Chords for J. Cole - The Climb Back (Official Audio)

_ Are you doing this work to facilitate growth or to become famous? _
Which is more important?
_ _ Ready or letting go? _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [B] _ This _ _ is [Eb] a _ video to help you become famous.
This [Bbm] is a video to help you become famous.
This is a video to help you become famous.
My niggas pick me up and we gon' [Eb] light the city up as if the sun [B] had the night.
And paint the town red for my nigga found dead too soon.
_ _ Yeah, to the [Ebm] left of that decimal I need seven figures to play the joint.
Turn up your decibels, peep-eye decimator [B] joint.
Check out my projects like them [Ebm] workers that sectionator [B] points.
Then you'll see how I flip like exclamation points.
[Ebm] My niggas shoot first as if they never played the point.
More two guards, enough traps, fill for [B] a U-Haul.
More depth than World War II cars around these parks.
We put up rounds just to drown these stalks [Ebm] of black corpses in County Marks, Lord.
Those images haunting, I ain't been asleep yet.
It's [B] ten in the morning, I'm sending a warning.
A [Ebm] problem with me is like the BET [B] Hip Hop Awards.
I'm starting to see you niggas don't want it.
I'm [Ebm] sick of this flaunting from niggas I know for sure ain't got more gold than cold.
Trash rappers, ass specklers, trying to go [B] toe-to-toe, we laugh at you.
Staff strapped up on top the totem pole to blast at you.
Bass maxes, look how they toe-to [Ebm]-pole.
Gotta know the ropes and the protocol, or they gone for short.
Blow your clothes half [B] off like a promo code.
Made a little tune called Folded Clothes, and a nigga still ain't on the fold.
Under pressure, well you know a [Ebm] code, dude.
Make a diamond, they just rhyming me, I'm quoting gold.
One phone call gets you canceled like a [B] homophobe in this PC culture.
Dress me as the GOAT like they called Chief Keef Sosa.
In my section, no, [Ebm] like a fucking three-piece sofa.
I'm known as the chosen one.
Another dead body lay frozen, that's how it [B] goes sometimes.
With niggas wearing coconut, [Ebm] the frozen kind.
Well I ain't with that [B] sleeping on the ground like a gopher, so I go for [Ebm] mine.
Everything come back [Bb] around full circle.
Why do lies sound pleasant, [Bb] but the truth hurtful?
[B] Everybody gotta [Gb] cry once in a while, but [B] how long will it take for you to smile?
[Eb] This is that come back to life [Gb] shit.
My niggas pick me up and we gone light the city up as if the sun [B] had the night.
And paint the town red for my nigga found dead too soon.
Now I know why they call it blue.
_ [Ebm] _ Survival at all costs.
Everyday niggas get logged off, bodies get all doused.
Passing the [B] funeral procession while holding my breath in the car, I thought.
There's times I be feeling the devil be winning, but do that mean God lost?
Just got off the phone, my [Ebm] nigga he back in the kennel, my dog lost.
I brought him around close to me before, but he became addicted to [B] clouting all the hoes we meet.
I slowly pee jealousy on his breath whenever he spoke to me.
Like on the low, he feeling it in my shoes, it's where he's [Ebm] supposed to be.
I try to ignore the signs, but they're in the back of my mind.
It felt like letting a nigga come [Eb] sleep on your couch and he [B] eating up all your groceries.
My nigga repeated his quote to me.
I felt this potency, said most of these niggas gone hang they self just giving a rope and [Ebm] see.
Shit, I heeded that.
What God showed to me was screaming at some niggas you gotta leave.
I'm back, [B] unfortunately we seen the trap.
Nigga be on that demon clack.
Resultantly they feign to clap as often as the genius that misquoting [Ebm] me.
_ _ Meanwhile, I see that your diamonds is glistening.
I'm glad that you shinin', but need I remind you my niggas is [B] diamond and nickelin'.
Scraping on whatever coin they can find, a petty ass crime they committing it.
Tripped and get by for a limited time, the steepest of mountain they [Ebm] trying to climb.
I'm hitching on a finer derivative.
You niggas don't feel me, you see the clout, you don't see the real me.
If I sit, you [B] nigga wouldn't hear me, therefore I'm healing myself.
Getting in tune with my God, slowly revealing myself.
Building my wealth for niggas that's running, I'm a killer [Eb] myself.
Trust me.
Everything come [Bbm] back around full circle.
[C] Why do lies [Eb] sound pleasant, let the truth [B] hurt me.
_ Everybody got a [Ebm] cry once in a while, but [B] how long will it take for you smile.
This is [Eb] that come back to life [Bbm] shit.
My niggas pick me up and we gon' [Eb] light the city up as if the sun had the [B] night.
And paint the town red for my niggas found dead too soon.
Now I know why they call it [Ebm] blue.
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_ [Eb] _ Everybody [Bbm] mention suicide prevention, [Eb] man they even made a _ [Ebm] hotline.
[B] You call it witness attention, but I [Ebm] got a [B] question.
What about a fucking homicide? _ _
_ [Ebm] Need a number for all my niggas who call.
Whenever there's a urge to get triggers involved.
[B] Need a number for all my niggas who call.
Whenever there's a urge to get triggers involved.
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