Key: C# minor•
Verse 1
In the city of dreams,
In the schemes
G#
Tonight
Who dies
Verse 2
A
[NAS]
New York, we ready!
G#
B
[Kevin Rudolf] He move from
Verse 3
C#m
Down the hall
C#m
B
Certified son of a gun
Learns life lesson 101
Verse 4
C#m
A
Cause in the city of dreams
In the schemes
B
A
B
Tonight
C#m
B
A
That boy he is the bomb,
B
C#m
B
From B.K. to the Bronx
And it's
F#m
B
A
B
The fortunate one who dies
Verse 5
Then he cut that sh!t out
C#m
A
Qualified sex machine
To the upper east side
Verse 6
C#m
A
Cause in the city of dreams
A
B
To night
That boy
C#m
A
Would play his guitar
C#m
B
Like he was ready for war
(You ready, K?)
(It's your man Nas here)
His voice to the
B
Sky
(Take it straight
A
B
Through New York City)
Verse 7
A
B
my city, my town, my crown
Michael Bloomberg, forget
what you heard
what can a boss say?
C#m
B
A
B
City, bus, the subway, cab, the runway
Ski masks and gun play
Towers came down,
B
C#m
Wall Street barely standing
opposite of Brook Brothers
My footsteps of Scatman Crothers
To get five luminous
I'm out on the town,
to the ceiling
Fifty-third street, street,
C#m
B
I'm fighting the feeling I had
They try dissing us,
Verse 8
C#m
[Kevin Rudolf]
C#m
B
You get caught up in the schemes
F#m
A
B
And fall apart in the seam
Tonight
C#m
A
That boy would play his guitar
C#m
B
Like he was ready for war
F#m
C#m
And then he'd lift up his voice to the
Outro 1
Sky
B
C#m
A
B
F#m
B
A
B
C#m
B
A
C#m
B
F#m
A
B
C#m
A
B
F#m
B
A
B
C#m
B
B
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsC#m B A G# F#m
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