Tip the scale chords by
The Roots

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Key: B minor

Intro 1

F#m

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

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

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

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

Verse 5
F#m F#m 
 
Homicide or suicide
Heads or tails
E E 
 
Some think life is a living hell
D#dim D#dim 
 
Some     live life just living well
Ddim Ddim 
 
Dm Dm 
 
I      live life tryna tip the scale
F#m F#m 
 
E E 
 
My way,  my way
D#dim D#dim 
 
B B 
 
Dm Dm 
 
E E 
 
My way,     my way
D D 
 
B B 
 

Interlude 1

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

Outro 1

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