Claiming the City - Macklemore
Life moves pretty fast You don'tstop and look around once awhile you could miss it Look I'vebeen away from my city the city'schanges ain'tpretty Theys still be playing the dizzy Forgotten corners the city'sforgotten its warriors Who died young I ain'ttaking the sun is shining before us I rhyme rotten bodies spread lies in the boarders of concrete and glass Foul hearted police aiming their gas My head hangs low but beats my hope goes slaying the past And days I couldn'tglade to the pack We the same kids they'dbe sending to invade iraq and the per say to crack I got that gray goose and oj in the glass The last day before my cousin hit the pen down the swing I came back to the town just to be down with the king And love is surrounding it seems Just then he find out it his baby cousin fell off a balcony Images of involving paradise is drowning me Lost souls and I can'tlet go until no The same scenario that rules double bello Black brownted yellow Southsiders tell the devil hello And heaven by and it hurts to much to ask why From places of plenty to the space with no pity the force is changing our city One day at a time If I don'tchange whats been given What can I say to my children who gonna be claiming this city One day at a time I grew up on capitol hill With two parents and two cars They had a beautiful marriage we even had a swing set in our yard My mom didn'thave a job because my dad made enough money that we could live comfortably and he could support us Now he commute to tacoma so we knew we be good But then I realized everybody looked just like me in my neighborhood I go to school which was diverse But indeed us I got sandwiches and carpi suns well my friends ate their free lunch It'scrazy trying to look back cause when I was growing up I didn'tunderstand the fact was there'ssomething called a social status And my black friends wanted my financial bracket And then my city'sdivided From neighborhood to neighborhood We'repolarized but we claim we'reprogressive The police shoot in the hood but never once in my residence As a white person been shot at we'dstopped in a lexus And to think that we have claimed that so much has changed Since brown verses the bored of education and roe verses wade But around my way it all stays the same They just figured out a way to septate the black and white ways From places of plenty to the space with no pity the force is changing our city One day at a time If I don'tchange whats been given What can I say to my children who gonna be claiming this city One day at a time From places of plenty to the space with no pity the force is changing our city One day at a time If I don'tchange whats been given What can I say to my children who gonna be claiming this city One day at a time Say its the richest city in the world Riding its just a pimp city in the shadows of amazon'soffice site And the jungle down the slide in jose rizas park Its hard in the gate with a trail to a place over I 5Where families survive most my early life we'dknown about it Called development They kick them folks out and move them around every chance they can since so sacred of homelessness but ignoring them ain'tgoin to change it And tearing down there decks ain'tgonna make your a*ssafer For all that paper wasting just to build up safeco While garfeild high school still remains like a slave Oh we gave up on hope a long time ago son I woke on this floor after pacing hours before mind racing like a child torn in war zones With every side challenge we need to manage and understand this balance I can'tfall or falter Brother I'mjust the author and no amount of words offered is ever been enough alter this system swallowing souls broke my own folks from up coast Only dreams close of what america was supposed to be But works for rich only the south in reality Take my family back to what they were running from before when they left that war Same s**tdifferent continent Home don'texist anymore Home don'texist anymore The 206today is just ain'tthe same Guitar score
Claiming the City Artist: Macklemore
Capo: 0
Key: D
Difficulty：
Tempo: 83
Time Signature: 4/4
Hot: 108
Creation time: 2023-04-21 Claiming the City Guitar Tab, arranged and transcribed by Chordance, complete with staff notation and numbered musical notation. The song was composed by and performed by Macklemore. This guitar tab is in the key of D and is a Beginner version, suitable for players at the Beginner level. A must-learn piece for guitar enthusiasts. Strum the guitar, open the piano, and experience the mood conveyed by Macklemore at that time～
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