[Intro]
Em
Yeah, sometimes
Bm
You gotta come back down
Bm
Stoop to someone's level (Yeah)
[Verse]
Em
Five dozen, flies buzzin' over your head
Bm
Call me the Grim Reaper, sleep is my cousin
Bm
You dead to me now and I'ma be the last face you see
Em
'Fore you die cussin'
Em Bm
My eye a tiger's and I'm a survivor so I will rise up and
Bm Bsus4
Be triumphant 'cause when I'm looking at my legacy
Em
Bunch of dogs tryna dry hump it
Em
Like Triumph The Puppet, so I'm like, "Fuck it"
Bm Bm
Pile the carnage up 'til its so high, it's touching the sky
Em
Let 'em all line up and attack
Em
Single filing up in the stack
Bm
Call 'em toy soldiers (Yeah)
Bm
'Cause they just wind up on their backs
Bsus4
Now the sky's nothing but black
Am
But I am not coming back, I done told ya
Em
I told the woke me to go to sleep
Am
But still, they keep on provoking me
Am
They're hoping to see me completely broken emotionally
Bm
But how in the fuck am I not supposed to be woke
N.C.
When these fuckers just keep poking me? Now
[Chorus]
Em
I'm leaving Heaven
Bm
I'm leaving Heaven
Em
Angels won't find me
Bm Bsus4
Where are you going?
[Verse 2]
Em
I've been down, kicked
Em
Like around six thousand times since I was a kid
Bm
As a child, picked on, clowned
Bm
Countless times I've been outed
Em
Gotta remind myself of it every now and then
Em
So the route I went's self-empowerment
Bm Bm
In a hole, taught myself how to get out of it
Bsus4
And balance it with talents, wit
Em
'Cause life is like a penny
Em
'Cause it's only one percent
Bm
Who overcome this shit, they found the wimp(?)
Bm
I went AWOL like what my back was up against
Em
Don't tell me 'bout struggle, bitch, I lived it
Em Bm
I was five or six the first time I got my hind end kicked
Bm Bsus4
Malcolm, Isaac, and Boogie jumped me and took my tricycle
Em Em
And I don't know if I would call that white privilege, yeah
Bm
But I get it, how it feels to be judged by pigment
Bm Bsus4
Besides getting it from both sides of the tracks
Am
But I swore I'd get them back
Em
Even if it meant selling my soul to get revenge and (What?)
Am
Thought of a scheme and it got me to thinking
Em
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
Am
And as long as I'm breathing I vow to smother and beat them
Am
Got a heart of a demon, go at 'em and I'ma get even
Bm
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]
Em
I'm leaving Heaven
Bm
I'm leaving Heaven
Em
Angels won't find me
Bm Bsus4
Where are you going?
[Verse]
Em D
Okay, so while Macklemore was keeping his room nice and neat
Bm
I was getting my ass beat twice a week
Em G/E
Looking for a place for the night where I could sleep
(Link #1)
Flippin' sofa cushions over just tryin' to see
Em G/E
If I could find some change and scrape up for a bite to eat
Bm (Link #2)
If tonight you and me find a couple dimes a piece
G/E
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
Em
We'd do backward flips, looking back at it
D Bm
I think that would fit with the definition of not having shit
Em G/E
Couple that with the fact my mother was batshit
G/E
Pop was a sack of shit, yeah, he died, but I gave half a shit
Em D
Yeah, which brings me back to the real dad that I zero had
Em
Since a year-old, forty-seven year-old scab
Bm/F# Em
Just to hear them words, ear piercing
Bm/F# Em
Like my earlobe stabbed with a needle for an earring
Bm
Should I feel upset? You were dead to me 'fore you died
Em
Me? Tear no shed
Em
Should I have made a mural at your funeral?
Em
Had your coffin draped with a hero's flag?
Where the fuck you were at
Bm Em
When De'Angelo done hurt me real bad at the Rio Grande?
Em
Never met your grandkids, fucking coward
Bm
Only gut you had was from your stomach fat
Bm
I couldn't see your ass gonna Heaven
Am
So I'm asking for a pass to go to Hell
Am
So I can whip your fucking ass
Am
I hate that I'll never get to say "I hate you" to your face
Am
No coming back from where I'm going
Am
Sky is dark, my soul is black, hand on the shovel
F#sus
Dig with the blade up, and then I step on the metal
N.C.
Vendetta to settle, tell the Devil
[Chorus]
Em
I'm leaving Heaven
Bm
I'm leaving Heaven
Em
Angels won't find me
Bm Bsus4
Where are you going?
Em
I'm leaving heaven
Bm
I'm leaving heaven
Em
Angels won't find me
Bm Bsus4
Where are you going?
[Outro]
Em Bm
So you better, you better run
Em
You better, you better run
Bm/F#
You better, you better run
Em
You better, you better run (See you in Hell)