Chords for Tupac _ Memories ( In His Own Words)

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_ _ _ _ _ Oh, I got [Fm] shot. _ _ _ _ _ _
[Ebm] _ _ _ [Abm] _ _ _ I [Dbm] always felt like I'd be shot.
_ _ Somebody tried to [Ebm] do me some harm
_ [Abm] because a lot of people don't like me.
[Fm] _ But I didn't think it was gonna happen at that particular [Eb] moment.
_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ I'm [Db] surprised, but _ I'm happy. _ _ _
[Eb] I believe that, you know, this is all [Ab] in God's hands.
[Fm] _ _ _ _ Tupac, your life has [Eb] been marred by [Ab] considerable pain.
Do you think [Db] you'll ever get to the point where you can live a normal, happy life?
[Eb] _ _ _ [Ab] _ No.
But _
[Fm] _ _ _ I'm going for it.
I'm [Eb] trying for it.
[Ab] And until then, I have to make the life that [Dbm] I do live
as happy as I can and try [Ebm] to do the best _ with what I have. _
[Fm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] I just want to [Abm] say, Jaz, that as far as [Dbm] remorse, I have a great deal of remorse.
As far as I want you [F] to treat me different, I don't want that.
I just want [Fm] _
the chance to make [Ab] right from all the [Eb] bad things that I got.
You know, [Abm] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Dbm] _ _ when the curve went up,
I just caught [Ab] that bug that everybody talks about when you're like, whoa,
[Fm] _ _ _ this is it.
_ [Eb] _ _ _ [Abm] To go through my [Db] life and everything I did in my life,
coming out of a family and a household [Ebm] with just women [Abm] to get to this point,
to have [Fm] a woman who said I took something from [Eb] them.
_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _
[Db] After getting shot, I was like, shit, I don't know if you trust [Eb] me.
_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _
_ [Fm] _ _ It was hard. _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ When you're [Db] born, usually you're born to a dynasty [Eb] or an empire, right?
[Ab] You're born like as [Fm] a junior or, you know, following in your [Eb] father's footsteps.
You always tell your father [Ab] he did this, all [Db] your father, your grandfather,
he did this and we got this or [Eb] the family heirlooms.
[Abm] There's none of that.
And in [Fm] the outer city, I call it the outer city because we left out.
There's [Eb] no nothing.
We don't [Ab] get any family heirloom, [Db] the family crest, all that stuff
that you would think is so important [Ebm] was meaningless [Abm] because, I mean, come on.
[Fm] _ _ _ _ _ _ Instead [Eb] of us just being [Ab] like slavery's bad, slavery's bad, [Dbm] bad whitey,
I mean, all right, let's stop [Ebm] that.
_ _ [Eb] I know you're rich.
I know you got [Fm] 40 billion dollars, but you just keep it to one house.
[Eb] You only [Ab] need one house.
And if you only [Eb] got two kids, can you just keep [Db] it two rooms?
I mean, why have 52 [F] rooms and you notice somebody with no room?
It just don't [Fm] make sense to me.
They _ don't _ [Eb] all [Abm] the SSI.
It [Db] all comes down to we got to survive.
_ I mean, even warriors put [Ab] their spears down on Sundays.
We got to survive [Fm] here in this country because I'm not going back to Africa.
You [Eb] got to survive for us to survive here.
[Ab] White [Dbm] folks, black folks, Korean folks, Mexican [Ebm] folks, Puerto Ricans.
We [Abm] got to understand each other.
You got to [Fm] take a bigger chance.
And when I say American, [Eb] people think I'm talking about Uncle Sam.
I mean, [Ab] like actually Uncle Sam with [Db] the gray hair and the flag.
I mean, you, _
[Eb] you, _ [Ab] you, the guy, you [Fm] know, you, the mechanic, wherever you.
[Eb] I mean, you need [Ab] to do something.
You need to check [Db] yourself and see how racist you are.
You know, [Eb] I'm saying it's real.
_ [Ab] _ _ _ _
[Fm] _ _ And it's like the only thing we can really leave [Eb] behind is culture,
[Ab] is music, you know, and [Db] and and _ dignity and _ [Eb] determination.
That's what we get.
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[Eb] So it's like _ [Ab] I feel as though I'm [Db] cheated because _ instead of me
[Eb] fulfilling my prophecy, I have to [Ab] start one instead of me,
[Fm] you know, doing a good job and carrying on the empire [Eb] to build one.
[Ab] And that's that's a hell of a job for a [Dbm] 21 year old.
You know, I'm saying that's a hell of a job for any [Ab] youngster, male or female,
to have to build an empire [Fm] for your family.
You know what I'm saying?
And it's like, _ [Ab]
especially when the odds is that, you know, you know,
that somebody else [Db] who lives in the inner city, the real inner [F] city,
suburbia, who when he's born, [Fm] I mean, 16, gets a car automatic.
[Ebm] You know, there's [Ab] money in the bank for college.
You know, it's [Db] Christmas.
Go to vacation somewhere.
Our [Ab] vacation was down the street, _ crosstown, [Fm] grandma house.
You know, that was the vacation. _
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