Tip the scale

Tip the scale easy guitar chords by The Roots

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Guitar
Tuning

E A D G B E

Capo

Fret 2

Capo

Transpose

0

Capo
  • Am

  • G

  • F#dim

    4
  • Fm

  • D

  • Bb

  • C

  • E

  • Fdim

    3
  • F

  • Am

  • G

  • F#dim

    4
  • Fm

  • D

  • Bb

  • C

  • E

  • Fdim

    3
  • F

  • Intro 1
    Am


    Verse 1
    Am

    Homicide or suicide

    Heads or tails
    G

    Some think life is a living hell
    F#dim

    Some live life just living well
    Fm

    I live life tryna tip the scale
    Am
    G

    My way, my way
    F#dim
    D
    Fm
    Bb

    My way, my way
    Verse 2
    Am

    Yo, I'm always early
    G

    I never take off 'cause I got a job

    Rob Peter to pay Paul
    Am
    F#dim

    Now I realize it's

    the winner that takes all
    Fm

    Do what I gotta do because

    I can't take loss
    Am

    Picture me living life as if I'm

    some animal
    G

    That consumes its own dreams

    like I'm a cannibal
    F#dim

    I won't accept failure unless

    it's mechanical
    Fm

    But still the alcohol mixed

    with the botanical
    G
    Am

    I guess I be re ferred to the owners
    G

    manual full of loaners

    Full of all the homeless
    Am
    F#dim

    throwaways and the stoners

    Soldiers of the streets with
    Am
    C

    8th grade diplomas
    Fm

    And the world awaiting their
    G

    shoulders as a bonus
    Am

    Look, let he without sin live without sin
    G

    Until then, I'll be doing dirty
    Am

    jobs like swamp men
    F#dim

    Counting the faces of those

    that might have been
    Fm
    E

    It's like living that life but I
    Verse 3

    won't live that life again
    Am

    Hom icide or suicide

    Heads or tails
    G

    Some think life is a living hell
    F#dim

    Some live life just living well
    Fdim
    Fm

    I live life tryna tip the scale
    Am
    G

    My way, my way
    F#dim
    D
    Fm
    Bb

    My way, my way
    Verse 4
    Am

    Lot of niggas go to prison

    How many come out Malcolm X?
    G

    I know I'm not

    Shit, can't even talk about the rest
    F#dim

    Famous last words: "You under arrest"
    Fm
    F

    Will I get popped tonight?

    It's anybody's guess
    Am

    I guess, a nigga need to stay cunning
    G

    I guess when the cops comin'

    need to start runnin'
    F#dim

    I won't make the same mistakes

    from my last run in
    F

    You either done doing crime
    Fm
    F

    now or you done in
    Am

    I got a brother on the run and one in
    G

    Wrote me a letter,

    he said when you comin'
    F#dim

    Shit man,

    I thought the goal's to stay out
    Fm

    Back against the wall,
    F

    then shoot your way out
    Am

    Gettin' money's a style

    that never plays out
    G

    'Til you end up boxin' your stash,

    money's paid out
    F#dim
    D

    The scales of justice ain't equally
    F#dim

    weighed out
    Fm

    Only two ways out,
    F

    digging tunnels or digging graves out
    Verse 5
    Am

    Homicide or suicide

    Heads or tails
    G

    Some think life is a living hell
    F#dim

    Some live life just living well
    Fdim
    Fm

    I live life tryna tip the scale
    Am
    G

    My way, my way
    F#dim
    D
    Fm
    G

    My way, my way
    F
    D

    Interlude 1
    Bb

    G
    F
    D

    Bb

    Verse 6
    Am

    Homicide or suicide

    Heads or Tails
    G

    Some think life is a living hell
    F#dim
    D

    Some live life just living well
    Fm

    I live life tryna tip the scale
    Am
    G

    My way, my way
    F#dim
    D
    F#dim

    My way
    Outro 1
    Fm


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