Chords for Dave - We're All Alone (Reading Festival 2022)

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[B] _ _ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ [Bb] _ _
[G] _ _ [Abm] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Ebm] _ _ _ I'm a young black belligerent, [B] child of an immigrant, lifestyle frivolous.
[Gm] Around here we keep bad [Bb] company, couldn't people pay [F] dividends?
What's the point of being [Abm] rich when your [Ebm] family ain't?
It's like flying first class on a crashing plane.
Dinner's [Bb] with the same niggas, just higher bills.
I know the models him and Leigh, and they gon' [Ebm] hire hills.
_ _ _ You know all the money in this [Abm] together, right?
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ [Abm] _ _ [Ebm] You know the seats in the Aston Red [F] level, lads.
[Fm] _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _
I had dreams of doing architecture, but sitting through a Harvard lecture.
How the fuck I end up being [Abm] Harvey Specter?
Young black heart collector, I could [E] take the pressure.
Had [Bb] skills, now suits that come [Abm] made to measure.
I grew the thin line between [Ebm] love and hate, double date.
We drinking, let me [Abm] cut the games.
[Fm] Backstabbing, man, I'd rather that you [Ebm] cut my face.
If I ain't charming the women, it's all the fucking snakes.
You idolize me, girl, there's no way I wipe it.
She only fucks with rich niggas, that's [Abm] the way I like it.
I can't fabricate the truth, it's just the [E] way I write it.
I got [Bb] all my creative [Abm] license, ass raps.
That's a criminal graduate in the [Ebm] civil law.
Nothing ain't civil by the Civil War.
[Db] Gryffindor, [Bb] it's like a lion on your [Ebm] chest.
I got 99 marks, who's been trying on my test?
I'm blessed.
Why?
Because the past was gambaroni, the watch is a classic Roli.
The [Abm] pussy is sacred, it's holy like matrimony.
I'm [C] paying the alimony to [Bb] numb all the acrimony.
The [Abm] flight is the Zamborini, the car's a Lamborghini.
The [Ebm] cheese, cheddar, the mozzarella, the fettuccine.
The [Eb] only thing, look at my [D] ego in a day in her life.
[Ebm] You see what happens when you got the fucking game and the vice.
Whoa, whoa. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Abm] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[Abm] _ _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ _
[Fm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ _
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[B] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[Abm] _ _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ [Gb] _ _
[F] _ _ [D] _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ _
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[B] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
[Abm] _ _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ _
I got a message from a kid on Sunday morning.
Said he don't know what to do and that he's thinking of killing [Abm] himself.
Me and him got more in common than he [Bb] thinks,
but I tell him to see a shrink so I can go on and live on [Abm] myself.
I knew that my life was a [Ebm] film,
but when I had to share a bed with my mum and I was pissing [F] myself.
[Bb] I just want my flowers while I'm [Ebm] here
so I can put them in the front of the grave that I've been digging myself.
I grew up in a two-bed flat with seven people living with me.
You don't know what I did for [Abm] myself.
My mum's the one that gave me [Bb] opportunities
and put me in positions that I couldn't even picture [Abm] myself.
We're from Nigeria, [Ebm] Benin City, Sin City.
Don't know what it's like to be tricked [F] for yourself.
[Bb] Poverty is killing us, the [Ebm] government's killing us.
If they ain't killing us, then we're killing ourselves.
I will die for the niggas I love.
My life's full of plot holes and I'm filling them up.
[Abm] I told mummy I ain't nothing like my father.
I'm a show it as a different definition to love.
[C] I told my fans, we're all alone in this [Bb] together.
You can trust me, all this shit you've been feeling, you're feeling [Ebm] with me.
We all took the wrong turns in different streets.
We all cried the same tears in different cheeks.
I got a message from a kid on Monday [Abm] morning
said he's great for I responded and he's feeling at peace [Gb] with himself.
Me and him got more in common than he [Db] thinks
but I tell him it's nothing [B] big so I can go on and live [Bb] myself.
I knew that God had cast me as the [B] lead in something special
when he messaged me and told me that I [Bb] saved his life.
In [Gb] 23 years I've done [Bb] so much wrong
but in that moment I just felt like I had [Ebm] made it right.
I'm a show it as a different definition to love. _ _ _