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My Minds Playing Tricks On Me by The Geto Boys
My Minds Playing Tricks On Me
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Chords Used
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Bm7- [0-2-4-2-3-2]
Em7 - [0-7-9-7-6-7]
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Main Riff
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Lyrics w/ Chords
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[Verse 1]
Bm7 Em7
At night I can't sleep, I toss and turn
Bm7 Em7
Candlesticks in the dark, visions of bodies bein' burned
Bm7 Em7
Four walls closin' in gettin' bigger
Bm7 Em7
I'm paranoid, sleepin' with my finger on the trigger
Bm7 Em7
My mother's always stressin' I ain't livin' right
Bm7 Em7
But I ain't going out without a fight
Bm7 Em7
See, everytime my eyes close
Bm7 Em7
I start sweatin' and blood starts comin' out my nose
Bm7 Em7
There's somebody watchin' the Ack'
Bm7 Em7
But I don't know who it is, so I'm watchin' my back
Bm7 Em7
I can see him when I'm deep in the covers
Bm7 Em7
When I awake I hear a call burnin' rubber
Bm7 Em7
He owns a black hat like I own
Bm7 Em7
A black suit and a cane like my own
Bm7 Em7
Some might say, "Take a chill, B"
Bm7 Em7
But I can't G, cause there's somebody trying to kill me
Bm7 Em7
I'm poppin' in the clip when the wind blows
Bm7 Em7
Every twenty seconds got me peepin' out my window
Bm7 Em7
Investigatin' the joint for traps
Bm7 Em7
Checkin' my telephone for taps
Bm7 Em7
I'm starin' at the woman on the corner
Bm7 Em7
It's messed up, when your mind is playin' tricks on you
[Main Riff]
[Verse 2]
Bm7 Em7
I make big money, I drive big cars
Bm7 Em7
Everybody know me, it's like I'm a movie star
Bm7 Em7
But late at night, somethin' ain't right
Bm7 Em7
I feel I'm being tailed by the same sucker's head lights
Bm7 Em7
Is it that fool that I ran off the block?
Bm7 Em7
Or is it that clown last week that I shot?
Bm7 Em7
Or is it the one I beat for five thousand dollars
Bm7 Em7
Thought he had caine but it was Gold Medal Flour
Bm7 Em7
Reach under my seat, grabbed my popper for the suckers
Bm7 Em7
Ain't no use to me lyin, I was scareder than a mother*****
Bm7 Em7
Hooked a left into Pop eye's and bailed out quick
Bm7 Em7
If it's goin' down, let's get this shit over with
Bm7 Em7
Here they come, just like I figured
Bm7 Em7
I got my hand on the chrome play the trigger
Bm7 Em7
What I saw'll make your ass start gigglin'
Bm7 Em7
Three black crippled and crazy senior citizens
Bm7 Em7
I live by the sword
Bm7 Em7
I take my boys everywhere I go, because I'm paranoid
Bm7 Em7
I keep lookin' over my shoulder and peepin' around corners
Bm7 Em7
My mind is playin' tricks on me
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[Verse 3]
Bm7 Em7
Day by day it's more impossible to cope
Bm7 Em7
I feel like I'm the one that's doing dope
Bm7 Em7
Can't keep a steady hand because I'm nervous
Bm7 Em7
Every Sunday mornin' I'm in service
Bm7 Em7
Prayin' for forgiveness
Bm7 Em7
And tryin' to find an exit out the business
Bm7 Em7
I know the Lord is lookin' at me
Bm7 Em7
But yet and still it's hard for me to feel happy
Bm7 Em7
I often drift while I drive
Bm7 Em7
Havin' fatal thoughts of suicide
Bm7 Em7
BANG and get it over with
Bm7 Em7
And then I'm worry-free, but that's nonsense
Bm7 Em7
I got a little boy to look after
Bm7 Em7
And if I died then my child would be a bastard
Bm7 Em7
I had a woman down with me
Bm7 Em7
But to me it seems like she was down to get me
Bm7 Em7
She helped me out in this
Bm7 Em7
But to me she was just another chick
Bm7 Em7
Now she's back with her mother
Bm7 Em7
Now I'm realizing that I love her
Bm7 Em7
Now I'm feelin' lonely
Bm7 Em7
My mind is playin' tricks on me
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[Verse 4]
Bm7 Em7
This year Halloween fell on a weekend
Bm7 Em7
Me and Geto Boys are trick-or-treatin'
Bm7 Em7
Robbin' little kids for bags
Bm7 Em7
Till an old man got behind our rags
Bm7 Em7
So we speeded up the pace
Bm7 Em7
Took a look back, and he was right before our face
Bm7 Em7
He'd be in for a squabble no doubt
Bm7 Em7
So I swung and and tried to take him out
Bm7 Em7
He was goin' down, we planned
Bm7 Em7
But this wasn't no ordinary man
Bm7 Em7
He stood about six or seven feet
Bm7 Em7
Now, that's the creep I'd be seein' in my sleep
Bm7 Em7
So we triple-teamed on him
Bm7 Em7
Droppin' them 5th ward B's on him
Bm7 Em7
The more I swung the more blood flew
Bm7 Em7
Then he disappeared and my boys disappeared too
Bm7 Em7
Then I felt just like a fiend
Bm7 Em7
It wasn't even close to Halloween
Bm7 Em7
It was dark as death on the streets
Bm7 Em7
My hands were all bloody from punching on the concrete
Bm7 Em7
God damn, homie
Bm7 Em7
My mind is playin' tricks on me
Bm7 Em7
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