[Intro]
Am
Yeah, sometimes
Em
You gotta come back down
Em
Stoop to someone's level (Yeah)
[Verse]
Am
Five dozen, flies buzzin' over your head
Em
Call me the Grim Reaper, sleep is my cousin
Em
You dead to me now and I'ma be the last face you see
Am
'Fore you die cussin'
Am Em
My eye a tiger's and I'm a survivor so I will rise up and
Em Esus4
Be triumphant 'cause when I'm looking at my legacy
Am
Bunch of dogs tryna dry hump it
Am
Like Triumph The Puppet, so I'm like, "Fuck it"
Em Em
Pile the carnage up 'til its so high, it's touching the sky
Am
Let 'em all line up and attack
Am
Single filing up in the stack
Em
Call 'em toy soldiers (Yeah)
Em
'Cause they just wind up on their backs
Esus4
Now the sky's nothing but black
Dm
But I am not coming back, I done told ya
Am
I told the woke me to go to sleep
Dm
But still, they keep on provoking me
Dm
They're hoping to see me completely broken emotionally
Em
But how in the fuck am I not supposed to be woke
N.C.
When these fuckers just keep poking me? Now
[Chorus]
Am
I'm leaving Heaven
Em
I'm leaving Heaven
Am
Angels won't find me
Em Esus4
Where are you going?
[Verse 2]
Am
I've been down, kicked
Am
Like around six thousand times since I was a kid
Em
As a child, picked on, clowned
Em
Countless times I've been outed
Am
Gotta remind myself of it every now and then
Am
So the route I went's self-empowerment
Em Em
In a hole, taught myself how to get out of it
Esus4
And balance it with talents, wit
Am
'Cause life is like a penny
Am
'Cause it's only one percent
Em
Who overcome this shit, they found the wimp(?)
Em
I went AWOL like what my back was up against
Am
Don't tell me 'bout struggle, bitch, I lived it
Am Em
I was five or six the first time I got my hind end kicked
Em Esus4
Malcolm, Isaac, and Boogie jumped me and took my tricycle
Am Am
And I don't know if I would call that white privilege, yeah
Em
But I get it, how it feels to be judged by pigment
Em Esus4
Besides getting it from both sides of the tracks
Dm
But I swore I'd get them back
Am
Even if it meant selling my soul to get revenge and (What?)
Dm
Thought of a scheme and it got me to thinking
Am
If I can believe in myself, I could prolly achieve it
That’s part of the reason I do all my talking when he can
Dm
And as long as I'm breathing I vow to smother and beat them
Dm
Got a heart of a demon, go at 'em and I'ma get even
Em
Like I'm in the Garden of Eden, I'm 'bout to go off of the deep end
N.C.
This evil is calling, I'm already seething and
[Chorus]
Am
I'm leaving Heaven
Em
I'm leaving Heaven
Am
Angels won't find me
Em Esus4
Where are you going?
[Verse]
Am G
Okay, so while Macklemore was keeping his room nice and neat
Em
I was getting my ass beat twice a week
Am C/A
Looking for a place for the night where I could sleep
(Link #1)
Flippin' sofa cushions over just tryin' to see
Am C/A
If I could find some change and scrape up for a bite to eat
Em (Link #2)
If tonight you and me find a couple dimes a piece
C/A
Twenty five cents each'd get us a bag of chips
(Link #3)
We'd be glad to get that even we if we had to split
Am
We'd do backward flips, looking back at it
G Em
I think that would fit with the definition of not having shit
Am C/A
Couple that with the fact my mother was batshit
C/A
Pop was a sack of shit, yeah, he died, but I gave half a shit
Am G
Yeah, which brings me back to the real dad that I zero had
Am
Since a year-old, forty-seven year-old scab
Em/B Am
Just to hear them words, ear piercing
Em/B Am
Like my earlobe stabbed with a needle for an earring
Em
Should I feel upset? You were dead to me 'fore you died
Am
Me? Tear no shed
Am
Should I have made a mural at your funeral?
Am
Had your coffin draped with a hero's flag?
Where the fuck you were at
Em Am
When De'Angelo done hurt me real bad at the Rio Grande?
Am
Never met your grandkids, fucking coward
Em
Only gut you had was from your stomach fat
Em
I couldn't see your ass gonna Heaven
Dm
So I'm asking for a pass to go to Hell
Dm
So I can whip your fucking ass
Dm
I hate that I'll never get to say "I hate you" to your face
Dm
No coming back from where I'm going
Dm
Sky is dark, my soul is black, hand on the shovel
Bsus
Dig with the blade up, and then I step on the metal
N.C.
Vendetta to settle, tell the Devil
[Chorus]
Am
I'm leaving Heaven
Em
I'm leaving Heaven
Am
Angels won't find me
Em Esus4
Where are you going?
Am
I'm leaving heaven
Em
I'm leaving heaven
Am
Angels won't find me
Em Esus4
Where are you going?
[Outro]
Am Em
So you better, you better run
Am
You better, you better run
Em/B
You better, you better run
Am
You better, you better run (See you in Hell)