_ _
C Check,
Gm check this thing off.
F _
C It's a little echo, like a reverb.
Take it
G off.
Yeah, that's
Bb it, perfect.
Check, check.
It's one
C of my favorite songs.
Just
Gm yesterday morning,
F they let me know you
C were gone.
Yeah.
G Suzanne, the plans they
Bb made put an end to you.
Yeah, yeah.
C I
Gm walked out this morning,
F and I wrote down
C this song.
_ Just
G can't remember
Bb who to send it to.
_ .
C So much pressure and pain,
G there's a stress in the game.
Bb Because when it's different, it's just different.
It's never the same.
C And I expect it to rain.
G Because really, where I'm
Bb from, the sun don't never get to come.
C My daddy used to tell me
G about the passion of Christ.
Bb Instead of daddy's advice, I went to bagging up wife.
C So many lonely nights,
G so many memories of dead
Bb homies.
just out of my mind that I hold them tight.
I
C shake it twice, blow once,
G then I roll the dice.
and
Bb pray to God that I don't get killed overnight.
My
C brother tried to go and
G rob a delivery guy.
He
Bb never thought that pizza man was equipped with a knife.
C Never thought that'd be the way
G that my brother would die.
So
Gm now I'm thinking,
F what kind
Bb of big brother am I?
.
C That's the type of thoughts late at
G night.
that's in my mind
Bb to protect and provide.
And I tried, but I
F failed.
Yeah.
I've
Dm seen
G fire and
C I've seen rain.
I was on my way down to Gulf Shores with my father.
F for the family vacation
Dm for the first time in
G 15
C years.
to go see my brother Roger, Scott, and my sister Shelby.
F We listened to this
D song together.
C And my dad began to tell me the story about where.
James
Bb Taylor was at in his life
Am when he wrote this
C song.
I felt so connected to it.
We all been through pain, fire, and rain.
G Lord, I'm trying to change.
Bb Feel like it's ice cold blood flowing inside of my veins.
Feel
C like it's nothing but bad
G memories inside of my brain.
Bb And I'm scared to get burned, but I desire the flame.
It
C makes no sense at all.
I
G swear it really makes no sense
Bb at all.
I pray my brother finally makes it out them prison
C walls.
My daughter's four
G and a half now.
She's getting
Bb big.
But I don't get to see her because of the life I
C live.
I'm such a bad
G father.
I'm always on the
Bb road.
I'm always chasing rainbows full of pots of
C gold.
Man, and
G I'm believing in you, God.
Bb I hope you're trying because I can't see it through the
C fog.
Oh, Lord.
G And I swear I feel so close
Bb to you.
I fell in love with a girl, almost proposed
C to her.
I
G almost got on one knee,
Bb but she couldn't accept me for me.
For real.
F I've
Dm seen
G fire and I've
C seen rain.
One take.
_ .
F Seen sunny days that
Dm I thought
C would never end.
I always said this rap shit's easy.
F Seen lonely times when I could
D not
C find a friend.
_ _ .
So
Bb here it goes.
But I
Am always thought that
C I'd see
Gm you
C again.
_ _ .
I sat alone in
G the room and contemplate
Bb suicide.
Then did it so the same night and said, I'm doing
C fine.
Nobody
G understands how I feel
Bb inside.
I just try to tell them about a million
C times.
I feel so
G close yet feel so
Bb far.
I'm always on my grind.
I'm going so
C hard.
G Now, is there really an
Bb afterlife for people like me out here.
that ain't acting
C right?.
Lord,
G a picture's worth a thousand
Bb words.
Picture a young man getting a thousand
C murders.
Picture
G a man getting a thousand
Bb birds, getting a thousand years without a
C word.
Some
G days I feel like I have to
Bb pray and close my eyes and pray I make it to a happy
C place.
_
G Yeah.
Bb And that's the truth.
Come on.
F I've
Dm seen
C fire and I've seen rain.
_ _ .
F I've seen sunny days that
Dm I thought would
C never end.
_ .
I've
F seen lonely times when
Dm I could not
C find a friend.
_ .
But
Bb I always
Am thought that
Gm I'd see you
C again.
_ _ .
_
F I've
Dm seen
G fire and I've
C seen rain.
_ .
I've
F seen sunny days that
Dm I thought
C would never end.
_ .
I've
F seen lonely times when I
G could not find a
C friend.
_ .
But
Bb I always
Am thought that
C I'd see you.
_ _ _ .