Chords for Outkast - Mainstream (Official Audio)

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_ [F] Revolutionary, scary, thought provoking, spoken, [G] words of a change I [A] don't feel but I see,
visions [Bb] for me at 23, [F] making it free in my community, [G] one day is what I live for,
[F] ain't thinking about no hope no more, I got [Bb] my moves I kick until I get great,
[F] adapt and overcome, [G] oh hum hum, go get my gun, load [Am] up with fun, and put it down with [F] a frown,
but go round [D] cause round from LK to Cascade, [Gm] I know it's through them penny [D] fingers, cocaine dealers,
so the wrong [Bb] side, hoping they rise, looking [D] cleaner than I seen in the last time,
they selling [Gm] dimes now as port-a-peas, stacking [Dm] G's [D] in the south,
and these [Bb] money them folks riding buses, I'm off [D] these niggas up in the hood,
know what each and every [Gm] nigga selling, [E] but can you blame,
to the fact the only way [Bb] a brother can survive the gang, to fly [D] hard to get by,
don't kill it, fatal killings and fair time, to write [Am] rhymes, it ain't just the police,
[Bb] we kill each other just like some other [F] brother, fast living to get you took,
thinking they [Gm] can't happen to do, and then [D] they do,
off crooked schemes, it's the [Bb] dream, floating face down [D] in the mainstream, _
but it feels when [A] it ain't off, it's a [F] creed, that's why I signed the 5 [Gm]-0's face down in the mainstream,
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_ _ [D] _ _ [F] they swore on diving, if they name be Gretchen or Ivan,
bull cart wrestling to finish [Gm] their album, did you find them,
[Am] lost dog peddling, back stroking, what [Bb] done happened,
deep rhyme to catch it today, when [C] the recipe called for black and wrong ingredients,
[G] maybe too much herbs and spices, maybe [Am] you got hungry for the wrong dish,
shut them greens and listen, [F] I said hide them [Bb] Joneses sang,
so I'm gonna [C] sang, just like them, to get where they at,
[G] I'll even break my back to touch they rim, if [A] I gotta, my ultimata be that I [Bb] follow,
I'll bite whatever that's looking tasty, water [F] it down and then swallow,
I hope you vomit, [G] won't call no name, cause that's not my job,
it just [Am] applies to whom it may concern, you know who you [G] are,
but if you don't, you never will, you [D] just proceed to steal,
but then it might [G] get ugly, cause trust me niggas do feel,
the [A] way that I felt when I wrote this, but we must stay [Bb] in focus,
be kings and queens up in this thing, [F] get rid of all them jokers,
face down, [G] face down, face down,
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_ _ [Dm] I hope you don't [Bb] mind me eating off of your, [F] processed,
smoke a mocha like cherry, meanwhile [G] fairies up the street,
[A] sprinkling pigs in dust over [Bb] greenery, never to attain another [F] level of curbside,
yes only to [D] test the potency, white [A] lad here,
they scheme over one another, [Bb] mops defeat,
this thing is quick, this [F] is to make, let words [G] shape your destiny,
but we'll [A] mistaken all the way, just as [Bb] quick as you can say,
I wish I never did what I did, now face this [G] big,
it was the company you kept, [A] the many places you slept,
[Bb] when you shouldn't have, [F] geeking like a rat,
jumping like [G] a trap, contributing to [F] sin,
and your nigga bitching in clubs, [Bb] so it pink for ten,
they got [F] you niggas where they want you again,
coming face [Am] down in the mainstream,
[Bb] that's why, that's why, that's why,
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that's why some will find [Am] folks face down in the [Bb] mainstream,
everybody's [F] a player, rubbing them kangos on their heads,
thinking it's all about [G] your clothes, nigga it's all about [D] yourself,
the way you feel about your lot, like,
the time that you [Bb] done shared with your friends and family,
up and down like hoes [F] compared to dick,
[G] six, seven of them in the mix, but ain't [Am] no mystery,
you know the history about this [F] clique bitch,
oh, oh, what, what, you want me to call you slut,
but why you fucking all them niggas, letting them all up in your guts,
but see [Am] that A's, I'm afraid, I think that's why,
y'all play the [Bb] quiet role, I lay in the cut, every month,
[F] niggas let that fire roll like chimneys,
[Gm] and smoke signals, maybe peace like even,
[A] my partners call me big boy, and my first name is [Bb] not Steven,
in the mainstream, the home team, [D] banging on with these hits,
in the mix, mix, [G] blowing like some motherfucking war [A] fish,
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think it is when it ain't all [F] peace and cream,
[G]
that's why some will find [A] folks face down in the mainstream,
[Bb]
think it is when [F] it ain't all peace and cream,
[G]
that's why some will find [A] folks face down in the mainstream,
[Bb]
think [F] it is when it ain't all peace and cream,
[G]
that's why some will find [Dm] folks face down in the mainstream,
[Bb]
think it is when [F] it ain't all peace and cream.
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