What It's Like Chords by Everlast

[Start]

[Intro]
Dm F C Dm Dm7 C Dm7 F
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C Dm F C Dm
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[Verse]
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We've all seen a man at the liquor store beggin' for your change
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The hair on his face is dirty dreadlocked and full of mange
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He asks a man for what he could spare with shame in his eyes
      F               C              Dm     
Get a job you fucking slob is all he replies


[Chorus]
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God forbid you ever had to walk a mile in his shoes
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'cause then you really might know what it's like to sing the blues
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Then you really might know what it's like ■ 
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Then you really might know what it's like ■ 
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Then you really might know what it's like ■ 
         F                           C    Dm7
Then you really might know what it's like ■  


[Verse]
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■  Mary got pregnant from a kid named Tom that said he was in love
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He said Don't worry about a thing baby doll I'm the man you've been dreaming of
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Three months later he say he won't date her or return her calls
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And she swear Goddamn if I find that man I'm cuttin' off his balls
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And then she heads for the clinic and she gets some static walking through the door
                F                          C                          Dm   
They call her a killer and they call her a sinner and they call her a whore


[Chorus]
                           C                  Dm   
God forbid you ever had to walk a mile in her shoes
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'cause then you really might know what it's like to have to choose
                                     C    Dm
Then you really might know what it's like ■ 
         F                           C    Dm
Then you really might know what it's like ■ 
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Then you really might know what it's like ■ 
         F                           C   
Then you really might know what it's like
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■  I've seen a rich man beg
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I've seen a good man sin
                      C  
I've seen a tough man cry
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I've seen a loser win
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And a sad man grin
                  C      
I heard an honest man lie
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I've ■  seen the good side of bad
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And the downside of up
               C      
And everything between
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I licked the silver spoon
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Drank from the golden cup and smoked the finest green
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Stroked the fattest dimes at least a couple of times
                     C    
Before I broke their heart
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■  You know where it ends yo it usually depends on where you start ■ 


[Verse]
               F  
This kid named Max
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Who used to get fat stacks out on the corner with drugs
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He liked to hang out late
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He liked to get shitfaced and keep the pace with thugs
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Until late one night there was a big gunfight and Max lost his head
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He pulled out his chrome zero point four five talked some shit and wound up dead
                                            C                    Dm  
Now his wife and his kids are caught in the midst of all of this pain
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You know it comes that way at least that's what they say when you play the game


[Chorus]
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■  God forbid you ever had to wake up to hear the news
       Dm                                      C               Dm  
'cause ■  then you really might know what it's like to have to lose
                                     C   
Then you really might know what it's like
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Then you really might know what it's like
     Dm  F                           C   
Then you really might know what it's like
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To have to lose


[Outro]
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