Kunci: Bb major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
Gm
Uh,
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Yeah,
Somalia
Verse 2
it for my block,
It's an ode, I admit it.
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Gm
Here the city code is lock and load
Any minute is rock and roll
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And you rock and roll,
And feel your soul leavin'.
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It's just the wrong dance
That'll leave you not breathin'.
I'm not particularly proud
Of this predicament but,
In this tenement, I'm sentimental, What?!
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Plus it's only right to
represent my hood
And what not.
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So I'm about to do it in the music,
in the movies.
Cut to the chase pan across
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Freeze frame on the street name
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Oops wait a minute,
Gm
This is where the streets have no name
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And the drain of sewage.
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You can see it in this boy
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how the hate is brewin'
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Cause when his tummy tucks in
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Fuck the pain is fluid.
Gm
So what difference does it make,
Entertaining threw it.
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Some get high mixing coke and gun powder,
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sniffin'.
She got a gun but could have
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been a model or physician.
Verse 3
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So what you know bout the
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pirates terrorize the ocean.
To never know a simple day
without a big commotion.
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It can't be healthy just to live
with a such steep emotion.
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And when I try and sleep,
Gm
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Eb
I see coffins
closin'. (Repeat)
Yeah, Yeah,
Verse 4
take barb wire
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Mold them around discarded bike tires.
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Roll em down the hill in foot blazin'.
Now that was our version
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of mountain bike racing
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Damn!
Do you see why it's amazing,
When someone comes out
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of such a dire situation
And learns the English language,
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Gm
Just to share his observation!
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Probably get a Grammy without
a grammar education.
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So fuck you school and fuck
you immigration!
And all of you who thought I wouldn't
amount to constipation.
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Gm
And now I'm here without the
slightest fear and preservation,
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They love me in the slums and in
the native reservations.
Eb
The world is a ghetto with
ministerin' deprivation.
My mommy didn't raise no
I promise I would get it and
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remain strictly loyal.
Gm
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Cause when they get it then
they let it all switch and spoil.
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But I just illuminated it like kitchen foil.
A lot of main stream niggas is
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yappin' about yappin'
A lot of underground niggas is
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rappin' about rappin'.
Bb
I just wanna tell you what's
Before the tears came down
this is what happened.
Verse 5
Eb
So what you know bout the
Bb
pirates terrorize the ocean.
Gm
To never know a simple day
without a big commotion.
Bb
It can't be healthy just to live
with a such steep emotion.
Eb
And when I try and sleep,
Outro 1
I see coffins closin'. [Repeat: x2]
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Gm
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Gm
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