Chords for JAY-Z - 4:44
Tempo:
90.125 bpm
Chords used:
E
D
Am
B
F#
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Birds flying high, you know how I feel.
Sun in the sky, you know how I feel.
Breeze drifting on by, you know how I feel.
It's a new dawn, it's a new day.
It's a new life for me, and I'm feeling good.
Do I find it so hard?
[Bm] A relationship is a [Am] relationship that has to be earned.
[G] And I love relationships.
I think they're fantastic.
They're wonderful.
I think they're great.
[D] I think there's [Em] nothing in the world more beautiful than falling [A] in love.
[D] But falling in love for the [A] right reasons.
[F] Falling in love [E] for the right purposes.
Falling in love.
[Am] Falling in love.
[F#] [B]
[E] [D]
[Am]
[F#] [B]
[E] [D]
[C] [Am]
Man, you want me to tell you the truth?
I didn't feel nothing.
I was just laying on the ground with a shot in my stomach, and I was just like,
Lord, just don't let me go out like this.
Don't take me like this.
And that's the first time I actually subconsciously heard him talk back to me.
And I remember the exact statement.
I'll never forget it.
He said, I'm not going to take you.
I showed you too much to take you now.
You're not done.
[F#] [B] [E] [D]
[Am]
[B]
[E] [D]
[Am]
[F#] [B] [E] [D]
[C] [Am] Nobody calls him a fucking poet.
He's broke, yo.
Bitch.
[B] Bitch.
[D#] [D]
Oh, [E] [F]
[E] I ain't been.
Oh, [F#] I ain't been.
You [B] spit in my drink.
[E] Bruh, you spit in my [D] drink.
Like off no hype shit, bruh.
Cause you my man and I fuck with you.
But if you spit in my drink, Nigga, [Am] no!
I apologize.
Off a woman's eyes.
Took for my child [F#] to be born.
See through a [B] woman's eyes.
Took for these [E] natural twins.
To believe in [D] miracles.
Took me too long for this song.
I don't deserve you.
I harass you while in Paris.
Please come back to Rome.
You make it home.
[Am]
We talk for hours when you were on tour.
Please pick up the phone.
Pick up [B] the phone.
[A#m]
I said, don't embarrass me instead [D] of be mine.
That was my [Am] proposal for us to go [E] steady.
That was your 21st [F] birthday.
You mature faster than me.
I [E] wasn't ready.
So I apologize.
[Am] I see the innocence.
Leave your eyes.
I still [B] mourn this death.
[E] I apologize for the [D] stillborns.
Cause I wasn't present.
Your body wouldn't accept it.
I apologize to all the women whom I toyed with your emotions.
Cause I was emotionless.
[C] And I apologize.
[Am] Cause at your best, [F#] you were love.
[B] And because [E] I fall short of what I say I'm all [D] about.
Your eyes leave with the soul that your body once housed.
And you stare blankly in the space.
Thinking of all the time you wasted it on all this basic shit.
So [C] I apologize.
[E]
[N]
[C#] [E]
[G]
[E] [G] I [E]
apologize.
[G] [Am]
[F#] I apologize, [B] our love was one [E] for the ages and I [D] contained us in all this ratchet shit
and we more expansive now, meant to cry and die alone in these mansions or sleep with
our back turned, we [Am] supposed to vacate till our backs burn, we're supposed [F#] to laugh to
our [B] heart stop, and then meet [E] in a space with a dark style, [D] and let love light the way,
like the men before me I cut off my nose and spiked my face, I never wanted another woman
to know something about me that you didn't [C] know, I promise I cried I couldn't [Am] hold, [F#m] I
suck at love I think I need a [B] do over, I will be [E] emotionally available if I invited [D] you
over, I just threw over, what if, you over, [N] my shit.
I mean, insurance in some ways it's fun, yeah.
Actually, I am dealing with a little existential crisis here, am I alive?
Do I actually exist?
Will I die?
[C]
[E] I never
[A#] thought [E] dreams
[N] could [C] happen.
[A]
[E] [A#] [E] [A]
[C] [C#m] [Dm] Since I met [Em] you, [Dm] since I [Em] met you, [F] [Em]
I [Dm] [G] never [C]
[A#] thought I [C] could welcome [A#] [F] nobody [C] to the [A#] home.
[C] As I do.
[Dm] [G#] [Fm] And
[A#m] [D#] [G#]
[D] [F#] [E]
[F] if my children knew, [E] I don't even know what I would [Am] do.
[F#] They ain't look at me the same.
[B] [E] I would probably die with [D] all the shame.
You did what with who?
What good is a menage a trois when you have a soulmate?
You risk that for blue?
[Am] If I wasn't a superhero in your face, [F#] my heart breaks for the day I [B] have to explain my [E] mistakes.
And the mask goes [D] away, and Santa Claus is fake.
And you go online and see for blues too, the tooth [Am] fairy didn't pay.
[F#] [B] [E]
[D] [E] [D]
[E] [D] [E]
[F] [E]
Sun in the sky, you know how I feel.
Breeze drifting on by, you know how I feel.
It's a new dawn, it's a new day.
It's a new life for me, and I'm feeling good.
Do I find it so hard?
[Bm] A relationship is a [Am] relationship that has to be earned.
[G] And I love relationships.
I think they're fantastic.
They're wonderful.
I think they're great.
[D] I think there's [Em] nothing in the world more beautiful than falling [A] in love.
[D] But falling in love for the [A] right reasons.
[F] Falling in love [E] for the right purposes.
Falling in love.
[Am] Falling in love.
[F#] [B]
[E] [D]
[Am]
[F#] [B]
[E] [D]
[C] [Am]
Man, you want me to tell you the truth?
I didn't feel nothing.
I was just laying on the ground with a shot in my stomach, and I was just like,
Lord, just don't let me go out like this.
Don't take me like this.
And that's the first time I actually subconsciously heard him talk back to me.
And I remember the exact statement.
I'll never forget it.
He said, I'm not going to take you.
I showed you too much to take you now.
You're not done.
[F#] [B] [E] [D]
[Am]
[B]
[E] [D]
[Am]
[F#] [B] [E] [D]
[C] [Am] Nobody calls him a fucking poet.
He's broke, yo.
Bitch.
[B] Bitch.
[D#] [D]
Oh, [E] [F]
[E] I ain't been.
Oh, [F#] I ain't been.
You [B] spit in my drink.
[E] Bruh, you spit in my [D] drink.
Like off no hype shit, bruh.
Cause you my man and I fuck with you.
But if you spit in my drink, Nigga, [Am] no!
I apologize.
Off a woman's eyes.
Took for my child [F#] to be born.
See through a [B] woman's eyes.
Took for these [E] natural twins.
To believe in [D] miracles.
Took me too long for this song.
I don't deserve you.
I harass you while in Paris.
Please come back to Rome.
You make it home.
[Am]
We talk for hours when you were on tour.
Please pick up the phone.
Pick up [B] the phone.
[A#m]
I said, don't embarrass me instead [D] of be mine.
That was my [Am] proposal for us to go [E] steady.
That was your 21st [F] birthday.
You mature faster than me.
I [E] wasn't ready.
So I apologize.
[Am] I see the innocence.
Leave your eyes.
I still [B] mourn this death.
[E] I apologize for the [D] stillborns.
Cause I wasn't present.
Your body wouldn't accept it.
I apologize to all the women whom I toyed with your emotions.
Cause I was emotionless.
[C] And I apologize.
[Am] Cause at your best, [F#] you were love.
[B] And because [E] I fall short of what I say I'm all [D] about.
Your eyes leave with the soul that your body once housed.
And you stare blankly in the space.
Thinking of all the time you wasted it on all this basic shit.
So [C] I apologize.
[E]
[N]
[C#] [E]
[G]
[E] [G] I [E]
apologize.
[G] [Am]
[F#] I apologize, [B] our love was one [E] for the ages and I [D] contained us in all this ratchet shit
and we more expansive now, meant to cry and die alone in these mansions or sleep with
our back turned, we [Am] supposed to vacate till our backs burn, we're supposed [F#] to laugh to
our [B] heart stop, and then meet [E] in a space with a dark style, [D] and let love light the way,
like the men before me I cut off my nose and spiked my face, I never wanted another woman
to know something about me that you didn't [C] know, I promise I cried I couldn't [Am] hold, [F#m] I
suck at love I think I need a [B] do over, I will be [E] emotionally available if I invited [D] you
over, I just threw over, what if, you over, [N] my shit.
I mean, insurance in some ways it's fun, yeah.
Actually, I am dealing with a little existential crisis here, am I alive?
Do I actually exist?
Will I die?
[C]
[E] I never
[A#] thought [E] dreams
[N] could [C] happen.
[A]
[E] [A#] [E] [A]
[C] [C#m] [Dm] Since I met [Em] you, [Dm] since I [Em] met you, [F] [Em]
I [Dm] [G] never [C]
[A#] thought I [C] could welcome [A#] [F] nobody [C] to the [A#] home.
[C] As I do.
[Dm] [G#] [Fm] And
[A#m] [D#] [G#]
[D] [F#] [E]
[F] if my children knew, [E] I don't even know what I would [Am] do.
[F#] They ain't look at me the same.
[B] [E] I would probably die with [D] all the shame.
You did what with who?
What good is a menage a trois when you have a soulmate?
You risk that for blue?
[Am] If I wasn't a superhero in your face, [F#] my heart breaks for the day I [B] have to explain my [E] mistakes.
And the mask goes [D] away, and Santa Claus is fake.
And you go online and see for blues too, the tooth [Am] fairy didn't pay.
[F#] [B] [E]
[D] [E] [D]
[E] [D] [E]
[F] [E]
Key:
E
D
Am
B
F#
E
D
Am
_ _ _ _ _ _ Birds flying high, _ you know how I feel. _
_ Sun in the sky, you know how I feel. _
_ _ Breeze drifting on by, you know how I feel.
_ It's a new dawn, it's a new day.
It's a new life for me, and I'm feeling good.
Do I find it so hard?
[Bm] A relationship is a [Am] relationship that has to be earned.
_ _ [G] And I love relationships.
I think they're fantastic.
They're wonderful.
I think they're great.
[D] I think there's [Em] nothing in the world more beautiful than falling [A] in love.
[D] _ But falling in love for the [A] right reasons.
[F] Falling in love [E] for the right purposes.
Falling in love.
[Am] Falling in love.
[F#] _ _ _ [B] _ _
[E] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [B] _ _
[E] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
Man, you want me to tell you the truth?
I didn't feel nothing.
I was just laying on the ground with a shot in my stomach, and I was just like,
Lord, just don't let me go out like this.
Don't take me like this.
And that's the first time I actually subconsciously heard him talk back to me.
And I remember the exact statement.
I'll never forget it.
He said, I'm not going to take you.
I showed you too much to take you now.
You're not done.
[F#] _ _ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
[E] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [Am] Nobody calls him a fucking poet.
He's broke, yo.
Bitch.
[B] Bitch.
_ [D#] _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ Oh, [E] _ _ _ [F] _
_ [E] _ I ain't been.
Oh, [F#] I ain't been.
You [B] spit in my drink.
[E] Bruh, you spit in my [D] drink.
Like off no hype shit, bruh.
Cause you my man and I fuck with you.
But if you spit in my drink, Nigga, [Am] no!
I apologize.
Off a woman's eyes.
Took for my child [F#] to be born.
See through a [B] woman's eyes.
Took for these [E] natural twins.
To believe in [D] miracles.
Took me too long for this song.
I don't deserve you.
I harass you while in Paris.
Please come back to Rome.
You make it home.
[Am]
We talk for hours when you were on tour.
Please pick up the phone.
Pick up [B] the phone.
[A#m]
I said, don't embarrass me instead [D] of be mine.
That was my [Am] proposal for us to go [E] steady.
That was your 21st [F] birthday.
You mature faster than me.
I [E] wasn't ready.
So I apologize.
[Am] I see the innocence.
Leave your eyes.
I still [B] mourn this death. _
[E] I apologize for the [D] stillborns.
Cause I wasn't present.
Your body wouldn't accept it.
I apologize to all the women whom I toyed with your emotions.
Cause I was emotionless.
[C] And I apologize.
[Am] Cause at your best, [F#] you were love.
[B] And because [E] I fall short of what I say I'm all [D] about.
Your eyes leave with the soul that your body once housed.
And you stare blankly in the space.
Thinking of all the time you wasted it on all this basic shit.
So [C] I apologize.
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[E] _ [G] _ I [E] _ _ _ _
apologize.
[G] _ _ [Am] _ _ _
[F#] I apologize, [B] our love was one [E] for the ages and I [D] contained us in all this ratchet shit
and we more expansive now, meant to cry and die alone in these mansions or sleep with
our back turned, we [Am] supposed to vacate till our backs burn, we're supposed [F#] to laugh to
our [B] heart stop, and then meet [E] in a space with a dark style, [D] and let love light the way,
like the men before me I cut off my nose and spiked my face, I never wanted another woman
to know something about me that you didn't [C] know, I promise I cried I couldn't [Am] hold, [F#m] I
suck at love I think I need a [B] do over, I will be [E] emotionally available if I invited [D] you
over, I just threw over, what if, you over, [N] my shit.
_ _ _ _ _ _ I mean, insurance in some ways it's fun, yeah. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Actually, _ I am dealing with a little existential crisis here, am I alive?
Do I actually exist?
Will I die?
[C] _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ I never _
[A#] _ thought _ [E] _ dreams _
[N] could [C] happen.
_ _ _ [A] _
_ [E] _ _ [A#] _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _
[C] _ [C#m] _ [Dm] _ _ Since I met [Em] you, _ _ _ [Dm] _ since I [Em] met you, _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Em]
I [Dm] _ [G] _ never [C] _ _ _
_ [A#] thought _ I [C] could welcome _ [A#] _ _ _ [F] nobody [C] _ _ to the [A#] _ home. _
[C] As I do. _ _ _ _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ [G#] _ [Fm] And _
[A#m] _ _ _ [D#] _ _ [G#] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [F#] _ [E] _ _ _
[F] if my children knew, [E] _ I don't even know what I would [Am] do.
[F#] They ain't look at me the same.
[B] _ [E] I would probably die with [D] all the shame.
You did what with who?
What good is a menage a trois when you have a soulmate?
You risk that for blue?
_ [Am] If I wasn't a superhero in your face, [F#] my heart breaks for the day I [B] have to explain my [E] mistakes.
And the mask goes [D] away, and Santa Claus is fake.
And you go online and see for blues too, the tooth [Am] fairy didn't pay. _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ [B] _ _ _ [E] _
_ [D] _ _ _ [E] _ [D] _ _ _
[E] _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ Sun in the sky, you know how I feel. _
_ _ Breeze drifting on by, you know how I feel.
_ It's a new dawn, it's a new day.
It's a new life for me, and I'm feeling good.
Do I find it so hard?
[Bm] A relationship is a [Am] relationship that has to be earned.
_ _ [G] And I love relationships.
I think they're fantastic.
They're wonderful.
I think they're great.
[D] I think there's [Em] nothing in the world more beautiful than falling [A] in love.
[D] _ But falling in love for the [A] right reasons.
[F] Falling in love [E] for the right purposes.
Falling in love.
[Am] Falling in love.
[F#] _ _ _ [B] _ _
[E] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [B] _ _
[E] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
Man, you want me to tell you the truth?
I didn't feel nothing.
I was just laying on the ground with a shot in my stomach, and I was just like,
Lord, just don't let me go out like this.
Don't take me like this.
And that's the first time I actually subconsciously heard him talk back to me.
And I remember the exact statement.
I'll never forget it.
He said, I'm not going to take you.
I showed you too much to take you now.
You're not done.
[F#] _ _ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
[E] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [Am] Nobody calls him a fucking poet.
He's broke, yo.
Bitch.
[B] Bitch.
_ [D#] _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ Oh, [E] _ _ _ [F] _
_ [E] _ I ain't been.
Oh, [F#] I ain't been.
You [B] spit in my drink.
[E] Bruh, you spit in my [D] drink.
Like off no hype shit, bruh.
Cause you my man and I fuck with you.
But if you spit in my drink, Nigga, [Am] no!
I apologize.
Off a woman's eyes.
Took for my child [F#] to be born.
See through a [B] woman's eyes.
Took for these [E] natural twins.
To believe in [D] miracles.
Took me too long for this song.
I don't deserve you.
I harass you while in Paris.
Please come back to Rome.
You make it home.
[Am]
We talk for hours when you were on tour.
Please pick up the phone.
Pick up [B] the phone.
[A#m]
I said, don't embarrass me instead [D] of be mine.
That was my [Am] proposal for us to go [E] steady.
That was your 21st [F] birthday.
You mature faster than me.
I [E] wasn't ready.
So I apologize.
[Am] I see the innocence.
Leave your eyes.
I still [B] mourn this death. _
[E] I apologize for the [D] stillborns.
Cause I wasn't present.
Your body wouldn't accept it.
I apologize to all the women whom I toyed with your emotions.
Cause I was emotionless.
[C] And I apologize.
[Am] Cause at your best, [F#] you were love.
[B] And because [E] I fall short of what I say I'm all [D] about.
Your eyes leave with the soul that your body once housed.
And you stare blankly in the space.
Thinking of all the time you wasted it on all this basic shit.
So [C] I apologize.
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[E] _ [G] _ I [E] _ _ _ _
apologize.
[G] _ _ [Am] _ _ _
[F#] I apologize, [B] our love was one [E] for the ages and I [D] contained us in all this ratchet shit
and we more expansive now, meant to cry and die alone in these mansions or sleep with
our back turned, we [Am] supposed to vacate till our backs burn, we're supposed [F#] to laugh to
our [B] heart stop, and then meet [E] in a space with a dark style, [D] and let love light the way,
like the men before me I cut off my nose and spiked my face, I never wanted another woman
to know something about me that you didn't [C] know, I promise I cried I couldn't [Am] hold, [F#m] I
suck at love I think I need a [B] do over, I will be [E] emotionally available if I invited [D] you
over, I just threw over, what if, you over, [N] my shit.
_ _ _ _ _ _ I mean, insurance in some ways it's fun, yeah. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Actually, _ I am dealing with a little existential crisis here, am I alive?
Do I actually exist?
Will I die?
[C] _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ I never _
[A#] _ thought _ [E] _ dreams _
[N] could [C] happen.
_ _ _ [A] _
_ [E] _ _ [A#] _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _
[C] _ [C#m] _ [Dm] _ _ Since I met [Em] you, _ _ _ [Dm] _ since I [Em] met you, _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Em]
I [Dm] _ [G] _ never [C] _ _ _
_ [A#] thought _ I [C] could welcome _ [A#] _ _ _ [F] nobody [C] _ _ to the [A#] _ home. _
[C] As I do. _ _ _ _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ [G#] _ [Fm] And _
[A#m] _ _ _ [D#] _ _ [G#] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [F#] _ [E] _ _ _
[F] if my children knew, [E] _ I don't even know what I would [Am] do.
[F#] They ain't look at me the same.
[B] _ [E] I would probably die with [D] all the shame.
You did what with who?
What good is a menage a trois when you have a soulmate?
You risk that for blue?
_ [Am] If I wasn't a superhero in your face, [F#] my heart breaks for the day I [B] have to explain my [E] mistakes.
And the mask goes [D] away, and Santa Claus is fake.
And you go online and see for blues too, the tooth [Am] fairy didn't pay. _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ [B] _ _ _ [E] _
_ [D] _ _ _ [E] _ [D] _ _ _
[E] _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _