Chords with lyrics
verse 1: Jamila Woods
G+G A minorAm
A augmentedA body of water inside me
C majorC E minorEm
Reminds me of oceans, though I've never known one
E minorEm FF
I'm born by a cold one
C majorC A minorAm
It's only a small one compared
DmDm
To the coast, I prefer it to most
E minorEm A minorAm FF A minorAm
I like water that don't burn my eyes when they open
E minorEm A minorAm
I won't let you criticize
G+G C majorC
My city like my skin, it's so pretty
E minorEm
If you don't like it, just leave it alone
Pre-Hook: Jamila Woods
C majorC E minorEm C majorC
You gotta love me like I love the lake
D MajorD C majorC
You wanna love me, better love the lake
G+G C majorC
You gotta love me like I love the lake
E MajorE C majorC
You wanna love me, better love the lake
FF C majorC
You didn't think I really had it like that
G+G C majorC
You ain't think we really had it like that
FF C majorC
You didn't think I really had it like that
E MajorE
Matter fact, we can swim in it
E minorEm
I know you wanna get in it
Hook: Jamila Woods
A minorAm G+G
Get on the highway, highway, baby
A minorAm G+G
Look at it my way, my way, baby
C majorC A minorAm G+G
See, we can fly away, fly away, baby
A augmentedA
And we don't ever leave the ground
G+G
No, no, no
A minorAm G+G
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
Rest In Peace Bernie Mac
verse 2: Chance The Rapper
C majorC
This here ain't for no Vice doc
This here ain't for no Spike op
D MajorD
But since I was one like a cyclops
E minorEm
I run up some stairs on a bike cop
C majorC
I shake up some hands on the right block
Block club president, night watch
D MajorD
My niggas was real when the mic dropped
E minorEm
I put 'em in my wheel like a bike lock
C majorC G+G
Got family in Gary and STL, I got cousins in Milwaukee
E MajorE
I got family in Detroit and ATL, I got an auntie that steal our weed
C majorC
We the number one gentrified
Run inside, gimme my land, the new Chi tits' perky
E minorEm
Face lift and makeshift spaces
Invest the rest in a number 25 Knicks jersey
G+G C majorC
Grass is greener in Pasadena or Catalina by the water
D MajorD G+G
Where the overlap between bullet holes and backpacks couldn't be farther
FF
And I'm supposed to father my daughter?
C majorC E minorEm
She the princess in the dragon's lair
B minorBm D MajorD
I'm a dragon slayer, I can't fly away
To some hideaway, I gotta find a way
Hook: Jamila Woods
A minorAm G+G
Get on the highway, highway, baby
A minorAm G+G
Look at it my way, my way, baby
C majorC A minorAm G+G
See, we can fly away, fly away, baby
A augmentedA
And we don't ever leave the ground
G+G
No, no, no
A minorAm G+G
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
Outro: Jamila Woods
G+G E MajorE
I will never leave you
E minorEm
I'm everything you made me
E minorEm G+G C majorC
Even when you break me down
E minorEm
The water always saves me
E minorEm
I could never leave you
E minorEm
I'm only what you make me
E minorEm G+G A minorAm
Even though you break my heart
C majorC E minorEm
The water's gonna save me