Key: A major
Verse 1
Fm
C
(
Cm
C
F#
C
F#
C
*scratched line from the
Cm
Aceyalone recording "Mr. Outsider"* )
C
(Get involved on how the world revolves
Cm
C
F#
Cm
and evolves)
C
(...solve all that you can solve be
Cm
C
fore your mind dissolves)
Verse 2
C
Get down right dirty on em hella quick
Cm
Put air in your tire, step in the shit
Bust raps, caps,
C
F#
throw rocks or pick up a stick
C
F#
C
How you gonna
handle it when it get thick?
Cm
I learned
Verse 3
C
real early that life is hard
Sit down at the table,
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get dealt yo cards
C
Might get a good hand,
could get a bad hand
The hood lands and bad lands done
turned you to a mad man
Barely can sleep at night
Tryin to make the ends meet
Cm
just to keep it tight
C
You want what he got but
he ain't got much
It's a beautiful thang that
Cm
C
you cannot touch
Cm
C
And you want what she got
but she ain't got much
And to do or die,
Cm
you never heard of such
C
Well, it's the luck of the draw,
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some come up short
C
I know you want to keep your boat
D
C
and you're bumpin afloat
D
C
I want to double my notes,
I don't want to vote
I want everyone to read what I wrote
Cm
C
But most likely life ain't a bowl of cherries,
though
Same old scenario
Sometimes it's just sour milk
In the hour of guilt your flowers wilt
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C
And it's all in the power of
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what you built
C
You want to lie in your casket
Fm
with gold and silk
Cm
C
As for I, wrap me in Kinte cloth
Cm
C
Cm
Give me my respect due
and then step off
C
Cause people nowadays'll straight
F#
C
twist you up
D
Have you broken up but
C
can't nobody fix you up
I was sayin to myself I was gonna do
somethin about that tomorrow
Cm
Yo yo, check it
Eb
Cm
But you was lyin to yourself an
C
F#
d that can make you sick
C
So get down right dirty on
Cm
em hella quick
C
Put air in your tires, step into shit
Bust raps, caps,
Cm
throw rocks or pick up a stick
Eb
Cm
How you gonna handle it
C
F#
D
when it get thick?
F#
C
How you gonna handle
Cm
it when it get thick?
C
How you gonna handle it when it get thick?
Get down right dirty on em
Cm
hella quick
Verse 4
Cm
F#
(The world is full of bullshitters
C
Liars and triers and quitters
Cm
Coulda- been's, want
C
to- be's...)
Verse 5
C
I learned real early that life was hard
Cm
Never ever shit in your own backyard
C
F#
Never fake the funk or front to play the part
C
Cm
Be smart, live life love, respect the art
C
Cause people take kindness
for weak and prey
And they take for granted when
Cm
you say what you say
C
They take advantage of the fact
D
you give your heart away
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D
C
D
You should be able to see through
C
these games people play
Cause people just use you,
it just won't stop
Cm
C
You won't say nothin and
Cm
it makes you hot
They say they're your friends
C
F#
but they really are not
C
Because they only out to try
F#
C
and get what you got
Cm
C
The Jones' - what a classic case
It can turn a nigga into a bastard case
Cm
I know they all runnin to see who
C
D
is the fastest in the race
F#
C
You might as well get on your
Fm
knees and ask for grace
Cm
C
Cause many will lose but some
will come in last place
Cm
C
Cm
And many get bruised but some
Eb
Cm
get blasted in the face
Somebody once told me
C
D
that people were strange
C
D
I never knew what it meant till I seen
C
some people change
I know you really want it but
it's out of your range
And if you plan to get it then
Cm
you gotta take some pain
C
F#
You gotta master the fear
C
You just say: "Fear,
come here," and drop a bug in his ear
Cm
C
And tell him to disappear,
rid him, buy him a beer
No hard feelings but some
Cm
people turnin the tricks
C
F#
Some say it's just a natural pick
C
It's like Darwin's theory,
D
C
but y'all don't hear me
Strong is how they skim me
C
Cm
Never with the gimme- gimme
C
Cm
C
Bottle water or a shot of Rémy?
Cm
My name is Ace One, baby,
C
F#
not Timmy
C
And you can get the jimmy
Verse 6
C
You get down right dirty
C
on em hella quick
Put air in your tires, step into shit
Cm
Bust raps, caps,
C
throw rocks or pick up a stick
F#
C
How you gonna handle
it when it get thick?
Cm
How you gonna handle it
when it get thick?
C
How you gonna handle it
when it get thick?
Cm
C
Get down right dirty on em hella quick
C
(I was taught to
Verse 7
be badman,
Cm
shoot yo shot)
Outro 1
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Cm
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F#
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Fm
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