Yellow Brick Road Chords by Eminem

[A] What we [Em] have to do is deal with it [G] when these individuals are young enough, if you will, [Am] to be saved.
Not in religious [D] sense, [F] but not to constitute a [E]
[Am] country that might spoil their children.
[G] _ [Am] We seem to be approaching an age of the gross.
[F] We all have [B] this idea that we should move up a [A] little bit from our [D] parent's pace.
These generations should get [Em] a little bit better.
[Am] Alright, come on, let's cut the bullshit enough.
Let's get it [D] started.
Let's [Am] start addressing [G] this issue and [Am] open it up.
Let's take this shit back to the [G] basement and we can discuss statements that's [D#] made on this [C] tape and it's whole origin [Am] of
the music that we all [Bm] know and love, [D] the music we all enjoy, [Am] the music you [Bm] accuse me of [Am] trying to destroy.
Let's rewind it to [Bm] 89 when I was a boy on the east [Am] side of Detroit, crossing 8 Mile and the Warne in the hate territory.
[Em] I like to [C] share a story.
[D] This is my [Am] story.
You [Bm] can't nobody tell it for me.
[Am] Do it for me.
[Bm] I'm well aware that I don't [A] belong here.
[Em] You've made that perfectly clear.
I get my ass kicked.
Damn near [C] everywhere [G] from Bel Air [Am] shopping center just for stopping in there from the black side all [G] the way to the white side.
OK, there's a [Dm] bright side [C] a day that I might slide.
[Am] You may call [Bm] it a past.
I [C] call it all in my ass.
[Dm] Do that pass the grass [E] over them [Am] railroad tracks.
Road and railroad track railroad track.
Good old story.
So well, no tracks.
So let's go back.
Follow the yellow brick [Dm] road as we [A] go on [G] another episode.
You're [F#m] with me as I take it to [D] this nifty little place [G] that I want to call home.
Sweet [Em] home.
[A] Let's go back.
[D] Follow the yellow brick [G] road as we go on another [A] episode.
You're [F#m] with me as I take it to [D] this nifty little place [G] that I want to call [A] home.
Sweet home, I own the streets so much they call me a drifter
[Em] Sometimes I'd stick up with them just to hitchhike
Just to get [Am] dicked off, could [E] get me a lift off
[G] 8 mile in [A] Van Dyke, I'm still a goddamn bike
From [G] somebody's [B] backyard, drop it off [Dm] at the park
That was the halfway mark [E] to meet Kim
Had to walk [A] back to her [Em] mama
Some traumas after dark
Could sneak me in the house when I'm kicked out
My [A] mom's, that's about the time
I first [Am] met Bruce, cool figure
Carry on the steps, that I was born heading [F#] out to fly
[Am] He was [C#] doing some talent [A] shows at [G] Centerline
[A] I told him to stop [Am] by and check us out sometime
[A] He looked at me like I'm out my mind
[G] Sugar-scented white [A] boys don't know how to rhyme
[F#] I spit out a line and rhyme
Birthday was [G] first place and we both had the same rhymes
That [A] sound alike
We was on that same shit, that [G] Big Daddy Kane shit
But compound syllables [F#m] sound combined
From that [Em] day we was down to ride
[G] Somehow we knew we'd meet [A] again somewhere down the line
[Am] So let's go back, follow the yellow brick [Dm] road
As we [Am] go on another episode
Journey [F#m] with me as I take you through
[D] The sniffy little place that [G] I once called home
Sweet [Am] home, sweet home
Let's go back, follow the yellow brick [G] road
As we go on another [A] episode
Journey [F#m] with me as I take you through
[D] The sniffy little place that [G] I once called home
Sweet [Am] home, sweet home
My first year in ninth grade
[E] Can't forget [D] that day in school
It was [C] cool to see a man MC Shang came through
And said that Puma's the [G#m] brand cause the clan makes troops
It was [Bm] cool but man, god damn they flew
Must have been true because man, we done [Gm] banned they shoes
I had the [E] new ones to cool, Jay Ice [A] slammed Sway too
[C] But we just threw them in the [B] trash like they yesterday's news
Guess who [Dm] came through next?
[Em] X-Clan debuted, [A] Professor X and [G] Gloria
This in a state of red, black and green
We're [A] the key, sissies
Now with this being a [A#] new trend
[G] We don't fit in, crackers as I would [C] cactus
Blackness is in, African symbols and medallions
Represent black power
And we ain't know what it meant
Me [A] and my man Howard and [B] Butter would go to the mall
[Dm] With them all over our [F] necks like we're showing them all
Not [A] knowing at all [C] we was being laughed at
[Gm] You ain't even half black, you ain't supposed to [Dm] have that
[G#] Homie let me grab that, and that Flavor Flav clock
We gon' have to [A] snatch that
All I remember [E] is meeting [A] back at Maddox's basement
Saying how we [Em] hate this, how racist but dope
The X-Clan's [D] hate this, which reminds me
[Bm] Back in 89 me [G] and Kim broke up for the first time
She was trying to two [A]-time me
And there was this black girl at our school
Who [Am] thought I was [Em] cool cause I rapped
So she was kind to [Bm] iron me, and oh the irony
Guess what her [Em] name was, I ain't even gonna say it plus
The [A] same color hair as hers was
And blue contacts, [Em] and a pair of jogs
The bomb is god damn, [D] girl in our whole school
If [Bm] I could pull her not only would [G] I become more popular
But I would be able to piss Kim [A] off at the same time
But it backfired, I [G] was supposed to dump her
But she dumped me for this [Am] black guy
And that's the last [Bm] I ever seen or [Em] heard
I spoke [Am] to the old coolest pride girl
But I [A] heard people say they heard the tape
And it ain't that [G] bad, but it was
[Em] I singled out a whole race
For [Am] that I apologize, I was [Em] wrong
Cause no matter [Am] what color a girl is
She still my soul, let's go back
Follow the yellow brick [G] road as we go
On another episode, journey [F#m] with me
As I take you through [D] a snifty little place
That [G] I once called home, sweet home
[Am] Let's go back, follow the yellow brick [Am] road
As we go on another episode, journey [F#m] with me
As I take you through [D] a snifty little place
That [G] I once called home, sweet [Am] home _
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