Tip the scale chords by
The Roots
The Roots

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Key: B minor
Intro 1
G#m
G#m

Verse 1
G#m
G#m

Homicide or suicide
Heads or tails
F#
F#

Some think life is a living hell
E#dim
E#dim

Some live life just living well
Em
Em

I live life tryna tip the scale
G#m
G#m

F#
F#

My way, my way
E#dim
E#dim

C#
C#

Em
Em

A
A

My way, my way
Verse 2
G#m
G#m

Yo, I'm always early
F#
F#

I never take off 'cause I got a job
Rob Peter to pay Paul
G#m
G#m

E#dim
E#dim

Now I realize it's
the winner that takes all
Em
Em

Do what I gotta do because
I can't take loss
G#m
G#m

Picture me living life as if I'm
some animal
F#
F#

That consumes its own dreams
like I'm a cannibal
E#dim
E#dim

I won't accept failure unless
it's mechanical
Em
Em

But still the alcohol mixed
with the botanical
F#
F#

G#m
G#m

I guess I be re ferred to the owners
F#
F#

manual full of loaners
Full of all the homeless
G#m
G#m

E#dim
E#dim

throwaways and the stoners
Soldiers of the streets with
G#m
G#m

B
B

8th grade diplomas
Em
Em

And the world awaiting their
F#
F#

shoulders as a bonus
G#m
G#m

Look, let he without sin live without sin
F#
F#

Until then, I'll be doing dirty
G#m
G#m

jobs like swamp men
E#dim
E#dim

Counting the faces of those
that might have been
Em
Em

D#
D#

It's like living that life but I
Verse 3
won't live that life again
G#m
G#m

Hom icide or suicide
Heads or tails
F#
F#

Some think life is a living hell
E#dim
E#dim

Some live life just living well
Edim
Edim

Em
Em

I live life tryna tip the scale
G#m
G#m

F#
F#

My way, my way
E#dim
E#dim

C#
C#

Em
Em

A
A

My way, my way
Verse 4
G#m
G#m

Lot of niggas go to prison
How many come out Malcolm X?
F#
F#

I know I'm not
Shit, can't even talk about the rest
E#dim
E#dim

Famous last words: "You under arrest"
Em
Em

E
E

Will I get popped tonight?
It's anybody's guess
G#m
G#m

I guess, a nigga need to stay cunning
F#
F#

I guess when the cops comin'
need to start runnin'
E#dim
E#dim

I won't make the same mistakes
from my last run in
E
E

You either done doing crime
Em
Em

E
E

now or you done in
G#m
G#m

I got a brother on the run and one in
F#
F#

Wrote me a letter,
he said when you comin'
E#dim
E#dim

Shit man,
I thought the goal's to stay out
Em
Em

Back against the wall,
E
E

then shoot your way out
G#m
G#m

Gettin' money's a style
that never plays out
F#
F#

'Til you end up boxin' your stash,
money's paid out
E#dim
E#dim

C#
C#

The scales of justice ain't equally
E#dim
E#dim

weighed out
Em
Em

Only two ways out,
E
E

digging tunnels or digging graves out
Verse 5
G#m
G#m

Homicide or suicide
Heads or tails
F#
F#

Some think life is a living hell
E#dim
E#dim

Some live life just living well
Edim
Edim

Em
Em

I live life tryna tip the scale
G#m
G#m

F#
F#

My way, my way
E#dim
E#dim

C#
C#

Em
Em

F#
F#

My way, my way
E
E

C#
C#

Interlude 1
A
A

F#
F#

E
E

C#
C#

A
A

Verse 6
G#m
G#m

Homicide or suicide
Heads or Tails
F#
F#

Some think life is a living hell
E#dim
E#dim

C#
C#

Some live life just living well
Em
Em

I live life tryna tip the scale
G#m
G#m

F#
F#

My way, my way
E#dim
E#dim

C#
C#

E#dim
E#dim

My way
Outro 1
Em
Em

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