G5                           F5
I came from nothing but not nothing like "nothing"
G5                           F5
"Nothing", like "nobody thought I was something"...
G5                           F5
"Nothing", like "called every name in the book",
         Eb5
But for every second guess
         F5
I never gave a second look
     G5
Look, I fell myself
              F5
"Don't let it get to me.
     G5                             F5
cuz if the best the got is not impressing me,
     G5                                     F5
then there's no reason they should get the best of me,
                 Eb5
While they were aiming at my words
                 F5
They missed the rest of me


[Chorus]
Eb5          F5            G5
How can I stop all these critics from their talking
Eb5          F5        G5
the more I do, the more they say
Eb5              F5
But there's no way I'm stopping
G5
so they just keep on talking
Eb5         F5                G5
Who do you think I think I am?


G5                           F5
I got the felling that there's more like me
G5                           F5
Born in Babylon but you just got to be free
G5                                  F5
Shackles on your feet that you and me can't see,
              Eb5
but you can feel them and they're heavy,
        F5
so you need that key
G5                           F5
and now you're looking at your hand, saying
             G5                              F5
"Man, if I ditch the system , these could be mine"
     G5                           F5
but then you hear a voice come up from behind,
              Eb5                         F5
"Don't even think about stepping out of line..."


[Chorus]

solo


G5                           F5
My friends are deep and they're all I got,
G5                           F5
and they stand up behind me if you like it or not
G5                           F5
and I'm telling you that the Fire's Hot,
         Eb5
did you see that smoke
              F5
and did you hear that shot...
G5                           F5
Cuz it's a war and in the middle I am
G5                           F5
So judge now with your pen in hand
G5                           F5
Cuz I'm too busy to judge another man,
               Eb5
I'm trying to write the blueprint
              F5
for all the world to understand

[Chorus x2]

this part of the song is sang whit the chorus.

The want stop talk, and I regret me giving you any little voice at all
But saving this world just come with a cost...
"... maybe they were right from the start..."
Maybe I should be myself, cuz I'm just giving
these critics help..."
And it makes me twist my stomach in half,
that my pen and his pen are put into the same breath.
If I never tried to do this at all,
Then I think he'd be out of a jov.
"... and maybe I just should've stayed in bed,
stay out of the booth and put all these guitars in the closet..."
"... maybe I should go back to school,
buy any more education just make me feel like a
fool..."
so I guess I Goot let critics talk, cuz I WONT
STOP!.