break the shell chords by India.Arie
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Intro 1
(C major) (G major) (A minor) (E major) (F major) (G major) (C major) (A minor)
Verse 1
I met a proph (F major)
et dark as the night (G major)
She could see into my soul (A minor)
Said she'd been watch (F major) ing
and had some ad (G major) vice
She said shadows make you (A minor) whole
A life without (F major) pain is a wolf
in sheep's (G major) clothes
Cause if you (C major) listen (G major) to the
(A minor) lessons (A flatdim) that it (D major) holds
You'll find the gold (F major)
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Verse 2
(C major) Child its (G major) time (A minor) to break the shell (E minor)
(F major) Life's gonna hurt (E major) but its (F major) meant to be felt
(G major) You can (C major) not touch the sky (G major)
from (A minor) inside your (E minor) self
(F major) You cannot (E major) fly (F major) until you (G major) break the (C major) shell
Verse 3
(A minor)
I can re (F major) member when I was a child (G major)
How the grown folks seemed so (A minor) crazy
Why are they so (F major) angry,
why are they so (G major) loud?
And when I grow up that's
never ever gonna (A minor) be me
That was the mo (F major) ment that I de (G major) cide
That I would (C major) build a (G major) wall just
(A minor) shy of (E major) six feet (D major) tall
Too strong to fall (F major)
Verse 4
(C major) Child its (G major) time (A minor) to break the shell (E minor)
(F major) Life's gonna hurt (E major) but its (F major) meant to be felt
(G major) You can (C major) not touch the sky (G major)
from (A minor) inside your (E minor) self
(F major) You cannot (E major) fly (F major) until you
(G major) break the (C major) shell
(F major)
Verse 5
(F major) Courage is not being (C major) hard
It's time to (E major) peel back all of the layers
You (A minor) put between
who you're meant to be (D major)
And you who are (F major)
And go be who you (F minor) are
Verse 6
(A minor)
So much disappoint (F major) ment
to finally under (G major) stand
That there is (E minor) no such thing as (A minor) perfect
Were all simply (F major) doing the best that we (G major) can
And we have a (C major) choice to
(E minor) live or (A minor) truly be (E major) alive (D major)
Verse 7
(F major) This is your life (C major)
Child its (G major) time (A minor) to break the shell (E minor)
(F major) Life's gonna hurt (E major) but its (F major) meant to be felt
(G major) You can (C major) not touch the sky (G major)
from (A minor) inside your (E minor) self
(F major) You cannot (E major) fly (F major) until it (G major) breaks the (C major) shell
Child its (G major) time
Verse 8
(A minor) to break the shell (E minor)
(F major) Life's gonna hurt (E major) but its (F major) meant to be felt
(G major) You can (C major) not touch the sky (G major)
from (A minor) inside your (E minor) self
The (F major) bird cannot (E major) fly (F major) until it (G major) breaks the (C major) shell
Verse 9
(C major) Do with (G major) these words (A minor) what you will (E major)
Its (F major) time for (C major) us to (D major) be for real
(A minor) You'll be stuck (C major) on the ground (D major) until
(F major) You finally (G major) break the shell
break the shell
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