Chords for Still I Rise

_ [Gm] Dear Lord, as we down here struggle for as long as we know, search of a paradise we touch.
_ Dreams are dreams, and reality seems to be the only place to go, the only place for us.
I know, trying to make it back to bad situations, seems to be my life's story.
Ain't no glory in pain, a soldier's story in vain, and can't nobody let his life go.
It's a ride y'all, a long hard ride.
Somebody begged me, I'm dreaming, [Bb] I saw that there's a seed, the seed been swimming upstream, planted in the womb, I'm screaming.
On the top was my pops, my mama screaming, stops from a single [Gm] drop, this is what they got.
Not to disrespect my peoples, but [Bb] my papa was a loser, only plan he had for mama was to fuck her and abuse her.
Even at the low sea, I could see his plan for me, stranded on welfare, [Gm] another broken family, and what was I to be?
[Bb] Throttled up this heated [Cm] passion, mama got pregnant, [Gm] and papa got a piece of ass, look how it began.
[Bb] Nobody gave a fuck about me, fiscal in my hand, [Gm] this cruel world could do without [Cm] me, I cannot survive.
[Gm] Got me asking why Jesus will a nigga live or die, [Bb] cause the Lord can't see us [Cm] in the deep dark clouds [Bb] of the projects.
[Cm] Ain't no sunshine, no [Bb] sunny days, and we only play sometimes, [Gm] when everybody's sleeping.
I open my window, jump to the street, and get to creeping, I can live or die, hope I get [Bb] some money for them gone.
[Cm] I'm only 19, now [Bb] trying to hustle on my own, on the spot where everybody in [Gm] they pops trying to slay rocks.
Rather go to college, but this is where the gang stops, don't get it wrong, cause [Bb] it's all it's own.
From the dome, you can buy [Gm] rocks, blocks, or a [Cm] herringbone, you can ask my man, [Gm] he's a mind reader.
Keep my mind here, all the time, this is how we grind, meet up at the cemetery, then get smoked out.
[Eb] That's the beat nigga, I hear [Gm] the C, and keep it speed, everywhere I go, [Bb] niggas holler at me.
Keep [Cm] it real, T, and mommy [Gm] fly til they kill me, [Cm] act up if you feel me, [Bb] I was born not to [Cm] make it, but I did.
The [Bb] tribulations of a ghetto [Eb] kid, still I ride.
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[Eb] These deaf [Gm] people just got [Eb] kidnapped, and they're [Gm] English, they know how to drive.
[Eb] I don't [Gm] want you to [Cm] cry.
_ [Gm] Y'all [Cm] making face, _ [Gm] _ _ [Eb]
all day [Gm] every day.
_ _ You know how y'all [Cm] really do, _ [Gm] you ain't, [Cm] _ _ [Gm] _ [Cm] y'all just don't [Gm] listen.
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