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Play the chord variations like this:
Am:         Dm:
e|--------| e|1-1-3-1-| 

B|1-1-0-1-| B|3-3-3-3-|
G|2-2-2-2-| G|2-2-2-2-|

D|2-2-2-2-| D|--------| 
A|--------| A|--------| 
E|--------| E|--------| 

[Intro]
Am7
I done been through a whole lot
Dm7
Trial, tribulations, but I know God
Am7
Satan wanna put me in a bow-tie
Dm7
Praying that the holy water don't go
 dry, yeah yeah
Am7
As I look around me
Dm7
So many motherfuckers wanna down me
Am7
But ain't no nigga never drown me
             Dm7
In front of a dirty double-mirror 
they found me

[Hook]
             Am7
And I love myself
                            Dm7
(The world is a ghetto with guns and
 picket signs)
         Am7
I love myself
                            Dm7
(But it can do what it want whenever
 it wants and I don't mind)
         Am7
I love myself
(He said I gotta get up, life is 
Dm7
more than suicide)
         Am7
I love my-self
                    Dm7
(One day at the time, sun gone 
shine)


[Verse 2]
Am7
Everybody looking at you crazy 
(Crazy)
Dm7
What you gone do? (What you gone 
do?)
Am7
Lift up your head and keep moving 
(Keep moving)
Dm7
Or let the paranoia haunt you? 
(Haunt you)
         Am7
Peace to fashion police, I wear my 
heart
Dm7
On my sleeve let the runway start
    Am7
You know the miserable do love 
company
Dm7
What do you want from me and my 
scars?
F
Everybody lack confidence, everybody
 lack confidence
G
How many times our potential was 
anonymous?
F
How many times the city making me 
promises?
E
So I promise this


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[Hook]
             Am7
And I love myself
                            Dm7
(The world is a ghetto with guns and
 picket signs)
         Am7
I love myself
                            Dm7
(But it can do what it want whenever
 it wants and I don't mind)
         Am7
I love myself
(He said I gotta get up, life is 
Dm7
more than suicide)
         Am7
I love my-self
                    Dm7
(One day at the time, sun gone 
shine)


[Verse 1]
           Am7
They wanna say there's a war outside
 and a bomb in the street
      Dm7
And a gun in the hood and a mob of 
police
      Am7
And a rock on the corner and a line 
full of fiends
      Dm7
And a bottle full of lean and a 
model on a scheme, yup
Am7                       Dm7
These days of frustration keep y'all
 on ducking rotation
Am7                     Dm7
I duck these gold faces, post up 
fee-fi-fo-fum basis
F
Dreams of realities peace
G
Blow steam in the face of the beast
F
The sky can fall down, the wind can 
cry now
E
The strong in me, I still smile


[Hook]
             Am7
And I love myself
                            Dm7
(The world is a ghetto with guns and
 picket signs)
         Am7
I love myself
                            Dm7
(But it can do what it want whenever
 it wants and I don't mind)
         Am7
I love myself
(He said I gotta get up, life is 
Dm7
more than suicide)
         Am7
I love my-self
                    Dm7
(One day at the time, sun gone 
shine)

Am7              G
Walk my barefeet (Walk my barefeet)
D/F#                  F
Down, down valley peak (Down, down 
valley peak)
         Am7           
I keep my fee-fi-fo-fum 
 G
(Fee-fi-fo-fum)
          D/F#         F
I keep my heart undone (My heart 
undone)


[Bridge]
             Am7
And I love myself
                                G
(The world is a ghetto with big guns
 and picket signs)
         D/F#
I love myself
                            F
(But it can do what it want whenever
 it wants and I don't mind)
         Am7
I love myself
(He said I gotta get up, life is 
G
more than suicide)
         D/F#
I love my-self
                     F -mute
(One day at the time, sun gone 
shine)


[Verse 3]
          Am7
I went to war last night
        D/F#
With an automatic weapon, don't 
nobody call a medic

I'm a do it 'til I get it right
          Am7
I went to war last night
         D/F#
I've been dealing with depression 
ever since an adolescent

Duckin' every other blessin', l can 
never see the message
      Am7
I can never take the lead, I can 
never bob and weave

For my nigga that be letting 'em 
annihilate me
       D/F#
And the sound is moving in a meteor 
speed

From a 100 to a billion lay my body 
in the street
        Am7
Keep my money in the ceiling let my 
mama know I'm free

Give my story to the children and 
the lesson they can read
        D/F#
And the glory to the feeling of the 
only unseen
Seen enough, make a motherfucker 
                  Am7
scream, "I love myself!"


[Spoken]
                       D/F#
I lost my head, I must've misread 
what the good book said
     Am7
Oh woes keep me, it's a jungle 
inside
    D/F#
Give myself again 'til the well runs
 dry