Chords for Once an Addict (Interlude)
Tempo:
84.75 bpm
Chords used:
C#
C
Cm
Gm
D#
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[C#]
[Cm]
[C#]
[A#] Sometimes [F] I think pain is just [C] a lack of understanding.
[Gm] If we could only understand it all, [C#] would we feel no pain?
[F] God must feel no [G] pain.
[Cm] Only [C#] joy.
Does this [Fm] mean even our suffering pleases [C] him?
Lost in a cloud of [G] marijuana, young Carolina nigga, [C] fish outta water.
Stepdaddy [C#] just had a daughter with another woman.
Mama ain't recovered yet, calling me [D#] at 12 at night.
She drunk as fuck [C] and I'm upset, cause why she always using me [Gm] for crutch?
Growing up I always used to see her up, latest shit, [C#] cigarette smoke and greatest hits from Marvin Gaye.
She kill a whole [D#m] bottle with some cheap [D#] Chardonnay.
I gotta leave this house cause [G] part of me dies when I see her like this.
Too young [Dm] to deal with pain.
I'd rather run [C] the streets than see her kill herself.
[C#] So Phil became my escape from a feeling I hate.
Mama cursing me out, [D#] depression such a villainous [C] state.
I used to stay out later on purpose.
[D] Subconsciously I was nervous that if I [C] came home early then what [C#] would surface was her inner demons.
And then I'd have to end up seeing my hero on [A#] ground zero.
Tears flow [Cm] while Al Green blow.
Love and happiness.
[D] I wish that I could say the right words to cheer her [C] up.
I wish her son's love [C#] was enough.
I tell her mama go to sleep.
She tell me boy hush.
You better [D#] pray to God you never get [Cm] your heart crushed.
I shake my head in frustration.
Head to my [Gm] room and I can still hear the tunes when my door's shut.
[C#] Fuck it though a couple more months I'll be gone.
Off to college and dorms.
Fooling [D#] myself thinking problems are [Gm] gone.
But now it's 1am and my mama dialing my phone.
I know she [Cm] intoxicated and soon as high that I'm [C#] on comes crashing down.
She lit talking drunk shit I'm pissed but I'm [D#] still all ears like passing [Gm] hounds.
Thinking to myself maybe my mama need help.
Don't she got work in the morning?
Why she do this to herself?
[C#] Hate how she's slurring her words.
Sounding so [D#m] fucking absurd.
This ain't the woman [F] I know.
Why I just sit and observe?
[Gm] Why don't I say how I feel when I do?
She's [D] the fist of for real.
Well maybe things get [Cm] better with time.
I heard it [C#] heals.
Little did I know how deep her sadness would go.
Looking [G] back I wish I would've did more instead of running.
Something's gotta hold [Cm] on me.
I [C#]
can't let go out of fear.
I won't be [C] free.
[G] Something's gotta [D] hold on me.
I [C#]
can't let [G#] go out of fear.
I won't be [C] free.
Something's gotta [A#] hold [Cm] on me.
[C#] I can't let [D#m] go.
[G#] [C]
[D] Love can be much pain.
[C#]
There are many ways to deal with this pain.
[A#m] Choose [Dm] wisely.
[Cm]
[C#]
[A#] Sometimes [F] I think pain is just [C] a lack of understanding.
[Gm] If we could only understand it all, [C#] would we feel no pain?
[F] God must feel no [G] pain.
[Cm] Only [C#] joy.
Does this [Fm] mean even our suffering pleases [C] him?
Lost in a cloud of [G] marijuana, young Carolina nigga, [C] fish outta water.
Stepdaddy [C#] just had a daughter with another woman.
Mama ain't recovered yet, calling me [D#] at 12 at night.
She drunk as fuck [C] and I'm upset, cause why she always using me [Gm] for crutch?
Growing up I always used to see her up, latest shit, [C#] cigarette smoke and greatest hits from Marvin Gaye.
She kill a whole [D#m] bottle with some cheap [D#] Chardonnay.
I gotta leave this house cause [G] part of me dies when I see her like this.
Too young [Dm] to deal with pain.
I'd rather run [C] the streets than see her kill herself.
[C#] So Phil became my escape from a feeling I hate.
Mama cursing me out, [D#] depression such a villainous [C] state.
I used to stay out later on purpose.
[D] Subconsciously I was nervous that if I [C] came home early then what [C#] would surface was her inner demons.
And then I'd have to end up seeing my hero on [A#] ground zero.
Tears flow [Cm] while Al Green blow.
Love and happiness.
[D] I wish that I could say the right words to cheer her [C] up.
I wish her son's love [C#] was enough.
I tell her mama go to sleep.
She tell me boy hush.
You better [D#] pray to God you never get [Cm] your heart crushed.
I shake my head in frustration.
Head to my [Gm] room and I can still hear the tunes when my door's shut.
[C#] Fuck it though a couple more months I'll be gone.
Off to college and dorms.
Fooling [D#] myself thinking problems are [Gm] gone.
But now it's 1am and my mama dialing my phone.
I know she [Cm] intoxicated and soon as high that I'm [C#] on comes crashing down.
She lit talking drunk shit I'm pissed but I'm [D#] still all ears like passing [Gm] hounds.
Thinking to myself maybe my mama need help.
Don't she got work in the morning?
Why she do this to herself?
[C#] Hate how she's slurring her words.
Sounding so [D#m] fucking absurd.
This ain't the woman [F] I know.
Why I just sit and observe?
[Gm] Why don't I say how I feel when I do?
She's [D] the fist of for real.
Well maybe things get [Cm] better with time.
I heard it [C#] heals.
Little did I know how deep her sadness would go.
Looking [G] back I wish I would've did more instead of running.
Something's gotta hold [Cm] on me.
I [C#]
can't let go out of fear.
I won't be [C] free.
[G] Something's gotta [D] hold on me.
I [C#]
can't let [G#] go out of fear.
I won't be [C] free.
Something's gotta [A#] hold [Cm] on me.
[C#] I can't let [D#m] go.
[G#] [C]
[D] Love can be much pain.
[C#]
There are many ways to deal with this pain.
[A#m] Choose [Dm] wisely.
Key:
C#
C
Cm
Gm
D#
C#
C
Cm
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Cm] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _
_ _ _ [A#] Sometimes [F] I think pain is just [C] a lack of understanding.
_ [Gm] If we could only understand it all, [C#] would we feel no pain?
_ [F] _ God must feel no [G] pain.
_ [Cm] _ _ _ _ Only [C#] joy.
_ _ Does this [Fm] mean even our suffering pleases [C] him?
Lost in a cloud of [G] marijuana, young Carolina nigga, [C] fish outta water.
Stepdaddy [C#] just had a daughter with another woman.
Mama ain't recovered yet, calling me [D#] at 12 at night.
She drunk as fuck [C] and I'm upset, cause why she always using me [Gm] for crutch?
Growing up I always used to see her up, latest shit, [C#] cigarette smoke and greatest hits from Marvin Gaye.
She kill a whole [D#m] bottle with some cheap [D#] Chardonnay.
I gotta leave this house cause [G] part of me dies when I see her like this.
Too young [Dm] to deal with pain.
I'd rather run [C] the streets than see her kill herself.
[C#] So Phil became my escape from a feeling I hate.
Mama cursing me out, [D#] depression such a villainous [C] state.
I used to stay out later on purpose.
[D] Subconsciously I was nervous that if I [C] came home early then what [C#] would surface was her inner demons.
And then I'd have to end up seeing my hero on [A#] ground zero.
Tears flow [Cm] while Al Green blow.
Love and happiness.
[D] I wish that I could say the right words to cheer her [C] up.
I wish her son's love [C#] was enough.
I tell her mama go to sleep.
She tell me boy hush.
You better [D#] pray to God you never get [Cm] your heart crushed.
I shake my head in frustration.
Head to my [Gm] room and I can still hear the tunes when my door's shut.
[C#] Fuck it though a couple more months I'll be gone.
Off to college and dorms.
Fooling [D#] myself thinking problems are [Gm] gone.
But now it's 1am and my mama dialing my phone.
I know she [Cm] intoxicated and soon as high that I'm [C#] on comes crashing down.
She lit talking drunk shit I'm pissed but I'm [D#] still all ears like passing [Gm] hounds.
Thinking to myself maybe my mama need help.
Don't she got work in the morning?
Why she do this to herself?
[C#] Hate how she's slurring her words.
Sounding so [D#m] fucking absurd.
This ain't the woman [F] I know.
Why I just sit and observe?
[Gm] Why don't I say how I feel when I do?
She's [D] the fist of for real.
Well maybe things get [Cm] better with time.
I heard it [C#] heals.
Little did I know how deep her sadness would go.
Looking [G] back I wish I would've did more instead of running.
Something's gotta hold [Cm] on me.
I [C#]
can't let go out of fear.
I won't be [C] free.
[G] Something's gotta [D] hold on me.
I [C#]
can't let [G#] go out of fear.
I won't be [C] free.
Something's gotta [A#] hold [Cm] on me.
[C#] I can't let [D#m] go.
_ _ [G#] _ _ _ [C] _
_ [D] Love can be much pain.
_ _ [C#]
There are many ways to deal with this pain.
_ [A#m] Choose [Dm] wisely.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Cm] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _
_ _ _ [A#] Sometimes [F] I think pain is just [C] a lack of understanding.
_ [Gm] If we could only understand it all, [C#] would we feel no pain?
_ [F] _ God must feel no [G] pain.
_ [Cm] _ _ _ _ Only [C#] joy.
_ _ Does this [Fm] mean even our suffering pleases [C] him?
Lost in a cloud of [G] marijuana, young Carolina nigga, [C] fish outta water.
Stepdaddy [C#] just had a daughter with another woman.
Mama ain't recovered yet, calling me [D#] at 12 at night.
She drunk as fuck [C] and I'm upset, cause why she always using me [Gm] for crutch?
Growing up I always used to see her up, latest shit, [C#] cigarette smoke and greatest hits from Marvin Gaye.
She kill a whole [D#m] bottle with some cheap [D#] Chardonnay.
I gotta leave this house cause [G] part of me dies when I see her like this.
Too young [Dm] to deal with pain.
I'd rather run [C] the streets than see her kill herself.
[C#] So Phil became my escape from a feeling I hate.
Mama cursing me out, [D#] depression such a villainous [C] state.
I used to stay out later on purpose.
[D] Subconsciously I was nervous that if I [C] came home early then what [C#] would surface was her inner demons.
And then I'd have to end up seeing my hero on [A#] ground zero.
Tears flow [Cm] while Al Green blow.
Love and happiness.
[D] I wish that I could say the right words to cheer her [C] up.
I wish her son's love [C#] was enough.
I tell her mama go to sleep.
She tell me boy hush.
You better [D#] pray to God you never get [Cm] your heart crushed.
I shake my head in frustration.
Head to my [Gm] room and I can still hear the tunes when my door's shut.
[C#] Fuck it though a couple more months I'll be gone.
Off to college and dorms.
Fooling [D#] myself thinking problems are [Gm] gone.
But now it's 1am and my mama dialing my phone.
I know she [Cm] intoxicated and soon as high that I'm [C#] on comes crashing down.
She lit talking drunk shit I'm pissed but I'm [D#] still all ears like passing [Gm] hounds.
Thinking to myself maybe my mama need help.
Don't she got work in the morning?
Why she do this to herself?
[C#] Hate how she's slurring her words.
Sounding so [D#m] fucking absurd.
This ain't the woman [F] I know.
Why I just sit and observe?
[Gm] Why don't I say how I feel when I do?
She's [D] the fist of for real.
Well maybe things get [Cm] better with time.
I heard it [C#] heals.
Little did I know how deep her sadness would go.
Looking [G] back I wish I would've did more instead of running.
Something's gotta hold [Cm] on me.
I [C#]
can't let go out of fear.
I won't be [C] free.
[G] Something's gotta [D] hold on me.
I [C#]
can't let [G#] go out of fear.
I won't be [C] free.
Something's gotta [A#] hold [Cm] on me.
[C#] I can't let [D#m] go.
_ _ [G#] _ _ _ [C] _
_ [D] Love can be much pain.
_ _ [C#]
There are many ways to deal with this pain.
_ [A#m] Choose [Dm] wisely.