

C                                          F

    Are we brave enough to try, yeah ?

G                                          Bm

    We must fix our nation's broken heart

C                                            F

    to leave a better world behind.

                             Bb               G               D#                             F

    We've come together with purpose far bigger than you and me,

                          Bb            G              D#       F

    don't have no time for hatred and negativity.

                        D#                      Bb

    It's you and me, we hold the key.

                          Cm     C                                               G      - Bm - C

    So tell me, please, can we fix our nation's broken heart ?

 

   F                                                      G        - Bm

+    Can we fix our nation's broken heart ?

           C

    I know and you know !

F                                                        G

    We must fix our nation's broken heart.

 

    (Stevie Wonder)