Key: F# minor•
Verse 1
F#m
B
Wooaahh! yeah
Yeah, that's how my seeds got
Yeah, you ever felt like you could do anything,
(?) I'ma hold y'all down for real,
Verse 2
(Gotcha!)
F#m
It was 1996, 4th of July, looking off in the sky
A
Bm
Dealing with thoughts inside,
It was a silhoutte of a beautiful woman,
bright with life
A
B
Carrying my first seed, looking like she
We at the African street festival,
and she walking around
Talking about the midwife said,
B
F#m
that bring the baby down
I'm about to be a father, the sights and sounds,
seem brighter around me
And for starters,
I know I'ma work harder, word
We got home at three in the morning,
I was beat
B
F#m
soon as I fell asleep
3: 05, like every five minutes,
then the water broke
Bm
F#m
cause he's sort of slow
You know them hospitals all trying to get paid,
no questions
Hear come the doctor's with they drugs,
trying to do c- sections
But my baby stay's strong,
in labor for yay long
A
F#m
Eight- pound baby boy,
to carry my name on, joy!
Verse 3
Huh, yeah I know how you feel,
F#m
See my brother, I know how you feel,
So when you, have a seed, come in the world,
y'all)
Huh, Kweli, yo I know how you feel,
Kweli, yo I know how you feel
Verse 4
10th, 1999, I been on the grind
Baby on the way,
my lady glowing today, at least
Anyway, the music got me going away
Like everyday, but it's a blessing,
so I gotta have patience
And she got pregnant on
a Jamaican vacation
So it's all good,
this time well have the baby in a house
I went the hospital route,
I know what they all about (Never again)
So I'm out on tour, in Baltimore
I gotta rock my show, but I gotta go
Bm
F#m
to the hospital
I left the show early, Mos held me down,
good looking (No doubt)
Call the car service, like,
A
F#m
take me straight to Brooklyn (Uh huh)
Got the news in the car, stayed sorta calm
F#m
when they put my daughter in my arms, how precious!
Verse 5
Huh, huh Said I know how you feel, uh,
A
(My precious joy)
Kwe I know how you feel
Huh, uh, said I know how you feel (yeah), said
I know how you feel
(My precious joy)
Huh, man I know how you feel
(yeah), said I know how you feel
Verse 6
in they formative years when they need y'all
A
F#m
We gotta believe, in what we conceive y'all,
it's deep y'all
I give them the truth,
so they approach the situation, with ammunition
A
B
I keep nothing away, they hear everything,
Teach them the game, so they know they position,
so they can grow
And make decisions, that change the world,
Bm
F#m
and break old tra dition
They put kids in jail,
for a life they ain't even get to start
That's murder too, and it's breaking my heart,
it's breaking our nation apart
We gave the youth all the anger, it's just
Bm
F#m
it, and so it's dangerous
You can't talk to them
Unless your language is relating
to what they going through
A
F#m
So busy ignoring them,
you can't see what they showing you
And you wonder, why we called baby- daddy's
and baby- momma's
When we grow up,
A
F#m
we can't act like adult mothers and fathers, yo
I'm so blessed to have a boy and a girl,
everyday they bring joy to my world
Verse 7
I know how you feel,
Kweli I know how you feel
(That's the sound of joy)
Brother Kwe', I know how you feel,
Brother Kwe', I know how you feel
(Baby girl, my precious joy)
Kweli, I know how you feel,
Huh, if you know how the people feel,
let me really know how you... yo
Verse 8
F#m
A
F#m
I do it for the seeds y'all
I do it for the seeds y'all
I do it for the seeds y'all
A
F#m
I do it for the seeds y'all
I do it for the seeds y'all
A
F#m
I do it for the seeds y'all
F#m
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ChordsF#m B A Bm
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