Purple Rain Chords by Potter Payper
Tempo:
80.45 bpm
Chords used:
Ab
Cm
Eb
Fm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[Ab] [Cm] [Fm] [Eb]
[Fm] [Eb] [Ab] [Cm] Hatch question everything I stand for
Stole purple rain and maintain it [Ab] through the downpour
[Eb] Cold night sleeping [Ab] on the ground floor I [Eb] hate my father I just wish he [Ab] was around
more [Cm] Nanny came on a visit and [Fm] she just broke [Ab] down
[Cm] Said she looks at me as if I [Fm] was her own [Eb] child
And only I can choose the road I'm [Ab] gonna go [Eb] down
So I know I'm on my own [Ab] when it goes down But [Cm] sometimes I can't cope
G [Ab] I can't lie Cause [Cm] from young I've been addicted to [Fm] this
fast [Eb] life Like I swear we was so [Fm] high last [Eb] night
And we didn't make it home till [Ab] like half five
And [Cm] this is real shit this ain't [Ab] just the weed talking
[Cm] Every time I get away I hear [Fm] a thing [Eb] calling I spend money I ain't got like [Fm] a re [Eb]-mortgage
I ain't slept for days feeling like [Ab] I'm sleepwalking
[Cm] When I'm just trying to dodge another [Ab] sentence Stan [Cm] Tukey Williams I'm just looking for [Fm] redemption
[Eb] Hood rap bitches hol' up looking for [Ab] attention
[Eb] Snakes hissing in the distance and I [Ab] can sense them
Fake [Cm] man wanna smoke set it down to ride
I don't know I know the same man wanna fuck [Fm] my wife
[Eb] In the hood there ain't nothing but some fucking [Ab] sluts and liars
[Eb] But I clutch I'm rising [Ab] you could get touched I'm riding
Looking [Cm] for Judas 440s, Trey X, Dotties and some Rugers
[Ab] OT, Grow [Eb] Yards, Siggy's and some Jewellers Living [Ab] for today like we ain't got no futures
And I don't [Cm] really wanna change Seen so much shit some shit I [Ab] don't even wanna say
[Cm] 99 they said my mummy [Ab] went on holiday [Eb] I found out [Ab] that my mummy was in Holloway
But home is where the heart is so I'm loving where I live
And I know most man never struggle like I did
I was coming [Cm] home hungry when I'm in the fridge
[Ab] So I had [Eb] to hit the road like something's got give
[Fm] All five [Eb] million dizz hitting [Ab] kitties out of Oven
Chicks [Cm] couldn't grasp why I wouldn't [Ab] shout emotion
Had to [Cm] tell that bitch true I live amongst [Fm] some [Eb] vultures
And a home ain't a home when your [Ab] home's broken
And a [Eb] home ain't a home when your [Ab] home's broken
[Cm] And then it [Ab] gets harder Felton, [Cm] Chelmsford, Ellsbury, [Ab] Harbour
And I got some youths that need looking after
[Eb] Two little girls that will never know [Ab] their father
Cause daddy was [Cm] a criminal [Fm] mummy [Ab] could've caught
So daddy [Cm] went joe left mummy on [Fm] her own
[Eb] I was talking to the man then that when you coming [Fm] home
Just [Eb] keep rapping it can happen trust me you [Ab] can blow
I got a [Cm] trap guy it's the only life [Ab] I know
And my nanny's always [Cm] telling me [Fm] as if I don't know
[Eb] And now I heard his [Fm] action what defines the man
[Eb] Blind macaroni got me thinking back this [Ab] life I've had
And I'm just thinking back this life I live
As I'm getting older I had [Cm] to question would I die for this
Man I ride in life in bin
Shit the case is [Fm] in the old bay
[Eb] Separated mice from [Ab] men from young I learnt don't talk
You know [Cm] the game you get caught [Ab] that's your own fault
Did my [Cm] first sentence as a baby [Fm] boy
Born [Eb] in the 90's fucking with them 80's [Fm] boys
Olders put [Eb] me on road back when it [Ab] was all love
Road taught me everything [Cm] teachers never taught [Ab] us
Road taught [Cm] me everything teachers never [Fm] taught us
[Eb] But on front line road's something that you [Ab] built for
[Eb] Cause you could die for [Ab] something you wouldn't kill [Cm] for
My dear's behind that [Ab] steel door
My [Cm] dear's on my [Fm] strip mummy's steel core
[Eb] Wait it's still more I'm trapping [Ab] 24's G
[Eb] Up and down in and out till I got [Ab] sore feet
04 [Cm] to [Fm] 06 I never [Ab] saw sleep
Raw [Cm] beat I be [Fm] counting bags at 14
[Eb] 07 I left the crime [Fm] court free
Back and forth I'm felt for like 4 [Cm] weeks
[Ab]
[Cm] 08 I was back behind [Ab] that door G
[Cm] Firearms charge I rid the [Ab] old 4 [Eb] peak
But I rid that
The life you dickheads rap about I lived that
Pebble down a big batch
[Ab] G star pack and told them flip that
I told them take 3 and bring 6 [Eb] back
And T's been gone for a minute now I miss Ack
And I miss C
[Cm] And I miss whites
On my kids life everyday I risk mine
I'm just trying to live right
Sure I [Ab] got a do [Eb] wrong
Cause they see you walking 2 steps with my shoes on
Like you always told me re up [Ab] before your food's gone
[Cm] [Ab] Like [Cm] you always told me re up before your food's [Eb] gone
[N]
[Fm] [Eb] [Ab] [Cm] Hatch question everything I stand for
Stole purple rain and maintain it [Ab] through the downpour
[Eb] Cold night sleeping [Ab] on the ground floor I [Eb] hate my father I just wish he [Ab] was around
more [Cm] Nanny came on a visit and [Fm] she just broke [Ab] down
[Cm] Said she looks at me as if I [Fm] was her own [Eb] child
And only I can choose the road I'm [Ab] gonna go [Eb] down
So I know I'm on my own [Ab] when it goes down But [Cm] sometimes I can't cope
G [Ab] I can't lie Cause [Cm] from young I've been addicted to [Fm] this
fast [Eb] life Like I swear we was so [Fm] high last [Eb] night
And we didn't make it home till [Ab] like half five
And [Cm] this is real shit this ain't [Ab] just the weed talking
[Cm] Every time I get away I hear [Fm] a thing [Eb] calling I spend money I ain't got like [Fm] a re [Eb]-mortgage
I ain't slept for days feeling like [Ab] I'm sleepwalking
[Cm] When I'm just trying to dodge another [Ab] sentence Stan [Cm] Tukey Williams I'm just looking for [Fm] redemption
[Eb] Hood rap bitches hol' up looking for [Ab] attention
[Eb] Snakes hissing in the distance and I [Ab] can sense them
Fake [Cm] man wanna smoke set it down to ride
I don't know I know the same man wanna fuck [Fm] my wife
[Eb] In the hood there ain't nothing but some fucking [Ab] sluts and liars
[Eb] But I clutch I'm rising [Ab] you could get touched I'm riding
Looking [Cm] for Judas 440s, Trey X, Dotties and some Rugers
[Ab] OT, Grow [Eb] Yards, Siggy's and some Jewellers Living [Ab] for today like we ain't got no futures
And I don't [Cm] really wanna change Seen so much shit some shit I [Ab] don't even wanna say
[Cm] 99 they said my mummy [Ab] went on holiday [Eb] I found out [Ab] that my mummy was in Holloway
But home is where the heart is so I'm loving where I live
And I know most man never struggle like I did
I was coming [Cm] home hungry when I'm in the fridge
[Ab] So I had [Eb] to hit the road like something's got give
[Fm] All five [Eb] million dizz hitting [Ab] kitties out of Oven
Chicks [Cm] couldn't grasp why I wouldn't [Ab] shout emotion
Had to [Cm] tell that bitch true I live amongst [Fm] some [Eb] vultures
And a home ain't a home when your [Ab] home's broken
And a [Eb] home ain't a home when your [Ab] home's broken
[Cm] And then it [Ab] gets harder Felton, [Cm] Chelmsford, Ellsbury, [Ab] Harbour
And I got some youths that need looking after
[Eb] Two little girls that will never know [Ab] their father
Cause daddy was [Cm] a criminal [Fm] mummy [Ab] could've caught
So daddy [Cm] went joe left mummy on [Fm] her own
[Eb] I was talking to the man then that when you coming [Fm] home
Just [Eb] keep rapping it can happen trust me you [Ab] can blow
I got a [Cm] trap guy it's the only life [Ab] I know
And my nanny's always [Cm] telling me [Fm] as if I don't know
[Eb] And now I heard his [Fm] action what defines the man
[Eb] Blind macaroni got me thinking back this [Ab] life I've had
And I'm just thinking back this life I live
As I'm getting older I had [Cm] to question would I die for this
Man I ride in life in bin
Shit the case is [Fm] in the old bay
[Eb] Separated mice from [Ab] men from young I learnt don't talk
You know [Cm] the game you get caught [Ab] that's your own fault
Did my [Cm] first sentence as a baby [Fm] boy
Born [Eb] in the 90's fucking with them 80's [Fm] boys
Olders put [Eb] me on road back when it [Ab] was all love
Road taught me everything [Cm] teachers never taught [Ab] us
Road taught [Cm] me everything teachers never [Fm] taught us
[Eb] But on front line road's something that you [Ab] built for
[Eb] Cause you could die for [Ab] something you wouldn't kill [Cm] for
My dear's behind that [Ab] steel door
My [Cm] dear's on my [Fm] strip mummy's steel core
[Eb] Wait it's still more I'm trapping [Ab] 24's G
[Eb] Up and down in and out till I got [Ab] sore feet
04 [Cm] to [Fm] 06 I never [Ab] saw sleep
Raw [Cm] beat I be [Fm] counting bags at 14
[Eb] 07 I left the crime [Fm] court free
Back and forth I'm felt for like 4 [Cm] weeks
[Ab]
[Cm] 08 I was back behind [Ab] that door G
[Cm] Firearms charge I rid the [Ab] old 4 [Eb] peak
But I rid that
The life you dickheads rap about I lived that
Pebble down a big batch
[Ab] G star pack and told them flip that
I told them take 3 and bring 6 [Eb] back
And T's been gone for a minute now I miss Ack
And I miss C
[Cm] And I miss whites
On my kids life everyday I risk mine
I'm just trying to live right
Sure I [Ab] got a do [Eb] wrong
Cause they see you walking 2 steps with my shoes on
Like you always told me re up [Ab] before your food's gone
[Cm] [Ab] Like [Cm] you always told me re up before your food's [Eb] gone
[N]
Key:
Ab
Cm
Eb
Fm
Ab
Cm
Eb
Fm
[Ab] _ [Cm] _ _ [Fm] _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
[Fm] _ [Eb] _ _ [Ab] _ [Cm] Hatch question everything I stand for
Stole purple rain and maintain it [Ab] through the downpour
[Eb] Cold night sleeping [Ab] on the ground floor I [Eb] hate my father I just wish he [Ab] was around
more [Cm] Nanny came on a visit and [Fm] she just broke [Ab] down
[Cm] Said she looks at me as if I [Fm] was her own [Eb] child
And only I can choose the road I'm [Ab] gonna go [Eb] down
So I know I'm on my own [Ab] when it goes down But [Cm] sometimes I can't cope
G [Ab] I can't lie Cause [Cm] from young I've been addicted to [Fm] this
fast [Eb] life Like I swear we was so [Fm] high last [Eb] night
And we didn't make it home till [Ab] like half five
And [Cm] this is real shit this ain't [Ab] just the weed talking
[Cm] Every time I get away I hear [Fm] a thing [Eb] calling I spend money I ain't got like [Fm] a re [Eb]-mortgage
I ain't slept for days feeling like [Ab] I'm sleepwalking
[Cm] When I'm just trying to dodge another [Ab] sentence Stan [Cm] Tukey Williams I'm just looking for [Fm] redemption
[Eb] Hood rap bitches hol' up looking for [Ab] attention
[Eb] Snakes hissing in the distance and I [Ab] can sense them
Fake [Cm] man wanna smoke set it down to ride
I don't know I know the same man wanna fuck [Fm] my wife
[Eb] In the hood there ain't nothing but some fucking [Ab] sluts and liars
[Eb] But I clutch I'm rising [Ab] you could get touched I'm riding
Looking [Cm] for Judas 440s, Trey X, Dotties and some Rugers
[Ab] OT, Grow [Eb] Yards, Siggy's and some Jewellers Living [Ab] for today like we ain't got no futures
And I don't [Cm] really wanna change Seen so much shit some shit I [Ab] don't even wanna say
[Cm] 99 they said my mummy [Ab] went on holiday [Eb] I found out [Ab] that my mummy was in Holloway
But home is where the heart is so I'm loving where I live
And I know most man never struggle like I did
I was coming [Cm] home hungry when I'm in the fridge
[Ab] So I had [Eb] to hit the road like something's got give
[Fm] All five [Eb] million dizz hitting [Ab] kitties out of Oven
Chicks [Cm] couldn't grasp why I wouldn't [Ab] shout emotion
Had to [Cm] tell that bitch true I live amongst [Fm] some [Eb] vultures
And a home ain't a home when your [Ab] home's broken
And a [Eb] home ain't a home when your [Ab] home's broken
_ [Cm] And then it [Ab] gets harder Felton, [Cm] Chelmsford, Ellsbury, [Ab] Harbour
And I got some youths that need looking after
[Eb] Two little girls that will never know [Ab] their father
Cause daddy was [Cm] a criminal [Fm] mummy [Ab] could've caught
So daddy [Cm] went joe left mummy on [Fm] her own
[Eb] I was talking to the man then that when you coming [Fm] home
Just [Eb] keep rapping it can happen trust me you [Ab] can blow
I got a [Cm] trap guy it's the only life [Ab] I know
And my nanny's always [Cm] telling me [Fm] as if I don't know
[Eb] And now I heard his [Fm] action what defines the man
[Eb] Blind macaroni got me thinking back this [Ab] life I've had
And I'm just thinking back this life I live
As I'm getting older I had [Cm] to question would I die for this
Man I ride in life in bin
Shit the case is [Fm] in the old bay
[Eb] Separated mice from [Ab] men from young I learnt don't talk
You know [Cm] the game you get caught [Ab] that's your own fault
Did my [Cm] first sentence as a baby [Fm] boy
Born [Eb] in the 90's fucking with them 80's [Fm] boys
Olders put [Eb] me on road back when it [Ab] was all love
Road taught me everything [Cm] teachers never taught [Ab] us
Road taught [Cm] me everything teachers never [Fm] taught us
[Eb] But on front line road's something that you [Ab] built for
[Eb] Cause you could die for [Ab] something you wouldn't kill [Cm] for
My dear's behind that [Ab] steel door
My [Cm] dear's on my [Fm] strip mummy's steel core
[Eb] Wait it's still more I'm trapping [Ab] 24's G
[Eb] Up and down in and out till I got [Ab] sore feet
04 [Cm] to [Fm] 06 I never [Ab] saw sleep
Raw [Cm] beat I be [Fm] counting bags at 14
[Eb] 07 I left the crime [Fm] court free
Back and forth I'm felt for like 4 [Cm] weeks
_ _ _ [Ab] _
[Cm] 08 I was back behind [Ab] that door G
[Cm] Firearms charge I rid the [Ab] old 4 [Eb] peak
But I rid that
The life you dickheads rap about I lived that
Pebble down a big batch
[Ab] G star pack and told them flip that
I told them take 3 and bring 6 [Eb] back
And T's been gone for a minute now I miss Ack
And I miss C
[Cm] And I miss whites
On my kids life everyday I risk mine
I'm just trying to live right
Sure I [Ab] got a do [Eb] wrong
Cause they see you walking 2 steps with my shoes on
Like you always told me re up [Ab] before your food's gone
[Cm] _ _ [Ab] Like [Cm] you always told me re up before your food's [Eb] gone
_ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _
[Fm] _ [Eb] _ _ [Ab] _ [Cm] Hatch question everything I stand for
Stole purple rain and maintain it [Ab] through the downpour
[Eb] Cold night sleeping [Ab] on the ground floor I [Eb] hate my father I just wish he [Ab] was around
more [Cm] Nanny came on a visit and [Fm] she just broke [Ab] down
[Cm] Said she looks at me as if I [Fm] was her own [Eb] child
And only I can choose the road I'm [Ab] gonna go [Eb] down
So I know I'm on my own [Ab] when it goes down But [Cm] sometimes I can't cope
G [Ab] I can't lie Cause [Cm] from young I've been addicted to [Fm] this
fast [Eb] life Like I swear we was so [Fm] high last [Eb] night
And we didn't make it home till [Ab] like half five
And [Cm] this is real shit this ain't [Ab] just the weed talking
[Cm] Every time I get away I hear [Fm] a thing [Eb] calling I spend money I ain't got like [Fm] a re [Eb]-mortgage
I ain't slept for days feeling like [Ab] I'm sleepwalking
[Cm] When I'm just trying to dodge another [Ab] sentence Stan [Cm] Tukey Williams I'm just looking for [Fm] redemption
[Eb] Hood rap bitches hol' up looking for [Ab] attention
[Eb] Snakes hissing in the distance and I [Ab] can sense them
Fake [Cm] man wanna smoke set it down to ride
I don't know I know the same man wanna fuck [Fm] my wife
[Eb] In the hood there ain't nothing but some fucking [Ab] sluts and liars
[Eb] But I clutch I'm rising [Ab] you could get touched I'm riding
Looking [Cm] for Judas 440s, Trey X, Dotties and some Rugers
[Ab] OT, Grow [Eb] Yards, Siggy's and some Jewellers Living [Ab] for today like we ain't got no futures
And I don't [Cm] really wanna change Seen so much shit some shit I [Ab] don't even wanna say
[Cm] 99 they said my mummy [Ab] went on holiday [Eb] I found out [Ab] that my mummy was in Holloway
But home is where the heart is so I'm loving where I live
And I know most man never struggle like I did
I was coming [Cm] home hungry when I'm in the fridge
[Ab] So I had [Eb] to hit the road like something's got give
[Fm] All five [Eb] million dizz hitting [Ab] kitties out of Oven
Chicks [Cm] couldn't grasp why I wouldn't [Ab] shout emotion
Had to [Cm] tell that bitch true I live amongst [Fm] some [Eb] vultures
And a home ain't a home when your [Ab] home's broken
And a [Eb] home ain't a home when your [Ab] home's broken
_ [Cm] And then it [Ab] gets harder Felton, [Cm] Chelmsford, Ellsbury, [Ab] Harbour
And I got some youths that need looking after
[Eb] Two little girls that will never know [Ab] their father
Cause daddy was [Cm] a criminal [Fm] mummy [Ab] could've caught
So daddy [Cm] went joe left mummy on [Fm] her own
[Eb] I was talking to the man then that when you coming [Fm] home
Just [Eb] keep rapping it can happen trust me you [Ab] can blow
I got a [Cm] trap guy it's the only life [Ab] I know
And my nanny's always [Cm] telling me [Fm] as if I don't know
[Eb] And now I heard his [Fm] action what defines the man
[Eb] Blind macaroni got me thinking back this [Ab] life I've had
And I'm just thinking back this life I live
As I'm getting older I had [Cm] to question would I die for this
Man I ride in life in bin
Shit the case is [Fm] in the old bay
[Eb] Separated mice from [Ab] men from young I learnt don't talk
You know [Cm] the game you get caught [Ab] that's your own fault
Did my [Cm] first sentence as a baby [Fm] boy
Born [Eb] in the 90's fucking with them 80's [Fm] boys
Olders put [Eb] me on road back when it [Ab] was all love
Road taught me everything [Cm] teachers never taught [Ab] us
Road taught [Cm] me everything teachers never [Fm] taught us
[Eb] But on front line road's something that you [Ab] built for
[Eb] Cause you could die for [Ab] something you wouldn't kill [Cm] for
My dear's behind that [Ab] steel door
My [Cm] dear's on my [Fm] strip mummy's steel core
[Eb] Wait it's still more I'm trapping [Ab] 24's G
[Eb] Up and down in and out till I got [Ab] sore feet
04 [Cm] to [Fm] 06 I never [Ab] saw sleep
Raw [Cm] beat I be [Fm] counting bags at 14
[Eb] 07 I left the crime [Fm] court free
Back and forth I'm felt for like 4 [Cm] weeks
_ _ _ [Ab] _
[Cm] 08 I was back behind [Ab] that door G
[Cm] Firearms charge I rid the [Ab] old 4 [Eb] peak
But I rid that
The life you dickheads rap about I lived that
Pebble down a big batch
[Ab] G star pack and told them flip that
I told them take 3 and bring 6 [Eb] back
And T's been gone for a minute now I miss Ack
And I miss C
[Cm] And I miss whites
On my kids life everyday I risk mine
I'm just trying to live right
Sure I [Ab] got a do [Eb] wrong
Cause they see you walking 2 steps with my shoes on
Like you always told me re up [Ab] before your food's gone
[Cm] _ _ [Ab] Like [Cm] you always told me re up before your food's [Eb] gone
_ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _