Nas - Surviving the Times (Video) Chords

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_ _ _ [A] _ _ [Bm] _ But that's [F#m] the whole [G] tragic point, my friends.
[A] _ _ What?
What?
What would I do _ _ _ _ if I [Bm] could feel?
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_ _ _ [A] I [Bm] was young.
I [F#m] was surviving the [G] times.
Waiting for my moment.
I was deaf to [A] shine.
[Bm] Lil Ray had an [F#m] NXX.
I was [G] hoping I'm next.
Wanting bracelets.
Never [A] had a rope on [Bm] my neck.
Unless I was [F#m] holding a tie-y [G] chain.
Rest in peace.
Even though that night you [A] flipped on [Bm] us, you warned us.
If you [F#m] came back and we [G] still in the corners, we'd warn us.
[A] Moving on to [Bm] move your arm and your [F#m] watch to another [G] time on the block.
Cause this 40 side where they [A] said shorty [Bm] rhyme. _
Tragedy he [F#m] used to come through [G] all the time.
I'm talking juice, true.
Not what [A] the word [Bm] define.
He had a sister [F#m] named Erin, but she [G] always fine.
That was my first crush.
I [A] bought my first [Bm] mic.
I wrote my first [F#m] verse.
I was [G] about nine.
I was about mine.
[A] Fantasize house [Bm] buying.
Met Paul.
He [F#m] wore some big [G] glasses.
Him and Mel Korn took me where [A] G-Rap [Bm] live.
I was happy [F#m] just getting some [G] answers.
I ain't even know what a record [A] events [Bm] was.
I'm seeing [F#m] sex in the studio [G] bathroom.
With rap dudes thinking wow [A] she moved [Bm] me.
Same girl then [F#m] right now is a [G] groupie.
Back then she was like the star in [A] the movie.
[Bm] Large jewelry [F#m] and expensive [G] Gucci.
Next stop pay the full price.
She [A] recruits me.
[Bm] Knew they was some [F#m] millionaires.
They wrote [G] Swadooki.
Every B man looking like Touchy.
[A] Shoot me.
[Bm] You see every [F#m] time Rod let him [G] show.
I get to record demos at [A] attempts to blow.
[Bm] I wonder could they [F#m] tell?
How did they [G] know?
_ 16 years later [A] here I [Bm] go. _ _
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_ _ [A] I'm with [Bm] Akineli in the street [F#m] trying to get us a [G] deal.
G-Rap trying to get us to sign to [A] Coach Hill.
[Bm] But Fly Todd didn't [F#m] have the contract [G] we wanted.
Clark Kent just signed us.
He [A] didn't want us.
[Bm] Russell said I sounded [F#m] like G.
The n***a [G] fronted.
Reef him at AC.
Offered me a [A] little money.
[Bm] Shit a little funny.
[F#m] Feel a little [G] laughter.
Rebel of hip hop.
Coming through a [A] white rapper.
[Bm] My boy MC [F#m] Search nevertheless [G] took me to Columbia.
Backed in [A] CBS.
[Bm] Chris Schwartz, Rough House.
[F#m] He was the [G] best man.
I'm buggered cause the label had just [A] dropped that [Bm] jam.
Could you picture [F#m] Russell needing a [G] check man?
But he's smart and plotted a plan for [A] Polygram.
[Bm] _ Life is [F#m] ill again.
Life's a [G] movie.
Then there's Austin Cypress, Hill [A] Niles and [Bm] Fugees. _
Before [F#m] Soul Records no [G] promotion.
The rap world like what's all [A] this [Bm] commotion? _
Whiplap, [F#m] Mad Battles I'm [G] toasting.
_ 2029, Sight, Pahada, [A] they know then.
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What the [F#m] fuck would [G] I do? _ _
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_ _ _ [A] _ _ [Bm] _ Invincible, [F#m] lyrical, miracle [G] man, huh?
But back to the matter [A] at hand cause [Bm] ten years ago we [F#m] all strived to be [G] 25.
Some cats didn't make it [A] alive.
[Bm] Dated some stars [F#m] but respect they [G] privacy.
Cop mad cars laying back in [A] the driver's [Bm] seat
Held myself [F#m] down, just [G] staring at the wheel
Here I am, completing [A] my whole [Bm] record deal
What would [F#m] _ [G] I do? _
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_ [F#m] _ _ _ [G] I do _ _ if [A] _ [Bm] I could _ reach [F#m] _ [G] inside of me _
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And [F#m] to know [G] how it feels to say
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_ [F#m] I like [G] what I see _
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