Chords for Re-Generated: The Jason Roy Story

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I really enjoyed _ being kind of the underdog, because with [D] my voice, with this band, with
the talents that we had, we shouldn't be able to do what we [A] did. _
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_ _ _ [G] _ My mom [D#] and my dad didn't exactly [Gm] like each other very much.
_ [Gm] When I was five, my parents got divorced.
[G] _ _ So my mom and my stepfather, we started bouncing around the country, and I saw my dad once a year. _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [B] _ Bouncing around the country, I kind of developed [A] this longing for [B] dad.
I didn't know that much about my dad.
[D] _ My mom [B] just kind of kept me sheltered, very sheltered.
The world was just kind of closing in on [A] me.
_ [F#] So when I had the opportunity [G] to grow into manhood, I moved back to Texas [F#m] and quickly
found out that the Lord wasn't a part of my [G] dad's life.
It [B] also happens that [Em] in the world that he was in, there's drug use and [B] stuff like that
that can mess with your mind.
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_ Before long, I found myself kind of at odds with my dad.
I spent a lot of time, man, just [B] scared.
Everything that I kind [F#] of dreamed of was kind of not there. _ _ _ _
[C#] _ _ _ [Fm] My mom called me up, and she said, Jason, if you'll come out here to North Carolina,
we'll pay your way to NC State.
And I was like, you know what?
That sounds like a great option, a new lease on [C#] life. _
[Fm] About that time, I kind of caught the bug for for real music.
I moved out, and I was playing my guitar on the beach all the time, hanging out with people
and writing songs to [A#m] express what was going on with my dad and what was going on with
my mom and how they were at odds.
[C#] So I started a band. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ It was my release.
It [C] was the one thing in my [F#] life that I [E] decided on my own I was going to do.
And there [C#] was a lot of resistance to it.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] My parents at one point said, OK, [A#] well, Jason, you can either go to NC State
or you can [C] _
play in your band.
It really made me think hard about, am I [G#] serious about this?
Am I not?
I also came to the conclusion that I was going to [A#] continue school, and I was going to continue playing.
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_ _ _ [C] _ _ My parents kicked me out of the house, and [G] I was on my own.
I went to [G#] college for one more semester.
_ I was playing basketball, and [C] I got [D#] assaulted on the courts.
My [G#] face got really messed up.
I woke up in an ambulance.
_ [A#] It ended it for [Cm] me. _ _
_ _ _ _ I [G] walked away from it, and I said, that's it.
It's ministry.
It's music.
[F] That's it.
That's all I'm going to do for the rest of my life because life is short.
[Cm] It goes away.
I never saw anything coming.
I woke up in an ambulance.
I'm lucky to still be alive.
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[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ [Em] God just orchestrated this masterpiece in my life.
And the whole time, I thought my life was just falling apart.
[F] _ _
_ _ [Am] Through my life and through seeing everything fall apart
[G] and watching God still move [C] in amazing [Em] ways,
I can walk on the stage and be confident.
It didn't even matter if we [F] became a signed band.
What mattered was that we were changing lives in [G] small quantities, yes,
but to us, [C#] that was all that mattered.
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[D#m] _ _ [F#] We were at the Devil Wards the other day.
Only one new [D#m] artist of the year.
My grandfather, who's an amazing man of the Lord,
he looked down at the stage and he saw Scotty wearing his pants all, you know,
a little torn up, and he's like, I just don't like that.
[D#m] My mom, who, you know, asked me to leave,
told my granddad, she said, you know,
they had 350 [F#] people saved at one of their concerts the other day.
[B] _ She looked at my grandfather and said,
when was [D#m] the last time you had a Southern Gospel concert [D#] where 350 kids [F#] showed up? _ _
It [D#m] meant a lot, you know, because my mom understood. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G#] _ _ [D#m] _ _ [D#] I've seen [F#] my music change my dad.
He's the [A] biggest fan on the planet, knows every word of [F] every song.
_ I'll be having a rough day and I'll call him,
he'll quote the lyrics to my [A#m] songs to me, _ _ reminding me.
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_ _ [F#] _ _ _ [Em] My little boy is two years old,
and he's starting to sing the words to the songs, _
[C#] says daddy when he hears it on the radio.
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_ _ [A] _ _ [E] My son can't even hardly talk yet, but when he starts talking,
[E] he's going to be speaking lyrics that [A] talk about the glory of God.
_ How many other kids out there has that [C#m] happened with?
[G#] But more than that, _ _ [F#] it's happened with my son.
_ I've got a lot to work on, but I'm [Em] not going to let it down. _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ It's been a long road to get here, you know what I mean?
[A] So, I've got to go [E] get ready.
I'm going to miss you. _ _ _ _
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_ _ [Em] Says daddy when he hears [A#] it on the radio. _ _