Cream Cifras

[Intro]
Em                    C
Cash rules everything around me, C.R.E.A.M.
        D                    G          D
Get the money, dollar dollar bill, y'all
 
[Verse 1: Raekwon]
Em               C                        D
 I grew up on the crime side, the New York Times side
        G            D
Stayin' alive was no jive
    Em                 C
Had secondhands, Mom's bounced on old man
D                    G          D
 So then we moved to Shaolin land
  Em                           C
A young youth, yo, rockin' the gold tooth, 'Lo goose
D                         G         D
Only way I be gettin' the G off was drug loot
Em                       C
 And let's start it like this, son
             D
Rollin' with this one and that one
G              D
Pullin' out gats for fun
Em                       C                      D
 But it was just a dream for the teen who was a fiend
                G         D
Started smokin' woolas at 16
Em                    C                       D
 And runnin' up in gates, doin' hits for high stakes
          G      D
Makin' my way on fire escapes
Em                   C
 No question I would speed for cracks and weed
D                G       D
 The combination made my eyes bleed
Em                   C                           D
 No question I would flow off and try to get the dough all
            G             D
Stickin' up white boys in ball courts
Em              C                  D
 My life got no better, same damn 'Lo sweater
         G         D
Times is rough and tough like leather
Em                      C
 Figured out I went the wrong route
     D                   G              D
So I got with a sick-ass clique and went all out
Em                   C
 Catchin' keys from 'cross seas
           D            G            D
Rollin' in MPV's, every week we made forty G's
Em              C                         D
 Yo, people, respect mine, or here go the TEC-9
              G                 D
Ch-chick-POW! Move from the gate now!
 
[Hook: Method Man]
Em                    C
Cash rules everything around me
                    D
C.R.E.A.M., get the money
              G          D
Dollar dollar bill, y'all
Em                    C
Cash rules everything around me
                    D
C.R.E.A.M., get the money
              G          D
Dollar dollar bill, y'all
 
[Verse 2: Inspectah Deck]
          Em                   C
It's been twenty-two long hard years, I'm still strugglin'
D                        G       D         Em
Survival got me buggin', but I'm alive on arrival
              C
I peep at the shape of the streets
         D                              G              D
And stay awake to the ways of the world 'cause shit is deep
Em                          C
A man with a dream with plans to make cream
           D            G          D       Em
Which failed; I went to jail at the age of fifteen
  Em                 C                         D
A young buck sellin' drugs and such, who never had much
                G                D
Tryin' to get a clutch at what I could not
    Em                           C
The court played me short, now I face incarceration
D               G                D
Pacin', goin' upstate's my destination
Em                               C
Handcuffed in the back of a bus, forty of us
D                          G     D
Life as a shorty shouldn't be so rough
    Em                            C
But as the world turned I learned life is hell
D                      G                D
Livin' in the world no different from a cell
      Em                C
Every day I escape from Jakes givin' chase
        D                   G           D
Sellin' base, smokin' bones in the staircase
         Em                   C
Though I don't know why I chose to smoke sess
  D                              G        D
I guess that's the time when I'm not depressed
        Em                     C
But I'm still depressed, and I ask: what's it worth?
D                     G            D
Ready to give up so I seek the old Earth
    Em                         C
Who explained workin' hard may help you maintain
   D                          G         D
To learn to overcome the heartaches and pain
       Em                     C
We got stick-up kids, corrupt cops, and crack rocks
    D                       G                D
And stray shots, all on the block that stays hot
Em                        C
Leave it up to me while I be livin' proof
   D                     G           D
To kick the truth to the young black youth
    Em                             C
But shorty's runnin' wild, smokin' sess, drinkin' beer
    D                             G              D
And ain't tryin' to hear what I'm kickin' in his ear
Em                     C                 D
Neglected for now, but yo, it gots to be accepted
           G            D
That what? That life is hectic
 
[Hook: Method Man]
Em                    C
Cash rules everything around me
                    D
C.R.E.A.M., get the money
              G          D
Dollar dollar bill, y'all
Em                    C
Cash rules everything around me
                    D
C.R.E.A.M., get the money
              G          D
Dollar dollar bill, y'all
 
[Outro]
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