Contradiction chords by
Macklemore

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Intro 1
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Cm Cm 3
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Ab Ab 4
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Eb Eb 6
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Cm Cm 3
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Ab Ab 4
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The other day, me 'n'

Verse 1
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XP opened for Souls Mischief
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I'm like "Yo, let's get on some angry
Cm Cm 3
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MC  showmanship and hit 'em"
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Even a couple dissin' women callin' 'em "groupies",
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"hoes" and "bitches"
Got off stage,
and I'm like "Yo, I know that we killed it"
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Ran into a familiar face, a female
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who comes in and supports us
I said "Peace!"
She said "Wait! Let me
talk to you for a minute"
Cm Cm 3
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"I know it's none of my business,
Ab Ab 4
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Eb Eb 6
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but I wasn't impressed by your performance"
I said "Word? Shit,
Cm Cm 3
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Ab Ab 4
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I love feedback and criticism"
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She said "I mis s the passionate spirit,
your political vision"
Cm Cm 3
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"Quite honestly I wasn't offended by those
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references to women"
"But you're only continuing
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society's conditioning"
Cm Cm 3
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Ab Ab 4
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It hit the heart of me
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I told her that this was part of me
I stand up for human rights,
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and treat others how I would wanna be treated
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Eb Eb 6
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But every song can't be
seepin' with freedom
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'Cause the other side of me is sexist then
people will feel that I'm preachin'
"Everything's peace and love?"
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Eb Eb 6
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Uhh, that's somewhat misleading
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Because this world is fucked up and
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I'm a product to what I'm seeing
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Ab Ab 4
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Not to justify, but just to  touch on my being
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Ab Ab 4
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I learn from theses and my purpose
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gets surfaced with demons
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I am sexist, I'm prejudice,
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Cm Cm 3
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I put that in my music
She said she heard that perspective,
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but before she turned around she said
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"We have a flame, your fire's ignited
with sound"
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Eb Eb 6
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"Are you building the empire up, or using
your fire to burn it down?"
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Consumption, contradiction I'm conflicted

Verse 2
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Eb Eb 6
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with being a hypocrite
And through these songs
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you can witness it
The differences, I admit this shit,
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because I'm just like you
Walking a fine line between saying
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and living it

Verse 3
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Consumption, contradiction
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I'm conflicted with being a hypocrite
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And through these songs you
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Eb Eb 6
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can witness it
Cm Cm 3
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Ab Ab 4
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Eb Eb 6
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The differences, I   admit this shit,
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Ab Ab 4
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because I'm just like you
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Walking a fine line between
saying and living it
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Light it up to burn it down, light

Verse 4
Ab Ab 4
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it up to burn it down
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Light it up  to burn it down, down,
down
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Light it up to burn it down, light
Ab Ab 4
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Eb Eb 6
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it up to burn it down
Ab Ab 4
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Eb Eb 6
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Light it up to burn it... down, down,
Ab Ab 4
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down, down, down, down, down
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Now one

Verse 5
Cm Cm 3
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Eb Eb 6
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thing that
Ab Ab 4
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Eb Eb 6
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I've always struggled on
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Eb Eb 6
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Is how to incorporate drugs and alcohol into
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Eb Eb 6
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my music outside of sober songs.
Ab Ab 4
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Eb Eb 6
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Cm Cm 3
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'Cause on  that perspective,
that's all over my records
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But the other side isn't represented
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unless it sessions with XP
How can I admit that I love
to smoke weed
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Knowing the kids are listening
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and many of 'em look up to me?
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Not to say that I'm a role model, but

Verse 6
Eb Eb 6
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Cm Cm 3
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I know that words are power
Ab Ab 4
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And if I condone bottles and chronic,
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I am sending out the
Message "It's okay",
yeah I believe that it is
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Chronic can be medicine but it's all
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about your relationship with it
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See, I'm either off in  the wagon riding
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and everyday with the spliff
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Constantly looking for a balance
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but habit turns to addiction
And Hip- Hop music and weed?
They're inseparable
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So MCs that don't smoke or drink, talking

Verse 7
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Eb Eb 6
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about it to  me seems questionable
It proves how much people
just want to be accepted
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Ab Ab 4
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And not seem straight- edge to their audience,
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so  keeping it real is neglected
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'Cause when I'm smoking, I wouldn't wanna
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bump a song like this
Put on some Dev and break out
the Swishers, and a bong and some licks
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Ab Ab 4
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See that's a part of me too
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And I know that I would make more
money if I wasn't as true
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Eb Eb 6
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To all the stuggles of the blunted
consumption I'm going through
Make music for the party, and
the people support you
I burn Brother Ali and buy 50, what
does that say to you?
Bring it back around, am I building the empire
up or using my fire to burn it down?

Verse 8
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Consumption, contradiction I'm
conflicted with being a hypocrite
And through these songs you can witness it
The differences, I admit this shit, because
I'm just like you
Walking a fine line between saying
and living it

Verse 9
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Consumption, contradiction I'm conflicted
with being a hypocrite
And through these songs you can witness it
The differences, I admit this shit, because
I'm just like you
Walking a fine line between saying it
And living it
Light it up to burn it down, light it up to burn it down
Light it up to burn it down,
down, down

Verse 10

Light it up to burn it down,

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light it up to burn it down

Light it up to burn it... down, down, down, down, down, down, down

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