Joy Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[Em]Wooa[A]ahh! yeah
On [Em]top of the world
Yeah, that's how my seeds got
me [G]feeling' right now
[Em]On top of the world
Yeah, you ever felt like you could do anything,
[G](Yeah)
On [Em]top of the world
(?) I'ma hold y'all down for real,

[Verse 2]
(Gotcha!)
[Em]It was 1996, 4th of July, looking off in the sky
[G]Dealing wit[Am]h thoughts inside,
[Em]when something caught my eye
It was a silhoutte of a beautiful woman,
bright with life
Carrying [G]my first [A]seed, looking like she
gone bear fruit [Em]to night
We at the African street festival,
and she walking around
Talking about the midwife said,
[A]that bring the baby [Em]down
I'm about to be a father, the sights and sounds,
seem brighter around me
And for starters,
I know I'ma work harder, word
We got home at three in the morning,
I was beat
Them [G]contractions started coming as
[A]soon as I fell [Em]asleep
3: 05, like every five minutes,
then the water broke
We on [G]the go, yelling at the cabbie,
[Am]cause he's sort [Em]of slow
You know them hospitals all trying to get paid,
no questions
Hear come the doctor's with they drugs,
trying to do c- sections
But my baby stay's strong,
in labor for yay long
[G]Eight- pound baby [Em]boy,
to carry my name on, joy!

[Verse 3]
Huh, yeah I know how you feel,
[Em]
Kweli I know how you [A]feel
(That's the [Em]sound of joy)
See my brother, I know how you feel,
Kweli, I know how you [A]feel
(That's the [Em]sound of joy)
So when you, have a seed, come in the world,
say dog [A]that shit's real
[Em](That's the sound of joy,
y'all)
Huh, Kweli, yo I know how you feel,
Kweli, yo I know how you feel

[Verse 4]
My baby girl [Em]June
10th, 1999, I been on the grind
Since [G]the birth of my son, it's been about,
[Em]way more then rhymes
Baby on the way,
my lady glowing today, at least
That's what the mid[G]wife
said, on the [Em]phone
Anyway, the music got me going away
Like everyday, but it's a blessing,
so I gotta have patience
And she got pregnant on
a Jamaican vacation
So it's all good,
this time well have the baby in a house
I went the hospital route,
I know what they all about (Never again)
So I'm out on tour, in Baltimore
Get the call around [A]four,
when the [Em]water hit the floor (Damn!)
I gotta rock my show, but I gotta go
Got [G]second thoughts about her not going,
[Am]to the hospita[Em]l
I left the show early, Mos held me down,
good looking (No doubt)
Call the car service, like,
take [G]me straight to [Em]Brooklyn (Uh huh)
Got the news in the car, stayed sorta calm
But I cried [G]tears of joy,
[Em]when they put my daughter in my arms, how precious!

[Verse 5]
Huh, huh Said I know how you feel, uh,
[G]
said I know how you [Em]feel when you
(My precious joy)
Said I know how you feel, [G]uh,
Kwe I know how you feel
(I know [Am]you do, huh,
[Em]my precious joy y'all)
Huh, uh, said I know how you feel (yeah), said
I know how you feel
(My precious joy)
Huh, man I know how you feel
(yeah), said I know how you feel

[Verse 6]
I do it for [Em]the seeds y'all,
in they formative years when they need y'all
[G]We gotta believe, in what we conceive [Em]y'all,
it's deep y'all
I give them the truth,
so they approach the situation, with ammunition
I [G]keep nothing away, [A]they hear everything,
cause they know how [Em]to listen
Teach them the game, so they know they position,
so they can grow
And make decisions, that change the world,
[Am]and break old [Em]tra dition
They put kids in jail,
for a life they ain't even get to start
That's murder too, and it's breaking my heart,
it's breaking our nation apart
We gave the youth all the anger, it's just
We [G]ain't taught them, how to express
it, an[Am]d so it's dan[Em]gerous
You can't talk to them
Unless your language is relating
to what they going through
[G]So busy [Em]ignoring them,
you can't see what they showing you
And you wonder, why we called baby- daddy's
and baby- momma's
When we grow up,
we [G]can't act [Em]like adult mothers and fathers, yo
I'm so blessed to have a boy and a girl,
everyday they bring joy to my world

[Verse 7]
[Em]Huh, yeah
I know how you feel,
Kweli I know how you feel
(That's the sound of joy)
Brother Kwe', I know how you feel,
Brother Kwe', I know how you feel
(Baby girl, my precious joy)
Kweli, I know how you feel,
say bro' I know how [G]you feel
[Em](Fela, be my joy, yo)
Huh, if you know how the people feel,
let me really know how you... yo

[Verse 8]
I do it for [Em]the seeds [G]y'all[Em]
I do it for the seeds y'all
I do it for the seeds y'all
I do [G]it [Em]for the seeds y'all
I do it for the seeds y'all
[G]I d[Em]o it for the seeds y'all
[Em]