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[Chorus]
A                                 G
I really know how it feels to be, stressed out, stressed out
 C
When you're face to face with your adversity
 A                                 G
I really know how it feels to be, stressed out, stressed out
 C
We're gonna make this thing work out eventually


[Verse 1: Consequence, (Q-Tip)]
A
Yo I ain't one to complain but there's things in the game
G
(What's your name?)

Consequence, I'm tight, burnt like flames

(And why's that?)
C
American dreams, they got this ghetto kid in a fiend

(Don't stress that cause it's not in your bloodstream)
A
(Your whole being, comes from greatness, d'you remember)
G
(Shaytan got you caught in the storms of December)
C
(And brothers on the block packing nines like September)

(Crazy situations keeps pockets on slender)
A
Yo I be on the avenue where they be actin brand new
G
I'm splurging on these Reebok joints for shorty boo
C
All of a sudden, I saw these two kids frontin'

Talking out they joints but they wasn't saying nuttin'
A
My hand was on my toolie they was actin unruly
G
(Say word) Yo word up, yo I was tight caught up
C
But I swallowed my pride and let that nonsense ride

Because I'm positive it seems that negative dies
A
Yo we was at the dice game making these cats look silly
G
Flamming, steady running off at the Willie
C
I had my cash mixed, my rent due, with my play-dough

I gotta see some loot so on my girls I blow
A
Shook them shits in my palm let em hit the flo'
G
Kept my eyeballs scoping for them pigs po-po
C
I got to go on the ave see my parole by fo'

But I gotta steady freak these boys like JoJo
A
And I was doing it, 'til I met Ike, Spike, and Mike
G
One roll, they had my pockets thirstier than Sprite
C
Yo I know the feeling, when you feeling like a villain

You be having good thoughts but the evils be revealin'
A
And the stresses of life can take you off the right path (no doubt)
G
Jealousy and envy tends to infiltrate your staff
C
We gotta hold it down so we can move on past

All adversities, so we can get through fast, like that


[Chorus]
A                                 G
I really know how it feels to be, stressed out, stressed out
 C
When you're face to face with your adversity
 A                                 G
I really know how it feels to be, stressed out, stressed out
 C
We're gonna make this thing work out eventually



[Verse 2: Consequence]
A
You got the N.W.O. (low cash flow)
G
Your baby's on the way (and you don't know who)
C
And crosstown niggas trying to (bust at you)

Aiyyo they got me stressed out (and you don't know what to do)
A
So frame this Kodak black, and vision to my contact
G
With a poultry scrap, workers get pistol smacked
C
The switch-hitting Queens, niggas liquid sword spittin

With raw poppy, and now your first love is krill
A
Your vision of the mil got crept like Hey Lover
G
Tried to rise to the top, you just couldn't recover
C
And all I want is my laceration of the pie

To get this whipped cream before the water runs dry
A
Niggas flash dancing, yo, I don't know why
G
You're sick of snitching, she got you cruising to the pokey
C
Like Smokey, the stress be trying to squeeze out a homey

While I'll be trying to get star status like Shinobi
A
So we can build a dynasty, just like the Toby's
G
And all I want is the world to know my steez
C
These money hungry niggas is seven thirty

And got me stressed out like these frog emcees


[Chorus]
A                                 G
I really know how it feels to be, stressed out, stressed out
 C
When you're face to face with your adversity
 A                                 G
I really know how it feels to be, stressed out, stressed out
 C
We're gonna make this thing work out eventually



[Outro: Faith Evans]
A
Don't worry we gon make it (gonna make it)
G
Don't worry we gon make it (oh yeah)
C
Don't worry we gon make it (gonna make it)

We gon make it (gotta make it)
A
Don't worry we gon make it (gotta make it)
G
We're gonna make it (we gotta make it)
C
Don't worry we gon make it (we gonna make it)

We gonna make it (oh)
A
Don't worry we gon make it (oh)
G
Don't worry we gon make it (gonna make it)
C
Don't worry we gon make it (oh)

We gon make it
A
Don't worry we gon make it
G
I know we gonna make it (we're gonna make it)
C
C'mon baby we gon make it (yeah)

We gon make it (yeah-ah)
A
Don't worry we gon make it (we're gonna make it)
G
We've gotta make it (we've gotta make it)
C
We've gotta make it (oh yeah)

Know we're gonna make it
A
We're gonna make it, gonna make it
G
We gotta make it, know we gonna make it