Key: B major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
C5
What is a man that stays true to the game
But has to cheat a little to get by
Well that's a person that
I know too well
Don't want to know but I don't
have to ask why
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F5
Everyone like a loaded gun
F#
F5
Don't need a reason, pain I'm feelin'
C5
F
I gotta vent or else I blow inside
F5
Verse 2
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C#
D5
Can't tell right from wrong
B
C5
Fed up with this whole system
A#5
B
You tell a
Verse 3
F5
B
F5
told a thousand times
F#
B
F#
F5
Your words we hear but we
F#
F
F5
Thousand lies been told a
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F#
F5
thousand times
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F
F5
B
Hard as nails the power to survive
C5
Interlude 1
B
C5
Verse 4
that stays true to the game
But can't believe some of the
B
C5
things he sees
Anger's a gift and I won't be kept down
In poverty there is no democracy
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F#
F
F5
Used needle and a crack vile
C5
F#
F5
F
F5
A broken bottle and a bullet shell
B
F#
F5
F
This urban life is so volatile
F5
B
C5
F#
F5
An inner city or a concrete hell
Verse 5
D5
B
C5
G#
Fed up with this whole sys tem
C5
G#
A#5
It's gone on far too long
Verse 6
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F5
F#
F5
a thousand times
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F#
F5
F
Your words we hear but we
C5
F5
F#
Thousand lies been told a
F5
F
F5
thousand times
B
F#
F5
F
F5
B
Hard as nails the power to survive
Verse 7
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G#
B
D5
C#5
C5
D#
So
D#5
D#
B
C#
D#5
D#
F5
E
D#5
C5
D#5
D#
D#m
D5
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D#
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C5
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D#
C5
B
D#
D5
C5
D#
C5
B
D#5
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D#
D5
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E
D#
D5
C5
B
D#
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C5
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C5
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D5
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C5
B
A5
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C5
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C5
pick
Interlude 2
it up, pick it up, pick it up, get up
C5
B
Verse 8
true to the game
Don't care for no one,
only cares for his greed
He's playin' God killin'
thousands of people
'Cause the power is the fix that he needs
B
F5
Ra cist goal of the white devil
C5
F5
I watched our soul burnin' over oil
B
F#
F5
A politician got no feelin'
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F5
cold blood boil
Verse 9
Verse 10
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F
You tell a thousand lies been
F5
B
F#
F5
told a thousand times
B
F#
Your words we hear but we
B
F5
cannot sympathize
B
F5
Thousand lies been told
B
F#
a thousand times
B
F#
F
F#
B
Hard as nails the power to survive
Verse 11
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C5
Eb
C5
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Eb
Slow
C5
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Eb
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Eb
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Db
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C5
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Eb
D5
C5
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Ab
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C5
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Slow
D#
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D5
C#
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D#
E
D#
C5
D5
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E
D#
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D#
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D
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D#
C5
Slow
Outro 1
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D#
D#
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D#
C5
C5
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D#
C5
D#
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E
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