Need To Know by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Key: BB | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed 

    


Intro
B C# E F# B D#m  
Verse 1
B 
Washing out cigarettes in the bathroom
     C# 
Should probably only give my opinion when I'm asked to
    E          F#                 B                          D#m
I'm really good at telling the half truth but usually only when I have to
  B
The money doesn't work, the chain doesn't work
  C#
Something broken in my brain, got me praying in the dirt
  E                             F#
Got me stranded in my bed like I'm laying in the hearse
         B                       D#m
And the grass is always greener when you play on astroturf
     B
Wonder why my generation poppin' pills and poppin' percs
   C#
And got some weed and got some purp and got some bars and got some syurp
              E                               F#
And got some Jordan's on my feet, I went and matched them with my shirt
         B                             D#m
And I just instagrammed them both to show you that I got them first
     B
Got a Louis duffel bag, I got my girl a purse
          C#
I'm tryna find God through a purchase, I'm not tryna go to church
          E            F#                    B                 D#m
Amen, satan told me not to serve, I only think about myself, I only think about my work
   B
I only think about my come-up, capitalism
 C#
Look at where we come from, we are what we run from
 E    F#           B          D#m
We are why we smoke some, so numb, so numb, so numb
Chorus
   B
I'm a tell you what you need to know
     C#
I'm a tell you what you need to hear
     E          F#
Cause the truth would be too much
     B                      D#m
Yeah the truth would be, yeah the truth would be
   B
I'm a tell you what you need to know
     C#
I'm a tell you what you need to hear
     E          F#
Cause the truth would be too much
     B                      D#m
Yeah the truth would be, yeah the truth would be
Verse 2
(Chance The Rapper)
B  C#  E  F#  B  D#m
  B
I cry when she smile with her eyes closed
    C#
I'm already afraid to tight clothes  
  E                      F#
I want all her best friends to be white folks
                 B
I scratched out this line so many times, I can't forget it
     D#m
It's fucked up, I almost say it every time that I edit 
    B
I swear rapping make it easy to lie
         C#
But secrets don't make it easy to write
    E                F#
I met the devil in Manhattan, quickly ended discussion
        B              D#m
I don't need a thing, he warned of repercussions
        B
But I know he come in all forms, that won't be his last visit
    C#
Time is moving fast and I'm running with a pair of scissors
    E               F#
Looking in the mirror like, "Damn that ain't my dad, is it?"
     B                   D#m
He handed the torch but he ain't hold my hand did it?
         B
I spent a plenty penny on microphones, many midis
  C#
Any of those cities, I put the indie in Windy City
  E
Indian giver, Black father, White liar
    F#
Right next to Yeezy like Mike Myers
          B
Stare at the cue cards, take out the juke parts 
                 D#m
Take out the God references, just leave the cool parts
        B
I remember opening for Ben, wasn't no liquor at the show
            C#
And now the white girls call me nigga at my show
     E
I wish that I could open twice, sit down at the open mic
    F#
Go back to the day before I became famous over night
            B
I wish that I could open twice, sit down at the open mic
 D#m
Go back to the day before I became famous over night
Chorus
   B
I'm a tell you what you need to know
     C#
I'm a tell you what you need to hear
     E          F#
Cause the truth would be too much
     B                      D#m
Yeah the truth would be, yeah the truth would be
   B
I'm a tell you what you need to know
     C#
I'm a tell you what you need to hear
     E          F#
Cause the truth would be too much
     B                      D#m
Yeah the truth would be, yeah the truth would be
Instrumental break]
B  C#  E  F#  B  D#m
Outro - Macklemore]
   B
I'm a tell you what you need to know
     C#
I'm a tell you what you need to hear
     E          F#
Cause the truth would be too much
     B                      D#m
Yeah the truth would be, yeah the truth would be
   B
I'm a tell you what you need to know
     C#
I'm a tell you what you need to hear
     E          F#
Cause the truth would be too much
     B                      D#m
Yeah the truth would be, yeah the truth would be...okay