[Intro]
Dm
Yeah, sometimes
Am
You gotta come back down
Am
Stoop to someone's level (Yeah)
[Verse]
Dm
Five dozen, flies buzzin' over your head
Am
Call me the Grim Reaper, sleep is my cousin
Am
You dead to me now and I'ma be the last face you see
Dm
'Fore you die cussin'
Dm Am
My eye a tiger's and I'm a survivor so I will rise up and
Am Asus4
Be triumphant 'cause when I'm looking at my legacy
Dm
Bunch of dogs tryna dry hump it
Dm
Like Triumph The Puppet, so I'm like, "Fuck it"
Am Am
Pile the carnage up 'til its so high, it's touching the sky
Dm
Let 'em all line up and attack
Dm
Single filing up in the stack
Am
Call 'em toy soldiers (Yeah)
Am
'Cause they just wind up on their backs
Asus4
Now the sky's nothing but black
Gm
But I am not coming back, I done told ya
Dm
I told the woke me to go to sleep
Gm
But still, they keep on provoking me
Gm
They're hoping to see me completely broken emotionally
Am
But how in the fuck am I not supposed to be woke
N.C.
When these fuckers just keep poking me? Now
[Chorus]
Dm
I'm leaving Heaven
Am
I'm leaving Heaven
Dm
Angels won't find me
Am Asus4
Where are you going?
[Verse 2]
Dm
I've been down, kicked
Dm
Like around six thousand times since I was a kid
Am
As a child, picked on, clowned
Am
Countless times I've been outed
Dm
Gotta remind myself of it every now and then
Dm
So the route I went's self-empowerment
Am Am
In a hole, taught myself how to get out of it
Asus4
And balance it with talents, wit
Dm
'Cause life is like a penny
Dm
'Cause it's only one percent
Am
Who overcome this shit, they found the wimp(?)
Am
I went AWOL like what my back was up against
Dm
Don't tell me 'bout struggle, bitch, I lived it
Dm Am
I was five or six the first time I got my hind end kicked
Am Asus4
Malcolm, Isaac, and Boogie jumped me and took my tricycle
Dm Dm
And I don't know if I would call that white privilege, yeah
Am
But I get it, how it feels to be judged by pigment
Am Asus4
Besides getting it from both sides of the tracks
Gm
But I swore I'd get them back
Dm
Even if it meant selling my soul to get revenge and (What?)
Gm
Thought of a scheme and it got me to thinking
Dm
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
Gm
And as long as I'm breathing I vow to smother and beat them
Gm
Got a heart of a demon, go at 'em and I'ma get even
Am
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]
Dm
I'm leaving Heaven
Am
I'm leaving Heaven
Dm
Angels won't find me
Am Asus4
Where are you going?
[Verse]
Dm C
Okay, so while Macklemore was keeping his room nice and neat
Am
I was getting my ass beat twice a week
Dm F/D
Looking for a place for the night where I could sleep
(Link #1)
Flippin' sofa cushions over just tryin' to see
Dm F/D
If I could find some change and scrape up for a bite to eat
Am (Link #2)
If tonight you and me find a couple dimes a piece
F/D
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
Dm
We'd do backward flips, looking back at it
C Am
I think that would fit with the definition of not having shit
Dm F/D
Couple that with the fact my mother was batshit
F/D
Pop was a sack of shit, yeah, he died, but I gave half a shit
Dm C
Yeah, which brings me back to the real dad that I zero had
Dm
Since a year-old, forty-seven year-old scab
Am/E Dm
Just to hear them words, ear piercing
Am/E Dm
Like my earlobe stabbed with a needle for an earring
Am
Should I feel upset? You were dead to me 'fore you died
Dm
Me? Tear no shed
Dm
Should I have made a mural at your funeral?
Dm
Had your coffin draped with a hero's flag?
Where the fuck you were at
Am Dm
When De'Angelo done hurt me real bad at the Rio Grande?
Dm
Never met your grandkids, fucking coward
Am
Only gut you had was from your stomach fat
Am
I couldn't see your ass gonna Heaven
Gm
So I'm asking for a pass to go to Hell
Gm
So I can whip your fucking ass
Gm
I hate that I'll never get to say "I hate you" to your face
Gm
No coming back from where I'm going
Gm
Sky is dark, my soul is black, hand on the shovel
Esus
Dig with the blade up, and then I step on the metal
N.C.
Vendetta to settle, tell the Devil
[Chorus]
Dm
I'm leaving Heaven
Am
I'm leaving Heaven
Dm
Angels won't find me
Am Asus4
Where are you going?
Dm
I'm leaving heaven
Am
I'm leaving heaven
Dm
Angels won't find me
Am Asus4
Where are you going?
[Outro]
Dm Am
So you better, you better run
Dm
You better, you better run
Am/E
You better, you better run
Dm
You better, you better run (See you in Hell)