This Can't Be Life chords by 
Jay‐z 
N/A
Key: Gb major•
Verse 1
F#
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G#m
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Geah,
whassup?
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This to all my street
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niggaz, project niggaz
G#m
Real nig gaz worldwide
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Let's reflect,
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e'rybody got a story
F#
G#m
We all ghetto B, here's mine
Geah
Verse 2
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See, I was born in sewage,
G#m
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born to make bomb mu sic
G#m
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Flow tight like I was born Jew ish
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Used the streets as a conduit,
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I kep t arms
G#m
38 longs inside my mom's Buick
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At any given moment Shawn could
G#m
lose it, be on the news
Iron cuffs, arms through it,
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or stuffed with embalm in' fluid
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Shit, I'm goin' through it,
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mom dukes too
Tears streamin' down her pretty face,
G#m
she got her palms to it
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My life is gettin' too wild I need to bring some sort
Verse 3
kinda calm to it
'Bout to lose it, voices screamin',
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"Don't do it!"
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It's like '93, '94, 'bout the year
That Big and Mag dropped,
G#m
and "Illmatic" rocked
G#
F#
Out ta every rag drop,
G#m
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and the West had it locked
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Every body doin 'em, I'm still
scratchin' on the block
Like, "Damn' I'ma be
a failure"
Verse 4
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Surrounded by thugs, drugs,
G#m
and drug, paraphenalia
G#m
Cops courts,
and their thoughts is to derail us
Three time felons in shorts
F#
with jeal ous thoughts
Tryin' figure where your mail is,
F#
guess timate the weight you sellin'
G#m
So, they can send shots straight to your melon,
wait!
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It get s worse, baby momma water burst
Baby came out stillborn,
still I gotta move on
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Though my heart still torn,
life gone from her womb
Don't worry, if it was meant to be,
G#m
it'll be soon
Verse 5
F#
This can't be life, this can't be love
This can't be right, there's gotta be more,
G#m
this can't be us
This can't be life,
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F#
this can 't be love
F#
This can 't be right, there's gotta be more,
this can't be us
G#m
Chill dog Second
Verse 6
G#m
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oldest born,
G#m
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from Michelle Brown, my mother
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Hell bound, grew with two
sisters and one brother
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Pop wasn't around, so many stories,
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that's another
I'm thinkin', "Damn,
G#m
how my older sister gon' make me tougher "
G#m
F#
When steel sharpens steel, I'ma keep it real
D
F#
I'm tired of tryin' to hide my pain
behind the syrups and pill s
Dead to the world,
Gm
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stretched out like a corpse for real
Verse 7
G#m
Y'all niggaz thinkin' what y'all readin'
in The Source is real
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What my life like,
you lookin' at the source, it's real
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What your life like? Mine dog,
of course it's real
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Passin' judgment,
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you niggaz second- guessin' Beans
'Cause you don't eat swine
G#m
don't make you Amin
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Dog you know a couple suras,
out the Qur'an
I guess you all on your din
and I ain't on mine
Stop that Akki, 'fore I send
shots though your body
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Make 'em feel hell on earth
G#m
before Allah drop thee
Verse 8
G#m
I feel the line's drawn here,
F#
nuttin' more can stop me
'Til them feds pick me up,
or them boys pop me
There's only three things that make Mac
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not act like Beans
G#m
Amatullah Tisha, Po
Aldin, Samir Amin
My seeds, dawg,
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gotta teach 'em that before I leave, dawg
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Shit, I know that I'ma see
'em when I leave, dawg
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I come back in the afterlife
F#
G#m
Like fuck it, I done touched hell twice,
what's the meanin'?
Verse 9
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This can't be life,
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this can't be love
This can't be right, there's gotta be more,
G#m
this can't be us
F#
This can't be life (life), this
can't be love (yeah)
This can't be right,
G#m
there's gotta be more (uh), this can't be us
Verse 10
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Now as I walk into the studio
to do this with Jig'
I got a phone call from one of my nig s
Said my homeboy Reek,
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he just lost one of his kid s
And when I heard that, I just
G#m
broke into tears
F#
And see in the second hand; you
don't really know how this is
But when it hits that close to home,
you feel the pain at the crib
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So I called mine,
F#
an d saddened my wife with the bad news
Now we both depressed,
G#m
countin' our bless ings 'cause Brad's two
Verse 11
G#m
F#
Prayin' for young souls to laugh
at life through the stars
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Lovin' your kids just like
you was ours
And I'm hurtin' for you dog,
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but ain't nobody pain is like yours
I just know that heaven'll open
G#m
these doors
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And ain't no bright side to los in' life,
G#m
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but you can view it like this
God's got open hands, homie,
he in the midst of good company
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Who loves all and hates not one
Verse 12
And one day you gon' be
G#m
wit' your son
I could've rapped about my hard
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times on this song
But heaven knows I woulda been wrong
I wouldn'ta been right,
it wouldn'ta been love
F#
It wouldn'ta been life,
G#m
it wouldn'ta been us
Verse 13
This can't be life
F#
G#m
F#
This can't be life, this can't be love
This can't be right, there's gotta be more,
G#m
this can't be us
F#
F#
This can't be life, this can't be love
F#
This can't be right,
G#m
there's gotta be more, this can't be us
This can't be life
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