Chords for Kendrick Lamar - Fear

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_ _ _ _ _ I know you've been having a lot on your mind [Eb] lately and I know you feel like you know people
ain't been praying for you but you have to understand this man that we are cursed people.
Deuteronomy 28 and [Ebm] 28 says the Lord shall smite thee with madness and blindness and
astonishment of heart.
See Charlie that's why you feel like you feel like you got a chip on your shoulder.
[Eb] Why God why God do I gotta suffer?
Pain in my heart carry burdens full of struggle.
Why God why [Ebm] God do I gotta be?
Every [Fm] stone thrown at you resting at [Ebm] my feet.
Why God why God do I gotta suffer?
Earth is no war won't you burn this motherfucker.
I don't think I can fly no to [Cm] make it on this earth.
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_ _ [Ab] I beat your [Eb] ass talking back I beat your ass but you [Bb] that you stole it.
I beat your ass if you say that game is broken.
I beat your ass [Eb] if you jump on my couch.
I beat your ass if you walk in this house with tears in your eyes running [C] from poor poor apprentice.
Go back on side I beat your ass little [F] nigga that homework better be finished.
I beat your ass your [Ebm] teachers better not be bitching about you in class.
That piece of bed not be weight that you eat it all.
That TV better not be loud if you [Ab] got it on.
Them Jordan's better not get [G] dirty when I just bought them.
[Eb] Better not hear about you humping on Keisha's daughter.
Better [Ebm] not hear you got caught up.
I beat your ass you better not run to your father.
I beat your ass you [C] know my patience running thin I got boo boo payments [Ab] to make.
County buildings on my ass trying to [Db] take my food stamps away.
I beat your ass if you tell them [Ebm] social workers he live here.
I beat your ass if I beat your ass twice and you still here.
Seven years old think you [Ab] run this house by yourself.
Nigga you [G] gon' fear me if you don't fear no [Eb] one else.
[C] If I can smoke fear away I roll that motherfucker up.
And then I take you [Ebm] first.
_ [C] I'm high now.
I'm high [Ebm] now.
I'm high now.
I'm high now.
Life's a bitch pull them panties to the side now.
_ _ [Ab] I probably [G] died not in a mess.
I probably died [Eb] with promises.
I probably [Ebm] died walking back home from the candy house.
I probably died because these [Eb] colors are standing out.
I probably [C] died because I ain't know what the markets [Ab] was snitching.
I probably died at these house [Eb] parties fucking with bitches.
I probably died from witnesses [Ebm] leaving me false accused.
I probably died from thinking that me and your hood was cool.
Or maybe died from pressing the line acting too extra.
Or maybe died because these smokers are more than desperate.
I probably died from one of these bats and blue badges.
Body slam from black and white but ain't my bones napping.
Or maybe died from panic or died from being too maxed.
[C] Died from waiting on a dot cause I'm moving [Ebm] too fast.
I probably died trying to buy weed at the apartments.
I probably died trying to defuse two homie doggy.
I probably died cause that's what you do on your seventies.
[Ab] My worries in [Eb] a hurry I wish I [Ebm] controlled things.
If I could smoke fear away I'd roll that motherfucker up.
Living in a [C] H2O fest.
I've been hungry all [Ab] my life.
I'm high now.
[Eb] I'm high now.
[Ebm] I'm high now.
I'm high now.
I'm high now.
I'm high now.
I'm high now. _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [Bm] _ [Eb] I'm high now.
When I [Bb] was 27 I grew accustomed to more fear.
[C] Accumulated ten times over throughout the years.
My new found life made Harlem be magnified.
How many accolades do I need to block [Ebm] denial?
The shock value of my success purports to me.
All this money is God playing a joke on me.
Is it for the moment and will he see me [Ab] as Job?
Take it from [G] me and leave me worse than I was [Eb] before.
At 27 [Ebm] my biggest fear was losing it all.
Scared to spend money had me sleeping from hard to hard.
[Eb] Scared to go back to section [Ab] A with my mama stressing.
30 shows a month and I [Eb] still won't buy me no Lexus.
What is an advisor?
Somebody that's holding my texts just [Ebm] to fuck me over and put my finances in debt.
I read a case about [Ab] Rihanna's account hit and wonder.
How did the bad [G] girl feel when she looked at them [Bb] numbers?
That type of shit'll make me flip out and just kill them.
Drill some, get [Eb] ill and feel ratchets with a lil' some.
My [Ebm] practice running from fear.
Guess I had some good luck.
At [Fm] 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 reveal if my reputation will miss me.
What they see from me will trickle down generations in [Ab] time.
What they hear from me will [G] make them highlight my simplest [Ebm] lines.
I'm talking fear.
Fear.
Losing creativity.
[Fm] I'm talking fear. Fear.
Missing out on you and me.
I'm talking fear.
[Db] Fear.
Losing loyalty for [Ab] pride.
Cause my DNA won't [Db] let me evolve in the light of [Ebm] God.
I'm talking fear.
Fear.
That my humbleness is [Db] gone.
I'm talking fear.
Fear.
That love ain't living here [Ab] no more.
I'm talking fear.
Fear.
Fear that it's wickedness or weakness.
Fear.
Whatever it is both is [Bb] distinctive.
Fear.
[Eb] What happens on earth stays on [Fm] earth and I can't take these feelings with me.
So hopefully they disperse within 14 [Db] cracks.
Carried out over wax.
[Eb] Searching for resolutions until somebody get [Ebm] back.
Fear.
[Eb] What happens on earth stays on earth and I can't take these feelings with me.
So hopefully they disperse within 14 cracks.
[Bb] Carried out over wax.
Wondering if I'm [Fm] living through fear or living through [E] rap.
[Dbm] Damn.
God damn [E] you.
God damn me.
[Ab] God damn us.
[Dbm] God damn we. _ _
_ God damn us _ all.
Verse 2 says you only have I known.
_ [E] _ Therefore I [C] will punish you for all your iniquities.
So [Dbm] until we come back to these commandments.
Until _ we're going to feel this way.
We're going to be under this [E] curse.
Because he said he's going to punish us.
The so [Ab] called black, hispanic, and native american Indians.
[Dbm] Are the true children [C] of this realm.
We are the Israelites according to [Dbm] the Bible.
The children of this realm is going to punish us for our iniquity.
For our disobedience.
Because we chose to follow other gods.
That I have not chastised his son.
[C] So the Lord thy God chastise thee.
[Dbm] So just like you're chastising your own son.
He's going to chastise you because he loves you.
So that's why we get [Ab] chastised.
That's why we're in the position that we're [G] in.
Until we come back to these laws, statutes, and commandments.
And do what the Lord says.
These curses are going to be upon us.
We're going to be at a lower state in this life.
That we live here and today in the United States of America.
I love you Simon.
And I pray for you.
God [N] bless you.
Shalom.