this ain't living chords by
G. Love

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Key: C major•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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This town's so hype it's got soul

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As a Philly cat

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I'm with the roll

And the swing of my things

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How they work like clockwork

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Tick tock tick tock

Times aways lurking in your head

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Got to go to work and get fed

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That man didn't eat but he goes to sleep

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Gets up at dawn not to see the sunrise

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But because it's too damn

cold outside

Underneath the bridge they

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pump the city's bilge

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Into the alley they sweet

the city's filth

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The flowers wilt the flowers wilt

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Don't tell me about no game

Cause that is a man

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And his family

Revolution family

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Look at the family

Dig the family

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They're living the wrong way

Can't get nothing

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Don't get nothing all

they wanted was

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Something like a job, mercy mercy

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But its robbed, mercy mercy

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And there's so many street side

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Beggars and disabled veterans

Glass-eyed and and peddling

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Drunk and just meddling

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So you conclude it's their fault

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They like the street they must

like the asphalt

But that is man woman

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and children

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The system has stalled

shelter's home

That's not what I call it

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I call it bad health

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Some say help themselves

Yo if you you gots it

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Everyone hundred people a

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dollar in change

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Everyone hundred people a dollar

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in change

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This ain't living

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This ain't living

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Oh no

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You know it's rough,

had enough fo holding a

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Cup full of spare change

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The doctor diagnosed me as a

Dome full of bad brains

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So, toe to toe with employers

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Cause they're telling me no

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Hooked on prescription drugs

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So I stay broke, I'd run away

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But you can't run away from

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Yourself or your health so

I deal with the cards that I'm dealt

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Tweet-a-leet-leet

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This This This This morning

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bird sounding sweet

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Though I sleep on the streets

I have a feeling I'm free

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From so ciety's hand picked

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hypocrisy

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Mercy mercy don't give a damn for me

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Mercy mercy now what am

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I going to eat

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Peek through the windows

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of the restaurant

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People eating caviar fifth bucks on lunch

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A hand-me-down meal

meal

meal

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Full of God knows what

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Put it away in my gut

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Quick and then I wonder

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Why I'm sick, brick for brick

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I know the city like my hand print

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Just a pit in the gutter

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Of a skid-row ditch

ditch

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But I'll survive the pain

Let me know I'm alive

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Am

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But I still feel that

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This ain't liv ing

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Check my beat dig they rhythm

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Me belly full but me hungry so I fill it

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Once I start gaining taxes start taking

Cause the governments

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perfected funk faking

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Breaking me down striking me down

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What goes around comes around but

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I keep rising seeing through the lies and

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The surprise comes when I see myself

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The music I felt

I'm on

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This ain't living

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This ain't living

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Oh no

Outro 1

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The original key of this ain't living by G. Love is C major.

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