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Kevin easy guitar chords by
Macklemore
Macklemore
Ryan Lewis
Ryan Lewis
Leon Bridges
Leon Bridges

2016Hip-hop
Intro 1
C
C
C
C

OK, OK
C
C

Yeah
C
C

We live tonight

Check it, now
Verse 1
C

I seen pain, I felt the losses
F

Attended funerals and seen coffins
C

21 years old, an angel was lost here
Dm

Wings clipped by the grip
C

of 80 milligram sniffs of oxycontin

Everyday through the nostrils
F

Never went away, never does it stop there
C

Death a line or two away
Dm

and a couple tall cans

'Cause you never know

when God is gonna call, man
C

Precious, what we all share
F

I said peace at 5:30,

the next time that I saw him
C

was in the hands of the pallbearer
Dm

What if I would've never gone

and dropped him off there?
C

Blaming myself, in hysterics,

screaming it's not fair!
F

21 years old with a book of rhymes

he was gonna recite to the globe
C

Only thing to numb the pain

besides that shit in his nose
Dm

He was gonna quit tomorrow,

we're all gonna quit tomorrow

Just get us through the weekend,

and then Monday follows

Then it's Wednesday,

then it's "fuck it, I'm already feeling hollow

Might as well go crack a seal,

might as well go chug a bottle

Might as well go pop a pill

and go and band-aid that problem
C

And escape this world, vacate this world
F

'Cause I hate myself
C
Dm

No praying's gonna cure this pain
Chorus 1
C
F

Doctor, please,
C
Dm

give me a dose of the American Dream
C
F

Put down the pen and look in my eyes
C
Dm

We're in the waiting room

and something ain't right
C
F

C
Dm

All this is on you,
Verse 2

we're overprescribed
C

For me and Kev
F

He went up in jail, institutions are dead
C

And with our lives, we play Russian Roulette
Dm

And try to find a life where we can be content
C

'Cause for us, we're just trying to minimize
F

the fear of being alive
C

And now my little brother is in the sky
Dm

From a pill that a doctor prescribed

That a drug
C

that a million dollar industry supplied
F

And the cops never go and profile at night
C

Yeah, the, the, the orange plastic

with the white top they sell to you
Dm

Has us looking for the answers

and not instead of you
C

Quick fix, whatever do

We just gonna neglect the truth
F

Because a doctor with a license
C

played God and said it's cool

Played God and said it's cool
Am
C
Am
Dm

Bridge 1
Am

But me? I don't blame Kev

or his mom freebasing

while pregnant with him
Am

I blame the pharmacy companies
G
F

And country that spends trillions

fighting the war they supplying themselves

Politicians and business and jail
F

Public defenders and judges who fail

Look at Kevin, look at Kevin

Now he's wrapped in plastic
Am
C
Am
Dm

First dealer was his mom's medicine cabinet
Am

Got anxiety, better go and give him a Xanax

Focus, give him Adderall,

sleep, give him Ambien

'Til he's walking 'round the city

looking like a mannequin
Am
C
Am

Ups and downs shooting up prescriptions
Dm
Am

you're handing him

So America, is it really worth it? I'm asking you
Am
G
Dm
Am

Chorus 2
C
Em

Doctor, please,
Am
F

give me a dose of the American Dream
C

Put down the pen
Dm

and look in my eyes
Am
F

We're in the waiting room

and something ain't right
C
Em

Am
F

All this is on you,

we're overprescribed
C
F
C
Dm

Outro 1
C

Doctor, your medicine,
F

and your methods
C

Can't cure my disease
Dm

without killing me
C
F

You're killing me, you're killing me
C
Dm

You're killing me, you're killing me
C

Doctor, your medicine,
F

and your methods
C

Can't cure my disease
Dm

without killing me
C
F

You're killing me, you're killing me
C
Dm
You're killing me, you're killing me

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