You Are Yesterday chords by Butch Tavares

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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Living in a  dirty bean,
getting stabbed and jumped
I didn't want to retaliate,
my boys called me a punk
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Most of the time a journey
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to Christ was lonely
My boys in the hood that were ministers
of society disowned me
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They said, Ming don't hang no more,
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he work  at Mickey D's
He trying to do his schoolwork now,
no more F's and strictly D's
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I had to turn it around,
even if it was the 12th grade
I had to graduate,
not looking at what the drug well paid
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Al though chosen before
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the foundation of the world
I was found pacing,
hound chasing the girls
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Through the high school and
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college hallways
It wasn't a secret then,
so I expressed it always
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I got to give all praise to God
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The risen lamb that had his hands
nailed to the tree after the prison stand
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He's still living and glory to his name
I thought I had game,
he gave a new story to this land
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Come on
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Now I rise with a song
of thanking and praise
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To him until it goes down
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And when the moon and the stars
are high in the sky
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I thank him before I lay down
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I wanna thank him
for journeyin' life
Journeyin' my life
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I wanna thank you for the journey
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I left the bean at 17
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and came to Worcester
to push the pen to the paper
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Worcester State College was the place
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that I laced all my first rhymes
Lost from the pain of Boston it hurts
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I am just trying to clear the canvas
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to paint the clear picture
Christ had his hands on me
when I played in church
and didn't hear scriptures
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Now I'm 20,
didn't think I'd even make it 22,
got my bachelors degree and graduated
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Since 1999, I've been releasing CDs
Full of profanity, God couldn't be pleased
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But he never left me like my
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father when  I was born
He never left me,
even though my style was corn
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He never left me,
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when I should've been praising him
But he don't hold grudges,
love and forgiveness stays in him
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So  now I hold on with the right grip
Like fixing a bike with vice grips
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I hold tight because I might slip
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And now I rise with a song,
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a thank and a praise
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I  want to thank you
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for the journey
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2001, the rise and fall
Homeless but had a good job
and I disguised it all
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My grandmother took care
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of many people for years
Then she died on Sunday morning
leaving people with tears
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Somehow her death put
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things in  context
How I was nice with the mic
but writing the wrong text
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I'm back,  I've been a sucker
for clothes and cars
Spending all my money
calling women hoes and bras
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Thought it was my ride,
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but when the ride was over
The pages from my daily journal
turned me to a soldier
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That's when the decision was made
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I     started thinking about ways
to stop being a financial slave
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I wanted to write rhymes without cursing
I started rehearsing,
God's changing me
to a whole different person
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Thanks   for the experience,
not leaving me in the wilderness
He's coming back for his children,
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that's why I'm building this
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Now I rise with the sun,
thanking and praising him
until it goes down
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And when the moon  and the stars
are high in the sky,
I thank him before I lay down
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I  wanna thank him for putting
a journey in my life,
journey in my life around
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I wanna thank you, yeah, for the journey