Chords for 2Pac: Only God Can Judge Me
Tempo:
180.35 bpm
Chords used:
C#
F#m
D
Bm
F#
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Only God [B] can judge me.
That right?
[D] Only God.
[C#] Nobody else.
Nobody [A] else.
All you other motherfuckers get out of my business.
[D]
[F#m] Perhaps I was blind to the facts.
Stabbed in the back.
I [D] couldn't trust my own rumours.
It's a bunch of [C#] dirty facts.
[F#m] Will I succeed?
To have a noise [Bm] from the beat?
No, just focus.
Try to focus.
[C#] What I can't [F#m] see?
And in my mind, I'm a blind man doing [Bm] time.
Look to my future.
[D] My [C#] past is on my [F#m] arm.
Say the crime strike.
But [Bm] what is mine?
Everybody's [C#] done.
Tell me what's the essence of my life.
[F#m] I've been trapped since birth.
Caught in some [D] curse and fantasies of my [C#] family and the earth.
And they say [F#] it's the white man I suffered.
[Bm] But it's my [D] own God who went [F#m] on to kill the kids.
I can't lie.
Ain't no love for the other [Bm] side.
Jealousy is died.
[C#] Make a move and [F#m] die.
Oh my Lord, [A]
tell me what I'm living for.
[Bm] [C#] Everybody's drunk and got me knocking on [F#m] heaven's door.
And all my memories of seeing brothers bleed.
[Bm] And [D] everybody freeze.
[C#] Still nobody [F#m] sees.
Recollect your thoughts.
Don't get caught up in the mix.
[Bm] Cause the music is on.
[D]
[C#]
[F#m]
[D] I'm a black man.
I'm a black [C#]
man.
[F#m]
[D] I'm a black [C#] man.
[E] [F#m]
[D] [C#]
I'm [F#m] a black man.
I'm a black man.
[D] I'm a black man.
I'm [C#] a black man.
[F#m] I'm a black man.
I'm a black man.
I'm a [D] black man.
[C#] [F#m]
[D]
[C#] [F#m]
[Bm] [D]
[C#] [F#m] I'm a black [Bm]
[C#] [F#m] [E]
[Bm] [D]
[F#m] man.
[D] I'm a black [C#m] man.
I'm a black man.
I'm a black man.
I'm a black man.
I'm a black man.
I'm a black man.
But we [B] scream it, we [D#] dream in the [Bm] Pavanoi state.
And [D] our fix is a [F#m] lifetime of hate.
See it?
Mama, can you save me?
That's what it means cause the [Bm] street's got our [D] pain.
We [C#] gotta eat.
[F#m] No more hesitation.
Each and every [Bm] black man rattin' and they wonder why we [D] not running around trapped.
The police [C#]
tries to sell you [F#m] a million either just like me.
[D] Only call Kenji.
[C#]
[F#m]
[C#] I'm a [D] black [C#]
man.
[F#m] I'm a black man.
I'm a black man.
I'm a black man.
I'm a black man.
Only God [D] can judge me.
[C#]
[F#m] Only God can judge [F#] me.
That which does not [B] kill me can only make me stronger.
I don't see why everybody feel as though they [F#] can't tell me how to live my life.
You know.
[N] Let me live, man.
Let me live.
[F#m] Pac, I feel ya.
G7 and on the real.
For instance, [D] say a player hate and march south to kill [C#] ya.
This [F#m] shit be all over Bucket and this shit through the [Bm] pavement.
He gon' get me first, if I don't get him, [D] who start [C#] pointin'?
Ain't no [F#m] forgiveness of defense in the court of law.
So judge [D] us when we get to where we're goin' when the cross.
[C#] That's [F#m] real.
Goddy, Nasty, [Bm] clap the fuck up on it.
Sold a half a million [D] checks, now [C#m] everybody wanna [F#m] mess it.
Come behind my back like a bitch would.
Tellin' [D] them niggas you could pay for it, look how much [C#] you would.
[A] Be the same motherfuckers in your face.
That'll rush up in your [Bm] place to get [C#] yourself.
Knowing you on that [F#m] paycheck.
Rats, gas, big screen and left the couch.
[Bm] My new shit is so shitty I already sold the [C#] Kia [C#m] ounce.
Bitch, [F#] remember to Pac and Pro Tay.
[Bm] Them same two brothers, [C#] God and Bullets.
Representing the big [F#m] pot where you was locked down.
That's when I be [Bm] around.
Start climbing up the drawers, [D] blow sick, but [C#] they try to climb.
[F#m] That's why they ride the bandwagon, still be draggin', sellin' [Bm] lies.
Don't think I don't see you haters, I [F#m] know y'all in the skies.
Guess you figure you know me cause I'm a thug.
[Bm] That love to hit the [D] late night clubs, [C#] drinks and [F#m] buzz.
Been livin' lavish like a player [Bm] all day.
Now I'm bout to blow [D] some balls, playin' six-foot [C#] throw sex.
[D] Only God can judge [C#]
me.
[F#m] Only God can judge me.
[D] Only God can judge me.
[C#]
[E] [F#m] Only God [E] can judge me.
[D] Only God can judge me.
[C#]
Only God can judge [F#m] me.
Only God [E] can judge me.
[D] Only God can judge [C#] me.
[F#m] Only God, man.
[Bm] I don't understand [D] the rest.
[C#] [F#]
Fuck everybody else.
[C#]
Man, [F#m] I love you, man.
My only fear of death is [Bm] comin' back to this [D] shit, [C#] reincarnated.
That's what [F#] the army meant.
[D] We about [C#] it.
[F#m] [Bm] [D]
[C#] [A]
[Bm] [D]
[C#] [F#m]
[Bm]
[C#] [N]
That right?
[D] Only God.
[C#] Nobody else.
Nobody [A] else.
All you other motherfuckers get out of my business.
[D]
[F#m] Perhaps I was blind to the facts.
Stabbed in the back.
I [D] couldn't trust my own rumours.
It's a bunch of [C#] dirty facts.
[F#m] Will I succeed?
To have a noise [Bm] from the beat?
No, just focus.
Try to focus.
[C#] What I can't [F#m] see?
And in my mind, I'm a blind man doing [Bm] time.
Look to my future.
[D] My [C#] past is on my [F#m] arm.
Say the crime strike.
But [Bm] what is mine?
Everybody's [C#] done.
Tell me what's the essence of my life.
[F#m] I've been trapped since birth.
Caught in some [D] curse and fantasies of my [C#] family and the earth.
And they say [F#] it's the white man I suffered.
[Bm] But it's my [D] own God who went [F#m] on to kill the kids.
I can't lie.
Ain't no love for the other [Bm] side.
Jealousy is died.
[C#] Make a move and [F#m] die.
Oh my Lord, [A]
tell me what I'm living for.
[Bm] [C#] Everybody's drunk and got me knocking on [F#m] heaven's door.
And all my memories of seeing brothers bleed.
[Bm] And [D] everybody freeze.
[C#] Still nobody [F#m] sees.
Recollect your thoughts.
Don't get caught up in the mix.
[Bm] Cause the music is on.
[D]
[C#]
[F#m]
[D] I'm a black man.
I'm a black [C#]
man.
[F#m]
[D] I'm a black [C#] man.
[E] [F#m]
[D] [C#]
I'm [F#m] a black man.
I'm a black man.
[D] I'm a black man.
I'm [C#] a black man.
[F#m] I'm a black man.
I'm a black man.
I'm a [D] black man.
[C#] [F#m]
[D]
[C#] [F#m]
[Bm] [D]
[C#] [F#m] I'm a black [Bm]
[C#] [F#m] [E]
[Bm] [D]
[F#m] man.
[D] I'm a black [C#m] man.
I'm a black man.
I'm a black man.
I'm a black man.
I'm a black man.
I'm a black man.
But we [B] scream it, we [D#] dream in the [Bm] Pavanoi state.
And [D] our fix is a [F#m] lifetime of hate.
See it?
Mama, can you save me?
That's what it means cause the [Bm] street's got our [D] pain.
We [C#] gotta eat.
[F#m] No more hesitation.
Each and every [Bm] black man rattin' and they wonder why we [D] not running around trapped.
The police [C#]
tries to sell you [F#m] a million either just like me.
[D] Only call Kenji.
[C#]
[F#m]
[C#] I'm a [D] black [C#]
man.
[F#m] I'm a black man.
I'm a black man.
I'm a black man.
I'm a black man.
Only God [D] can judge me.
[C#]
[F#m] Only God can judge [F#] me.
That which does not [B] kill me can only make me stronger.
I don't see why everybody feel as though they [F#] can't tell me how to live my life.
You know.
[N] Let me live, man.
Let me live.
[F#m] Pac, I feel ya.
G7 and on the real.
For instance, [D] say a player hate and march south to kill [C#] ya.
This [F#m] shit be all over Bucket and this shit through the [Bm] pavement.
He gon' get me first, if I don't get him, [D] who start [C#] pointin'?
Ain't no [F#m] forgiveness of defense in the court of law.
So judge [D] us when we get to where we're goin' when the cross.
[C#] That's [F#m] real.
Goddy, Nasty, [Bm] clap the fuck up on it.
Sold a half a million [D] checks, now [C#m] everybody wanna [F#m] mess it.
Come behind my back like a bitch would.
Tellin' [D] them niggas you could pay for it, look how much [C#] you would.
[A] Be the same motherfuckers in your face.
That'll rush up in your [Bm] place to get [C#] yourself.
Knowing you on that [F#m] paycheck.
Rats, gas, big screen and left the couch.
[Bm] My new shit is so shitty I already sold the [C#] Kia [C#m] ounce.
Bitch, [F#] remember to Pac and Pro Tay.
[Bm] Them same two brothers, [C#] God and Bullets.
Representing the big [F#m] pot where you was locked down.
That's when I be [Bm] around.
Start climbing up the drawers, [D] blow sick, but [C#] they try to climb.
[F#m] That's why they ride the bandwagon, still be draggin', sellin' [Bm] lies.
Don't think I don't see you haters, I [F#m] know y'all in the skies.
Guess you figure you know me cause I'm a thug.
[Bm] That love to hit the [D] late night clubs, [C#] drinks and [F#m] buzz.
Been livin' lavish like a player [Bm] all day.
Now I'm bout to blow [D] some balls, playin' six-foot [C#] throw sex.
[D] Only God can judge [C#]
me.
[F#m] Only God can judge me.
[D] Only God can judge me.
[C#]
[E] [F#m] Only God [E] can judge me.
[D] Only God can judge me.
[C#]
Only God can judge [F#m] me.
Only God [E] can judge me.
[D] Only God can judge [C#] me.
[F#m] Only God, man.
[Bm] I don't understand [D] the rest.
[C#] [F#]
Fuck everybody else.
[C#]
Man, [F#m] I love you, man.
My only fear of death is [Bm] comin' back to this [D] shit, [C#] reincarnated.
That's what [F#] the army meant.
[D] We about [C#] it.
[F#m] [Bm] [D]
[C#] [A]
[Bm] [D]
[C#] [F#m]
[Bm]
[C#] [N]
Key:
C#
F#m
D
Bm
F#
C#
F#m
D
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Only God [B] can judge me.
That right?
[D] Only God.
[C#] _ Nobody else.
Nobody [A] else.
All you other motherfuckers get out of my business.
_ [D] _
_ [F#m] Perhaps I was blind to the facts. _
Stabbed in the back.
I [D] couldn't trust my own rumours.
It's a bunch of [C#] dirty facts.
[F#m] Will I succeed?
To have a noise [Bm] from the beat?
No, just focus.
Try to focus.
[C#] What I can't [F#m] see?
And in my mind, I'm a blind man doing [Bm] time.
Look to my future.
[D] My [C#] past is on my [F#m] arm.
Say the crime strike.
But [Bm] what is mine?
Everybody's [C#] done.
Tell me what's the essence of my life.
[F#m] I've been trapped since birth.
Caught in some [D] curse and _ fantasies of my [C#] family and the earth.
And they say [F#] it's the white man I suffered.
[Bm] But it's my [D] own God who went [F#m] on to kill the kids.
I can't lie.
Ain't no love for the other [Bm] side.
Jealousy is died.
[C#] Make a move and [F#m] die.
Oh my Lord, [A]
tell me what I'm living for.
[Bm] _ [C#] Everybody's drunk and got me knocking on [F#m] heaven's door.
And all my memories of seeing brothers bleed.
[Bm] And [D] everybody freeze.
[C#] Still nobody [F#m] sees.
Recollect your thoughts.
Don't get caught up in the mix.
[Bm] Cause the music is on.
_ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _
_ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] I'm a black man.
I'm a black _ _ [C#]
man.
_ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] I'm a black _ [C#] man.
_ [E] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [C#] _
_ I'm [F#m] a black man. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ I'm a black man.
_ _ _ [D] _ I'm a black man.
I'm [C#] a black man.
[F#m] I'm a black man.
I'm a black man.
I'm _ _ a [D] black man. _ _ _ _
_ [C#] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ [C#] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ [C#] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ I'm a black [Bm] _ _ _ _
_ [C#] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ [D] _ _
_ [F#m] _ _ man. _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ I'm a black [C#m] _ man.
I'm a black man.
I'm a black man.
I'm a black man.
I'm a black man.
I'm a black man.
But we [B] scream it, we [D#] dream in the [Bm] Pavanoi state.
And [D] our fix is a [F#m] lifetime of hate.
See it?
Mama, can you save me?
That's what it means cause the [Bm] street's got our [D] pain.
We [C#] gotta eat.
[F#m] No more hesitation.
Each and every [Bm] black man rattin' and they wonder why we [D] not running around trapped.
The _ police [C#] _
tries to sell you [F#m] a million either just like me.
[D] Only call Kenji.
[C#] _
_ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _
[C#] I'm a _ [D] _ _ black [C#]
man.
_ [F#m] I'm a black man.
I'm a black man.
I'm a black man.
I'm a black man.
Only God [D] can judge me.
_ _ [C#] _
_ _ _ [F#m] _ Only God can judge [F#] me.
_ _ That which does not [B] kill me can only make me stronger.
_ I don't see why everybody feel as though they [F#] can't tell me how to live my life.
You know.
[N] _ _ _ Let me live, man.
Let me live.
[F#m] Pac, I feel ya.
G7 and on the real.
For instance, [D] say a player hate and march south to kill [C#] ya.
This [F#m] shit be all over Bucket and this shit through the [Bm] pavement.
He gon' get me first, if I don't get him, [D] who start [C#] pointin'?
Ain't no [F#m] forgiveness of defense in the court of law.
So judge [D] us when we get to where we're goin' when the cross.
[C#] That's [F#m] real.
Goddy, Nasty, [Bm] clap the fuck up on it.
Sold a half a million [D] checks, now [C#m] everybody wanna [F#m] mess it.
Come behind my back like a bitch would.
Tellin' [D] them niggas you could pay for it, look how much [C#] you would.
[A] Be the same motherfuckers in your face.
That'll rush up in your [Bm] place to get [C#] yourself.
Knowing you on that [F#m] paycheck.
Rats, gas, big screen and left the couch.
[Bm] My new shit is so shitty I already sold the [C#] Kia [C#m] ounce.
Bitch, [F#] remember to Pac and Pro Tay.
[Bm] Them same two brothers, [C#] God and Bullets.
Representing the big [F#m] pot where you was locked down.
That's when I be [Bm] around.
Start climbing up the drawers, [D] blow sick, but [C#] they try to climb.
[F#m] That's why they ride the bandwagon, still be draggin', sellin' [Bm] lies.
Don't think I don't see you haters, I [F#m] know y'all in the skies.
Guess you figure you know me cause I'm a thug.
[Bm] That love to hit the [D] late night clubs, [C#] drinks and [F#m] buzz.
Been livin' lavish like a player [Bm] all day.
Now I'm bout to blow [D] some balls, playin' six-foot [C#] throw sex.
[D] Only God can judge [C#]
me.
_ _ [F#m] _ _ _ Only God can judge me.
[D] Only God can judge me.
[C#] _
_ [E] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ Only God [E] can judge me.
[D] Only God can judge me.
[C#]
Only God can judge [F#m] me.
Only God _ [E] can judge me.
[D] Only God can judge [C#] me.
_ _ _ [F#m] _ Only God, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ man.
[Bm] I don't understand [D] the rest.
[C#] _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
_ _ Fuck everybody else.
[C#] _ _
_ Man, [F#m] I love you, man. _ _
My only fear of death is [Bm] comin' back to this [D] shit, _ [C#] reincarnated.
_ That's what [F#] the army meant.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] We about [C#] it.
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [D] _
_ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ [D] _ _
_ [C#] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _
_ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _
Only God [B] can judge me.
That right?
[D] Only God.
[C#] _ Nobody else.
Nobody [A] else.
All you other motherfuckers get out of my business.
_ [D] _
_ [F#m] Perhaps I was blind to the facts. _
Stabbed in the back.
I [D] couldn't trust my own rumours.
It's a bunch of [C#] dirty facts.
[F#m] Will I succeed?
To have a noise [Bm] from the beat?
No, just focus.
Try to focus.
[C#] What I can't [F#m] see?
And in my mind, I'm a blind man doing [Bm] time.
Look to my future.
[D] My [C#] past is on my [F#m] arm.
Say the crime strike.
But [Bm] what is mine?
Everybody's [C#] done.
Tell me what's the essence of my life.
[F#m] I've been trapped since birth.
Caught in some [D] curse and _ fantasies of my [C#] family and the earth.
And they say [F#] it's the white man I suffered.
[Bm] But it's my [D] own God who went [F#m] on to kill the kids.
I can't lie.
Ain't no love for the other [Bm] side.
Jealousy is died.
[C#] Make a move and [F#m] die.
Oh my Lord, [A]
tell me what I'm living for.
[Bm] _ [C#] Everybody's drunk and got me knocking on [F#m] heaven's door.
And all my memories of seeing brothers bleed.
[Bm] And [D] everybody freeze.
[C#] Still nobody [F#m] sees.
Recollect your thoughts.
Don't get caught up in the mix.
[Bm] Cause the music is on.
_ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _
_ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] I'm a black man.
I'm a black _ _ [C#]
man.
_ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] I'm a black _ [C#] man.
_ [E] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [C#] _
_ I'm [F#m] a black man. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ I'm a black man.
_ _ _ [D] _ I'm a black man.
I'm [C#] a black man.
[F#m] I'm a black man.
I'm a black man.
I'm _ _ a [D] black man. _ _ _ _
_ [C#] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ [C#] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ [C#] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ I'm a black [Bm] _ _ _ _
_ [C#] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ [D] _ _
_ [F#m] _ _ man. _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ I'm a black [C#m] _ man.
I'm a black man.
I'm a black man.
I'm a black man.
I'm a black man.
I'm a black man.
But we [B] scream it, we [D#] dream in the [Bm] Pavanoi state.
And [D] our fix is a [F#m] lifetime of hate.
See it?
Mama, can you save me?
That's what it means cause the [Bm] street's got our [D] pain.
We [C#] gotta eat.
[F#m] No more hesitation.
Each and every [Bm] black man rattin' and they wonder why we [D] not running around trapped.
The _ police [C#] _
tries to sell you [F#m] a million either just like me.
[D] Only call Kenji.
[C#] _
_ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _
[C#] I'm a _ [D] _ _ black [C#]
man.
_ [F#m] I'm a black man.
I'm a black man.
I'm a black man.
I'm a black man.
Only God [D] can judge me.
_ _ [C#] _
_ _ _ [F#m] _ Only God can judge [F#] me.
_ _ That which does not [B] kill me can only make me stronger.
_ I don't see why everybody feel as though they [F#] can't tell me how to live my life.
You know.
[N] _ _ _ Let me live, man.
Let me live.
[F#m] Pac, I feel ya.
G7 and on the real.
For instance, [D] say a player hate and march south to kill [C#] ya.
This [F#m] shit be all over Bucket and this shit through the [Bm] pavement.
He gon' get me first, if I don't get him, [D] who start [C#] pointin'?
Ain't no [F#m] forgiveness of defense in the court of law.
So judge [D] us when we get to where we're goin' when the cross.
[C#] That's [F#m] real.
Goddy, Nasty, [Bm] clap the fuck up on it.
Sold a half a million [D] checks, now [C#m] everybody wanna [F#m] mess it.
Come behind my back like a bitch would.
Tellin' [D] them niggas you could pay for it, look how much [C#] you would.
[A] Be the same motherfuckers in your face.
That'll rush up in your [Bm] place to get [C#] yourself.
Knowing you on that [F#m] paycheck.
Rats, gas, big screen and left the couch.
[Bm] My new shit is so shitty I already sold the [C#] Kia [C#m] ounce.
Bitch, [F#] remember to Pac and Pro Tay.
[Bm] Them same two brothers, [C#] God and Bullets.
Representing the big [F#m] pot where you was locked down.
That's when I be [Bm] around.
Start climbing up the drawers, [D] blow sick, but [C#] they try to climb.
[F#m] That's why they ride the bandwagon, still be draggin', sellin' [Bm] lies.
Don't think I don't see you haters, I [F#m] know y'all in the skies.
Guess you figure you know me cause I'm a thug.
[Bm] That love to hit the [D] late night clubs, [C#] drinks and [F#m] buzz.
Been livin' lavish like a player [Bm] all day.
Now I'm bout to blow [D] some balls, playin' six-foot [C#] throw sex.
[D] Only God can judge [C#]
me.
_ _ [F#m] _ _ _ Only God can judge me.
[D] Only God can judge me.
[C#] _
_ [E] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ Only God [E] can judge me.
[D] Only God can judge me.
[C#]
Only God can judge [F#m] me.
Only God _ [E] can judge me.
[D] Only God can judge [C#] me.
_ _ _ [F#m] _ Only God, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ man.
[Bm] I don't understand [D] the rest.
[C#] _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
_ _ Fuck everybody else.
[C#] _ _
_ Man, [F#m] I love you, man. _ _
My only fear of death is [Bm] comin' back to this [D] shit, _ [C#] reincarnated.
_ That's what [F#] the army meant.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] We about [C#] it.
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [D] _
_ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ [D] _ _
_ [C#] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _
_ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _