It contain a sample from "The way it is" by Bruce Hornsby
[Strophe]
Am7            Em7 
Wake up in the morning and I ask myself, 
D              Cadd9                    G 
"Is life worth living? Should I blast myself?" 
                   D                      Cadd9 
I'm tired of bein' poor and even worse I'm black.  
           D                              Am7 
My stomach hurts, lookin' for a purse to snatch. 
            Em7             D                            Cadd9         Am7 
Cops give a damn about a negro? Pull the trigger, kill a nigga, he's a hero. 
                      Em7               D                      Cadd9        G  Am7 
Give the crack to the kids who the hell cares? One less hungry mouth on the welfare. 
               Em7                      D 
First ship 'em dope and let 'em deal to brothers. 
                    Cadd9                         G 
Give 'em guns, step back, and watch 'em kill each other. 
                    D                       Cadd9 
"It's time to fight back", that's what Huey said. 
               D               Am7 
2 shots in the dark now Huey's dead. 
                  Em7                       D                    Cadd9                  G 
I got love for my brother, but we can never go nowhere unless we share with each other. 
                      D 
We gotta start makin' changes. 
         Cadd9                         D              Am7 
Learn to see me as a brother 'stead of 2 distant strangers. 
                    Em7 
And that's how it's supposed to be. 
            D                            Cadd9 
How can the Devil take a brother if he's close to me? 
Am7            Em7                       D 
I'd love to go back to when we played as kids 
           Cadd9                          G 
but things changed, and that's the way it is
[Refrain]
G       Fmaj7   C                       Cadd9 
                        That's just the way it is, 
G       Fmaj7   C                       Cadd9 
                        Somethings will never change, 
G       Fmaj7   C                       Cadd9 
                        That's just the way it is, 
G       Fmaj7   C              Cadd9 
                        Ahhhh, yeah 
 
 
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