Chords for M.E.N

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Bugs him along, _ [B] you _ _ [Ebm] know? _ _ _
Mr.
Snowman on [B] production.
_ Watch this, I [Ebm] got a brand new 3 bedroom crib with [Gb] spotlights in the ceiling, it's sick.
Got a [Ebm] beanbag in the computer room, all I need now is gram 5406.
Got an office and everything cocaine white.
[Gb] In the morning it can get too bright but [Ebm] it doesn't affect me these days cause I've been
staying up [B] way too deep in the night [Ebm] thinking about before it all went bad.
Before the day I met my real dad.
Before I knew about money and bills and how they both made my mum get sad.
Sat carting about 25 bags and running out of elastic bands.
Cause it turns out when you make money on [B] the road there's nothing you can do with the cash.
So [Ebm] I jump in the S-line driving fast, hoping I'll bump into my stepdad.
Cause they say men and abuse is worse than physical abuse and I wanna get him back.
But I don't wanna do another custodial sentence in a 4x4 pad.
And I gotta take this time to apologise to my best friend cause we almost crashed.
Let me try and explain, it's intricate because I never been playing, it's intimate because
I never contacted [B] a counsellor to get rid of this pain.
[Ebm] I walk with it and now I'm going insane, losing control of my own brain.
[Bbm] Watching documentaries on [B] serial killers and feeling that I can relate.
[Ebm] You find that strange?
Yeah?
Okay.
Well let me get this straight.
If I do a life sentence or I don't [B] make it it's cause I could not handle the pain.
[Ebm] I don't wanna hear nobody complain about that's good talent gone to waste.
Cause if I didn't go through what I went through then you wouldn't [B] ever download my [Ebm] mixtapes
and let me confide in you.
Let me get it off my chest.
Turns out no matter how many cracks I make I still can't handle the stress.
But I don't watch all the indirects.
Truth say man might see me as a threat I don't mind going out as a legend as long as I'm
known as Manchester's best.
So picture the scene, I'm sitting on my corner suffering peace until I got a call.
Have you seen yourself in the papers?
You wanted by the police.
And I was like what?
And it was hot.
But do you wanna know what was a lot?
The night before was the night that I went on [B] Twitter at a direct message from [Ebm] Slough.
Just my luck.
_ Let me do a Vincent van Gogh.
Cause you know I paint pictures with words and [B] I still not publish one [Ebm] book.
I was in Palacia trying to get to the bar and my man didn't wanna let me [Ab] pass.
[Ebm] Pushed me into a family of brothers.
[B] Before you knew it I'd already been cracked.
But let [Ebm] me remind these fools.
[Gb] Into the devil [Abm] I turn.
[Ebm] They step back, I step forward.
Play with fire and you're gonna get burned.
But I must apologise in advance cause I didn't want it to end [Abm] so bad.
[Ebm] See what happened from there was loose.
[Bb] I was in the Manchester Evening News it said he got violently attacked.
[Gb] Outside in a taxi he was [Abm] whacked and [Ebm] could've died.
But that's how you know what the papers [B] tried.
It was self-defence, that's a blatant lie.
I'm [Gb] stereotyped.
And do you wanna know why?
[Abm] I'm a different [Ebm] guy.
When I was about 8, [B] my mum moved to an area that was heavily [Ebm] white.
I was in school looking like Wesley Snipes.
Ben [Abm] Sherman's in a second [Ebm] hand bike.
Feeling like a donut cause I'd already [B] been stabbed by the time I was [Ebm] year 9.
Mum didn't want me to see my side.
Told me that [Abm] too many people [Ebm] died.
Between like 91 and [B] 99 there was a gang war and violent [Ebm] crime.
My uncle's face got tore [Gb] out by the pellets of a shotgun [Ab] like [Ebm] Frankenstein.
I was sat with him in an M3 that could do naught to 60 in 4.5.
One hand holding a steering wheel.
Moving quicker than a Batmobile.
Driving around cheating mill when I was about 9.
Back when the hood was real.
A villain taking secure local boxes and I don't care [Abm] if it's hot.
[Ebm] They don't mean Russell Crowe when they mention the gladiator in the gang war book.
The first guy that I ever looked up [Gb] to.
He was like Batman [Abm] without his [Ebm] suit.
Now it's my turn to try and put money on the map.
I just hope I can do it like you.
Hope I can get 1 million views.
Hope that I never get caught with food.
I hope that Charlie can breathe alright in the smoke.
Cause I set fire to the booth.
And when I realised that grime was English Hip Hop.
Forget [Abm] about all the [Ebm] tunes.
Forget the playlist.
I wanna go down in history like Tutankhamun.
Leave _ that playa.
[Abm] _ [Ebm] _ I dedicate this one to Dane.
My little cousin. _ _
[Abm] He didn't make it.
[Ebm] Rest in peaceful.
See you soon my brother. _ _ _ _ _
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