Key: B
Introduction:
Bb F C Dm
They used to tell me
Bb F
I hope you learn to make it on your own
C Dm
And if you love yourself just know you'll never be alone
Bb F
I hope that you get everything you want and that you chose
C Dm
I hope that it's the realest thing that you ever know
Bb F
Hope you get the pretty girls, that's pretty and everything
C Dm
Million dollar cribs havin' million dollar dreams
Bb F
And when you get it all just remember one thing
C
Remember one thing
Dm Bb F C
That one man could change the world
Dm Bb F C Dm
That one man could change the world
Verse I
Bb F
all I wanted was a hundred million dollars and a bad chick
C Dm
Imagine this so much some nights it felt like that I had it
Bb
Back on the mattress
F C
Starin' at the ceilin' tryna to connect the dots
Dm
But its hard makin' those attachments
Bb F
I'm talkin' dreamin' so hard, some nights it felt like draft day
C Dm
You know? My -
Bb F
my step brother used to flip them bags outside
the crib like it was trash day
C Dm
No Kim K, but he bagged yay (Ye)
Bb F
But when you're getting fast money, slow down, don't crash
C Dm
With all the drive in the world, swear you still need gas
Bb F
Look, think about it, close your eyes, dream about it
C Dm
Tell your team about it, go make million dollar schemes about it
Bb F
Success is on the way, I feel it in the distance
C Dm
Used to look up at the stars and be like ain't too much that's different
Bb F
I be shinin', they be shinin', get your one shot don't you miss it
C Dm
What you know bout' wakin' up everyday like you on a mission?
Bb F
I hope you learn to make it on your own
C Dm
And if you love yourself just know you'll never be alone
Bb F
I hope that you get everything you want and that you chose
C Dm
I hope that it's the realest thing that you ever know
Bb F
Hope you get the pretty girls, that's pretty and everything
C Dm
Million dollar cribs havin' million dollar dreams
Bb F
And when you get it all just remember one thing
C
Remember one thing
Dm Bb F C
That one man could change the world
Dm Bb F C Dm
That one man could change the world
Verse II
Bb
My grandma told me if you write your name
F
in stone you'll never get the white out
C Dm
I grinded out that black hole then performed up at the white house
Bb F
Standin' next to Jim Carrey, we traded stories then laughed
C Dm
I said you not the only one I know got rich wearin' masks
Bb F
Where I'm from I swear they broke, they need way more than the cast
C Dm
We need more than what you have And then we need more than that
Bb
But how am I supposed to say I'm tired
F
If that girl from West Virginia came up
C Dm
in conditions that I couldn't survive
Bb
Went to war, came back alive
F C
On top of that became a female black captain
Dm
When being black you had to extra extra try
Bb F
Way before James Brown made us proud
C Dm
She bought a crib on the same street as Marvin Gaye
Right there on Outer Drive,
Bb F
and she taught me how to drive
C Dm
And she raised the kids, then the kids' kids, and she did it right
Bb
Taught me how to love, taught me not to cry
F C
When I die, I hope you teach me how to fly
Dm
All my life you've been that angel in disguise saying
Bb F
I hope you learn to make it on your own
C Dm
And if you love yourself just know you'll never be alone
Bb F
I hope that you get everything you want and that you chose
C Dm
I hope that it's the realest thing that you ever know
Bb F
Hope you get the pretty girls, that's pretty and everything
C Dm
Million dollar cribs havin' million dollar dreams
Bb F
And when you get it all just remember one thing
C
Remember one thing
Dm Bb F C
That one man can change the world
Dm Bb F C Dm
That one man can change the world