[Intro]
Cm
Yeah, sometimes
Gm
You gotta come back down
Gm
Stoop to someone's level (Yeah)
[Verse]
Cm
Five dozen, flies buzzin' over your head
Gm
Call me the Grim Reaper, sleep is my cousin
Gm
You dead to me now and I'ma be the last face you see
Cm
'Fore you die cussin'
Cm Gm
My eye a tiger's and I'm a survivor so I will rise up and
Gm Gsus4
Be triumphant 'cause when I'm looking at my legacy
Cm
Bunch of dogs tryna dry hump it
Cm
Like Triumph The Puppet, so I'm like, "Fuck it"
Gm Gm
Pile the carnage up 'til its so high, it's touching the sky
Cm
Let 'em all line up and attack
Cm
Single filing up in the stack
Gm
Call 'em toy soldiers (Yeah)
Gm
'Cause they just wind up on their backs
Gsus4
Now the sky's nothing but black
Fm
But I am not coming back, I done told ya
Cm
I told the woke me to go to sleep
Fm
But still, they keep on provoking me
Fm
They're hoping to see me completely broken emotionally
Gm
But how in the fuck am I not supposed to be woke
N.C.
When these fuckers just keep poking me? Now
[Chorus]
Cm
I'm leaving Heaven
Gm
I'm leaving Heaven
Cm
Angels won't find me
Gm Gsus4
Where are you going?
[Verse 2]
Cm
I've been down, kicked
Cm
Like around six thousand times since I was a kid
Gm
As a child, picked on, clowned
Gm
Countless times I've been outed
Cm
Gotta remind myself of it every now and then
Cm
So the route I went's self-empowerment
Gm Gm
In a hole, taught myself how to get out of it
Gsus4
And balance it with talents, wit
Cm
'Cause life is like a penny
Cm
'Cause it's only one percent
Gm
Who overcome this shit, they found the wimp(?)
Gm
I went AWOL like what my back was up against
Cm
Don't tell me 'bout struggle, bitch, I lived it
Cm Gm
I was five or six the first time I got my hind end kicked
Gm Gsus4
Malcolm, Isaac, and Boogie jumped me and took my tricycle
Cm Cm
And I don't know if I would call that white privilege, yeah
Gm
But I get it, how it feels to be judged by pigment
Gm Gsus4
Besides getting it from both sides of the tracks
Fm
But I swore I'd get them back
Cm
Even if it meant selling my soul to get revenge and (What?)
Fm
Thought of a scheme and it got me to thinking
Cm
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
Fm
And as long as I'm breathing I vow to smother and beat them
Fm
Got a heart of a demon, go at 'em and I'ma get even
Gm
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]
Cm
I'm leaving Heaven
Gm
I'm leaving Heaven
Cm
Angels won't find me
Gm Gsus4
Where are you going?
[Verse]
Cm A#
Okay, so while Macklemore was keeping his room nice and neat
Gm
I was getting my ass beat twice a week
Cm D#/C
Looking for a place for the night where I could sleep
(Link #1)
Flippin' sofa cushions over just tryin' to see
Cm D#/C
If I could find some change and scrape up for a bite to eat
Gm (Link #2)
If tonight you and me find a couple dimes a piece
D#/C
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
Cm
We'd do backward flips, looking back at it
A# Gm
I think that would fit with the definition of not having shit
Cm D#/C
Couple that with the fact my mother was batshit
D#/C
Pop was a sack of shit, yeah, he died, but I gave half a shit
Cm A#
Yeah, which brings me back to the real dad that I zero had
Cm
Since a year-old, forty-seven year-old scab
Gm/D Cm
Just to hear them words, ear piercing
Gm/D Cm
Like my earlobe stabbed with a needle for an earring
Gm
Should I feel upset? You were dead to me 'fore you died
Cm
Me? Tear no shed
Cm
Should I have made a mural at your funeral?
Cm
Had your coffin draped with a hero's flag?
Where the fuck you were at
Gm Cm
When De'Angelo done hurt me real bad at the Rio Grande?
Cm
Never met your grandkids, fucking coward
Gm
Only gut you had was from your stomach fat
Gm
I couldn't see your ass gonna Heaven
Fm
So I'm asking for a pass to go to Hell
Fm
So I can whip your fucking ass
Fm
I hate that I'll never get to say "I hate you" to your face
Fm
No coming back from where I'm going
Fm
Sky is dark, my soul is black, hand on the shovel
Dsus
Dig with the blade up, and then I step on the metal
N.C.
Vendetta to settle, tell the Devil
[Chorus]
Cm
I'm leaving Heaven
Gm
I'm leaving Heaven
Cm
Angels won't find me
Gm Gsus4
Where are you going?
Cm
I'm leaving heaven
Gm
I'm leaving heaven
Cm
Angels won't find me
Gm Gsus4
Where are you going?
[Outro]
Cm Gm
So you better, you better run
Cm
You better, you better run
Gm/D
You better, you better run
Cm
You better, you better run (See you in Hell)