Get By Chords by Talib Kweli

_ _ [E] _ _ [F] Yeah.
[G] _ _
[Gm] Lord.
_ _ _ _ Lord.
[Bb] Yeah.
We sell crack to our own out the back of our homes.
We smell the mustard, the dusk, and the crack of the [Ab] dawn.
We go [Dm] through episodes too, like the attack of the clones.
Wait till we break a fat, and you'll
hear the crack of the bone.
Just to get by.
[E] Just to get by.
[Dm] Just to [D] get by.
Just to get by.
We commute to [Dm] computers, spirits stay mute,
while your ego spread ruin.
We survivalists, turn to consumers.
Just to get by.
[E] Just to get by.
[F] Just to get by.
[Gm] Just to get by.
[Am] Ask me why [Dm] some people gotta live in a trailer,
cuss like a sailor.
Paint a picture with a pen like Norman Mailer.
Me and Quela raised three [E] daughters all by herself.
With [Fm] no help, I think about the struggle,
[Gm] and I find a strength in [Am] myself.
These [Dm] words melt in my mouth.
They hot like the jet cell in the South.
Before my nigga called, bail me out.
Just to get by.
[E] Just to get by.
[D] Just to get by.
Just to get by.
We do it all like [Dm] best stars.
See the red sky out the window of the red island.
Some lead blobs, some T-Rap shit.
Living the life I die.
[E] I woke up, [Dm] think I'm brand new.
I jumped up in my highs, in my lows, in my soul, in my goals.
Just stop smoking, [E] just stop drinking.
[Fm] I've been thinking [G] about my reasons.
[Am] Just to get [Dm] by.
Just to get by.
Just to get by.
Just to get by.
Oh, oh, oh.
[E] _ _ [Fm] _ _ [G] _ _
[Dm] _ Get by.
Just to get by.
Just to get by.
Just to get by.
_ [E] _ _ [Fm] _ _ [G] _ _
[Dm] _ Get by.
Just to get by.
Just to get by.
Get by.
We keep it gangsta, safe [E] and chiseled,
fascist and stay [F] drunk.
It's easy to pull [G] a breezy, smoke trees and we stay [A] drunk.
[D] Your activism attacking the system.
The black, the Latins in prison.
Numbers in prison, they Victor Black and [Dm] the bitches
shouldn't know they got this [Em] rapping to listen to.
[D] Let them know we missing you.
Your love is unconditional.
Even when the condition is critical,
when the living is miserable, your position is pivotal.
I ain't [Dm] bullshitting you now.
[E] But what I [D] like, just to get by.
Just to get by. Get [Dm] fly.
The TV got us reaching for stars.
Not the ones between Venus and Mars,
the ones that be reading from parts.
Get breast [C] implants and penis [F] enlarged.
Your Saturdays in the summer [G] morning
at the feet of the [Dm] father.
They need something to rely on.
They get high on the types of drugs.
When all you really need is love.
To get by.
[Em] Just to get by.
[Dm] Just to get by.
[G] Just to get by.
Pet [Dm] sing like John Lennon.
Imagine all the people watch me rock like Paul McCartney.
But now into the lab, people swap.
This morning, [E] I woke up [F] feeling brand new.
And [G] I jumped up.
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ Oh, just stop smoking.
[Em] Oh, stop drinking.
[D] I'm thinking I got my reasons.
Just [Dm] to get by.
Just to get by.
Just to get by.
Just to get by.
Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.
[E] Some people cry.
[Fm] Some people try.
[G] Just to get by.
But I'm [Dm] easier to pie.
We love to eat in your high.
We just even be lying.
Everything in the block.
Yo, when the [E] people decide to [F] keep up,
the skies, you [G] can't see the eyes.
See the [Dm] evil inside.
The bad people you find.
Stronger people than mine.
I stay reading the sign.
Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.
Some [C] people cry.
Some [F] people [D] try.
Just to get by.
But I'm easier to pie.
We love to eat in your high.
We just even be lying.
Everything [Bb] in the block.
Yo, yo, [G] yo, yo, yo.
When the people decide to keep up,
the skies, you can't see the [E] eyes.
See the evil inside.
[Gm] The bad people you find.
Stronger people than mine.
[Gb] I stay reading the sign.
[E] Yo, yo. _ _ _ _ _ _ _