Chords for Macklemore - Otherside

_ _ Chad Butler known as Pimp C died in a Los Angeles hotel room.
The LA County
[F] coroner's office ruled the rapper's death [C] accidental and attributed to a
[G] combination of apnea and [A] syrup and we know that syrup on the [F] streets usually
has codeine.
Absolutely [C] we have a problem now with the cough syrup [G] epidemic. _ _ _
[A] He rolled up asked him what he [F] was sipping on said lean you [C] want to hit a
dog that's the same stuff we easy [G] sipping huh and tons of other rappers
would [A] be spitting hard yep he had five [F] of bone then when I passed him that
[C] styrofoam the Easter pink heard it rhyme [G] before I finally got to see what all the
hype was [A] on and then he took a sip sitting in [F] the Lincoln thinking he was
pimpin as he listened to [C] the system little did he know that it was just as
[G] addictive as bass.
That the kind of hit from [Am] the kick drum.
Hot box let the [F] bass
blow.
Take it to the [C] face.
Go.
Months later the use went [G] up.
Now he blunt was a copy but he buy the [A] pink stuff.
God damn he loved that [F] feeling.
Purple rain coated in the throat.
[C] It was so healing.
Medicine alleviate [G] the sickness.
Liquid depicts him.
It comes with [F#] a cost.
Wake up cold sweat scratching itching.
Trying to skate the skin that barely fit him.
Gone.
Get another bottle just to get a couple [F] swallows headed towards the bottom.
Couldn't get off.
I didn't even think he had a [D] problem.
Though we couldn't sleep without getting
[E] nauseous.
Room spinning.
Thinking he might have sipped just a little bit too much of that [A] cough syrup.
His eyelids [F] closed shut.
Sat back in the chair clutching [Am] that cup.
Girlfriend came
in a couple [G] hours later said his name shook him but he never [Am] got up.
[Bm] He never [C] got up.
Never got up.
[Em] We live on the cusp [D#] of death thinking that it won't be [Am] us.
[A] It won't [Am] be us.
[Dm] It won't be [D] us.
It won't be [G] us.
Nah.
It won't [Am] be us.
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[A] He just wanted to act [F] like them.
He just wanted to rap like [C] him.
Us as rappers
underestimate [G] the power and the effects that we have on these [A] kids.
Blunt past.
Ash in [F] the tin.
Pack being pushed.
Harassed by [C] the feds.
The fact of it is most people [G] that rap like this talking
about some shit they [A] haven't lived.
Surprise.
You know [F] the drill.
Trapped in a box.
Declined record [C] sales.
Follow the formula.
Violence, [G] drugs, and sex sales.
So we try to sound like [A] someone else.
This is not
[F] Californication.
There's no way to glorify this [C] pavement.
Syrup.
Percocet hit an eighth [G] a day will
leave you broke, depressed, and emotionally [A] vacant.
Despite how little Wayne [F] lives.
It's not coercive to
being [C] creative.
And I know because he's my [G] favorite.
And I know because I was off that [Am] same mix.
Rationalize.
This is what I try after I listen to dedication.
But he's an alien.
[G] I said that shit passed out of
play [A] playstation.
Months later I'm in the same [Dm] place.
[F] No music made.
[C] Feeling like a failure.
And trust me
[D] it's not dope to be 25 and move back to your [A] parents basement.
I seen my people's [F] dreams die.
I seen what they can be [C] denied.
And weeds are the drug that's [G] penile.
Groundhog day life repeat [Am] each
time.
I seen [B] oxycontin take [F] three lives.
[Dm] I grew up with them we used to [C] cheat dimes.
I seen cocaine bring out
[G] the demons inside.
Cheating and lying.
[Am] Friendship ceased.
No [Bm] peace in the mind.
[C] Stealing and taking
anything [Dm] to fix the pieces [G] inside.
Broken [Em] hopeless.
Headed [G] nowhere.
Only motivation for what the deal
is [A] supplying.
That rush.
That drug.
That [F] dope.
Those pills.
That crumb.
That [C] roach.
Think I now will never
do that.
[G] Not that drug.
Growing up nobody [Am] ever does.
[A] Until you're stuck [F] looking in the mirror like I
[C] can't believe what I've become.
So I was gonna be [G] someone.
And growing up everyone always [Am] does.
We [G] sell our dreams [F] and our potential to [Gm] escape through that [C] buzz.
Just keep me up.
[G] Keep me up.
Hollywood here we [Am] come.
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You can't tend to [G] go a little too far with some of these [Am] things that have
very strong [A] addictive [F] qualities.
Pills and syrups and [Dm] whatnot.
So [C] is it changing the music?
[G] I can only speak for myself personally.
[Am] You know what I'm saying?
[A] We have been taking [F] down toning
down the [Dm] content of certain [C] things in the music lately.
My new album [G] of course probably won't have
any references [Am] to cough syrup in it.
[A] But a [F] little bit more than the music I think it's going to
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