Mystery Of Iniquity Chords & Tabs

by Lauryn Hill

[Version Description]
It's just the full song the best i could try and do it.

[Chorus]
         Am           Gm       
It's the mystery of iniquity...
              Am          Gm       
Said it's the misery of Inequity...
              Am           Gm       
Said it's the history of Inequity...
       Am     
When it all...
          Gm     
All falls down...
            Am    
Telling you all...
            Gm   
It all falls down

[Pre-Verse]
F#m        
Children...
Bm            
Eat your bread
      F#m         
Little children...
Bm            
Eat your bread
         Am    
Cause it all...
          Gm     
All falls down...
            Am    
Telling you all...
             Gm  
It all falls down

[Verse]
           Am                                          Dm
Yo! Y'all can't handle the truth in a courtroom of lies
                                    Gm
Perjures the jurors, witness despised
                                            Cm
Crooked lawyers, false indictments publicized
                                                   Am
It's entertainment, the arraignments, the subpoenas
                                              Dm
High profile gladiators in bloodthirsty arenas
                                            Gm
Enter the Dragon, black-robe crooked-balance
Souls bought and sold and paroled for thirty talents
Gm (Single strum)
Court reporter catch the circus on the paper
Am                                                 
File it in the system not acknowledged by the Maker
Dm                                         
Swearing by the bible blatantly blasphemous
Gm                                          
Publicly perpetrating that "In God We Trust"
Cm                                Cm G# Am
Cross-examined by a master manipulator
                                                  Dm
The faster intimidator receiving the judge's favor
                                                Gm
Deceiving sabers doing injury to their neighbors
Cm                                             
For status, gratis, apparatus and legal waivers
See the bailiff representing security
Holding the word of God soliciting perjury
   Am                                  Dm
The prosecution, political prostitution
                                                 Gm
The more money you pay, the further away solution
                                   Cm
Legal actors, Babylon's benefactors
                                         Am
Masquerading as the agency for the clients
                                          Am
Hypocritical giants, morally non-compliant
                              Gm
Orally armed to do bodily harm
                                            Gm
Polluted, recruited and suited judicial charm
                                      Am
And the defense isn't making any sense
                                                Am
Faking the confidence of escaping the consequence
                                           Dm
That a defendant is depending on the system
                                                   Gm
Totally void of judgment purposely made to twist em'
                                          Cm
Emotional victim blackmailed by the henchmen
Framed by intentions
                                 Am
Inventions whereby they lynch men
                                              Dm
Enter the false witness slandering the accused
                                               Gm
Planting the seed openly showing he's being used
To discredit, edit, headed for the alleged
Cm                                          Gm Am
Smearing the individual fearing the unsuspected
                                  Dm
Expert witness (the paid authority)
                                      Gm
Made a priority to deceive the majority
Of disinterested peers, dodging duty for years
Cm                                                   Gm     Am
Hating the process, waiting to be returning to their careers
                                        Am
Do we expect the system made for the elect
                                                      Gm
To possibly judge correct? Properly serve and protect?
                   Cm                
Materially corrupt, spiritually amuck
                                             Am
Oblivious to the cause, prosperously bankrupt
                                             Am
Blind leading the blind, guilty never defined
Filthy as swine, a generation purin it's own mind
        Gm                              Cm
Legal extortion, blown out of proportion
                                    Gm Am
In vein deceit, the truth is obsolete
                                        Dm
Only two positions: victimizer or victim
                                                       Gm
Both end up in destruction trusting this crooked system
Mafia with diplomas keeping us in a coma
Am (strum to the beat)
Trying to own a piece of the "American Corona"
The Revolving Door, insanity every floor
    Dm                                              Gm
Skyscraping, paper chasing, what are we working for?
                                           Cm
Empty traditions, reaching social positions
Teaching ambition to support the family superstition?
        Am                                     Dm
When the Son of Perdition is Commander in Chief
The standard is Thief; brethren, can we candidly speak?
          Gm                                
Woe to the men, trusted in the chariots dem'
          Cm                                          Am
Leaning on horses, they run their intellectual sources
Counterfeit wisdom creating the illusion of freedom
          Dm           
Confusion consumes them
                                                  Gm
Every word they speak it turns them outwardly white
Internally they absent of light
             Cm                                         
Trapped in the night and bonded to the Cain of the night
              Am                           
Under the curse, evil men waxing more worse
  Dm                                             
Faxing the first, angelic being cast to the earth
     Gm                                                 
It's time for rebirth, burnin up the branch and the root
         Cm                                             
The empty pursuits of every tree bearing the wrong fruit
            Am                                       Cm
Turn and be healed, let him who stole, no longer steal
                                           Gm
Oh it's real, surrender for Jehovah is real
How long will you sleep, troubled by the thoughts that YOU keep
          Cm                                      GmAm
The idols YOU heap, causing the destruction you reap
Judgment has come, find it and return to the One
      Dm                                           Gm
Abandon the flesh, self-interest: Broadway to death
                                                  Cm
Pride and the Greed, hide and subdividing the seed
                                                       Gm
The knowledge of Good and Evil is what caused us to lie
Caused us to die, let your emotions be crucified
                  Dm      
Renounce all your thoughts
Repent and let your mind be re-taught
                      Gm   
You'll find what you sought
                               Cm    
Was based on the deception you bought
                                                  Gm Am 
A perception of naught where the majority remains caught
AM
Loving a lie, not realizing in Adam, all die
         Dm                                 
Loving a lie, not realizing in Adam, all die
         Gm                                 
Loving a lie, not realizing in Adam, all die
         Cm                                 
Loving a lie, not realizing in Adam, all die

[Chorus]
        Am           Gm        
It's the mystery of iniquity...
              Am          Gm       
Said it's the misery of Inequity...
              Am           Gm       
Said it's the history of Inequity...
       Am     
When it all...
          Gm     
All falls down...
            Am    
Telling you all...
            Gm   
It all falls down