2Pac - Everyday Struggle (Hold On Be Strong) Chords

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Life has [G] been marred by considerable [C] pain.
[Gm] Do you [Dm] think you'll ever get to [Am] the point where you can live a normal, happy life?
[F] No.
But, I, uh, I'm going for it.
[G] I'm trying [Dm] for it.
And until then, I [Am] have to make the life that I do [Em] live as happy as [A] I can and try to do
the best with what [Dm] I have.
You know, live the best life I can live, be as happy as I can be.
Nothing is perfect for [N] anybody.
I don't think. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ Thug.
[F] For life.
That's right.
Feel me?
[C] I know it seems hard sometimes, but, uh, [G] remember one thing.
Through every dark [Am] night, there's a bright day after that.
[F] All my homeboys and my homegirls, stay strong.
[C] When things get bad, [G] especially come the first to the 15th, [Am] stay strong and stay [F] ballin'.
So no matter how hard it gets, [C] stick your chest out, keep your head up, [G] and handle it.
Hold on.
I'll [Am] catch y'all at the next light.
We in traffic.
[F]
Hey, do this Thug Style, man.
[C] Thug Style.
When this whole geek drop, we just gonna [G] run it to them, man.
It's all good.
[Am] Boom.
I never had much, [F] run with a bad bunch of little skinny kids, eating weed in my bag [C] bunch.
And off the junior high, we was just getting [G] by.
And drive-bys, ride my homies, 30-year-old [Am] lives.
I never did cry.
And [F] even though I had pain in my heart, I was hopeless from the [C] start.
They couldn't tell me nothing, and they all tried to [G] help me.
With marijuana, had my mind blown, it wasn't [Am] healthy.
I traveled places, caught cases, but it ill.
[F] Yeah.
I felt the pain in the brain, but I'm still [C] here.
Never did like the police.
Let the whole [G] world know.
Now I'm getting no peace.
Cause they chasing [Am] me down.
And facing me now.
And do I do [F] these things that a thug don't do?
And still [C] I rise, so keep your head up and make your mind [G] strong.
It's a struggle every day, but you gotta [Am] hold on.
Wish I could take the pain away.
If you can make it [F] through the night, then it's a brighter day.
Everything will [C] be alright if you hold on.
It's a struggle [G] every day, gotta hold on.
I [Am] wish I could take the pain away.
If you can make it [F] through the night, then it's a brighter day.
Everything will [C] be alright if you hold on.
It's a struggle [G] every day, gotta hold on.
[Am] There's never a good day.
Cause in my hood, [F] they let the AKs pump straight where the kids [C] play.
And every Halloween, check out the murder [G] scene.
Can't help but duplicate the violence seen on the [Am] screen.
My homies done before they get to see their [F] birthdays.
This is the worst day.
Sometimes it hurts to [C] pray.
And even God turn his back on the ghetto [G] youth.
I know that ain't the truth.
Sometimes I look for [Am] proof.
I wonder if heaven got a ghetto.
And if it does, [F] doesn't matter if you blood or you curse.
Remember [C] how it was.
The picnics and the parties and the [G] projects.
Small-time drinking.
Getting high with the [Am] mobbing.
Just another [C] knucklehead kid from the gutter.
[F] I'm dealing with the madness.
Raised by a single [C] mother.
I'm trying to tell you when it's on.
You gotta [G] keep your head to the sky.
Be strong most of all.
[Am] Hold on.
I wish I could take the pain away.
But you can make it [F] through the night.
There's a brighter day.
Everything will [C] be alright if you hold on.
It's a struggle [G] every day, gotta hold on.
I [Am] wish I could take the pain away.
But you can make it [F] through the night.
There's a brighter day.
Everything will [C] be alright if you hold on.
It's a struggle [G] every day, gotta hold on.
_ [Am] Hold on.
Be strong.
[F] I know them ain't tears coming down your face, but [C] wipe your eyes.
_ [G] In this world, only [Am] the strong survives, sweetheart.
_ [Dm]
I know it's hard out there.
_ [C] Welfare, _ [G] aid, earthquakes, _ [Am] muggings, car jackets.
Yeah, [F] we got problems.
But [C] believe me when I tell you, things [G] always get better.
_ [Am] God don't like ugly, and God [F] don't like no quitter.
_ [C] You know what Billie Holiday said, baby?
[G]
God bless the child that can [Am] hold his own.
You know, you [F] got to stand strong.
And when [C] these busters try to knock you out your place, [G] you stand there and put a face.
And [Am] you tell them, hold on, and be strong.
[Dm]
If the game don't stop, [C] _ _ this [G] here is black man.
And [Am] if you don't ever learn nothing, learn one [Dm] thing.
It don't stop till [C] the casket drop.
Our [Dm] lives began to end the day that we become silent about the things that matter. _ _
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