It Could Have Been Me Chords by John P. Kee

_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [B] I've been in [Gm] despair at the news [Cm] reporter at the [C] O'Brien, [Gm] at a [Bb] _ [C] storyteller.
Oh, how bad I [Gm] felt, sat for our brother's [Cm] death and [G] won.
He's going to jail.
It [D] could have been me on that sick [C] psychotic [G] piss.
[D] Just like me.
[Bb] It [C] could have been [Gm] me.
[Gbm] I'm so grateful that I made him [Em]
tonight.
I'm not back [Gbm] on the living room.
[Bb] _ [D] On time.
[Gm] It could have been me.
Some [C] say it should have been [Gm] me.
Glad to turn my home into [D] Christ. _
_ [Gm] It could have been me.
Some [Cm] say it should have been me.
[Gm] _ I'm so grateful [D] for [Cm] life. _
_ [Gm] Can't you [Am] see I'm not [D] so nice to you?
You wonder who the next [Cm] [C] victim shall [Gm] be.
[Am] Just decide the [G] problem isn't mine.
Because you moved away, [Cm] [D] it's not ready yet.
[G] I'm [Gbm] your escape, but [Bb] no such [Em] nice chase.
You're [D] going to die, [Bb] stretch your [C] body high.
[G] Before [D] you throw a [Bb] stone at someone [E] you wish it.
[G] Break a word [D] you're covering, [Bb] you will [Gm]
understand.
It could have been me.
Some [Cm] say it should have been me.
[Gm] Glad to turn my home into [D] Christ.
You might [Gm] not believe it.
It could have [Eb] been me.
Some say it should have been [Gm] me.
I'm so grateful for [Cm] life. _
_ [A] Man, it could have been me.
Still selling [C] drugs, pulling triggers on the street.
[E] Lighting up the night like a B-20 flicker.
I was smooth and the [C] glitch tripped the tricker.
[A] Once I denied, you [C] came into my life.
[E] Way over the top now I know there is true liberty.
It still [Dm] could have been me.
Man, it's sad.
Several [Eb] years of goatee.
_ Can't you [Bb] turn it around?
Leave the [C] streets alone.
No _ [Ab] words have the day.
[Gm] _ Now it's time [C] to stand up and help [Gm] somebody.
It could have been me.
Some [C] say it should have been me.
Glad to [Eb] turn my home into [D] _ Christ.
It could have been me.
It could have [Eb] been me.
Some [C] say it should have been me.
I've been through the worst of places.
[D] [C] I'm dying. _
[Gm] I've been through.
I'm really in the [D] loop.
And I still [Gm] remember.
I'm really in the loop.
[D] _ _ [Gm] _
_ I'm really in the loop.
[C] And I'm [Gm] glad I'm feeling in the _ [D] [C] loop.
Somebody's stuck [Gm] with me.
I'm feeling in the loop.
[D] _ My life [Bb] has been changed.
I'm feeling in the loop.
[C] _ _ [F]
I'm a [Bb] brand new man.
I'm feeling in [D] the loop. _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _
_ [Gm] _ It could have been me.
Some say it should have been me.
It could [Eb] have been me.
[D] Some say [C] it should have been me.
I'm [A] a brand new man.
_ I'm a brand new man.
I'm [Eb] feeling in the _ _ [D] _ [Cm] loop.
I'm glad I'm [Gm] _ _ feeling in the loop.
_ [G] _ _
[D] I'm glad I'm feeling in the loop.
_ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [Gm] I'm glad [Eb] I'm feeling in the loop.
[G] I'm glad _ _ _ [Eb] I'm feeling [Dm] in the loop.
[E] I'm glad I'm feeling in the loop.
[Gm] I'm glad I'm feeling in the loop.
I'm glad I'm feeling [D] in the loop.
I'm glad I'm feeling [C] in the loop.
I'm glad I'm feeling in the loop.
[Gm] _ [A] It could have been me.
Some say [G] it should have been me.
Still in the system.
[Eb] _ Some say [C] it should have been me.
You wanna [Gm] say it, baby?
Some [G] say [D] [G] it should have been me.
What do you do?
_ _ _ _ _ It could have been [N] me. _ _ _ _
Living on the street.
_ _ _ It could have been me.
_ _ _ _ [Gm]
That's why I'm with you.
[Eb] _ _ _ [C] _
That's why [Gm] I'm with you.
[C] _ _
That's why [Gm] I'm with you.
_ _ _ _ [G] _
Living on the street.
_ [Eb] Living [Cm] on the street.
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _