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ARTIST: Lauryn Hill
Name of the Song: I get out
album: MTV unplugged
tab writer: Drew Salem (drewsalem@btopenworld.com)
Notice how she uses the same chords at different positions for subtle changes in sound.
Bm: 224432
F#m (with the root at the ninth fret): 9th Fret 224432
G (3rd Fret): 334553
G (normal): 320003
Fm: 244222
Bm F#m(with the root at the ninth fret)
I get out
I get out of all your boxes
I’ll get out, you can't hold me in these chains
I get out
Father free me from this bondage
G (3rd fret) F#m
Knowing my condition is the reason I must change
G (Normal) Fm
Your stinking resolution is no type of solution
Preventing me from freedom
Maintaining your pollution
I won't support your lie no more
I won't even try no more
Oh If I have to die oh lord that's how I choose to live
G (3rd fret) F#m
I won't be compromised no more
I can't be victimized no more
I just don't sympathize no more
Cause now I understand
G (Normal) Fm
you just want to use me
You say love, then abuse me
You never thought you'd lose me
But how quickly we forget
G (3rd fret) F#m
That nothing is for certain
You thought I'd stay here hurtin
Your guilt trips just not working
Repressing me to death
G (Normal) Fm
Cause now I'm choosing life yo
I'll take the sacrifice yo
If everything must go then go
That's how I chose to live
Ooooooops…..
G (3rd fret) F#m
No more comprises
I see past your disguises
Blinding me through mind control
Stealing my eternal soul
Appealing through material
Oh just to keep me as your slave
Bm F#m(with the root at the ninth fret)
But I get out, oh I get out of all of your boxes I get out
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Oh you can't hold me in these chains, I'll get out
Of this social bondage
G (3rd fret) F#m
Knowing my condition is the reason I must change
G (Normal) Fm
See what you see is what you get
And oh, you ain't seen nothing yet
Oh, I don't care if you're upset
I could care less if you're upset
G (3rd fret) F#m
see it don't change the truth
And your hurt feelings no excuse
To keep me in this box
Psychological locks
Repressing true expression
Cementing this repression
Promoting mass deception
So that no one can be healed
G (Normal) Fm
I don't respect your system
I won't protect your system
When you talk I don't listen
Oh let my Fathers will be done
Bm F#m (with the root at the ninth fret)
And just get out,
Oh just get out of all this bondage
Just get out, oh you can't hold me in these chains
Just get out
These traditions killing freedom
G (3rd fret) F#m
Knowing my condition is the reason I must change
G (Normal) Fm
I just accepted what you said
Keeping me among the dead
The only way to know
Is to walk then learn then grow
G (3rd fret) F#m
But faith is not your speed
You'd have everyone believe
That you're the sole authority
Just follow the majority
Afraid to face reality
This system is a joke
G (Normal) Fm
You'd be smart to save your soul
And escape this mind control
You spend your life in sacrifice
To a system for the dead
G (3rd fret) F#m
Where's the passion in this living
Are you sure it's God you're serving
Obligated to a system
Getting less than you're deserving
G (Normal) Fm
Who made up these schools I say
Who made up these rules I say
Animal conditioning just to keep you as a slave
Bm F#m(with the root at the ninth fret)
Oh just get out of this social purgatory
Just get out
These traditions are a lie- just get out
Superstition killing freedom,
knowing my condition is the reason I must die
Just get out, just get out, just get out, lets get out, lets get out,
G (3rd fret) F#m
Knowing my condition is the reason I must die.
G (Normal) Fm --> Change rhythm
G (3rd fret) F#m
