_ _ _ _
Eb _ _ _ _ .
_
Bb _ _ _ _ _
Gm _ .
I'm a get a high up in the
Eb kitchen _ Daddy wasn't
F there, yeah he was missing.
Gm _ Nobody was there to even
Eb listen I kept all my
F problems and kept my feelings.
hidden,
Gm yeah Put _ the blame
Eb on me, put _
F the
Gm blame on me, yeah.
_
Eb _ _ _ _
F _ .
_
Gm Only ten years old I'm already
Cm numb, yeah my heart's
Fm getting.
cold Saw my mama
Eb getting weak, it hurt me to my.
soul The only man she loved, how could he do this.
to his girl He put that
G pistol to her head, I swear he.
could've shot her dead, man
Eb that liquor made him evil.
F.
I
G swear that man ain't had no reason
Eb That shit just turned into a
F demon, yeah.
Gm Fast forward a couple years, I done turned twelve.
Eb Living life from hell to
F the next hell
Gm I got cousins searching me _ inappropriately.
And
Eb don't nobody believe
F me when I tell
Gm When you learn that your heroes ain't no.
one to look up to
Eb And the same people hurting you, telling
F you.
they love you before
Gm too long you start believing _
Eb That maybe you're the
F C reason,
Gm yeah.
I'm a get a high up in the kitchen
Eb _ Daddy wasn't
F there, yeah he was
Gm missing.
Nobody was there to even
Eb listen I kept all my problems and kept
F my feelings.
hidden,
Gm yeah _ Put the
Eb blame on me, put
F the
Gm blame on me, yeah.
I put the blame
Eb on me.
_
F _ .
G Age fourteen, left East St.
Louis New
Cm drama but I really
Gm ain't new to it.
Hear them laughing at lunchtime and I'm the joke.
Black and white but too black for the white folks.
I can't do nothing about my face, feeling all out of place.
Eb Over something I can't
F control What
Gm the fuck is wrong with these people.
Eb Oh, is there something
F wrong with me though.
Yeah.
_
D Gm Age sixteen, life's still mean
Eb Mama felt her need of
F rescuing.
Gm She got a new man, he told her simply She
Eb could stay with him
F long as she don't
Gm bring me.
I guess she had to make a choice, did what she had to
Eb do.
Chose him over her own
F kid I
Gm don't know what would make her do this.
Eb Gotta be something
F I did,
Gm ooh.
I'm a get a high up in the kitchen
Eb _ Daddy
F wasn't there, yeah he was
Gm missing.
Nobody was there to even
Eb listen I kept all my problems and
F kept my feelings hidden,
Gm yeah.
_ And I put the
Eb blame on me, _ I
F put the
Gm blame on me, yeah.
I put the blame
Eb on me.
_ _
F _ .
Gm I was homeless till I turned eighteen
Eb Started living with a man, I was
Dm dating.
Last
Gm thing on my mind was graduating All about survival and money making.
I was seen to escape my reality Just tryna play the cards God dealt me.
Posted myself singing a song cause it was on my
Eb heart.
When it went viral I
Db was working at
Gm Walmart.
_ I got a new
Eb star, taking my
Gm pain turning
F it into
Gm art.
Turning bad times into hot
Eb songs For the
Dm first time, I'm where I
Gm belong.
_ _ Twenty
Eb now,
F making moves, making money
Gm now _ Rainy days, hella
Eb sunny now.
But every now and then I
Gm think about.
I'm a get a high up in the
Eb kitchen Daddy
F wasn't there, yeah he was
Gm missing.
Nobody was there to even
Eb listen I kept all my problems and
F kept my feelings hidden,
Gm yeah.
F And I put the
Eb blame on me, _
F I put the
Bb blame on
F me, yeah.
I put the
Gm blame on me _ _ .
_ _
F _ _ _ _ _ _ .
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
N _ .