Lord Have Mercy Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[Em]If I gotta burn in[G#dim] fire
[Em]Feel the flame[Bm]s[Em]
For my loved [G#m]ones t[Em]o
excel in this game
Then let [Bm]it bu[Em]rn[Bm]
Let it burn
[Em]

[Verse 2]
As I lay me down to [Bm]sleep
[B]I pray to the Lord that my
soul [Em]he keeps
Nobody weeps when a G dies
But like Maya Angelou still we rise
Mama tried to keep me home
at night
But despite her attempts
[B]I hung with the macks and the pimps
Sidin' with the Rip's
Not [Em]'cause I like blue if you like red
I did it 'cause I never did like you
And it said the good die young
[B]I don't recognize myself what
have I [Em]be come?
Can you tell me why am
I headed for a dead end?
Why I got another dead friend?
Why they surround me-
dead men?
Everywhere I look [B]right and left
Flip another page in the
book [Bm]of life and death
It's comin'- [Em]I feel it
breathin' down my back
It got me runnin' Grim
Reap ain't [G]cuttin' no slack
[Em]What can I do where can I go
Lord [B]forgive me for all I did
'cause I didn't [Em]know
And when my heart beats
it's last tick
Somebody sat these three
words in my casket:
Lord have [B]mercy
[Bm][chorus] Lord forgive

[Verse 3]
[Em]
me for all the wrong that I [B]did
All of the pain that I in[Em]flicted
as a kid
On Judgement Day consider
this before you curse me
I was only a child so Lord have mercy
Forgive me for all the wrong that I've [B]done
All of the pain I inflicted when I was [Bm]young
On Judgement Day [Em]consider
this before you curse me
I was only a child [G]so Lord [Em]have mercy

[Verse 4]
Should I [Em]die before I wake
[B]Don't shed a tear [Em]Mama 'cause
I finally escaped
No more drama no more blood
sweat and tears
No more pressure from my peers
and no more fears
I rest in peace- how long will it last
[Bm]Fore I have to [B]an swer
for what I did in the past
[Bm]Illin' - willin' and dealin'
[Em]cops always after me
I call it survival and you call it misanthropy
But let the record reflect
circumstances were [B]suspect
But you couldn't care [Em]less- mann
While I struggle to survive
You turned your eyes- plugged your up ears
Ig[B]nored my cries
[Em]Now Ms. America sayin' we scarin' her
[B]But she can give me Liberty
or Death- I'm [Bm]darin' her
Either [Em]one'll set me free-
that's all I want to be
But that ain't what y'all want to see
You'd rather see me killin'
up my own in the ghetto
Or [B]sellin' blow to anybody Black,
Brown, or [Em]Yellow
But forget that- I'm tryin'
to get my head right
Even if it mean I gotta get dead tonight
Lord have mercy forgive me

[Verse 5]
[chorus]
[Em]Forgive[B][Em]
me for [B]the[Bm]
[Em]
[Bm]blood that his body bled
[B]And all the tears that his Mom[Em]my shed
Book says 'Thou Shalt Not Kill'
But I done seen more [B]blood spilled
[Em]Than the vets on Hamburger
Hill- it's real
Post War Syndrome-
went to [B]see my homie
But his Mama told
me that the homie been gone
[Bm]Everytime I turn aroun[Em]d it be another
body on the ground
With fresh gunshot wounds but he
didn't hear a sound
When he came out the room
Nobody told him [B]he would be dead so [Em]soon
But the gauge went boom Ms. America,
I know you got a cure for AIDS
But [B]we need a cure for
[Em]Raid who on a rampage
[B]Can you fee[Em]l it- the tensions
in the air [B]thick
Hate got me so high
[Bm]I'm gettin' airsick
Got my [B]people broke [Em]lookin
for a buck to borrow
Doin it one day at a time fuck your sorrow
Fuck tomorrow I want revenge
I got a Beretta [B]named Vendetta
Time to answer for your [Em]sin- man
When you meet your creator-
tell him I apologize
But I [B]gotta [Em]ride Lord have
mercy forgive me...
[Bm][chorus][B]

[Outro 1]
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