Chords for Meshell Ndegeocello - The Omnichord Real Book EPK

_ Oh, um, _ _ _ I mean you were getting me at a good time in my life.
I'm 54, you know, so [Ab] I've been doing this like over 30 years.
And I grew up with musicians that were very hard on you.
They would judge you, how you were playing, like they'd boo you on stage.
[D] _ And so, you know, I had a long life with that, and I was an asshole.
I mean, I only feel I'm like this because I was really the other way. _ _ _
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I'm [Ab] going to get the major blade.
Oh, he's [C] doing it.
Yeah, yeah.
[Bbm] So I _ _ [Em] _ _ [E] _ _
[D] _ [Eb] _ can elongate the_
I can do that, yeah.
I'm [B] going _ to_ I gotcha.
[Abm] Take a bow.
People think they do everything [Gb] themselves, you know, [G] like when they have a certain [N] amount of fame or success.
It _ was just one of those light bulb moments where I realized [Eb] like, yeah, it's an honor.
I feel honored that anyone [E] wants to play my music or with me.
And I just don't [G] take that for granted anymore [Abm] because [G] it's just humbling to be [F] around people where their self-expression is_
It's transcendent.
It takes flight.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ It's just [Bb] this like, [Bm] this organic [Ab] process of exploration.
I think that's why I enjoy [F] music so much.
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[Db] [Fm] Just one more, yeah.
[Bb] _ [Ab] _ I think I have small [Am] ideas, [Ab] and then you give it to the brilliant people you [N] heard today, and they just soar with them.
The song is the spaceship, and we just get in and see where it [Eb] takes us. _ _ _ _
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_ [D] _ _ [Eb] _ _ Bring the dark [Gm] down, all can crash and [Eb] drown.
_ [F] The whole world [D] changed, who can you trust [Gm] now?
Things fall apart, [F] there's no foolproof plan.
[Bb] You can [Eb] be born a woman, you gotta die like a man.
Things fall [Bb] apart, we [Gm] all want someone to blame.
But when you're gone, you're gone, you stay.
We live a lie day after day. _
And it hurts.
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The only reason I think _ this so-called self that I'm generating now is just because I'm like, let's try this and be open.
I'm just trusting _ that _ everything is in its right place.
And when it's not, I gotta feel that too.
And like I said, [Ab] music is a gift, and I'm so happy to be able to participate in it.
But you're [E] giving your all in that moment, and then you move to the next moment, and you move to the next moment.
And then we all pack up and go home and, [D] you know, go [B] to our other thoughts [A] and look forward to getting [D] together again.
It's [Gbm] amazing. _ _ _ _
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_ Sorry about that, man!
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