So What Chords? by Haystak
Tempo:
93.9 bpm
Chords used:
F#m
E
D
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[F#m] [E] Yeah, this fall my people they grew up [D] being told that they would be dead in the penitentiary
by the time they were grown.
[F#m]
And then you wonder why they [E] got depression, self-esteem, [D]
anxiety issues, you know.
After [F#m] so long you start to believe it.
I recall everything, I was so.
[E] Boy you never let it be 18 years old.
[F#m] Dead or incarcerated just [D] like those people who wandered down similar roads.
[F#m] Leaving out the house you say please don't go.
[E] Granny why you stay trying to save my soul?
If death is my destiny [D] like you had said to me, [F#m] let me get busy before you get the best of me.
Don't you know bullets don't have no brain?
[E] And a lot of youngins don't have no pain.
[F#m] Am I living or dying somebody please explain?
Don't understand because I'm going insane.
I'm strapped up cause here, shy, sick of [E] shit.
Meanwhile, Blue who teach [D] chemistry is in his office with a kid doing shit I get [F#m] expelled for.
Which makes me wonder why people go to jail for.
Even if I did die young so what?
[E] Nobody expected me to ever grow up.
[D] Grandmama lectured me you better grow up.
But there was no telling me I wasn't grown up.
[F#m] Even if I did die young so what?
[E] Nobody expected me to ever grow up.
[D] Grandmama lectured me you better grow up.
But there was no telling me I wasn't grown up.
[F#m] I'm a kid peeping in justice y'all [E] that's life.
But you're so quick to point [D] out mine.
That's what made me draw that line blinded by my own design.
I'm doing [F#m] fine.
No I'm not I'm doing bad but I'm so afraid to [E] talk.
Y'all got shit going on I don't wanna bother [D] y'all.
Pops cut from a different cloth never be the [F#m] man he was.
Thought I was slow I turned out to be a genius.
And I ain't return like eat my [E] peanuts.
Let our bank statements be the difference [F#m] between us.
If I seem distant bitch I'm 30 something.
I was supposed to fit done been a murder victim.
My grandpa pray till his knees [E] gave way.
If you can't save me God, please save [D] Jason.
The way I went in that's the only [F#m] explanation.
I know some bad news enough to know I hate it.
Even if I did die young so what?
[E] Nobody expected me to ever grow up.
[D] Grandmama lectured me you better grow up.
But there was no telling me I wasn't grown up.
[F#m] Even if I did die young so what?
[E] Nobody expected me to ever grow up.
[D] Grandmama lectured me you better grow up.
But there was no telling me I wasn't grown up.
[F#m] I was confused and you can hear it in my [E] rhetoric.
In retrospect I never should have [F#m] made it back.
I wrote my senator and never got a letter back.
My friend Chris got killed for a Cadillac.
My man Mike died for a [E] powder pack.
So understand why I could think that [D] I was next.
Under attack guns and [F#m] crack.
Bought a motherfucking police shoot us in the back.
And they think it only happens to [E] blacks.
And refuse to believe it almost happens to [F#m] stacks.
Stabbed in the back blood beating through a heart filled with cracks.
Soldier to walk through that injuries.
A lot of players don't walk [E] off.
I walked off because I ain't the type to walk [D] off.
If you're family you supposed to love me when I'm [F#m] wrong.
Be a man and represent me when I'm gone.
Stones in the foundation get looked [E] over.
But without them the whole damn house fall [F#m] over.
This is for the rocks that exist beneath me.
The block which gave me a pass to be me.
BB's are baby bullets.
Babies are in [E] training.
My people were banging before they caught it.
Banging [D] just chilling.
Hanging words [F#m] exchange.
One thing led to another.
All I heard was.
Even if I did die young.
So what?
[E] Nobody expected me to ever grow up.
[D] Grandmama lectured me you better grow up.
But there was no telling me I wasn't grown up.
[F#m] Even if I did die young.
So what?
[E] Nobody expected me to ever grow up.
[D] Grandmama lectured me you better grow up.
But there was no telling me I wasn't grown up.
[F#m] [E] [D]
[F#m] [E]
[D] [F#m]
[E]
[D]
[F#m] [E]
[F#m] [D]
[N]
by the time they were grown.
[F#m]
And then you wonder why they [E] got depression, self-esteem, [D]
anxiety issues, you know.
After [F#m] so long you start to believe it.
I recall everything, I was so.
[E] Boy you never let it be 18 years old.
[F#m] Dead or incarcerated just [D] like those people who wandered down similar roads.
[F#m] Leaving out the house you say please don't go.
[E] Granny why you stay trying to save my soul?
If death is my destiny [D] like you had said to me, [F#m] let me get busy before you get the best of me.
Don't you know bullets don't have no brain?
[E] And a lot of youngins don't have no pain.
[F#m] Am I living or dying somebody please explain?
Don't understand because I'm going insane.
I'm strapped up cause here, shy, sick of [E] shit.
Meanwhile, Blue who teach [D] chemistry is in his office with a kid doing shit I get [F#m] expelled for.
Which makes me wonder why people go to jail for.
Even if I did die young so what?
[E] Nobody expected me to ever grow up.
[D] Grandmama lectured me you better grow up.
But there was no telling me I wasn't grown up.
[F#m] Even if I did die young so what?
[E] Nobody expected me to ever grow up.
[D] Grandmama lectured me you better grow up.
But there was no telling me I wasn't grown up.
[F#m] I'm a kid peeping in justice y'all [E] that's life.
But you're so quick to point [D] out mine.
That's what made me draw that line blinded by my own design.
I'm doing [F#m] fine.
No I'm not I'm doing bad but I'm so afraid to [E] talk.
Y'all got shit going on I don't wanna bother [D] y'all.
Pops cut from a different cloth never be the [F#m] man he was.
Thought I was slow I turned out to be a genius.
And I ain't return like eat my [E] peanuts.
Let our bank statements be the difference [F#m] between us.
If I seem distant bitch I'm 30 something.
I was supposed to fit done been a murder victim.
My grandpa pray till his knees [E] gave way.
If you can't save me God, please save [D] Jason.
The way I went in that's the only [F#m] explanation.
I know some bad news enough to know I hate it.
Even if I did die young so what?
[E] Nobody expected me to ever grow up.
[D] Grandmama lectured me you better grow up.
But there was no telling me I wasn't grown up.
[F#m] Even if I did die young so what?
[E] Nobody expected me to ever grow up.
[D] Grandmama lectured me you better grow up.
But there was no telling me I wasn't grown up.
[F#m] I was confused and you can hear it in my [E] rhetoric.
In retrospect I never should have [F#m] made it back.
I wrote my senator and never got a letter back.
My friend Chris got killed for a Cadillac.
My man Mike died for a [E] powder pack.
So understand why I could think that [D] I was next.
Under attack guns and [F#m] crack.
Bought a motherfucking police shoot us in the back.
And they think it only happens to [E] blacks.
And refuse to believe it almost happens to [F#m] stacks.
Stabbed in the back blood beating through a heart filled with cracks.
Soldier to walk through that injuries.
A lot of players don't walk [E] off.
I walked off because I ain't the type to walk [D] off.
If you're family you supposed to love me when I'm [F#m] wrong.
Be a man and represent me when I'm gone.
Stones in the foundation get looked [E] over.
But without them the whole damn house fall [F#m] over.
This is for the rocks that exist beneath me.
The block which gave me a pass to be me.
BB's are baby bullets.
Babies are in [E] training.
My people were banging before they caught it.
Banging [D] just chilling.
Hanging words [F#m] exchange.
One thing led to another.
All I heard was.
Even if I did die young.
So what?
[E] Nobody expected me to ever grow up.
[D] Grandmama lectured me you better grow up.
But there was no telling me I wasn't grown up.
[F#m] Even if I did die young.
So what?
[E] Nobody expected me to ever grow up.
[D] Grandmama lectured me you better grow up.
But there was no telling me I wasn't grown up.
[F#m] [E] [D]
[F#m] [E]
[D] [F#m]
[E]
[D]
[F#m] [E]
[F#m] [D]
[N]
Key:
F#m
E
D
F#m
E
D
F#m
E
[F#m] _ _ [E] Yeah, this fall my people they grew up [D] being told that they would be dead in the penitentiary
by the time they were grown.
_ _ [F#m]
And then you wonder why they [E] got depression, self-esteem, [D]
anxiety issues, you know.
After [F#m] so long you start to believe it.
I recall everything, I was so.
[E] Boy you never let it be 18 years old.
[F#m] Dead or incarcerated just [D] like those people who wandered down similar roads.
[F#m] Leaving out the house you say please don't go.
[E] Granny why you stay trying to save my soul?
If death is my destiny [D] like you had said to me, [F#m] let me get busy before you get the best of me.
Don't you know bullets don't have no brain?
[E] And a lot of youngins don't have no pain.
[F#m] Am I living or dying somebody please explain?
Don't understand because I'm going insane.
I'm strapped up cause here, shy, sick of [E] shit.
Meanwhile, Blue who teach [D] chemistry is in his office with a kid doing shit I get [F#m] expelled for.
Which makes me wonder why people go to jail for.
Even if I did die young so what?
[E] Nobody expected me to ever grow up.
[D] Grandmama lectured me you better grow up.
But there was no telling me I wasn't grown up.
[F#m] Even if I did die young so what?
[E] Nobody expected me to ever grow up.
[D] Grandmama lectured me you better grow up.
But there was no telling me I wasn't grown up.
[F#m] I'm a kid peeping in justice y'all [E] that's life.
But you're so quick to point [D] out mine.
That's what made me draw that line blinded by my own design.
I'm doing [F#m] fine.
No I'm not I'm doing bad but I'm so afraid to [E] talk.
Y'all got shit going on I don't wanna bother [D] y'all.
Pops cut from a different cloth never be the [F#m] man he was.
Thought I was slow I turned out to be a genius.
And I ain't return like eat my [E] peanuts.
Let our bank statements be the difference [F#m] between us.
If I seem distant bitch I'm 30 something.
I was supposed to fit done been a murder victim.
My grandpa pray till his knees [E] gave way.
If you can't save me God, please save [D] Jason.
The way I went in that's the only [F#m] explanation.
I know some bad news enough to know I hate it.
Even if I did die young so what?
[E] Nobody expected me to ever grow up.
[D] Grandmama lectured me you better grow up.
But there was no telling me I wasn't grown up.
[F#m] Even if I did die young so what?
[E] Nobody expected me to ever grow up.
[D] Grandmama lectured me you better grow up.
But there was no telling me I wasn't grown up.
[F#m] I was confused and you can hear it in my [E] rhetoric.
In retrospect I never should have [F#m] made it back.
I wrote my senator and never got a letter back.
My friend Chris got killed for a Cadillac.
My man Mike died for a [E] powder pack.
So understand why I could think that [D] I was next.
Under attack guns and [F#m] crack.
Bought a motherfucking police shoot us in the back.
And they think it only happens to [E] blacks.
And refuse to believe it almost happens to [F#m] stacks.
Stabbed in the back blood beating through a heart filled with cracks.
Soldier to walk through that injuries.
A lot of players don't walk [E] off.
I walked off because I ain't the type to walk [D] off.
If you're family you supposed to love me when I'm [F#m] wrong.
Be a man and represent me when I'm gone.
Stones in the foundation get looked [E] over.
But without them the whole damn house fall [F#m] over.
This is for the rocks that exist beneath me.
The block which gave me a pass to be me.
BB's are baby bullets.
Babies are in [E] training.
My people were banging before they caught it.
Banging [D] just chilling.
Hanging words [F#m] exchange.
One thing led to another.
All I heard was. _
_ _ Even if I did die young.
So what?
[E] Nobody expected me to ever grow up.
[D] Grandmama lectured me you better grow up.
But there was no telling me I wasn't grown up.
[F#m] Even if I did die young.
So what?
[E] Nobody expected me to ever grow up.
[D] Grandmama lectured me you better grow up.
But there was no telling me I wasn't grown up.
[F#m] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ [F#m] _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _
by the time they were grown.
_ _ [F#m]
And then you wonder why they [E] got depression, self-esteem, [D]
anxiety issues, you know.
After [F#m] so long you start to believe it.
I recall everything, I was so.
[E] Boy you never let it be 18 years old.
[F#m] Dead or incarcerated just [D] like those people who wandered down similar roads.
[F#m] Leaving out the house you say please don't go.
[E] Granny why you stay trying to save my soul?
If death is my destiny [D] like you had said to me, [F#m] let me get busy before you get the best of me.
Don't you know bullets don't have no brain?
[E] And a lot of youngins don't have no pain.
[F#m] Am I living or dying somebody please explain?
Don't understand because I'm going insane.
I'm strapped up cause here, shy, sick of [E] shit.
Meanwhile, Blue who teach [D] chemistry is in his office with a kid doing shit I get [F#m] expelled for.
Which makes me wonder why people go to jail for.
Even if I did die young so what?
[E] Nobody expected me to ever grow up.
[D] Grandmama lectured me you better grow up.
But there was no telling me I wasn't grown up.
[F#m] Even if I did die young so what?
[E] Nobody expected me to ever grow up.
[D] Grandmama lectured me you better grow up.
But there was no telling me I wasn't grown up.
[F#m] I'm a kid peeping in justice y'all [E] that's life.
But you're so quick to point [D] out mine.
That's what made me draw that line blinded by my own design.
I'm doing [F#m] fine.
No I'm not I'm doing bad but I'm so afraid to [E] talk.
Y'all got shit going on I don't wanna bother [D] y'all.
Pops cut from a different cloth never be the [F#m] man he was.
Thought I was slow I turned out to be a genius.
And I ain't return like eat my [E] peanuts.
Let our bank statements be the difference [F#m] between us.
If I seem distant bitch I'm 30 something.
I was supposed to fit done been a murder victim.
My grandpa pray till his knees [E] gave way.
If you can't save me God, please save [D] Jason.
The way I went in that's the only [F#m] explanation.
I know some bad news enough to know I hate it.
Even if I did die young so what?
[E] Nobody expected me to ever grow up.
[D] Grandmama lectured me you better grow up.
But there was no telling me I wasn't grown up.
[F#m] Even if I did die young so what?
[E] Nobody expected me to ever grow up.
[D] Grandmama lectured me you better grow up.
But there was no telling me I wasn't grown up.
[F#m] I was confused and you can hear it in my [E] rhetoric.
In retrospect I never should have [F#m] made it back.
I wrote my senator and never got a letter back.
My friend Chris got killed for a Cadillac.
My man Mike died for a [E] powder pack.
So understand why I could think that [D] I was next.
Under attack guns and [F#m] crack.
Bought a motherfucking police shoot us in the back.
And they think it only happens to [E] blacks.
And refuse to believe it almost happens to [F#m] stacks.
Stabbed in the back blood beating through a heart filled with cracks.
Soldier to walk through that injuries.
A lot of players don't walk [E] off.
I walked off because I ain't the type to walk [D] off.
If you're family you supposed to love me when I'm [F#m] wrong.
Be a man and represent me when I'm gone.
Stones in the foundation get looked [E] over.
But without them the whole damn house fall [F#m] over.
This is for the rocks that exist beneath me.
The block which gave me a pass to be me.
BB's are baby bullets.
Babies are in [E] training.
My people were banging before they caught it.
Banging [D] just chilling.
Hanging words [F#m] exchange.
One thing led to another.
All I heard was. _
_ _ Even if I did die young.
So what?
[E] Nobody expected me to ever grow up.
[D] Grandmama lectured me you better grow up.
But there was no telling me I wasn't grown up.
[F#m] Even if I did die young.
So what?
[E] Nobody expected me to ever grow up.
[D] Grandmama lectured me you better grow up.
But there was no telling me I wasn't grown up.
[F#m] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _
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_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ [F#m] _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
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