Key: E major
Verse 1
B
E
B
C
B
A#
E
Bucka, bucka, bucka, bucka, bucka, bucka
C
B
Ha ha
A#
E
You know the deal
B
A#
E
Beats by Su- Primo for all of my people,
C
B
Negros and Latinos
And even the gringos
A#
Verse 2
E
C
B
Yo, check it one for Charlie Hustle,
live future shock
C
B
It's five dimensions, six senses
A#
E
Seven firmaments of Heaven to Hell,
C
B
A#
Nine planets faithfully keep in orbit
extra strength
E
C
out of this, towering in ferno
on Broadway and Myrtle
C
B
Hip- hop past all your tall social hurdles
Working class poor better
keep your alarm set
E
D#
Streets too loud to ever hear freedom ring
C
B
Say evacuate your sleep,
it's dangerous to dream
A#
B
For ch- ching cats get they cha-
C
B
Killing fields need blood to graze
the cash cow
It's a number game,
B
C
Like I got,
B
A#
Sixty- nine billion in the last twenty years
but folks still live in fear like
C
B
Nearly half of America's largest
you no longer free
C
B
Forty percent of Americans
everything that you say when you ain't home
C
B
I guess, Michael Jackson was right,
'cause you in the Terrordome
E
C
facing life numbers
motherfuckers' ass
you better learn how to add
C
B
It's mathematics
Verse 3
E
A#
(I revolve around science)
B
C
(What are we talking
B
A#
about here?)
Verse 4
mathematics)
here?)
Verse 5
E
(Do your math,
B
do your math)
(One, t- t- two, three four)
Verse 6
C
B
universal law
mandatory
C
B
A#
Four MC's murdered in the last four years
B
E
I ain't trying to be the fifth
one, the millennium is here
C
B
A#
Yo, it's six million ways to die from
the seven deadly thrills
found with 9 mill's
B
A#
where your seeds at? What's the deal?
He on the hill pumpin' krills to
C
B
Light in the ass with heavy steel,
A#
B
sights on the pretty shit in life
When the average minimum
B
E
You best believe you gotta find a new
C
B
The white unemployment rate is nearly
A#
jewel theft and robbery to combat poverty
C
B
Stiffer stipulations attached
to each sentence
police presence
C
B
A#
And even if you get out of prison still living
B
E
Join the other five million
under state supervision
The system break man,
and who ain't niggas
C
B
Numbers is hard and real and
they never have feelings
even numbers got limits
C
B
Why did one straw break the camel's
back? Here's the secret
C
B
it's all mathematics
Verse 7
E
B
(It's simple mathematics)
B
A#
(I revolve around science)
Verse 8
(The Mighty Mos Def)
(Check it out)
about here?)
(Mathematics)
B
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