Chords for Chance The Rapper "65th & Ingleside" Official Lyrics & Meaning | Verified

So, my sister-in-law-to-be, my big sister, bought a spot, a two flat, on 65th.
The outside of the house didn't look that great, to be honest with you.
But the inside was very nice.
There was always a lot of women energy there.
They always had their friends over and stuff.
I didn't really have friends over because it wasn't that level of kick it yet.
I was just kind of living off them.
The song is about me wanting to pay back or at least make right the things for [Em] which I owed. _ _ _
_ _ I met my daughter's mother.
Our parents actually worked together.
My mom's boss was her mom at a real estate agent when I was a little boy.
So, the first time I met her I was probably nine.
But we reconnected at South by Southwest.
Before the end of the year, we were boyfriend and [N] girlfriend.
I could spare a rib to get my baby back.
_ I just wanna fall asleep where my baby at.
So I don't wake up wondering where my baby at.
It was ingrained in me since I was a kid by my dad because his father was a piece of shit.
You can't be a man waking up wondering where your kid's at.
I wonder if we'll make it back.
I wonder can I pay her back.
Please?
I owe her the world because she literally kept me and housed me and fed me when I didn't
have anything and gave me my daughter.
And so, in reality there's no way that I could pay her back. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Obviously me and my girl, we watched Martin and Jamie Foxx every night.
I think it was just me relating to him in terms of not being everything that I am today.
Like understanding that I hadn't grown.
I wasn't mature yet. _ _
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_ _ _ Donald took me on tour.
Young, broke channel ain't broke no more.
Donald brought me on for like two dates to replace somebody.
So I left, got some money.
I thought you wouldn't want me coming dark in your doorstep, but I still haven't given
you what's yours yet.
Sixty-fifth and Ingleside.
Moved downtown for a single life.
[N] None of my stars ever twinkle bright, till God decide to come bring you by.
After I got the money from the camp tour, I got brought on a few more tours.
Got some more money.
And I wasn't really at any point moving my girl in with me.
I got a crib, a nice apartment.
Didn't reciprocate the love.
And I just kind of started trying to live this rapper life, yo.
I literally got a rapper mansion at one point and was just the pools, the basketball court,
all the swag.
But I wasn't keeping it 100 with my girl who had really held me down.
I felt empty and I felt like I hadn't been living my life how I was supposed to be.
Nothing felt right until shortly after my girl got pregnant, I realized that I needed
to be around her, to be with her. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Well she doesn't do it anymore, but my girl used to be a studio rat.
She used to be in the studio with me as long as I would be.
Obviously after hearing it a million times, she didn't want to hear that shit no more.
But if she was to ask me to play a song, it was the most validation that I could feel
out of anybody saying anything about my music. _
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[A] This shit is what happened every time we went to the gas station anywhere.
I think that's just the Chicago, black, south and west side Chicagoans feel is that PTSD
of having seen some shit happen and understanding how people move.
That creates your whole, the way you move.
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_ _ _ _ _ I want my daughter to have everything that I couldn't have, which is a lot.
I think that's [G#] what every parent wants.
That's why there's so [N] many kids' parents that are like, you better go to college.
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Fuck child support, you supported the kid.
A full rack of muntin' ain't short of my rib.
So you first up, go and order a dibs.
My girl was a real estate agent.
I gave Kanye that line once.
She ain't schooled to be a real estate agent.
She was a model and she was a waitress at the spot called the pump room at the time.
So she was getting money.
She had some cash.
She had a car.
She had a crib.
She was doing decent.
My big homie told me, nigga, growth and development.
Go and settle down.
Don't settle for settlements.
Having real OGs around you, real people that's been through this shit that will tell you
what it is, what's really gangster like, what's really a real man's job is the most important
thing that you can find as a young man.
My girl's not _ from Evanston.
That's like a joke for Chicago people.
Evanston is the most, it's like the first suburb you hit going north of Chicago.
My girlfriend came from better beginnings than I did.
Eggleston is close to my house.
I lived on 79th.
I lived in just a not as nice neighborhood.
The first lady you knew.
You can't mare.
God shit's sunny now.
You can't share.
New dad step in.
You can't stare.
You knew the power in a woman that could lead you in prayer. _ _ _ _
Biggest lie that I've ever told my girl is probably that I [G#] couldn't be with her.
That I wasn't ready to love her.
That I didn't love her.
Something crazy like that. _ _ _
Love has given me some of [F#] my best songs.
I wrote, That's Love about Kirsten.
I wrote my first feature with Lil Wayne [G] about Kirsten.
She is my understanding of love and [G] how it's not always what you read about or saw in a movie.
It's some of the toughest shit that you'll ever have to do in your life.
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