Key: B major•
Intro 1
D#m
E
F#
G#m
D#m
E
Bone Thugs, Akon, yeah
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G#m
D#m
E
You know though nothin' come easy
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G#m
You gotta try real, real hard
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E
I tried hard,
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G#m
but I guess I gotta try harder
Chorus 1
D#m
E
I tried so hard
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G#m
Can't seem to get away from misery
D#m
E
Man, I tried so hard
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G#m
Will always be a victim of these streets
D#m
E
It ain't my fault 'cause I
F#
G#m
try to get away, but trouble follows me
D#m
E
And still I try so hard,
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G#m
Hopin' one day they'll come and rescue me
D#m
E
But until then I'll be posted up
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G#m
right here rain, sleet, hail, snow
D#m
E
F#
But until then I'll be posted up right here
Verse 1
And I come from the dark side,
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G#m
so I'm havin' a hard time stayin' on track, man
where the complications at
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G#m
I thought I was right, but really I'm wrong
But again, I was too blind to see
D#m
E
I was in the fast lane chasin' my dream
they just got me
D#m
E
F#
Goin' crazy (lately, lately)
G#m
D#m
Lately I been so faded trying to erase it
but I just can't
Chorus 2
D#m
E
I tried so hard
F#
G#m
Can't seem to get away from misery
D#m
E
Man, I tried so hard
F#
G#m
Will always be a victim of these streets
D#m
E
It ain't my fault 'cause I
F#
G#m
try to get away, but trouble follows me
D#m
E
And still I try so hard
F#
G#m
Hopin' one day they'll come and rescue me
D#m
E
But until then I'll be posted up
F#
G#m
right here rain, sleet, hail, snow
D#m
E
F#
But until then I'll be posted up right here
Verse 2
D#m
It's like I'm takin' five steps forward,
E
F#
But I be out here fightin' demons, and
It's like the curse
G#m
That I can't shake this part of Cleveland, and
D#m
E
Lord, would you help me, and stop this pain?
F#
G#m
I keep inflictin' on my family (family)
D#m
E
Hustlin' and gamblin', drinkin' and scramblin'
Chorus 3
D#m
E
I tried so hard
F#
G#m
Can't seem to get away from misery
D#m
E
Man, I tried so hard
F#
G#m
Will always be a victim of these streets
D#m
E
It ain't my fault 'cause I
F#
G#m
try to get away, but trouble follows me
D#m
E
And still I try so hard
F#
G#m
Hopin' one day they'll come and rescue me
D#m
E
But until then I'll be posted up
F#
G#m
right here rain, sleet, hail, snow
D#m
E
F#
But until then I'll be posted up right here
Verse 3
D#m
E
I see things won't change,
As soon as I get out,
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E
Got me doin' dirty dirt
G#m
that I don't understand no nine to five work
D#m
E
Studied on the streets,
hustlas know what I mean
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G#m
Thugstas ballin' before us,
I'm tryin' to make that major league
D#m
E
So we never leave,
G#m
D#m
Gotta get it, nope, no leavin', no grudge
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G#m
gotta go hard to get what you put in
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E
If you fall off, then it's all on you
G#m
Try so hard, but I won't (pull trough)
Chorus 4
D#m
E
I tried so hard
F#
G#m
Can't seem to get away from misery
D#m
E
Man, I tried so hard
F#
G#m
Will always be a victim of these streets
D#m
E
It ain't my fault 'cause I
F#
G#m
try to get away, but trouble follows me
D#m
E
And still I try so hard
F#
G#m
Hopin' one day they'll come and rescue me
D#m
E
But until then I'll be posted up
F#
G#m
right here rain, sleet, hail, snow
D#m
E
F#
But until then I'll be posted up right here
Outro 1
D#m
E
F#
G#m
D#m
E
F#
G#m
[Repeat and fade]
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