Chords for Jacob Banks Reveals How A Burglary Shaped His Music Career | Fuse
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[Bm] [Gb] Artist, musician, cat lover, non-vegan, cartoon lover.
I am Jacob Banks and this is who I am.
[Fm] [Bbm] [G]
[Bb] [Db] Growing up in Birmingham was cool, it [G] was very great.
[B] I started music a lot later, [Abm] I think I was about 20.
At this point I'd [Db] left Birmingham to go to [G] university in Coventry.
I was planning to be a civil engineer.
[B] I just kind of fell into music.
I think [Abm] all by chance I bought a guitar, taught [Fm] myself to play off YouTube.
I was living with two of my [G] friends at the time and our house got burgled
[B] and all they left was the guitar.
So I was left to play this [Abm] guitar [Db] by force almost.
[E] I used to write poetry from before,
[A] so I figured people that played [E] guitar sang along too.
I [A] just started writing songs.
Writing poetry teaches you how [E] to tell stories.
[Gbm] I had to say the most amount of [E] things with the least amount of [Dbm] information.
So [A] I've always taken that [Gbm] with me, pen to [E] paper.
My biggest inspiration for writing is to [Gbm] stay open,
is [A] to listen to [E] people when they speak,
people [Dbm] will string [A] sentences in a [Gbm] way [Abm] that's wonderful.
I had this voice note from my grandma and she says at the end of the voice note,
she said to me, when you hear the sound of my voice, please call me [Bbm] back.
And I just thought the way she put those words together was so sweet.
She could have just said, just call me back,
but when you hear the sound of my voice, please call me back.
Those kind [E] of stuff inspire me when I hear people string words together.
I just write it down on my phone or on a notepad
and when I hit the studio [Bb] I try to [D] tell a story off those words.
My [G] parents didn't know, so what I [D] did was when I moved to [F] London,
I told them I was [G] taking a year's [B] place with work in a civil engineering [G] company.
I wasn't.
I was just [A] gigging.
This is so bad.
[Eb] I hope my mum doesn't see this shit.
Oh [Fm] dear.
[Eb] But I gave myself that year, I said if I could make [C] a name for [F] myself in this [Ebm] year
and properly find [Eb] my feet, then I would stop.
[Ebm] I probably would have never stopped.
[Fm] I used to shit [Ebm] myself on [Eb] stage when I started out.
I used to sing a lot in my bathroom.
[Gb]
Acoustics were wonderful, so that's the kind of [Db] place I go to when I'm on stage.
[Cm] I just imagine [Fm] it's just me and my guitar in the [A] bathroom
and just the same amount of effort [Cm] I would give [Bbm] when I'm alone.
I try to give on [Dbm] stage.
However, as time went on, it just starts to feel like [F] home.
When I find music, I find it all at once.
I [Ebm] find hip-hop, soul, reggae, [E] gospel, and I could never turn them [B] apart.
Later down the line I was introduced to genres and [Db] all that.
I don't want to [E] sound like an EDM artist singing over [B] soul.
I want to sound like a soul artist [Gb] who's taking modern elements.
[Abm] It's a weird balance.
If one tips too [Ebm] much, it can go left of [E] centre quite quickly.
So you need to
[B] it's a weird line to always [F] measure.
I always have to make sure there's more [E] soul than there is the [B] modern stuff.
Because if you have too much of that, then [Gb] you're just like everybody else.
[F] So it's hard to [Ebm] thread that needle.
But I think over [E] the months we've found [Db] a way to [Gb] gauge it properly.
The [F] album's called Village.
[Dbm] And [E] it's based off the phrase, it takes a village to raise [B] a child.
And it just celebrates all the sides of me.
Like I was born in [Ebm] Nigeria [F] and then I moved to the UK when I was 13.
[Ebm] And it celebrates all those sides of me that's [C] contributed to [Gm] me being me.
[Cm] You know what, the beanie just became a [Ab] thing over a couple of years.
[Gm] It's [Bb] cold in the UK.
That's kind of part of the reason I [Cm] came about.
And I just [Ab] kept acquiring beanies.
[Gm] And the [Bb] thing is, people think it's something wrong with my hairline.
[Cm] But the actual truth is my hairline's healthy.
[Ab] My [Gm] hairline's cool.
My [Bb] forehead of hair is cool.
But it's just [Cm] become a thing and it just makes me feel [Ab] comfortable.
I feel like I'm going to what?
I feel [Bb] like I'm going to be Jacob Banks when I put a beanie on.
I feel like that's beautiful.
[C] I just, this is Jacob Banks.
When [Ab] I get home I take it off.
[Eb]
[Bb] Have it on the plate and watch Cartoon Network.
[G]
I am Jacob Banks and this is who I am.
[Fm] [Bbm] [G]
[Bb] [Db] Growing up in Birmingham was cool, it [G] was very great.
[B] I started music a lot later, [Abm] I think I was about 20.
At this point I'd [Db] left Birmingham to go to [G] university in Coventry.
I was planning to be a civil engineer.
[B] I just kind of fell into music.
I think [Abm] all by chance I bought a guitar, taught [Fm] myself to play off YouTube.
I was living with two of my [G] friends at the time and our house got burgled
[B] and all they left was the guitar.
So I was left to play this [Abm] guitar [Db] by force almost.
[E] I used to write poetry from before,
[A] so I figured people that played [E] guitar sang along too.
I [A] just started writing songs.
Writing poetry teaches you how [E] to tell stories.
[Gbm] I had to say the most amount of [E] things with the least amount of [Dbm] information.
So [A] I've always taken that [Gbm] with me, pen to [E] paper.
My biggest inspiration for writing is to [Gbm] stay open,
is [A] to listen to [E] people when they speak,
people [Dbm] will string [A] sentences in a [Gbm] way [Abm] that's wonderful.
I had this voice note from my grandma and she says at the end of the voice note,
she said to me, when you hear the sound of my voice, please call me [Bbm] back.
And I just thought the way she put those words together was so sweet.
She could have just said, just call me back,
but when you hear the sound of my voice, please call me back.
Those kind [E] of stuff inspire me when I hear people string words together.
I just write it down on my phone or on a notepad
and when I hit the studio [Bb] I try to [D] tell a story off those words.
My [G] parents didn't know, so what I [D] did was when I moved to [F] London,
I told them I was [G] taking a year's [B] place with work in a civil engineering [G] company.
I wasn't.
I was just [A] gigging.
This is so bad.
[Eb] I hope my mum doesn't see this shit.
Oh [Fm] dear.
[Eb] But I gave myself that year, I said if I could make [C] a name for [F] myself in this [Ebm] year
and properly find [Eb] my feet, then I would stop.
[Ebm] I probably would have never stopped.
[Fm] I used to shit [Ebm] myself on [Eb] stage when I started out.
I used to sing a lot in my bathroom.
[Gb]
Acoustics were wonderful, so that's the kind of [Db] place I go to when I'm on stage.
[Cm] I just imagine [Fm] it's just me and my guitar in the [A] bathroom
and just the same amount of effort [Cm] I would give [Bbm] when I'm alone.
I try to give on [Dbm] stage.
However, as time went on, it just starts to feel like [F] home.
When I find music, I find it all at once.
I [Ebm] find hip-hop, soul, reggae, [E] gospel, and I could never turn them [B] apart.
Later down the line I was introduced to genres and [Db] all that.
I don't want to [E] sound like an EDM artist singing over [B] soul.
I want to sound like a soul artist [Gb] who's taking modern elements.
[Abm] It's a weird balance.
If one tips too [Ebm] much, it can go left of [E] centre quite quickly.
So you need to
[B] it's a weird line to always [F] measure.
I always have to make sure there's more [E] soul than there is the [B] modern stuff.
Because if you have too much of that, then [Gb] you're just like everybody else.
[F] So it's hard to [Ebm] thread that needle.
But I think over [E] the months we've found [Db] a way to [Gb] gauge it properly.
The [F] album's called Village.
[Dbm] And [E] it's based off the phrase, it takes a village to raise [B] a child.
And it just celebrates all the sides of me.
Like I was born in [Ebm] Nigeria [F] and then I moved to the UK when I was 13.
[Ebm] And it celebrates all those sides of me that's [C] contributed to [Gm] me being me.
[Cm] You know what, the beanie just became a [Ab] thing over a couple of years.
[Gm] It's [Bb] cold in the UK.
That's kind of part of the reason I [Cm] came about.
And I just [Ab] kept acquiring beanies.
[Gm] And the [Bb] thing is, people think it's something wrong with my hairline.
[Cm] But the actual truth is my hairline's healthy.
[Ab] My [Gm] hairline's cool.
My [Bb] forehead of hair is cool.
But it's just [Cm] become a thing and it just makes me feel [Ab] comfortable.
I feel like I'm going to what?
I feel [Bb] like I'm going to be Jacob Banks when I put a beanie on.
I feel like that's beautiful.
[C] I just, this is Jacob Banks.
When [Ab] I get home I take it off.
[Eb]
[Bb] Have it on the plate and watch Cartoon Network.
[G]
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[Bm] _ [Gb] _ Artist, musician, cat lover, non-vegan, cartoon lover.
I am Jacob Banks and this is who I am.
_ _ [Fm] _ [Bbm] _ _ [G] _ _
[Bb] _ [Db] _ Growing up in Birmingham was cool, it [G] was very great.
[B] I started music a lot later, [Abm] I think I was about 20.
At this point I'd [Db] left Birmingham to go to [G] university in Coventry.
I was planning to be a civil engineer.
[B] I just kind of fell into music.
I think [Abm] all by chance I bought a guitar, taught [Fm] myself to play off YouTube.
I was living with two of my [G] friends at the time and our house got burgled
[B] and all they left was the guitar.
So I was left to play this [Abm] guitar [Db] by force almost.
_ _ [E] I used to write poetry from before,
[A] so I figured people that played [E] guitar sang along too.
I [A] just started writing songs.
Writing poetry teaches you how [E] to tell stories.
[Gbm] I had to say the most amount of [E] things with the least amount of [Dbm] information.
So [A] I've always taken that [Gbm] with me, pen to [E] paper.
My biggest inspiration for writing is to [Gbm] stay open,
is [A] to listen to [E] people when they speak,
people [Dbm] will string [A] sentences in a [Gbm] way [Abm] that's wonderful.
I had this voice note from my grandma and she says at the end of the voice note,
she said to me, when you hear the sound of my voice, please call me [Bbm] back.
And I just thought the way she put those words together was so sweet.
She could have just said, just call me back,
but when you hear the sound of my voice, please call me back.
Those kind [E] of stuff inspire me when I hear people string words together.
I just write it down on my phone or on a notepad
and when I hit the studio [Bb] I try to [D] tell a story off those words.
_ My [G] parents didn't know, so what I [D] did was when I moved to [F] London,
I told them I was [G] taking a year's [B] place with work in a civil engineering [G] company.
I wasn't.
I was just [A] gigging.
This is so bad.
[Eb] I hope my mum doesn't see this shit.
Oh [Fm] dear.
[Eb] But I gave myself that year, I said if I could make [C] a name for [F] myself in this [Ebm] year
and properly find [Eb] my feet, then I would stop.
[Ebm] I probably would have never stopped.
[Fm] I used to shit [Ebm] myself on [Eb] stage when I started out.
I used to sing a lot in my bathroom.
[Gb] _
Acoustics were wonderful, so that's the kind of [Db] place I go to when I'm on stage.
[Cm] I just imagine [Fm] it's just me and my guitar in the [A] bathroom
and just the same amount of effort [Cm] I would give [Bbm] when I'm alone.
I try to give on [Dbm] stage.
However, as time went on, it just starts to feel like [F] home.
When I find music, I find it all at once.
I [Ebm] find hip-hop, soul, reggae, [E] gospel, and I could never turn them [B] apart.
Later down the line I was introduced to genres and [Db] all that.
I don't want to [E] sound like an EDM artist singing over [B] soul.
I want to sound like a soul artist [Gb] who's taking modern elements.
[Abm] It's a weird balance.
If one tips too [Ebm] much, it can go left of [E] centre quite quickly.
So you need to_
[B] it's a weird line to always [F] measure.
I always have to make sure there's more [E] soul than there is the [B] modern stuff.
Because if you have too much of that, then [Gb] you're just like everybody else.
[F] _ So it's hard to [Ebm] thread that needle.
But I think over [E] the months we've found [Db] a way to [Gb] gauge it properly.
The [F] album's called Village.
[Dbm] And [E] it's based off the phrase, it takes a village to raise [B] a child.
And it just celebrates all the sides of me.
Like I was born in [Ebm] Nigeria [F] and then I moved to the UK when I was 13.
[Ebm] And it celebrates all those sides of me that's [C] contributed to [Gm] me being me. _ _ _
_ _ [Cm] You know what, the beanie just became a [Ab] thing over a couple of years.
[Gm] It's [Bb] cold in the UK.
That's kind of part of the reason I [Cm] came about.
And I just [Ab] kept acquiring beanies.
[Gm] And the [Bb] thing is, people think it's something wrong with my hairline.
[Cm] But the actual truth is my hairline's healthy.
[Ab] My [Gm] hairline's cool.
My [Bb] forehead of hair is cool.
But it's just [Cm] become a thing and it just makes me feel [Ab] comfortable.
I feel like I'm going to what?
I feel [Bb] like I'm going to be Jacob Banks when I put a beanie on.
I feel like that's beautiful.
[C] I just, this is Jacob Banks.
When [Ab] I get home I take it off.
[Eb]
[Bb] Have it on the plate and watch Cartoon Network.
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
I am Jacob Banks and this is who I am.
_ _ [Fm] _ [Bbm] _ _ [G] _ _
[Bb] _ [Db] _ Growing up in Birmingham was cool, it [G] was very great.
[B] I started music a lot later, [Abm] I think I was about 20.
At this point I'd [Db] left Birmingham to go to [G] university in Coventry.
I was planning to be a civil engineer.
[B] I just kind of fell into music.
I think [Abm] all by chance I bought a guitar, taught [Fm] myself to play off YouTube.
I was living with two of my [G] friends at the time and our house got burgled
[B] and all they left was the guitar.
So I was left to play this [Abm] guitar [Db] by force almost.
_ _ [E] I used to write poetry from before,
[A] so I figured people that played [E] guitar sang along too.
I [A] just started writing songs.
Writing poetry teaches you how [E] to tell stories.
[Gbm] I had to say the most amount of [E] things with the least amount of [Dbm] information.
So [A] I've always taken that [Gbm] with me, pen to [E] paper.
My biggest inspiration for writing is to [Gbm] stay open,
is [A] to listen to [E] people when they speak,
people [Dbm] will string [A] sentences in a [Gbm] way [Abm] that's wonderful.
I had this voice note from my grandma and she says at the end of the voice note,
she said to me, when you hear the sound of my voice, please call me [Bbm] back.
And I just thought the way she put those words together was so sweet.
She could have just said, just call me back,
but when you hear the sound of my voice, please call me back.
Those kind [E] of stuff inspire me when I hear people string words together.
I just write it down on my phone or on a notepad
and when I hit the studio [Bb] I try to [D] tell a story off those words.
_ My [G] parents didn't know, so what I [D] did was when I moved to [F] London,
I told them I was [G] taking a year's [B] place with work in a civil engineering [G] company.
I wasn't.
I was just [A] gigging.
This is so bad.
[Eb] I hope my mum doesn't see this shit.
Oh [Fm] dear.
[Eb] But I gave myself that year, I said if I could make [C] a name for [F] myself in this [Ebm] year
and properly find [Eb] my feet, then I would stop.
[Ebm] I probably would have never stopped.
[Fm] I used to shit [Ebm] myself on [Eb] stage when I started out.
I used to sing a lot in my bathroom.
[Gb] _
Acoustics were wonderful, so that's the kind of [Db] place I go to when I'm on stage.
[Cm] I just imagine [Fm] it's just me and my guitar in the [A] bathroom
and just the same amount of effort [Cm] I would give [Bbm] when I'm alone.
I try to give on [Dbm] stage.
However, as time went on, it just starts to feel like [F] home.
When I find music, I find it all at once.
I [Ebm] find hip-hop, soul, reggae, [E] gospel, and I could never turn them [B] apart.
Later down the line I was introduced to genres and [Db] all that.
I don't want to [E] sound like an EDM artist singing over [B] soul.
I want to sound like a soul artist [Gb] who's taking modern elements.
[Abm] It's a weird balance.
If one tips too [Ebm] much, it can go left of [E] centre quite quickly.
So you need to_
[B] it's a weird line to always [F] measure.
I always have to make sure there's more [E] soul than there is the [B] modern stuff.
Because if you have too much of that, then [Gb] you're just like everybody else.
[F] _ So it's hard to [Ebm] thread that needle.
But I think over [E] the months we've found [Db] a way to [Gb] gauge it properly.
The [F] album's called Village.
[Dbm] And [E] it's based off the phrase, it takes a village to raise [B] a child.
And it just celebrates all the sides of me.
Like I was born in [Ebm] Nigeria [F] and then I moved to the UK when I was 13.
[Ebm] And it celebrates all those sides of me that's [C] contributed to [Gm] me being me. _ _ _
_ _ [Cm] You know what, the beanie just became a [Ab] thing over a couple of years.
[Gm] It's [Bb] cold in the UK.
That's kind of part of the reason I [Cm] came about.
And I just [Ab] kept acquiring beanies.
[Gm] And the [Bb] thing is, people think it's something wrong with my hairline.
[Cm] But the actual truth is my hairline's healthy.
[Ab] My [Gm] hairline's cool.
My [Bb] forehead of hair is cool.
But it's just [Cm] become a thing and it just makes me feel [Ab] comfortable.
I feel like I'm going to what?
I feel [Bb] like I'm going to be Jacob Banks when I put a beanie on.
I feel like that's beautiful.
[C] I just, this is Jacob Banks.
When [Ab] I get home I take it off.
[Eb]
[Bb] Have it on the plate and watch Cartoon Network.
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _