Overture chords by Tank

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Verse 1
D 
F 
I use the mic like a walkie- talkie
Eb 
Cali love with a bite of Milwaukee
DMV in my bloodline, I done start
F 
wars with a jabberwocky
Eye of the tiger, call a nigga Rocky
The finish line between
F 
humble and cocky
Use verse and rhyme to extend the
F 
time for others
Crumble every clock I see with a
F 
Eb 
twelve followin' behind my brothers
F 
Call me the mothership, my music
F 
for the mothers
I been a motherfucker
Eb 
Undercover like a super man,
make a woman wonder
F 
Eb 
Make a hater my lover
F 
Eb 
But, equally, I been a rubber
band without elasticity
F 
Eb 
Been a trap man drastically
F 
stuck in the gutter
A fallen star never to be discovered
An inmate with a number but
Eb 
orange was never my color
F 
Double my entendre
Rap 'til I can sell my bars
to the highest sucker
Eb 
R&B money wrapped in a young
F 
thugger
Keep my beats on repeat like
they stu- stutter
Pretty on some Ali
I done become the Thrilla in Manila
New Jack City on some pain, probably
Call a brother Duh Duh Duh
F 
But my train done been wobbly as
any other
Big body truck in the mud
Or the feet that grew
from the concrete
'Til I'm big as Jigga and the nigga
he came up under
G 
Gm 
I went from notorious to glorious
F#m 
I flew above them storm
G 
s, wrestlin' with thunder
Gm 
'Til I be one, a Neo- Morpheus
F#m 
And   by the time I be six
I knew I was more than his
F 
Is what it is, this is how I feel
Like a one- man force of a nature
strong in my mind
'Til you go on- line orderin' my kind
to savage your shit
F 
And with them lines I just spit I hope you're recording
this skit
This ain't no average shit
I'm hood- born, a dark form
with a candlestick
G 
I'm rockin' with the good
F 
Lord and His manuscript
The ghost of the too- poor-
to- rock- sandals kid
And before I could handle all of this
G 
F 
I was hard to walk a mile in my own
shit
G 
A prodigal smile with a poem losin'
F 
that glow it used to give
F 
I was two roads diverged,
Em 
I chose the narrowest
F 
I done seen them doors close
like pharaohs did
G 
F#m 
I been the afterparty to my
own show, ya dig?
G 
F 
I just needed to know, can I live?
Like Hov did way back
when
G 
Then lo and behold,
F#m 
these old wing  s found some wind
F 
F#m 
Dealt with the stings from them
F 
arrows  I felt within
And elevated to where them sparrows
been
'Til that became equal with the skies them
eagles swim
But if height reflects how
slight life done slipped
I been right with the lowest of the
G 
invalid
F 
No fight left in my battleship
G 
A kite with broken ribs
F 
BleekGilliam with a busted
F#m 
lip
No Mo' Better Blues,
F 
just a permanent bruise where the horn used to fit
G 
Low like where the throw up is
F 
Low like a roach's crib
G 
Gm 
Low like slow to get up on the count of ten
Eb 
F 
G 
To keep it all the way five hundred, low as your basement,
Eb 
wasted
G 
F 
Dazed and too confused
to find my placement
Gm 
Nightmares of degradation
F 
When I was a kid I used to dream of this kind
of graduation
Now I'm on some Tom Hanks,
G 
I done got too big, but
Still a bad boy gettin' paid for them
toys
I play station, I give thanks
And use God's noise as a celebration
F 
I'ma sing with that thing for your soul's
masturbation
Gm 
I'ma bring enough king to control
your manifestation
F 
And you gon' scream with anticipation
While you turn from all the lil' boy- girls
F 
they play on your radio stations
Gm 
G 
This man done reappeared when the
F 
world is filled with fear and  intrepidation
The screen got the same scene
Gm 
It just seems too many Elvises done
F 
Gbm 
left the building to believe the motivation
F 
The people fiendin' for that old feelin'
So the big Tank just pulled back
into the station
This time with a blue and red light
in the basement
This that new height we chasin'
G 
I'm here to serve you
F 
with a new found dedication
G 
Gbm 
Same food for thought through sound, just made
Gm 
it where you can better taste it
Gbm 
G 
Use   what I sing now and never for
F 
the best of nations
Gbm 
And the rest for the ones brown who don't feel blessed
F 
enough to make it
I done cleaned the mess up, no
Gbm 
more cry   in'
Just a brave lion standin' atop
F 
Mount Zion
I come to you open and naked
I come to you knowin' without hesitation
Fifty thousand waitin' for my shit
F 
I'ma give you every last drop of it
Until we all on the same trip to
destination
Come fuck with it, my elevation