Key: Bb minor
Verse 1
Em
C
Sometimes I wonder
Am
F
Em
Am
Man, how long is it gon' be
F
Am
G
for my people to come out
Dm
Em
Tomorrow's better than yesterday,
Am
Em
uhh
Verse 2
Am
born in the slums,
struggled from day one
Ray Charles vision,
Dm
Em
No navigation, no sense of direction,
darker complexion
Made it hard to live; dad,
Verse 3
left us out to die, left us out to dry
Shhhh, I'm still here, my
Dm
Em
Nigga no father figures
make harder niggaz
Through the years,
went to war with niggaz from what I saw in the picture
Verse 4
13, but just like you
Moms said I would grow
Dm
Em
From what you did to my sister
she disliked you
Sixteen, eleventh grade,
Verse 5
Gunnin for riches,
runnin hoppin project fences
Street corners to Arizona,
Why pray for the afterlife when mines just beginnin,
Interlude 1
Am
F
Dm
Em
Am
F
Dm
Em
Verse 6
Am
, no brothers,
only sisters by this one
Every time I kissed one I missed one,
Dm
Em
Eight years before the game,
everything came with pain
Verse 7
Cursed with pain by a nigga with no shame
My father, that have the same
Dm
Em
My grandfather wouldn't believe,
he pulled up our family tree
Verse 8
Am
I'm left with often,
thoughts of how could you molest your daughter
They say that's ten times worse
Dm
Em
Man you ought of, be dead in a grave
Verse 9
so instead you sat in a cage
F
Am
High- powered, two- hundred and fifty pound,
six- five coward
Dm
Em
Heard you was scared to take a shower,
scared of the yard
F
Your end is near, you shoulda been scared of God,
Interlude 2
Am
F
Dm
Em
F
Am
F
Verse 10
Dm
[The Game]
Em
Am
Em
Am
All my niggaz listen, huh
I stay a step ahead of the rest of y'all
Why I gotta keep a vest for y'all
Though I made it dog I still
Dm
Em
Funny how my folks think rap
money stretch so far
Verse 11
the checks and the cars
F
Am
I'm tryin to invest in what's ours,
gimme a couple of years dog
I'll turn your tears stress
and your scars
Into lawn chairs and green
F
Dm
grass in your yard
Em
I'm tryin to watch my kids wrestlin yours
Verse 12
Em
Not have
to get 'em ready for school
and strap a vest on 'em all
F
Am
I know sometimes it get hard
Keep your head up mami,
reach for the stars
Verse 13
Am
Havin a child is like a blessing from God
F
Dm
You just gotta work hard,
Em
can't let your youngest star strip in that bar
I feel your pain,
this shit is rippin my heart
Verse 14
so I attack it in rhyme
F
Dm
Em
I know what you're feelin, I'm wripin ya tears ma,
it could happen in time
F
For now I take your tear strife sufferin, imagine it mine,
Outro 1
huh
Am
F
Dm
Em
Am
Em
F
Am
G
Am
F
Dm
Em
F
Am
F
Dm
Em
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Am
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Dm
Em
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