Chords for Sons of Anarchy | Gangsta's Paradise - 7.08.2020

It's hard not [Fm] to hate _ [G] _ people, [C] things, institutions.
[Ab] When they break your [Fm] spirit and take pleasure in watching you bleed.
[G] _ [Eb] Hate [C] is the only feeling that makes sense.
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_ _ _ [G] _ [Cm] So what now? _
[G] Couldn't get me down without a mayhem, or if it's that [Fm] who you are now.
Don't [G] try and put this on me, [Cm] jury. _
[Ab] _ _ _ [F] Remember me.
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[C] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [F] _ _ [G] _ _
_ [C] _ [Ab] As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I [G] take a look at my life and [Eb] realize there's nothing left.
[Ab] Cause I've been blasting and laughing so long that
[G] even my mama thinks that my mind is gone.
But [Ab] I ain't never crossed a man [F] that didn't deserve it.
[G] Me be treated like a punk, [C] you know that's unheard [Ab] of.
You better watch how you're [F] talking and where you're walking,
[G] or you and your homies [C] might be lying in chalk.
[Ab] I really hate to trip, [F] but I gotta loaf.
[G] As they croak, I see myself [C] in the pistol smoke, fool.
[Ab] I'm the kind of cheater [F] little homies wanna be like
[G] on my knees in the night saying prayers in the streetlight.
[Ab] You stay in my head now and [G] bring in the [Eb] headlights.
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_ _ [Ab] Look at the situation [F] they got me facing.
[G] I can't live a normal life, [C] I was raised by the state.
[Ab] So I gotta be [F] damned with the hood thing.
Too much television watching [Ab] got me chasing dreams.
I'm an educated [Fm] fool with money on my mind.
[G] Got my 10 in my [C] hand and the game in my eye.
[Ab] I'm a loafed out, [F] gangsta set, tripping banker.
[G] And my homies is down [C] so don't arise my anger.
[Ab] Fool, death ain't nothing [F] but a heartbeat away.
[G] I'm living life to a [C] dia.
What can I say?
[Ab] I'm 23 now, [F] but will I live to see 24?
[G] The way things is [C] going I don't know.
[Ab] Tell me why [F] are we [G] so blind [C] to see
that [Ab] the one, [F] _ [G] are you [C] and me?
[Ab] We've been spending most of the hours [G] living in a [Eb] gangster's paradise.
[Ab] We've been spending most of the [G] hours living in a gangster's paradise.
[Ab] We keep spending most of the [G] hours living in the [Eb] headclubs.
_ [Ab] We keep spending most of the [G] _
_ _ [Ab] hours.
Power and the [F] money, money and the [G] power.
Minute after [C] minute, hour after [Ab] hour.
Everybody's [F] running, but half of them ain't [G] looking.
What's going on in the [C] kitchen?
But I don't know what's [Ab] shaking.
They say I got to [F] learn, but nobody's here to [G] teach me.
If they can't [C] understand it, how can they [Ab] teach me?
I guess they [F] can't, I guess they won't, [G] I guess they front.
That's [C] why I know my life is out of [Ab] luck, fool.
We've been spending most of the [G] hours living in a [Eb] gangster's paradise.
[Ab] We've been spending most of the [G] hours living in a gangster's paradise.
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[Eb] been spending [Ab] most _ _ _ _
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_ [Eb] of the hours living in a [Ab] _ gangster's paradise. _ _
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