Lauryn Hill

I Get Out

Lauryn Hill


Tom: Bm

Bm:   799777
F#m *:  x9-11-11-10-9
Em:   x79987
G:    355433
F#m:  244222


[Intro]
Bm  F#m * x2

[Chorus]
Bm         F#m *
I get out. I get out of all your boxes.
Bm            F#m *
I’ll get out, you can't hold me in these chains.
Bm         F#m *
I get out. Father free me from this bondage.
Em                   F#m *
Knowing my condition, is the reason I must change.


[Verse]
G                         F#m   
Your stinking resolution, is no type of solution.
G                           F#m   
Preventing me from freedom, maintaining your pollution.
G                                 F#m   
I won't support your lie no more, I won't even try no more.
G                            F#m   
Oh If I have to die oh lord, that's how I choose to live.
Em                              F#m *
I won't be compromised no more, I can't be victimized no more.
Em                               F#m *
I just don't sympathize no more, cause now I understand.
G                        F#m   
You just want to use me, you say love, then abuse me.
G                                F#m   
You never thought you'd lose me, but how quickly we forget.
Em                         F#m *
That nothing is for certain. You thought I'd stay here hurtin.
Em                               F#m  *
Your guilt trips just not working. Repressing me to death.
G                               F#m   
Cause now I'm choosing life yo, I'll take the sacrifice yo.
Em                           F#m  *
If everything must go then go, That's how I chose to live.

[Bridge]
Em               F#m  *
No more comprises. I see past your disguises.
Em                              F#m *
Blinding me through mind control. Stealing my eternal soul.
Em                        F#m *
Appealing through material. To keep me as your slave.


[Chorus]
Bm           F#m *
But I get out, oh I get out of all of your boxes
Bm       F#m *
I get out. Oh you can't hold me in these chains,
Bm          F#m *
I'll get out. Oh I want out of social bondage.
Em                    F#m *
Knowing my condition oh is the reason I must change.
G                                  F#m  
See what you see is what you get.  oh and you ain't seen nothing yet.
G                                 F#m  
Oh, I don't care if you're upset. I could care less if you're upset.
Em                            F#m *
See you don't change the truth. And your hurt feelings no excuse.
Em                    F#m *
To keep me in this box. Psychological locks.
Em                        F#m *
Repressing true expression. Cementing this repression.
Em                      F#m *
Promoting mass deception. So that no one can be healed.
G                            F#m  
I don't respect your system. I won't protect your system.
G                             F#m  
When you talk I don't listen. Oh let my Fathers will be done.

[Verse]
Bm               F#m *
And just get out, Oh just get out of all this bondage.
Bm            F#m *
Just get out, oh you can't hold me in these chains.
Bm           F#m *
Just get out. All these traditions killing freedom.
Em                  F#m *
Knowing my condition, is the reason I must change.

[Verse]
G                              F#m 
I just accepted what you said. Keeping me among the dead.
G                     F#m 
The only way to know. Is to walk then learn and grow.
Em                         F#m *
But faith is not your speed. You'd have everyone believe.
Em                            F#m *
That you're the sole authority. Just follow the majority.
Em                    F#m *
Afraid to face reality. The system is a joke.
G                                 F#m 
You'd be smart to save your soul. And escape this mind control.
G                                 F#m 
You spend your life in sacrifice. To a system for the dead.
Em                                           F#m *
Oh are you where's the passion in this living. Are you sure it's God you're serving.
Em                   F#m *
Obligated to a system. Getting less than you're deserving.
G                                F#m 
Who made up these schools I say. Who made up these rules I say.
G                   F#m 
Animal conditioning just to keep us as a slave.


[Chorus]
Bm              F#m *
Oh just get out. Of this social purgatory.
Bm           F#m *
Just get out. All these traditions are a lie.
Bm           F#m *
Just get out. Superstition killing freedom,
Em                  F#m *
Knowing my condition, is the reason I must die.
G                           F#m 
Just get out, just get out, just get out, lets get out, lets get out,
G           F#m 
Knowing my condition is the reason I must die.

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