My Shot chords by The Roots

Chords with lyrics

The Roots featuring Busta Rhymes, Joell Ortiz & Nate Ruess

INTRO: G minorGm FF Bb majorBb C minorCm DmDm Eb MajorEb D MajorD x2
VERSE:
    G minorGm              FF
Ayo mugshots, gun shots, dope shots, jump shot
Bb majorBb
Take your pick, but you only get one shot
C minorCm              DmDm
Advice from a schoolteacher to a young tot
Eb MajorEb             D MajorD
Applyin' a sticker to his Spiderman lunchbox
G minorGm                    FF
When even role models tell us we're born to be felons
Bb majorBb
We're never gettin' into Harvard or Carnegie Mellon
C minorCm                       DmDm
And we gon' end up either robbin' somebody or killin'
 Eb MajorEb          D MajorD
It's not fair that's all they can tell us
            G minorGm
That's why you hustle hella hard,
           FF
never celebrate a holiday
Bb majorBb
That'll be the day I coulda finally hit the lottery
 C minorCm                DmDm
I refuse to ever lose or throw my shot away
 Eb MajorEb              D MajorD
Or chalk it up as just another one that got away
G minorGm              D MajorD
So I'm unapologetic, I'm on my calesthenics
Bb majorBb
If I have given it all I got I cannot regret it
C minorCm
My point of destination's
          DmDm
different from where I was headed
 Eb MajorEb            D MajorD
'Cause I'ma shoot for the stars to get it
D MajorD
One shot

HOOK:
  G minorGm              FF
I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
       Bb majorBb
I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
     C minorCm
Yo I'm just like my country

I'm young, scrappy and hungry
     Eb MajorEb         D MajorD
And I'm not throwin' away my shot
      G minorGm
I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
  FF  Bb majorBb
No I'm not throwin' away my shot
  C minorCm
Yo I'm just like my country
C minorCm
I'm young, scrappy and hungry
        Eb MajorEb      D MajorD
And I'm not throwin' away my shot

VERSE:
G minorGm                         FF
When opportunity knock, you don't send anyone to get it
Bb majorBb
Answer the door, welcome it, let it in or regret it
   C minorCm
They said if you can't beat 'em you join 'em
DmDm
I said, "Forget it"
Eb MajorEb
'Cause once you join 'em
          D MajorD
you're buildin' a ceilin' the way you're headed
 G minorGm                        FF
Be American, express how you feel and take the credit
         Bb majorBb
Don't settle for 87, go premium unleaded and
C minorCm                   DmDm
Take off, shake all the hate off, it's over
 Eb MajorEb
It's they loss,
        d
the payoff's their weight off your shoulders
  G minorGm
Must admit, I'm feelin', I'm kind of um
      FF          Bb majorBb
Lighter as a writer with this fire and desire to go higher
     C minorCm
Than a stealth fighter pilot with my eye on every prize
    DmDm      Eb MajorEb
I surprise you guys, I'm a prize fighter
  D MajorD        G minorGm              FF
My nine to five describe, your scribe survive minor
 Bb majorBb
Setbacks and take steps back from pied pipers
C minorCm         DmDm
Be leaders, believers in yourself and mean it
Eb MajorEb         D MajorD
I mean you only get one shot, take it or leave it

HOOK:
  G minorGm              FF
I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
       Bb majorBb
I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
     C minorCm
Yo I'm just like my country

I'm young, scrappy and hungry
     Eb MajorEb         D MajorD
And I'm not throwin' away my shot
      G minorGm
I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
  FF  Bb majorBb
No I'm not throwin' away my shot
  C minorCm
Yo I'm just like my country
C minorCm
I'm young, scrappy and hungry
        Eb MajorEb      D MajorD
And I'm not throwin' away my shot

G minorGm
Rise up
FF               Bb majorBb
If you livin' on your knees, you rise up
                  C minorCm
Tell your brother that he's gotta rise up
              DmDm     Eb MajorEb
Tell your sister that she's gotta rise up
      D MajorD              G minorGm
When are folks like me and you gonna rise up?
             FF      Bb majorBb
Every city, every hood, we need to rise up
                C minorCm
All my soldiers, what's good? We need to rise up
    DmDm               Eb MajorEb
We ain't got no other choice, we need to rise up
   D MajorD
Rise up!

G minorGm
Throughout my travels and journeys
                FF
through life I've been searchin'
  Bb majorBb
And been learnin' to be
                   C minorCm
the type of person to display how determined I get
              DmDm         Eb MajorEb
When I'm certain, inside I feel that fire that's burnin'
                 D MajorD
Like a knife that is turnin', I fight while I'm hurtin'
   G minorGm
Sometimes they're right 'cause life is a burden
           FF       Bb majorBb
Like the pain from a bite that'll worsen
Bb majorBb
Tryna stifle the light that'll shine on me first and
C minorCm
Before I ride in a hearse and...
 C minorCm      DmDm
My breathing stops and
          Eb MajorEb               D MajorD
You'll never take my one shot I got 'fore I lie in the earth
    G minorGm
And now I kill again on that Hamilton Hercules Mulligan
FF      Bb majorBb
Readin' in Vanity Fair or the Huffington
Bb majorBb
Done with the sufferin',
C minorCm
we in the guts again, family rushin' in
DmDm       Eb MajorEb
Wonder where Busta been
         D MajorD
Feelin' the hunger and feedin' the lust to win
G minorGm                FF     Bb majorBb
See I've been patiently waitin' for this moment
Bb majorBb             C minorCm
To rise up again, that's the way I was molded
 C minorCm
And as the last one standin' as the rest of them foldin'
    DmDm        Eb MajorEb              D MajorD
Give me my one chance to grab the torch and properly hold it

HOOK:
  G minorGm              FF
I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
       Bb majorBb
I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
     C minorCm
Yo I'm just like my country

I'm young, scrappy and hungry
     Eb MajorEb         D MajorD
And I'm not throwin' away my shot
      G minorGm
I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
  FF  Bb majorBb
No I'm not throwin' away my shot
  C minorCm
Yo I'm just like my country
C minorCm
I'm young, scrappy and hungry
        Eb MajorEb      D MajorD
And I'm not throwin' away my shot

HOOK:
  G minorGm              FF
I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
       Bb majorBb
I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
     C minorCm
Yo I'm just like my country

I'm young, scrappy and hungry
     Eb MajorEb         D MajorD
And I'm not throwin' away my shot
      G minorGm
I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
  FF  Bb majorBb
No I'm not throwin' away my shot
  C minorCm
Yo I'm just like my country
C minorCm
I'm young, scrappy and hungry
        Eb MajorEb      D MajorD
And I'm not throwin' away my shot