A Charmed Life chords by J-LIVE
Verse 1
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Africa Port- Au- Prince
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Knoxville Anvan
Manhattan South Bend Albany Brooklyn
- where you coming from?
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Africa Port- Au- Prince
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Knoxville Anvan
Manhattan South Bend Albany Brooklyn
- where you coming from?
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Africa Port- Au- Prince
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Knoxville An van
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Manhattan South Bend Albany Brooklyn
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- where you coming from?
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Africa Port- Au- Prince
Knoxville Anvan
Manhattan South Bend Albany Brook
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lyn - where you coming from?
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Africa Port- Au- Prince Knoxville Anvan
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Manhattan South Bend Al bany
Brooklyn - where you coming from?
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Africa Port- Au- Prince
Knoxville Anvan
Manhattan South Bend Albany Brooklyn
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- where you coming from?
Verse 2
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[Fading in] Brooklyn, New
York to wherever you at
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This is autobiographical taking you back
Em
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I live a charmed life
We going back in the years
Em
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Imagining if my whole world what
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Where you coming from
Em
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Brooklyn, New York to wherever you at
Em
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This is autobio graphical taking you back
Em
I live a charmed life
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We going back in the years
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Imagine if my whole world
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Verse 3
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I been around the sun twenty- five times
And I still find new ways
to recognize shine
It's like light gets better with age
The way a song sounds
better on stage
Verse 4
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And rhyme books get better
with each page
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What before the first bar was written
A first verse was spittin
Em
Before label execs
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Em
was bullshittin
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Way back when Aunty
Verse 5
Leann Aunt Mimi
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and Aunt Jackie was babysitting
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Before food was bitten,
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consumed through a nipple
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I'm talking about when times were simple
Verse 6
To make a long story short it goes
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Port- au- Prince Knoxville Anvan love
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Em
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and the city that never sleeps
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From thought to finish I was born
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just a couple of weeks late
Em
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Stayed home longer just to make
sure everything was on straight
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All systems go cut the umbilical cord
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From old
Verse 7
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earth to new
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earth Manhattan to turf
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For what its worth my mum
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held me down one deep
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Pops was absentee but
minds you don't sleep
It took her feelings to raise me
lean taught me how to read
Verse 8
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By the time I went to school
I was in high speed
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Ready willing and able jackie
taught me how to add with
Dried up black eyed peas
on the kitchen table
And coming home to a mothers
love and good care
Em
Never wanted it was
Verse 9
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always enough
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But when it came to education its
like she had one rule
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There's no such thing
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as too much school
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Not to mention lean taught me how
to play the piano and then
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Every summer I was
Verse 10
out
Em
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in south ben
Em
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Grandpops a bartender at a country club
Em
Me and my cousins from grand
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rapid was living it up
Em
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Me and granny watching
??? football golden blue
Verse 11
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She said you can't beat the
team and them be
's too
Em
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Some say I got my sense
of humour from her
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And I learned patience from making
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models in the basement
Brookyn, new york to wherever you at
Verse 12
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This is autobiographical taking you back
With no time for refrains I barely
got enough time to explain
How hip hop captivated my brain
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My mama raised me on soul
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and beethoven
Verse 13
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Sports clubs from private school
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put me up on soft rock
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That was cool but I left Z100 and WGLJ
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To find bliss with real s and kiss
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Video music rocks showed
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my what time it is
Verse 14
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Wrote my first rhymes as corey
but j- live was sparked
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Making pause mix demos with
my main man mark
Playing ball in the park,
there was other heads too
I was the herb of the crew,
then I learned what to do
Verse 15
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Got my way from school
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started battling fools
Em
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G nice my friendly rival at the lunch table
He started spark at a dark
with damian and I date
C
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I was down for a bit but that
C
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was just a DJ
Verse 16
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Starting spinning in the PJs with
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satcho and them
Am
Em
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Back and forth from the tables
to the pad and the pen
Em
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Then I had to do a bit upstate but wait
I wasn't incarcerated but college educated
Verse 17
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As soon the Albany I was a full time
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Em
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student part time emcee
At the time raw shack was
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the place to be
Living on judge Clark
Started building with gods
Verse 18
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16 man squad By the time know
Em
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ledge was
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120 we was just 5 deep
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Em
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C
I went from Mecca to Albany a student
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and landed in medina as a teacher
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I had this rhyme reacher
Verse 19
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We recognized what what's happening
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I'm making records and I'm winning
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But that's another story and
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it's only the beginning
Em
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Brooklyn, New York to wherever
Verse 20
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you at
This is autobiographical taking you back
C
Em
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Not my whole entire life
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but just a slice of the pie
G
C
A few pieces of the who what when where's and whys
Outro 1
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A Charmed Life
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