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Ab I really hate to trip
F but I gotta lope
Bm As they croak I see myself
C in the pistol smoke.
Ab I'm the kind of cheater
Fm little homies wanna be
G like.
On my knees in the night saying prayers
Ab in the streetlight.
We've been standing most our lives
G living in the
Cm Hector's
G paradise.
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F they got me facing I can't live
E a normal life I was raised by the street.
So I gotta be damn with the hood team Too much television watching got me chasing dreams.
Ab I'm an educated fool
Fm with money on my mind
G Got my ten in my
Cm hand and the gleam in my eye.
Ab I'm a loc'd out,
F gangsta set, tripping bank
B And my homies is down so
C don't arouse my anger.
Ab Fool, death ain't nothing
Fm but a heartbeat away
G I'm living life to a
C dial, what can I say?.
Ab I'm 23 now
Fm but will I live to see
Bm 24?.
The way things are going
C I don't know.
Tell
Ab me why
F are we
G so blind
C to see That
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G you and
Ab me.
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Ab Fm We've been standing most our lives
G living in the
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Ab We've been standing most our lives
G living
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Ab Power and the
Fm money, money and the power
B Minute after
G minute, hour after hour.
Ab Everybody's running
F but half of them ain't looking
G What's going on in the kitchen?.
C But I don't know what's cooking
Ab They say I got to
F learn but nobody's here to teach
B me.
If they can't
Cm understand it, how can they teach
Ab me?.
I guess they
F think, I guess they won't,
G I guess they front That's why
C I know my life is out of luck,
Ab fool.
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G so blind
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Ab That the one,
Fm you and me.
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