t h e . c l i m b . b a c k Chords by J. Cole

Are you doing this work to facilitate growth or to become famous?
Which is more important, getting [Ebm] or letting go?
No. _ _
_ He's in the game, he's in the [B] game.
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_ Everything [Ebm] _ come back [Bbm] around full circle.
[F] Why do [Ebm] lies sound pleasant but the truth hurtful?
Everybody gotta cry once in [B] a while, but how long will it take for you to smile?
[Eb] This is that come back [Ebm] to life shit.
My niggas pick me up and we gon' light the city up as if the sun had [B] the night.
And paint the town red for my nigga found dead too soon.
Yeah, [Ebm] to the left of that decimal I need seven figures to play the joint.
Turn up your decibels, peep-eye decimator joint.
Check out my projects like them workers that section eight [B] of points.
Then you'll see how I flip like exclamation [Ebm] points.
My niggas shoot verses if they never played the point.
More two guards, enough straps to fill [B] four U-Hauls.
More depth than World War II cars around these parts.
We put up rounds just to drown these [Ebm] thots of black corpses in County Mall.
Slur, those images haunting.
I ain't been asleep yet.
It's ten in the morning, I'm sending a warning.
Apollo with me is like the BET [B] Hip Hop Awards.
I'm starting to see you niggas don't want [Ebm] it.
I'm sick of this slumping.
From niggas I know for sure ain't got more gold than coal.
Trash rappers, ass backers, trying to [B] go toe-to-toe.
We laugh at you.
Staff strapped up on top the totem pole to blast at you.
Bassmasters, look how [Ebm] they totem pole.
Gotta know the ropes and the protocol.
Or they gon' for sure blow your clothes half off like a promo code.
Made a little tune called Folding [B] Clothes.
And the niggas still ain't on the fold.
Under pressure, well you [Ebm] know what code do.
Make a diamond, they just rhyming me.
I'm quoting gold.
One phone call gets you canceled like [B] a homophobe.
In this PC culture, dress me as the GOAT like they call Chief Keef Sosa.
In my [Ebm] section, know like a fucking three-piece sofa.
I'm known as the chosen one.
Another dead body lay frozen, that's how [B] I go sometimes.
When niggas wearing Coke and not the pros and cons.
Well I ain't with that sleeping on the ground like a gopher, so I [Ebm] go for mine.
Everything come back [Bbm] around full circle.
[F] Why the lie [Eb] sound pleasant [Ebm] but the truth hurtful?
Everybody gotta cry once in a [B] while.
But how long will it take for you [Ab] smile?
[Eb] This is that combat [Ebm] delight shit.
My niggas pick me up and we gon' light the city up as if the sun had [B] the night shit.
And paint the town red for my nigga found dead too soon.
Now I know why they [Ebm] call it blue.
Survival at all costs.
Everyday niggas get logged off, bodies get hard dossed.
Passing the funeral procession while holding my breath in the car, I thought.
It's time to be [B] feeling the devil be winning but through that mean God lost.
Just got off the [Ebm] phone, my nigga he back in the kennel, my dog lost.
I brought him around close to me before but he became addicted to clout and all the [B] hoes we meet.
I slowly peeped jealousy on his breath whenever he spoke to me.
Like on the low he feeling that in my shoes, that's where he's [Ebm] supposed to be.
I try to ignore the signs but they're in the back of my mind.
It felt like letting a nigga come sleep on your couch and he eating up all your [B] groceries.
My nigga repeated this quote to me.
I felt this potency said most of these niggas gon' hang theyself just giving a [Ebm] rope and see.
Shit, I heeded that.
What God showed to me was screaming that some niggas you gotta leave them back.
[B] Unfortunately, we seen the trap.
Nigga be on that demon clack.
Resultantly, they feign to clap as often as the genius that [Ebm] misquoting me.
Meanwhile, I see that your diamonds is glistening.
I'm glad that you shining but need I remind you my niggas is [B] diamond and nickel and
Scraping on whatever coin they can find.
A petty is trying to commit in it.
Just to get by for a limited time.
The steepest of [Ebm] mountain they trying to climb.
I'm hitching on to find a derivative.
You niggas don't feel me.
You see the clout.
You don't see the real me.
If I shit, you nigga wouldn't [B] heal me.
Therefore, I'm healing myself.
Getting in tune with my God.
Slowly revealing myself.
Building my wealth.
A nigga test run.
I'm a kill myself.
[Ebm] Trust me.
Everything come back [Bbm] around for a circle.
[F] Why do lies [Ebm] sound pleasant yet the truth hurtful.
Everybody gotta cry once in a [B] while.
But how long will it take for you smile?
[Eb] This is that come back to [Ebm] life shit.
My niggas pick me up and we gonna light the city up as if the sun had the [B] night.
And paint the town red for my niggas found there too soon.
Now I know why they [Ebm] call it blue. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Ab] _ [Ebm] Everybody mentions suicide prevention.
Man, they even made a hotline.
[B] [Ab] Call up when they pinch me.
[B] But I got a question.
What about a [Ebm] fucking homicide?
_ Need a number for my niggas who call.
Whenever there's a urge to build triggers and [B] vines.
Need a number for my [Ebm] niggas who [Abm] call.
Whenever there's a [Ebm] urge to build triggers and vines. _ _ _
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