people like me chords by
K'naan

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Intro 1

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Verse 1
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Heaven,
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is there a chance that you could come down
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And open doors to hurting
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Em Em 
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people like me
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G G 
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People like me

Verse 2
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Am Am 
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Is it fair to say that I am
stressing out
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I'm stationed in  Iraq
and they won't let me out
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My homeys said I was stupid
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for even joining
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My counselor said that my de
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cision was disappointing
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Am Am 
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How she had good for
good state colleges
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And with my good grades it wouldn't
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have been a problem
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But they don't understand
the power of significance
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More than brilliance and cer
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tainly more than difference
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And if you ask me now would I repeat it
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Would I fight in a war I don't believe in
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Well the answer is if not me
where the cancer is
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They been doing this before
Jesus of Nazareth
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And after all this time it is still
deadly hazardous
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And bush isn't really being
all that inaccurate
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When he says we're winning the
war cos its staggering
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But that's cause we're killing
everybody that we see
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And most of us soldiers
we can barely fall asleep
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And time and time again I'm
feeling incompetent
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Cos my women back home,
we're constantly arguing
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And I must be crazy cos
all I'm obsessing with is
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Her Myspace and
Facebook and who's commenting
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I swear to god if she's cheatin'
I'm doing her ass in
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I can tell with one look and it
came to me
Sounding like something
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from a song hook

Verse 3
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Heaven, is there a chance that
you could come down
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And open doors to hurting
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Am Am 
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people like me
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People like me

Verse 4
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Meet Sarah,
the proud mother of young Sebastian
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Sub urban professional went
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to college in shton
In self pity she suddenly cried
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Would my life be important if
I suddenly died?
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Neighbors saying what a nice
women she was
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Keeping mostly to herself ever
since the divorce
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And with the company
downsizing and the fall and all
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She really shouldn't take
it that personal at all
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It wasn't her boss who had
his eyes on her thighs
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And got a rise from her rising
off the desk though
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And despite remembering
saying no plenty of times
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It was still a damn surprise
being let go
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And now stuck with a mortgage
she cant afford
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And too educated to blame
the corporate world
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She got on welfare and hated
it case work a power tripping
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And generally being degraded if
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Nothing else she was treated
sick
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And ineffective which is the worst thing
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That she'd been left with
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Damn, no magic from David Blane
No painter to pain this pain
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No Morgan Freeman to narrate the shame
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So she took refuge and prayer
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Kinda like finding god in the phone book
And it came to her sounding
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something like a song hook

Verse 5
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Heaven, is there a chance that
you could come down
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And open doors to hurting
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Am Am 
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people like me
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People like me

Verse 6
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I guess I told you about myself to a degree
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Just by telling you about
people like me
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But people like me they
speak politely
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They don't start no beef or peace
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Am Am 
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Everybody gotta eat
but everybody doesn't
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Which is why I want to tell
you about my favorite cousin
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He and I grew up where the sun shines
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And we both partook with the gun crimes
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And we both liked American rap rhymes
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Even though we didn't
understand one line
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If you remember my line of
notes in my last album
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I talked about a close call with a grenade
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I think we both must have been
about 7th grade
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But don't panic we both
survived without damage
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But we developed a bond like we
survived the titanic
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But when the country
became frantic
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My mother tried to get us out, planned it
To the last detail except
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the plan got derailed
Cos there wasn't enough
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money for the plain tickets
How bitter when my mother had to
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chose who to take with her
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So my cousin got left in the war
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and that's just hard to recall
But now I take refuge and prayer
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Kinda like finding god
in the phone book
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It came to me sounding kinda like

Verse 7
something from a song hook
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Heaven, is there a chance that
you could come down
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And open doors to hurting
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Em Em 
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people like me
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People like me

Verse 8
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Heaven, is there a chance that
you could come down
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G G 
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And open doors to hurting
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Em Em 
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people like me
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People like me

Outro 1
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Am Am 
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Am Am 
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