Chords for Kenny Mason - SHELL (Official Video)

You [A] give me hope, girl.
[G] _
[A] You give me joy.
_ [G]
Let [A] me say something.
I need _ _ [D] you.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] They _ [F#m] never show me a black guy, only a trap guy.
Well it turns out so out of my last [B] job,
I started [G] to crack cars.
I can adapt [A] all, I can dodge and attack, [F#m] I can attach parts.
_ Good kid in [G] the city but raging in mad parts.
My blood on the ass, [A] fuck.
My brother went half
[F#m] out.
I told him what happened, he ready to crash [B] out.
My mama [G] had passed out.
Yeah.
Too woke to know what [A] a wake meant.
[F#m] I made it out of the basement.
Too broke to know what a break
meant.
[G] But not enough to do a break in.
Still I don't take [A] shit, cause sometimes a white nigga
[F#m] with dishing and goals.
That I seen out here kicking in doors.
That I seen out here risking
[G] they souls.
Is the earth for hell?
[A] I can't tell.
[F#m] My niggas loading up K-shells.
Speaking of holding
up H-shells.
I know that I didn't [G] want to age well.
Not good at that, then [A] my age well.
From age [F#m] 12
up to grade 12.
Every reason [G#] to hate 12.
Came up here and took me like [G] a daycare.
Bitch I'm [A] original
not gay.
You can [F#m] tell by the nine chain.
Who gonna be here when my mind change?
Who gonna be here
when the time?
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_ _ _ _ [E] They want me to [G] pray to the most high.
To me that's a crackhead.
In [F#m] a city with closed eyes.
A city with no God.
Impending a [G] nose dive.
Spending a block and spending a long [A] time.
Pretending I [F#m] don't cry. _
_ I be [F#] telling a
lie.
The day that I tell you I [G] don't lie.
My mom on the phone [A] line.
Remind me to tell you when [F#m] I make it
home now.
I'm reaching my goals now.
The notes in my phone resemble a [G] gold mine.
I'm here on my own [A] now.
I thought a few [F#m] goats should reach out and show how.
To maneuver the game.
But they feel like their goal
is keeping us [G] closed out.
Keep it on me for [A] sure.
It ain't for [F#m] show.
It's sure.
It's gonna be the last
shit you see before.
A side of me they never seen [G] before.
Keep the heat in the heat the [A] cold.
The rain
the sleep the [F#m] snow.
Delete a foe.
Impose defeat and fold them.
[B] He never been on this street before.
Chill before I [A] swallow fruit for knowledge that I seek.
Shoot him by the cartoon.
He like cartoon.
Get me lit.
[G] Put that gun on you like [A] Marco's.
If his car get low, [F#m] great.
Nigga we all gon' go out one day.
Make no [B] difference if it's today.
[G] _
_ _ [F#] I know my dog be stepping on shit.
If he don't get caught he never gon' quit.
I know that [G] 5-bit working on shit.
Them all want try they catching on [F#m] quick.
Them all gon' shine they [C#m] setting up licks.
I know they fine they [F#] setting up hits.
I know my mind been setting up [G] tricks.
Yeah.
I been [A] practicing pushing my brain.
[F#m] You start changing the way that you look at shit.
Then this shit you start [Dm] looking at change.
Now you [G] looking at change.
Of whatever [A] original 9 getting.
You can [F#m] tell by the 9 chain.
Who gon' be [B] here when the time change?
[Bm] Who gon' be here when my mind change?
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