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This Can't Be Life chords by 
Jay-z 
N/A•
Key: G# minor•BPM: 85
Intro 1
Em
Em
D
Em
D
D
D
Em
Em
D
Em
D
D
Em
Verse 1
See I was,
Em
D
born in sewage, born to make bomb music
Em
Flow tight like I was born Jewish
D
Used the streets as a conduit,
D
I kept arms
Em
38 longs inside my mom's buick
At any given moment shawn
could lose it, be on the news
Iron cuffs, arms through it,
D
or stuffed with embalmin fluid
D
Shit, I'm going through it,
D
mom dukes too
Em
Tears streamin down her pretty face,
she got her palms to it
My life is gettin too wild
D
Bb
I need to bring some sort kinda calm to it
Bout to lose it voices scream
D
ing "don't do it!"
D
It's like '93, '94, bout the year
Em
That big and mag dropped; and
"illmatic" rocked
E
Em
Outta every rag drop,
D
and the west had it locked
Em
Everybody doing 'em, I'm still
D
scratchin on the block
Like "damn, I'ma be a failure"
Surrounded by thugs, drugs,
Em
and drug, paraphernalia
Em
Cops courts,
and their thoughts is to derail us
Three time felons in shorts
with jealous thoughts
D
Tryin figure where your mail is,
D
guesstimate the weight you sellin
Em
So they can send shots straight
to your melon wait!
G#m
Em
It gets worse,
D
baby momma water burst
Bb
Baby came out stillborn,
D
still I gotta move on
D
Though my heart still torn,
life gone from her womb
Em
Don't worry, if it was meant to be,
Verse 2
it'll be, soon
G#m
Em
This can't be life,
D
Bb
D
this can't be love
D
This can't be right,
D
Em
there's gotta be more, this can't be us
Bb
D
This can't be life, this can't be love
D
D
This can't be right, there's gotta be more,
Em
this can 't be us
Verse 3
Em
Chill dog Second
oldest born,
from Michelle brown my mother
Bb
Hell bound, grew with two
D
sisters and one brother
D
Pop wasn't around,
D
so many stories that's another
Em
I'm thinking damn, how my older sister
G#
gon' make me tougher
Em
D
When steel sharpens steel, I'ma keep it real
Bb
I'm tired of trying to hide my pain
D
behind the syrups and pills
Dead to the world,
D
stretched out like a corpse for real
Y'all niggaz thinking what
Em
G#
y'all reading in the source is real
D
What my life like,
Em
D
Bb
you looking at the source, it's real
D
What your life like? mine dog,
of course it's real
D
Passin judgment,
D
you niggaz second- guessin beans
Em
Cause you don't eat swine
don't make you amin
G#
D
Dog you know a couple suras,
out the qur'an
Em
D
Em
I guess you all on your deen
D
and I ain't on mine
Stop that akki, 'fore I send
D
shots though your body
Make 'em feel feel hell on earth
Em
before allah drop thee
I feel the line's drawn here,
nuttin more can stop me
D
Till them feds pick me up,
Em
D
or them boys pop me
There's only three things that make mac
D
not act like beans
Em
Amatullah tisha, po aldin, samir amin
My seeds dog,
D
gotta teach 'em that before I leave dog
Bb
Shit I know that I'ma see
D
'em when I leave dog
D
I come back in the afterlife
D
Like fuck it I done touched
Em
hell twice what's the meanin?
Verse 4
G#m
Em
This can't be life,
Bb
D
this can't be love
This can't be right, there's gotta be more,
Em
this can't be us
D
Em
Bb
D
This can't be life, this can't be love
D
This can't be right, there's gotta be more,
Em
this can 't be us
Verse 5
Em
Now as I walk into the studio,
to do this with jig'
Bb
Em
Bb
I got a phone call from one of my nigs
Said my homeboy reek,
D
he just lost one of his kids
And when I heard that I just
Em
broke into tears
And see in the second hand you
D
don't really know how this is
Em
But when it hits that close to home
Bb
you feel the pain at the crib
D
So I called mine,
D
an d saddened my wife with the bad news
Now we both depressed,
Em
countin our blessings cause brad's two
Prayin for young souls to laugh
D
at life through the stars
Bb
Em
Lovin your kids just like you was ours
D
And I'm hurtin for you dog,
D
D
but ain't nobody pain is like yours
Em
I just know that heaven'll open
these doors
G#m
Em
And ain't no bright side to losin life
D
but you can view it like this
Bb
God's got open hands homey,
D
he in the midst, of good company
D
Who loves all and hates not one
And one day you gon' be
Em
wit your son
G#
I could've rapped about my hard
Em
times on this song
D
Bb
But heaven knows I woulda been wrong
D
I wouldn'ta been right,
it wouldn'ta been love
It wouldn'ta been life,
Em
it wouldn'ta been us
Verse 6
This can't be life
Em
D
This can't be life, this can't be love
This can't be right, there's gotta be more,
Em
this can't be us
D
This can't be life, this can't be love
This can't be right,
D
Em
there's gotta be more, this can't be us
This can't be life
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