Key: C# minor•
Intro 1
G#m
B
G#m
C#m
E
G#m
B
G#m
C#m
G#m
Verse 1
day one
G#m
F#
Somebody probably say you
wouldn't be nothin'
G#m
F#
G#m
I bet they told you this over an
G#m
Nobody ever told you you could live up
G#m
F#
They rather tell you, you're
G#m
F#m
destined for failure
That's what they tell you
But you just say
What about Rosa?
What about Malcolm?
What if somebody told them
And they believed this,
think about the outcome
C#m
G#m
Would we even be the way we are today?
Even if it weren't,
could have been a harder way
Even though we lost a lot
of people on the way
F#m
Had to sacrifice to get us in a better place
Verse 2
C#m
G#m
listen to these wizzords
All they want us thinking about is sipping
F#m
F#sus4
on some sizzurp
C#m
G#m
better we don't deserve
And that you shouldn't try, it's no use
from the truth
Don't believe it,
C#m
G#m
that's what they told me too
When I was growing up
(They told me)
yeah
(That I wouldn't be anything)
Verse 3
what they tell, what they tell
When we were little ones
what they tell, what they tell
They supposed to be king
what they tell, what they tell
When we don't believe them
That's what they tell,
Verse 4
C#m
F#m
F#
They say the ballers is celebrities
As a reminder of the people
they would never be
without a remedy
Thinking when I die nobody's
gonna remember me
turned to nightmares
G#m
F#m
G#m
Is this thing called life really fair
Need help but it ain't there
When the ballers screaming
they was never educated
On the corner getting high just
'Cause the teachers just told
him he would never make it
But probably won't let him
spend the money later
Nobody ever told us we could
To everybody on the grind
and the paper chasers
Verse 5
All they want us thinking about is
F#m
F#sus4
sipping on some sizzurp
G#m
And that you shouldn't try, it's no use
ther from the truth
Don't believe it,
C#m
G#m
that's what they told me too
When I was growing up (They told me)
yeah
Verse 6
what they tell, what they tell
When we were little ones
F#m
That's what they tell, what they tell,
what they tell
We're supposed to be king
G#m
That's what they tell, what they tell,
what they tell
When we don't believe them
That's what they tell,
F#sus4
E
Trying to live the American Dream
Verse 7
they told me, they told me,
they told me)
They'd rather see me dead,
(That's what they told me, they told me,
they told me)
They'd rather see me fail,
never gonna be anything
(That's what they told me, they
They'd rather see me in jail,
you're never gonna be shit
(That's what they told me, they told
me, they told me)
Everybody die, you ain't shit
(That's what they told me,
they told me, they told me)
But not everybody lives (I told you)
But I know that somehow
B
G#m
We can make it out of this
You just gotta tell yourself
That somehow, I'mma make it
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TunerE A D G B E
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