Chords for When Thugz Cry

When thugs cry, _ _ [Fm] _ now I lay me down to sleep
[Ab] _ Afraid to load my guns [G] to keep the thugs from [Cm] me
Afraid to load my soul to [Fm] take me
[Ab] God is God
When thugs [G] cry, now I'm solid
[Cm] More than thuggin' and lovin' the way I [Fm] came
My big money clutchin', bustin' while he [Ab] raidin'
Cocaine bust my hoes, rushin'
Send my plushin' into insanity
[G] Shout at my cousin now, bustin' at they old [Cm] family
The cops wanna see me, bubby, I ain't bubby
I [Fm] gotta love him to be eight, cause I'm fuckin' his secretary
[Ab] I black out in store, I cuss and bust him and touch him [G] all
They panic and bitch [G] duck and I rush him and fuck him [Cm] all
I probably be an old man before I understand
[Fm] Why I haven't lived my life with pistols, clothes, [Ab] and hands
Kidnapped my homies, used to cut our face up bad
They [G] even raped us, so we placed a pad
Automatic [Cm] shots, spray out on every block
They puttin' [Fm] hits out on politicians, even cops
I ain't lyin', they [Ab] got me sicker than with my infrared bin
And in my [G] dreams I hear motherfuckers screamin'
What is the meaning?
[Cm] When thugs cry
Oh why should we send your child [Fm] off to die?
[Ab] In the streets of Calc where they fight
And the watch cry out [G] when thugs cry
Dear God, [Cm] oh why does it have to be [Fm] this way?
Our [Ab] children of today won't stay wise
Let the children hear [G] when thugs cry
Dear God, [C] oh why?
Baby, my bitch in the French got me buckin'
Where [Fm] is the love?
Never quit my ambition to thug
[Ab] Ain't shed a tear since the old school years of elementary
[G] Niggas I used to love, enclosed in penitentiary
[Cm] Still, homie, keep it real
How does it feel to [Fm] lose your life over something [Ab] that you did as a kid?
You all alone, no communication, block on the phone
Don't [G] get along with your pop, and plus your mom's gone
When [Cm] did we go wrong?
I put my soul in this song
To [Fm] help us grow in time, but now our minds [Ab] are gone
We went from brothers and sisters to niggas and bitches
We [G] went from welfare livin' to worldwide riches
But [Cm] something's changed in this very day, everything's strange
[Fm] Both all my homies know we're okay, man
[Ab] See, they ask me if I shed a tear, I ain't lie
[G] See, you gotta get high or die, cause even thugs [Cm] cry
Oh why should they send your child [Fm] out to die?
In the streets of Calc where [Ab] they fight
And the watch cry out when [G] thugs cry
Dear God, [Cm] oh why does it have to be [Fm] this way?
Children of today [Ab] won't stay wise
Let the children hear [G] when thugs cry
Dear God, oh why does it have to be this way?
And all I see [Cm] is these paranoid bitches with evil inventions
Bustin' [Fm] motherfuckers with uppercuts
I leave em [Ab] with ditties, cause they're my crew and they're mine
Nobody violates the done
I [G] write your name on a piece of paper, now your family's gone
I [Cm] perpetrate like you can't handle my team
Submersibles and [Fm] mobs, I can take a man in your dreams
Leavin' [Ab] motherfuckers drowning in their own blood
Glad I'm takin' pictures [G] later, laugh at them punk bitches
That turn up shit, [Cm] regulate my area
The terror I represent, [Fm] make your people disappear
You wonderin' where they went and [Ab] my code represents
The dust on my soul, addicted [G] to these streets
Never find true peace, I'm told
Come [Cm] take my body, God, don't let me suffer any longer
[Fm] Smoke a pound of marijuana so I know where they long
[Ab] Where is that dog?
My nigga, is there a close?
[G] I suppose that's why I murder my foes with thugs [Cm] cry
So why should they send your child [Fm] out to die?
[Ab] You said that's your name, I ain't
_ [G] My dad heard my voice in the pretty place
[Cm] Now they never heard my cry, [Fm] that's what I wish
Children [Ab] of today won't stay by
Let the children hear [G] when thugs cry
Dear God, [Cm] oh why should they send your child [Fm] out to die?
In [Ab] the streets of Chowin, they cry
Let the thugs cry, yeah when [G] thugs cry
Dear God, [Cm] oh why does it have to be [Fm] this way?
Children of today [Ab] won't stay by
Let the children hear [G] when thugs cry
Dear God, [Cm] oh why?
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