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Verse 1
(B major) (B flat minor) Uh, yeah, (A minor) there's no
(C major) ex cuse, uh, there's no (A minor) ex cuse,
yeah, uh, (E minor) yeah, (B flat minor) yeah, check (C major) out, (A minor) yeah, listen
I think about losing (E minor) my family
like I'm Joe Biden
Could I recover from (F sharp major) that kind of pain,
(B flat minor) or would I go hide it?
Blinded like (C major) Stevie Wonder,
could I perform?
Could I pull off what that (A minor) man does
if that's how I was born?
Could I have faced (E minor) baddest
like Jim Adler with only one hand?
(F sharp major) But stand for (B flat minor) what I believe
like Susie Bean and Filmy
(C major) Luther King and his dream
Imagine being a (A minor) black female in 1913
Like Rosa Parks, (E minor) like being left behind,
Noah's Ark
(F sharp major) Or coming up short like Napoleon
Bona (D major) parte
Beeth (C major) oven composed some
of the greatest art
Death still (A minor) wasn't appreciated
fully till he was dead
Roosevelt (E minor) had polio, he excelled
Alber (F sharp major) t Einstein (B flat minor) couldn't
read till he was 12
(A minor) So (C major) many great men and women
felt pain on Novocaine
Des (A minor) pite every odd against them,
they over (E minor) came
And yo, I know you feel bad for yourself
But listen, there's no (B flat minor) ex cuse,
worse off than your (D major) self
Arisen, and made (C major) the best of a worst case
Of a worst case (A minor) ,
mommas thought they wasn't shit
On they birthdays,
sure things (E minor) are bad for yourself
But listen, (B major) there's no (B flat minor) excuse,
worse off than your (A minor) self
Arisen, and made the best of (C major) a worst case
Of a worst case,
(A minor) momma thought they wasn't shit,
kids, (E minor) birthdays
Some of it's not fiction,
uh, he made the NBA
(F sharp major) Des pite both parents dying (B flat minor) of AIDS
Named (A minor) his Juan Dixon,
(C major) separated from his family in hell
Survived (A minor) the holocaust,
Elie Wiesel, lived to tell
Wrote (E minor) about it,
from the truth we're all runnin'
But not (B flat minor) all of us are runnin' blind
(A minor) like Marla Runyon
(F sharp major) She won (C major) the woman's 5
,000 meters three times
So in (A minor) this rat race,
we don't really need odds
Unique (E minor) minds suffer from depression,
almost all of them
Buzz (F sharp major) Aldrin, Charles Darwin,
Alan Baldwin
(B flat minor) Talk (C major) about a monkey on my back
and I'm knowing
Isaac (A minor) Newton and Van Gogh were bipolar
Try (E minor) disputing the fact that our odds
were all against this (F sharp major) list
Much (B flat minor) of what we know (D major) wouldn't exist
If you (C major) were raised by one parent,
that's no problem
Take (A minor) Jesus,
imagine being born with no father
And yo, I know you feel (E minor) bad for your (B major) self
But listen, there's no (B flat minor) ex cuse
Wor (A minor) st all to yourself arisen
It made (E minor) the best of (C major) a worst case
Of a worst case,
mama thought they was (A minor) n't shit
on they birthdays
Sure (E minor) things are bad for yourself,
but listen, there's no (B flat minor) excuse
Worse off than yourself, arisen,
and made (C major) the best of a worst case
Of a worst case (A minor) ,
mama thought they wasn't shit on they birthdays (E minor)
(F sharp major) (B minor) (B flat minor) (F sharp major)
(C major) (A minor) (A flat minor)
(E minor) (G flat major) (B flat minor)
You (G flat major)
Outro 1
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