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Buried In Detroit chords by Mike Posner

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  • Am

  • G

Verse 1
Em
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I'm
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a writer and a lover,
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I'm a middle -west music man
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Em
And I've been to a lot of places,
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but I'm gonna end where I began
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I took class in Carolina,
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got high smoking joints
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And I don't know my name in Paris,
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but I'll be bur ied in Detroit
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Em
Next to my father,
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and my father's father too
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I used to live in New York City,
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but baby that ain't no substitute
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Not for my ho metown,
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that place people avoid
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I've made love in every city,
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but I'll be buried in Detroit
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I don't claim to be a prophet,
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I just speak my mind
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I travel tell it like it is
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and sometimes God makes it right
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I like my song tower like my women,
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honest and to the point
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You see I got fucked up in Stockholm,
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but I'll be buried in Detroit
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Em
Next to my father,
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and my father's father too
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Em
I used to live in New York City,
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but baby that ain't no substitute
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Em
Not for my ho metown,
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that place people avoid
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I've made love in every city,
but I'll be buried in Detroit
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Man,
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always kept it righteous,
knewin' it would come back to me
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Even when my hunger
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was outweighin' the strategy
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And I'd pray to God, like,
I hope you got a map for me
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Up at 5 a .m.,
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like, nobody wanted as bad as me
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I guess hunger either kill you
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or it energize ya
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Motor City, boy, I been a driver
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The young Detroit legend,
I swear I got the city inspired
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And bought M .I .L 2 just to solidify it
D -Boy, D -Boy, that's how I was raised
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Boss up and put the city
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on forever my ways
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Me an d mine started charity
to get a kid's clarity
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And take it further than the found
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ation we laid
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Thanksgiving Day Parade,
I got carried through the city
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And after that,
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I hope I get married in the city
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And after that,
I hope I get buried in the city
Even when I'm gone,
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you gon' still hear me through the city
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Oh, my,
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my, my angel
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