Chords for Kimie- Behind the Music

[Ebm] _ _ Aloha, my name is Kimie.
I'm a singer-songwriter from the Big Island of Hawaii. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bbm] Oh, oh, oh, [Ebm] _ yeah. _ _ _ _
_ [Db] Love, _ _ _ _ [Gb] _
_ _ [B] _ love, [Gb] love, love, [Ebm] [Bbm] love.
Love, love, [Gb] love. _
[Abm] _ _ [Ebm] I've been singing since I [Bb] can remember.
_ [Bm] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _
_ _ [Db] _ [Gb] Being from Hawaii has had a huge impact on my music.
_ [Abm] It's inspired [G] me and [Cm] influenced the way that I write.
[Ab] Love [G] is like [Cm] the ocean, _ [Ab] high [G] tide to low [Cm] tide.
There's no [Ab] place I'd rather have [Gm] grown up.
When I was 14, I started [Bm] playing guitar and writing my own songs.
When I was [E] 19, I met [G] Barrington Levy, a reggae singer, and I started touring with him.
It was then that I decided that that was what I wanted to do.
There's definitely been [F] struggles [G] in my musical [Dm] journey.
It helped me to write [Gm] better songs, I would say.
We don't need sleep.
[Cm] We don't need sleep.
[Gm] [Dm] We need some work.
[G] [Gm] Here we are, sunrise, 6 [C] o'clock.
_ [Cm] _ [Dm] _ If I [Gm] could turn back _ time, [C] _
[Cm] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Gm] would _ I?
_ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
If I [Gm] could rewrite my _ life, [Cm] _ _ _ [D] _ [Dm] _ [Gm] should _ I?
_ _ _ _ [Cm] _ [Dm] _
_ _ [Gm] See if you knew the real truth [Cm] about me.
[E] Good morning, New York City.
[Bb] We are here in Redondo, [Gm] Hermosa Beach.
We [Eb] are here in beautiful Santa Barbara.
[Gm] We just got in from San [Bb] Diego, but we didn't get the [Gm] chance to go down to the beach.
We're going to go straight to [Eb] our show, another one from Vegas. _
_ _ [Bb] Here we are in the [Gm] city, _ living [Eb] in the city.
_ [Cm] Every day's a new day.
[Bb] That's me, I remember sitting on a dock and [Gm] writing songs until you can't [Eb] hear anything.
_ _ _ [Cm]
Continental.
_ [Bb] _ _ _ [Gm] I didn't even know we were going to sing.
[Eb] We're here, and we just left out checkpoints.
It's been [Bb] years.
_ _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Cm] I _ _ [Bb] _ _ was [Gm] living in Hong Kong, and I started [Eb] recording some of my original [Cm] music on GarageBand,
and [Gm] experimenting with [A] producing.
I was born in _ the ocean, _ _ in a little [Bm] shack.
I would love to have that feeling in this song,
and then I know that I want the song to be about [A] connecting us. _ _ _ _
Music [Bm] for me is a release.
_ It's my art.
[Dbm] Through music, I find my [A] greatest ideas.
_ _ [Dbm] I [Em] think it's pretty cool that we're living in an age where we can be real hands [G]-on
and [Eb] take total creative control of our music as artists.
_ _ [F] _ _ We are here in Addie's studio, there you are.
[Em] And we are working on a new [Am] song.
_ [F] Ya win.
Ya win! _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ Are you [Dm] ready, Ava?
_ I'm [Em] ready.
Let's do it. _ _ _ _ _