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Somebody by Kendrick Lamar






             Somebody








Tuning: E A D G B E

[Intro]
C#m
  I woke this mornin' undecided
B
  My demons takin' over my life, yeah
F#m
  Sooner or later it's a family divided
A
  These patterns gettin' hard to hide, yeah
 
 
[Chorus]
C#m
  They say I should be satisfied
B
  They tell me I got the world, but that's a lie
F#m                                         A
  I wished the way I feel could be pacified, sometimes
  C#m
I wish I was somebody
B               F#m  A
  Anybody but myself
      C#m
Oh, I wish I was somebody
B               F#m  A
  Anybody but myself
 
 
[Verse]
                           C#m
If I told you I'm 'bout to break would you look at me different?
                 B
Character out of place, would I lose your attention?
                      F#m
Let me know your intentions, cause lately I been watchin' everybody
       A
It's apparent that transparency never seen monotony
C#m
Got off of tour, lookin' for closure
                  B
Mixin' emotion of bein' grateful and feelin' like some of y'all gettin' over
         F#m
What's a puppet on stage, singin' and dancin' ablaze?
                A
But trading his worth, distorted by the money that's made
               C#m
A slave with a verse, I feel like Prince Rogers
             B
I feel liberation is free, I feel I should miss the Oscars
            F#m
Are you celebrating me as the artist or just a profit?
                  A
A question I have for the ones around me that's turnin' toxic
              C#m
My lungs been heavy from all the smokescreen boobytraps
               B                                            F#m  A
Reminiscin' on what it was, and knowin' that this ain't that
 
           C#m
I vision a rock in a hard place
                                   B
Hope my daughter isn't born with a piece of my heartbreak
                                    F#m
You know stress carries on and your kids reap the mistakes that you made
                       A
And I admit that I can be dismissive if I can't relate
                   C#m
And I admit that I only commit to start playin' games
                     B
And I admit that I'm bad at talkin' myself out of shame
                            F#m
But who's to blame when the crowds stop cheerin' and they passin' dirty looks?
  A
I now understand that I'll never be understood
 
 
[Bridge]
C#m  B
       Isolation didn't work for me (Work for me)
F#m
  Socializing didn't work for me
A
  Prayed about it, didn't work for me (Work for me)
C#m  B
       You can't cure this disease
F#m
  The pain too traumatic for relief
A
  Pull up the curtains, let the audience see
 
 
[Chorus]
  C#m                                              B
I wish I was somebody (Somebody else, oh, somebody else, oh)
              F#m             A
Anybody but myself  (Somebody else, oh)
      C#m                B
Oh, I wish I was somebody
             F#m  A
Anybody but myself








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