FEAR Chords. by Kendrick Lamar

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_ _ _ _ _ _ I know you've been having a [Bb] lot on your mind lately, and I [Ab] know you feel like, you know,
people ain't been praying for you, but you have to [Eb] understand this, man, that we are earth people.
Deuteronomy 28 and [Ebm] 28 says, the Lord shall smite thee with madness and blindness and
astonishment of heart.
See, family, that's why you feel like you feel like you got a chip on your shoulder.
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[Ebm] _ _ _ _ _ _ I know _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[B] _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ you feel like you feel like you got a chip on your shoulder.
_ I know _ [Eb] _ _ _
you feel like you feel like you got [Db] _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ [Ebm] _ a chip _ _ _ on [Ab] your shoulder.
I _ _ _
[G] know _ you [Bb] feel like you got a chip _ _ [Eb] _ on your shoulder.
I beat your ass if you walk in this house with tears in your eyes running from hoopoe apprentice go [Fm] back on side
I beat your ass little nigga [Ebm] that homework better be finished
I beat your ass your teachers better not be bitching about you in class that piece of bed not be wasted
You eat it all the TV better be loud if you got it on [Ab] them Jordans better not get dirty [Bm] when I just bought them
Better not hear [Bb] about you humping on Keisha's daughter better not hear you got caught up
I beat your ass you better not run to your father.
[Eb] I beat your ass.
You know my patience [C] running thin
Mr.
Make [Ab] County buildings on my ass trying to [Eb] take my food stamps away
I beat your ass if you tell them social [Ebm] workers he live here
I beat your ass if I beat your ass twice and you still here seven years old think you run this [Ab] house by yourself
Nigga, you go [G] fear me if you don't fear no [Eb] one else
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_ _ _ _ _ I _
_ _ _ _ _ [Ab] Probably died [Eb] not a miss a probably die with [Ebm] promises.
I probably died walking back home from the candy house
I probably died because these colors are standing now
I probably [Gb] died [C] because I know the markets are [Ab] sniffing.
I probably died these house [Eb] parties fuck your bitches
I probably died witnesses leaving [Ebm] me foster cues
I probably died from thinking that me and your hood were cool
Or maybe died from pressing the line acting to extra or maybe died because these smokers are more than desperate
I probably died from one of these bats and blue badges
Body slams black and white paint my bones snapping maybe died panic or die from being too lax
Die for [Eb] waiting on it.
I cuz I'm moving [Ebm] too fast.
I probably died trying to buy weed at the apartment
I probably died trying to defuse to only dog you probably died
That's what you do when you're 70 [Ab] or worries in a [Eb] hurry out which I control [Ebm] things
I _ _
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_ [Ab] _ _ _ [Eb] can smoke
[Ebm] When _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ I [Ab] _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ [Eb] _ [Bb] was 27 I grew accustomed to more fear
_ Accumulated 10 times over throughout the [Ebm] years my newfound life made Harlem be magnified
How many [Eb] accolades do I need to block the [Ebm] now the shock value of my success?
Proposing me all this money is God playing the joke on me
Is it for the moment and Willie see me as [Ab] jokes?
Take it from [Bm] me and leave me worse than I was [Ebm] before at 27
My biggest fear was losing it all scared to spend money had me sleeping [C] from hard to hard
Scared to go back to section a boom my mama [Ab] stressing 30 shows a month and I still [Eb] won't buy me no Lexus
What is an advisor somebody that's holding my text just to fuck [Ebm] me over and put my finances in debt
I read a case about Rihanna's [Ab] accountant and wonder I did the bad [Eb] girl feel when she looked at them [Bb] numbers
That type of shit up make me flip out and just kill some drill some get ill and feel wretched with a little some my [Ebm] practice
Running from fear guess I had some good luck at [Eb] 27 years old
My biggest fear was being [Ebm] judged how they look at me reflect on myself my family my city what they say about me
Will fill if my reputation will miss me what they see from me would trickle down
Generations in [Ab] time what they hear from me will make them [Bm] highlight my simplest [Ebm] lines.
I'm talking fear fear losing creativity
[Eb] I'm talking fear fear missing out on you and me
I'm talking [Fm] fear fear [Db] losing loyalty for [Ab] pride cuz my DNA won't let me [Db] involve in the light of [Ebm] God
I'm talking fear [Eb] fear that my humbleness is gone.
I'm [Db] talking fear fear that love me living here no more
[Eb]
Fear fear [Db] that is [Ab] wickedness or weakness fear whatever [Eb] it is both is [Bb] distinctive
Fear what [Eb] happens on earth stays on earth and I [Fm] can't take these feelings with me
So hopefully they disperse within 14 cracks [Db] carried out over wax [Eb] searching for resolutions until somebody get [Ebm] back
Fear what [Eb] happens on earth stays on earth and I can't take these feelings with me
So hopefully [Ebm] they disperse [Eb] within 14 cracks [Db] carried out [Bb] over wax
Wondering if I'm living [Fm] through fear living through [E] rap [Dbm] damn Goddamn you
_ _ [E] _ Goddamn me
_ _ _ [Ab] Goddamn us
_ _ _ [Dbm] Goddamn we _
_ _ _ _ _ Goddamn us _ _ all
First two says you only have I known of all the [E] families of the earth
_ _ I [C] will punish you for all your iniquities
So [Ab] until we come [Dbm] back to these commandments until you come back to these we're gonna be in this place
We're gonna be under this curse [E] because he said he's gonna punish us the so [C]-called black
Hispanic and Native American Indians [Ab] _
[Dbm] are the true children of
_ _ [C] Israel we are the Israelites according to the Bible [Dbm] the children of Israel
You're gonna punish us for our iniquity for our disobeying because we chose to follow us
Then I had not chastened his son.
So [C] the Lord thy God chastened thee
So [Dbm] just like you're a chance in your own son.
He's gonna chastening you because he loved you
So that's why we get chastised
[Ab] That's why we in a position that we're [G] in
Until we come back to these laws statutes and commandments and do what the Lord says
These curses is gonna be upon us
We're gonna be at a lower state in this life that we live here and today in United States of America
I love you, Simon, and I pray for you.
God bless you.