Kevin Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[C]OK,[C] OK[C][C]
[C]Yea[C]h
We [C]live [C]tonight
Check it, now

[Verse 1]
I seen [C]pain, I felt the losses
Attended [F]funerals and seen coffins
21 years [C]old, an angel was lost here
Wings [Dm]clipped by the grip
of 80 milligram sniffs of [C]oxycontin
Everyday through the nostrils
[F]Never went away, never does it stop there
[C]Death a line or two away
and a couple tall [Dm]cans
'Cause you never know
when God is gonna call, man
[C]Precious, what we all share
I [F]said peace at 5:30,
the next time that I saw him
was in the [C]hands of the pallbearer
What if I would've never [Dm]gone
and dropped him off there?
Blaming myself, in hyster[C]ics,
screaming it's not fair!
21 years old with a [F]book of rhymes
he was gonna recite to the globe
Only [C]thing to numb the pain
besides that shit in his nose
He was [Dm]gonna quit tomorrow,
we're all gonna quit tomorrow
Just get us through the weekend,
and then Monday follows
Then it's Wednesday,
then it's "fuck it, I'm already feeling hollow
Might as well go crack a seal,
might as well go chug a bottle
Might as well go pop a pill
and go and band-aid that problem
And es[C]cape this world, vacate this world
'Cause I [F]hate myself
No praying's gonna cure this [C]pain[Dm]

[Chorus 1]
Doctor, [C]please,[F]
give me a dose of the Ameri[C]can [Dm]Dream
Put [C]down the pen and look in my [F]eyes
[C]We're in the waiting roo[Dm]m
and something ain't right
[C][F]
[C]All this is on you[Dm],

[Verse 2]
we're overprescribed
[C]For me and Kev
He went up [F]in jail, institutions are dead
And with our [C]lives, we play Russian Roulette
And try to [Dm]find a life where we can be content
'Cause for [C]us, we're just trying to minimize
the [F]fear of being alive
And now my [C]little brother is in the sky
From a [Dm]pill that a doctor prescribed
That a drug
that a [C]million dollar industry supplied
And the cops [F]never go and profile at night
Yeah, the, [C]the, the orange plastic
with the white top they sell to you
[Dm]Has us looking for the answers
and not instead of you
[C]Quick fix, whatever do
We just gonna neglect the truth
Be[F]cause a doctor with a license
played God and said it's [C]cool
Played God and said it's cool
[Am][C][Am][Dm]

[Bridge 1]
But [Am]me? I don't blame Kev
or his mom freebasing
while pregnant with him
I blame the [Am]pharmacy companies
And [G]country that spends tril[F]lions
fighting the war they supplying themselves
Politicians and business and jail
Public de[F]fenders and judges who fail
Look at Kevin, look at Kevin
Now he's wrapped in plastic
[Am]First dealer was h[C]is mom's medic[Am]ine cabi[Dm]net
[Am]Got anxiety, better go and give him a Xanax
Focus, give him Adderall,
sleep, give him Ambien
'Til he's walking 'round the city
looking like a mannequin
[Am]Ups and downs [C]shooting up pres[Am]criptions
you're [Dm]handing [Am]him
So America, is it really worth it? I'm asking you
[Am][G][Dm][Am]

[Chorus 2]
Doctor, [C]please,[Em]
give me a dose of the Ameri[Am]can D[F]ream
Put [C]down the pen
and look in my [Dm]eyes
[Am]We're in the waiting room[F]
and something ain't right
[C][Em]
[Am]All this is on you,[F]
we're overprescribed
[C][F][C][Dm]

[Outro 1]
[C]Doctor, your medicine,
[F]and your methods
[C]Can't cure my disease
[Dm]without killing me
[C]You're killing me,[F] you're killing me
[C]You're killing me,[Dm] you're killing me
[C]Doctor, your medicine,
[F]and your methods
[C]Can't cure my disease
[Dm]without killing me
[C]You're killing me,[F] you're killing me
[C]You're killing me,[Dm] you're killing me