Kendrick Lamar – Good Kid (Guitar)

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Chords

   Fmadd9 Fmmaj7  Fm   Bbm7  C7/G   Db  Db/Ab
e|---1------1------1-----1-----0-----4-----4-----|
B|---1------1------1-----2-----1-----6-----6-----|
G|---1------1------1-----1-----3-----6-----6-----|
D|---4------1------2-----3-----2-----6-----6-----|
A|---2------2------2-----1-----3-----4-----4-----|
E|---1------1------1-----------3-----------4-----|
[Chorus]
Fmadd9                          Fmmaj7 Fm
       Mass hallucination, baby

Fmadd9                     Fmmaj7 Fm
       Ill education, baby

Bbm7                                C7/G
       Want to reconnect with your elations?

Fmadd9
       This is your station, baby
[Verse 1]
Fmmaj7                           Fm
Look inside these walls and you see I'm havin' withdrawals

       Fmadd9
Of a prisoner on his way

                               Fmmaj7
Trapped inside your desire to fire bullets that stray

  Fm                            Fmadd9
Track attire just tell you I'm tired and ran away

                                      Fmmaj7
I should ask a choir: "What do you require

                        Fm
To sing a song that acquire me to have faith?"

        Bbm7
As the record spin I should pray

                             C7/G
For the record, I recognize that I'm easily prey
I got ate alive yesterday
       Fmadd9
I got animosity buildin', it's prob'ly big as a buildin'

    Fmmaj7                     Fm
Me jumpin' off of the roof is me just playin' it safe
[Bridge 1]
     Db
But what am I 'posed to do when the topic is red or blue

         Db/Ab
And you understand that I ain't

     C7/G
But know I'm accustomed to

        Db
Just a couple that look for trouble and live in the street with rank

    Db/Ab                           C7/G
No better picture to paint than me walkin' from Bible study

     Db
And called his homies because he had said he noticed my face

        Db/Ab                                C7/G
From a function that tooken place, they was wonderin' if I bang

Db
    Step on my neck and get blood on your Nike checks

         Db/Ab                         C7/G
I don't mind 'cause one day you'll respect

                      Fmadd9
The good kid, m.A.A.d city
[Chorus]
Fmadd9                          Fmmaj7 Fm
       Mass hallucination, baby

Fmadd9                     Fmmaj7 Fm
       Ill education, baby

Bbm7                                C7/G
       Want to reconnect with your elations?

Fmadd9
       This is your station, baby
[Verse 2]
Fmmaj7                       Fm
All I see is strobe lights, blindin' me in my hindsight

 Fmadd9
Findin' me by myself, promise me you can help

        Fmmaj7                   Fm
In all honesty I got time to be copacetic until

         Fmadd9
You had finally made decision to hold me against my will

        Fmmaj7                        Fm
It was like a head-on collision that folded me standing still

       Bbm7
I can never pick out the difference and grade a cop on the bill

       C7/G
Every time you clock in the morning, I feel you just want to kill

       Fmadd9
All my innocence while ignorin' my purpose to persevere

      Fmmaj7                             Fm
As a better person; I know you heard this   and probably in fear
[Bridge 2]
     Db
But what am I 'posed to do when the blinkin' of red and blue

     Db/Ab                                C7/G
Flash from the top of your roof and your dog has to say woof

         Db
And you ask: "Lift up your shirt," because you wonder if a tattoo

      Db/Ab                    C7/G
Of affiliation can make it a pleasure to put me through

      Db                                                           Db/Ab
Gang files, but that don't matter because the matter is racial profile

                             C7/G                               Db
I heard 'em chatter: "He's prob'ly young, but I know that he's down
Step on his neck as hard as your bullet-proof vest
          Db/Ab                        C7/G
He don't mind, he know we'll never respect

                       Fm
The good kid, m.A.A.d. city."
[Chorus]
Fmadd9                          Fmmaj7 Fm
       Mass hallucination, baby

Fmadd9                     Fmmaj7 Fm
       Ill education, baby

Bbm7                                C7/G
       Want to reconnect with your elations?

Fmadd9
       This is your station, baby
[Verse 3]
Fmmaj7                    Fm
All I see in this room: Twenties, Xannies and these 'shrooms

  Db
Grown-up candy for pain, can we live in a sane

    Db/Ab                C7/G
Society? It's entirely stressful upon my brain

     Db
You hired me as a victim, I quietly hope for change

      Db/Ab                     C7/G
When violence is the rhythm, inspired me to obtain

     Db
The silence in this room with Twenties, Xannies and 'shrooms

      Db/Ab                        C7/G
Some grown-up candy, I lost it, I feel it's nothin' to lose

       Db
The streets sure to release the worst side of my best

       Db/Ab                        C7/G
Don't mind, 'cause now you ever in debt to good kid, m.A.A.d. city
[Chorus]
Fmadd9                          Fmmaj7 Fm
       Mass hallucination, baby

Fmadd9                     Fmmaj7 Fm
       Ill education, baby

Bbm7                                C7/G
       Want to reconnect with your elations?

Fmadd9                            Fmmaj7 Fm
       This is your station, baby
[Outro]
Fmadd9       Fmmaj7 Fm
(fade out)