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Key: B minor

Intro 1

Verse 1
Am Am 
 
Homicide or suicide
Heads or tails
G G 
 
Some think life is a living hell
F#dim F#dim 
 
Some     live life just living well
Fm Fm 
 
I   live life tryna tip the scale
Am Am 
 
G G 
 
My way, my way
F#dim F#dim 
 
D D 
 
Fm Fm 
 
Bb Bb 
 
My way,     my  way

Verse 2
Am Am 
 
Yo, I'm always early
G G 
 
I never take off 'cause I got a job
Rob Peter to pay Paul
Am Am 
 
F#dim F#dim 
 
Now I realize      it's
the winner that takes all
Fm Fm 
 
Do what I gotta do  because
I can't take loss
Am Am 
 
Picture me living life as if I'm
some animal
G G 
 
That consumes its own dreams
like I'm a cannibal
F#dim F#dim 
 
I won't accept failure  unless
it's mechanical
Fm Fm 
 
But still the alcohol mixed
with the botanical
G G 
 
Am Am 
 
I guess I be re  ferred to the owners
G G 
 
manual full of loaners
Full of all the homeless
Am Am 
 
F#dim F#dim 
 
throwaways and the stoners
Soldiers of the streets with
Am Am 
 
C C 
 
8th grade diplomas
Fm Fm 
 
And the world awaiting their
G G 
 
shoulders as a bonus
Am Am 
 
Look, let he without sin live without sin
G G 
 
Until then, I'll be doing dirty
Am Am 
 
jobs like swamp men
F#dim F#dim 
 
Counting the faces of those
that might have been
Fm Fm 
 
E E 
 
It's like living that life but I

Verse 3
won't live that life again
Am Am 
 
Hom icide or suicide
Heads or tails
G G 
 
Some think life is a living hell
F#dim F#dim 
 
Some     live life just living well
Fdim Fdim 
 
Fm Fm 
 
I      live life tryna tip the scale
Am Am 
 
G G 
 
My way, my way
F#dim F#dim 
 
D D 
 
Fm Fm 
 
Bb Bb 
 
My way,     my way

Verse 4
Am Am 
 
Lot of niggas go  to prison
How many come out Malcolm X?
G G 
 
I know I'm not
Shit, can't even talk about the rest
F#dim F#dim 
 
Famous   last words: "You under arrest"
Fm Fm 
 
F F 
 
Will I get popped tonight?
It's anybody's guess
Am Am 
 
I guess, a nigga need to stay cunning
G G 
 
I guess when the cops comin'
need to start runnin'
F#dim F#dim 
 
I won't make     the same mistakes
from my last run in
F F 
 
You either done doing crime
Fm Fm 
 
F F 
 
now or you done in
Am Am 
 
I got a brother on the run and one in
G G 
 
Wrote me a letter,
he said when you comin'
F#dim F#dim 
 
Shit man,
I thought the goal's to stay out
Fm Fm 
 
Back against the wall,
F F 
 
then shoot your way out
Am Am 
 
Gettin' money's a style
that never plays out
G G 
 
'Til you end up boxin' your stash,
money's paid out
F#dim F#dim 
 
D D 
 
The scales of justice ain't equally
F#dim F#dim 
 
weighed out
Fm Fm 
 
Only two ways out,
F F 
 
digging tunnels or digging graves out

Verse 5
Am Am 
 
Homicide or suicide
Heads or tails
G G 
 
Some think life is a living hell
F#dim F#dim 
 
Some     live life just living well
Fdim Fdim 
 
Fm Fm 
 
I      live life tryna tip the scale
Am Am 
 
G G 
 
My way, my way
F#dim F#dim 
 
D D 
 
Fm Fm 
 
G G 
 
My way,     my way
F F 
 
D D 
 

Interlude 1

Verse 6
Am Am 
 
Homicide or suicide
Heads or Tails
G G 
 
Some think life is a living hell
F#dim F#dim 
 
D D 
 
Some     live life just living well
Fm Fm 
 
I   live life tryna tip the scale
Am Am 
 
G G 
 
My way, my way
F#dim F#dim 
 
D D 
 
F#dim F#dim 
 
My way

Outro 1

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