A#                 A#
Wu-Tang raised me, Death Cab changed me
           A#                        A#
You should go and ask Rihanna if the pen game's crazy
   Gm                      Gm
My artistry is everything, that's my baby
    Gm                                Gm
But when it comes to publishing, it's fuck you, pay me
         A#                             A#
Don't be mad cause the records that you cut sound lazy
    A#                               A#
And everything I'm cooking, sounding nuts like rabies (uh)
Gm              Gm
I hate rappers, please don't call me
        Gm                      Gm
Give me urinal suggestions like please don't stall me
Gm                 Gm
Don't play for me, I'll be yawning
        Gm                     Gm
How I'm doing pop melodies and you sound corny
    A#                        A#
Now everybody trying to hang around like awnings
A#                              A#
Me and my people linking in the park like crawling
Gm                 Gm
Things seem Rocky, Drago, Ivan
Gm                  Gm
No cash, broke bad, so damn Heisen
Gm                           Gm
Berg, check the chemistry, I found this hybrid
     Gm                           Gm
It's Dilla in the pocket but it's so Paul Simon
   A#                           A#
It took a little while for your mind to find it
    A#                             A#
But once you see the genius it's intimidating, isn't it?

[Pre-Chorus]
A#       A#
Isn't it? Isn't it?
A#       A#
Isn't it? Isn't it?
Gm                           Gm
Took a little while for your mind to find it
    Gm                              Gm                    A#
But once you saw the genius, it's intimidating, isn't it?
         A#        A#  A#
Isn't it? Isn't it?

[Chorus]
A#                                    D#
They told me that my attention span aligns
Gm              F
Somewhat with a child or a fly, yeah
A#                                D#
They didn't understand that I saw signs
Gm                  F
Hearing things, but now they realize
A#                                         D#
That the woman that I prayed for became my wife
    Gm                  F
And dreams that I wrote down, they came to life
A#                                D#
I figured out there's money in my mind
    Gm              F
I'm glad I lived my life pre-occupied

[Post-Chorus]
A#
You need to get that bag out my face
A#
God made me a full-blown genius
A#
What the fuck I need coke for?
A#
You need to get that bag out my face
A#
God made me a full-blown genius
A#
What the fuck I need coke for?

[Verse 2]
A#                 A#
Outkast raised me, Lupe changed me
      A#                           A#
Now I do things with words to make you lames praise me
        Gm                        Gm
Whether Liu Kang or Luke James or Usain maybe
        Gm                        Gm
Feeling flyer than a jet son, I'm oh so Spacely
    A#                          A#
Now everybody clueless, how the flow so crazy?
       A#                               A#
Got me dashing with an actress, lookin' oh so Stacey
Gm                 Gm
I hate rappers and I really mean it
      Gm                           Gm
Tryna ball with the kid'll get you sunned like Phoenix
       Gm
Rather ball you up, feather and tarred
   Gm                                  Gm
Until you're harder than sparring with Mayweather with leather Spaldings
Gm                       A#                               A#
This is my calling, so I answer it with bars, but not for service
                     A#
It's for hurting any person verses me
          A#
I've been rhyming since nurseries
             Gm                     Gm
Third degree burns, emerge from the furnace, get close to me
          Gm                             Gm
While I'm roasting one of these pigs, my flow is rotisserie
       Gm                                Gm
It's a pity that all these hoes slipping out of their hosiery
      Gm                                Gm
Get a hold of me, I slip through their fingers like Rosaries
     A#
Been waiting for you to find it
     A#
So I leave it where it's supposed to be
      A#                              A#                   A#
Cause once you see the genius, it's intimidating isn't it?

[Pre-Chorus]
         A#        A#
Isn't it? Isn't it?
Gm                           Gm
Took a little while for your mind to find it
    Gm                              Gm                   A#
But once you see the genius, it's intimidating, isn't it?
         A#         A# A#
Isn't it? Isn't it?

[Chorus]
A#                                    D#
They told me that my attention span aligns
Gm              F
Somewhat with a child or a fly, yeah
A#                                D#
They didn't understand that I saw signs
Gm                  F
Hearing things, but now they realize
A#                                         D#
That the woman that I prayed for became my wife
    Gm                  F
And dreams that I wrote down, they came to life
A#                                D#
I figured out there's money in my mind
    Gm              F
I'm glad I lived my life pre-occupied

[Post-Chorus]
A#
You need to get that bag out my face
A#
God made me a full-blown genius
A#
What the fuck I need coke for?
A#
You need to get that bag out my face
A#
God made me a full-blown genius
A#
What the fuck I need coke for?
N.C.
Beautiful Mind