[Intro] - Each chord is a 2-count

Gm   F   Eb   F  Cm   F  Bb   F
 
This is the chord progression all the way through besides chorus.
  Gm   F   Eb   F  Cm   F  Bb   F      
e|-3---1---11---1---3---1---6---1-|
B|-3---1---11---1---4---1---6---1-|
G|-3---2---12---2---5---2---7---2-|
D|-5---3---13---3---5---3---8---3-|
A|-5---3---13---3---3---3---8---3-|
E|-3---1---11---1---3---1---6---1-|

Gm                       F
Spinning in circles, live my life without rehearsal
     Eb                           F
If I die today my nigga was it business? Was it personal?
  Cm                             F
Should this be my last breath, I'm blessed cause it was purposeful
  Bb                            F
Never got to church to worship Lord but please be merciful
Gm
You made me versatile, well-rounded like cursive

Now you chose me for a purpose, I put my soul in these verses

Born sinner, was never born to be perfect

Sucka for women licking their lips and holding these purses

Back when we ran the streets who would think we grow to be murderers

Teachers treated niggas as if they totally worthless

And violent, and hopeless

I saw but never noticed that the college point is right to

"Be All That You Can Be" posters

Rest in peace to Tiffany, I don't know if this is the realest shit I wrote

But know the realest nigga wrote this

And signed it, and sealed it in a envelope and knew one day you'd find it

And knew one day you'd come back and rewind this, singing...

[Hook: James Fauntleroy]
       Gm           F                        Eb          F
I'm a born sinner, but I'll die better than that; swear.
            Cm                        F                     Bb                     F
You were always where I needed you to be whether you were there or not there (I was there)
       Gm           F                        Eb                  F
I was born sinning but I live better than that (better than that, better than that)
                               Cm           F          Bb
And if you ain't fucking with that, I don't care.

(Yeah, yeah, yeah)


**Back to normal chord progression

Gm   F   Eb   F  Cm   F  Bb   F

[Verse 2: J. Cole]
Yeah, this music shit is a gift
But God help us make it cause this music business is a cliff
I got a life in my grip, she holding tight to my wrist
She screaming: "Don't let me slip"
She see the tears in my eyes, I see the fear on her lips
True when I told you, you the only reason why I don't flip and go insane
My roof in the pouring rain
You knew me before the fame, don't lose me the more I change, no
Just grow with me, go broke you go broke with me
I smoke you gon' smoke with me
Woman's curse since birth, man lead her to the hearse
I go Bobby you go with me damn
Listen here, I'll tell you my biggest fears
You the only one who knows them
Don't you ever go expose them
This life is harder than you'll probably ever know
Emotions I hardly ever show
More for you than for me
Don't you worry yourself
I gotta do this for me
They tell me life is a test but where's a tutor for me
Pops came late I'm already stuck in my ways
Ducking calls from my mother for days
Sometimes she hate the way she raised me but she love what she raised
Can't wait to hand her these house keys with nothing to say
Except

[Hook: James Fauntleroy]
       Gm           F                        Eb          F
I'm a born sinner, but I'll die better than that; swear.
            Cm                        F                     Bb                     F
You were always where I needed you to be whether you were there or not there (I was there)
       Gm           F                        Eb                  F
I was born sinning but I live better than that (better than that, better than that)
                               Cm           F          Bb
And if you ain't fucking with that, I don't care.

(Yeah, yeah, yeah)