Don't Shoot chords by Dave East
Verse 1
Em
C
Bm
C
Am
Bm
C
D
I
Em
asked
D
C
my cousin why they pulled him over
Bm
He gave me a look as if he didn't know
C
I had my basketball and
Am
Bm
my now and laters
C
D
Ain't get along with my neighbors,
I was a rough kid
Em
Hearing sirens through my window
D
C
Them blue and red lights kept
me up at night
I couldn't get enough of life
Bm
C
Am
I seen this kid get arrested in the park
Bm
He was screaming he
C
ain't do it
D
They ain't even let him talk
Em
I ain't understand I'm like
D
10 blowing in the wind
C
Tryna find a park to go play,
I don't know the drama
Bm
C
I ask my mama what
Am
do police do?
Bm
C
She told me stay up out they way
D
Go to school and get good grades
Em
One day I'm walking in my building
D
and they stopped me
C
Told me I looked just like this
kid that did a robbery
Bm
C
And I ain't never stole
Am
nothing in my life
Bm
C
Maybe candy out the store
D
or a bag of chips
Verse 2
Em
Imagine this, years go by,
D
I got a little older
C
My best friends in group homes,
I got a little colder
Bm
C
I'm tryna make the varsity team,
Am
chill with Stacy and
Bm
C
Shop at the mall,
D
only Ralph Lauren they'll lace me in
Em
I had the Moncler, remember
D
C
begging moms for it
Walking home from school,
Bm
I almost got robbed for it
C
I took off, I can't go home
Am
without my jacket on
Bm
C
D
Blue and whites harassing me but I
Em
don't know what happened to 'em
Left and right I'm seeing
D
homies get interrogated
C
We ain't safe where we live,
Bm
this America ain't it?
C
High School they teaching me
Am
this the land of the free
Bm
C
D
But everything got a price,
they don't answer to me
Em
They don't answer to us,
D
we getting tattoos
C
They think we criminals cause we
believe that cash rules
Bm
C
Attitude a little different when
Am
Bm
you from the gutter
C
D
I seen a cop talk crazy to
Em
my mother
My father familiar,
D
C
he told me all about 'em
Told me never go around and avoid 'em,
Bm
that's if you can
C
Black intelligent man they wor
Am
st nightmare
Bm
C
D
They'd rather have you in prison forever,
they don't fight fair
Em
Starting to think about college,
D
I got some scholarships
C
I just graduated,
Bm
two cops pulled me over
C
Tried to show my diploma,
Am
they ain't ac knowledge it
Bm
C
D
Three young black males riding in the jeep
Em
Bout to go to college,
D
they thinking we in the street
C
They hate got a little bit deeper,
Verse 3
I'm getting frustrated
Bm
C
A bunch of slick comments,
Am
I'm still a nigga
Bm
C
D
Even if you got millions,
Em
they still'll get ya
I played ball,
D
I was the man on campus
C
Little weed up in my dorm,
I got ran off campus
Bm
C
Then I got locked up, minor bid,
Am
Bm
it was short
C
D
Staring at my mother crying up in court
Em
Came home, I started rapping,
D
had to trap first
C
Phone ringing all night,
was tryna take a nap first
Bm
C
Gang squad hopping out,
Am
narcotics watching
Bm
C
We had the weed and the pill
D
s then we got it rocking
Em
Cam eras in the projects helped
D
us move smarter
C
Niggas turned butch building
into the new carter
Bm
C
Pooch did a bid and came
Am
home the same nigga
Bm
C
D
Bully did a bid and came home
the same nigga
Em
My moms working all night,
D
I had late dinners
C
Went broke tryna cope a coat,
that made me hate winter
Bm
C
Focused up , got a deal,
Am
now this shit is real
Bm
C
D
Every time I leave the club,
Em
they hope I got the steel
D
C
We just got some weed, we just tryna chill
We just tryna eat,
Bm
we just tryna build
C
Am
They follow every car I try to ride in
Bm
C
D
I'm just praying this ain't the car
Em
that I die in
D
I guess with this hoodie on I'm a murderer
C
I'm just tryna buy my mother
some new furniture
C
This attitude is programmed
Am
Bm
Imagine getting harassed
C
for you whole life
D
All day and the whole night
Em
D
They say prison is the new slave ship
C
They don't understand we hustling
so we can pay rent
Bm
C
Soon as they come around it feel
Am
like your luck gone
Bm
C
They gotta show you they power,
D
Em
that's why they put the cuffs on
Ain't no more weed in the car sir,
D
the blunt gone
C
I got my hands ups,
officer what's the problem?
Bm
C
Please don't shoot me
Am
sir, I just had a daughter
Bm
C
D
Look here go a
Outro 1
Em
C
Bm
C
Am
Bm
C
D
Don't Shoot
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