Kevin chords by Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, Leon Bridges

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Intro 1

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Verse 1
Eb 
I seen  (E flat major) pain, I felt the losses
Ab 
Attended  (A flat major) funerals and seen coffins
Eb 
21 years  (E flat major) old, an angel was lost here
Fm 
Wings  (F minor) clipped by the grip
Eb 
of 80 milligram sniffs of oxycontin  (E flat major) 
Everyday through the nostrils
Ab 
 (A flat major) Never went away, never does it stop there
Eb 
 (E flat major) Death a line or two away
Fm 
and a couple tall cans  (F minor) 
'Cause you never know
when God is gonna call, man
Eb 
 (E flat major) Precious, what we all share
Ab 
I  (A flat major) said peace at 5:30,
the next time that I saw him
Eb 
was in the  (E flat major) hands of the pallbearer
Fm 
What if I would've never  (F minor) gone
and dropped him off there?
Eb 
Blaming myself, in hyster (E flat major) ics,
screaming it's not fair!
Ab 
21 years old with a  (A flat major) book of rhymes
he was gonna recite to the globe
Eb 
Only  (E flat major) thing to numb the pain
besides that shit in his nose
Fm 
He was  (F minor) 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
Eb 
And es (E flat major) cape this world, vacate this world
Ab 
'Cause I  (A flat major) hate myself
Eb 
Fm 
No praying's gonna cure this  (E flat major) pain  (F minor) 

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Chorus 1

Doctor, please,

give me a dose of the American Dream

Put down the pen and look in my eyes

We're in the waiting room

and something ain't right

All this is on you,

Verse 2
we're overprescribed
Eb 
 (E flat major) For me and Kev
Ab 
He went up  (A flat major) in  jail, institutions are dead
Eb 
And with our  (E flat major) lives, we play Russian Roulette
Fm 
And try to  (F minor) find a life where we can be content
Eb 
'Cause for  (E flat major) us, we're just trying to minimize
Ab 
the  (A flat major) fear of being alive
Eb 
And now my  (E flat major) little brother is in the sky
Fm 
From a  (F minor) pill that a doctor prescribed
That a drug
Eb 
that a  (E flat major) million dollar industry supplied
Ab 
And the cops  (A flat major) never go and profile at night
Eb 
Yeah, the, the,  (E flat major) the orange plastic
with the white top they sell to you
Fm 
 (F minor) Has us looking for the answers
and not instead of you
Eb 
 (E flat major) Quick fix, whatever do
We just gonna neglect the truth
Ab 
Be (A flat major) cause a doctor with a license
Eb 
played God and said it's cool  (E flat major) 
Played God and said it's cool
Cm 
Eb 
Cm 
Fm 
 (C minor)  (E flat major)  (C minor)  (F minor) 

Bridge 1
Cm 
But  (C minor) me? I don't blame Kev
or his mom freebasing
while pregnant with him
Cm 
I blame the  (C minor) pharmacy companies
Bb 
Ab 
And  (B flat major) country that spends trillions  (A flat major) 
fighting the war they supplying themselves
Politicians and business and jail
Ab 
Public de (A flat major) fenders and judges who fail
Look at Kevin, look at Kevin
Now he's wrapped in plastic
Cm 
Eb 
Cm 
Fm 
 (C minor) First dealer  (E flat major) was his mom's  (C minor) medicine  (F minor) cabinet
Cm 
 (C minor) 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
Cm 
Eb 
Cm 
 (C minor) Ups and downs  (E flat major) shooting up pres (C minor) criptions
Fm 
Cm 
you're  (F minor) handing him  (C minor) 
So America, is it really worth it? I'm asking you
Cm 
Bb 
Fm 
Cm 
 (C minor)  (B flat major)  (F minor)  (C minor) 

Chorus 2
Eb 
Gm 
Doctor, please,  (E flat major)  (G minor) 
Cm 
Ab 
give me a dose of the Ameri (C minor) can Dream  (A flat major) 
Eb 
Put  (E flat major) down the pen
Fm 
and look in my eyes  (F minor) 
Cm 
Ab 
 (C minor) We're in the waiting room  (A flat major) 
and something ain't right
Eb 
Gm 
 (E flat major)  (G minor) 
Cm 
Ab 
 (C minor) All this is on you,  (A flat major) 
we're overprescribed
Eb 
Ab 
Eb 
Fm 
 (E flat major)  (A flat major)  (E flat major)  (F minor) 

Outro 1
Eb 
 (E flat major) Doctor, your medicine,
Ab 
 (A flat major) and your methods
Eb 
 (E flat major) Can't cure my disease
Fm 
 (F minor) without killing me
Eb 
Ab 
 (E flat major) You're killing me,  (A flat major) you're killing me
Eb 
Fm 
 (E flat major) You're killing me,  (F minor) you're killing me
Eb 
 (E flat major) Doctor, your medicine,
Ab 
 (A flat major) and your methods
Eb 
 (E flat major) Can't cure my disease
Fm 
 (F minor) without killing me
Eb 
Ab 
 (E flat major) You're killing me,  (A flat major) you're killing me
Eb 
Fm 
 (E flat major) You're killing me,  (F minor) you're killing me