Intro

Bm  A   D                G                 Bm   A
        Someone's always caught up in the...
D                G                Bm     A
Someone's always caught up in the fast life
D                G                Bm     A     D     G
Someone's always caught up in the fast life


Hook

Bm     A   D                G                Bm     A      D     G   
Fast life, someone's always caught up in the fast life
Bm     A   D                G                Bm     A      D     G
Fast life, someone's always caught up in the fast life


Verse 1

         Bm                        A 
Far too delicate, it's hard when a father is yelling and
D                          G
Takes it out on her or the dog for the hell of it
Bm                     A 
Only thirteen when she started developing
D                      G
By fifteen, attractin' older gentlemen
    Bm                       A 
She let them in, mom wasn't looking, she might have been
D                           G
Turned a blind eye found it better than fighting with
    Bm                      A
Her little girl caught in a sinister world
   D                              G 
No sibling or a sister that could show her the pearls
       Bm
So she turns to the night sky
A                   D                            G
Drinking to get by, pills above the sink that be helping her get high
Bm                  A
All the while she's forgetting to ask why
D                            G
Feeling like the only way of living is let die
Bm                 A
Why goodbye is the hardest of speech
   D                       G  
Go along for the ride at a startling speed
            Bm                        A
Through the rise and the fall and the balance in peaks
          D                           G 
While the heart tries to find what it needs
Don't get caught up in the


Hook

Bm     A   D                G                Bm     A      D     G   
Fast life, someone's always caught up in the fast life
Bm     A   D                G                Bm     A      D     G
Fast life, someone's always caught up in the fast life
Bm     A   D                G                Bm     A      D     G
Fast life, someone's always caught up in the fast life
Bm     A   D                G                Bm     A      D     G 
Fast life, someone's always caught up in the fast life


Verse 2

         Bm                          A
Ain't it hard, to get up out of your momma's basement
           D                         G 
If I could buy my way to Heaven or a diamond bracelet
      Bm                     A
Can't help, but wonder if my time is wasted
       D                             G
If I'm waiting on a train instead of trying to race it
    Bm                     A
Too fast, my lady told me "Slow down baby
       D                                   G               Bm
By the way I work for seven", she said she know I'm crazy, ayyy
              A
How you gotta walk before you run
      D                             G 
Gotta look before you leap but lose faith before you preach
         Bm                                A 
And just think before you reaching for the handle of your gun
        D                               G
And you running from what you done to become what you never wanted to
Bm                                       A
Hunted you want to run, running from the sound of the sirens
D                    G
Chicago no violence, Nobody could tell me
     Bm                 A
Come find me, I need an island, to hold my family
D                       G 
Take up ten rows of the Grammy seats
Bm                       A 
Granted we've known each other for some time
    D                        G
It don't take a whole day to recognize sunshine
Look around


Hook

Bm     A   D                G                Bm     A      D     G   
Fast life, someone's always caught up in the fast life
Bm     A   D                G                Bm     A      D     G
Fast life, someone's always caught up in the fast life
Bm     A   D                G                Bm     A      D     G
Fast life, someone's always caught up in the fast life
Bm     A   D                G                Bm     A      D     G 
Fast life, someone's always caught up in the fast life


Bm     A   D                G                Bm     A      D     G   
Fast life, someone's always caught up in the fast life
Bm     A   D                G                Bm     A      D     G
Fast life, someone's always caught up in the fast life
Bm     A   D                G                Bm     A      D     G
Fast life, someone's always caught up in the fast life
Bm     A   D                G                Bm     A      D     G 
Fast life, someone's always caught up in the fast life