Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song A Charmed Life, artist - DJ Jazzy Jeff. Date of issue: 28.03.2011
Song language: English
A Charmed Life |
| Africa Port-Au-Prince Knoxville Anvan |
| Manhattan South Bend Albany Brooklyn — where you coming from? |
| Africa Port-Au-Prince Knoxville Anvan |
| Manhattan South Bend Albany Brooklyn — where you coming from? |
| Africa Port-Au-Prince Knoxville Anvan |
| Manhattan South Bend Albany Brooklyn — where you coming from? |
| Africa Port-Au-Prince Knoxville Anvan |
| Manhattan South Bend Albany Brooklyn — where you coming from? |
| Africa Port-Au-Prince Knoxville Anvan |
| Manhattan South Bend Albany Brooklyn — where you coming from? |
| Africa Port-Au-Prince Knoxville Anvan |
| Manhattan South Bend Albany Brooklyn — where you coming from? |
| (fading in) |
| Brooklyn, New York to wherever you at |
| This is autobiographical taking you back |
| I live a charmed life |
| We going back in the years |
| Imagining if my whole world what |
| Where you coming from |
| Brooklyn, New York to wherever you at |
| This is autobiographical taking you back |
| I live a charmed life |
| We going back in the years |
| Imagine if my whole world |
| I been around the sun twenty-five times |
| And I still find new ways to recognize shine |
| Its like light gets better with age |
| The way a song sounds better on stage |
| And rhyme books get better with each page |
| What before the first bar was written |
| A first verse was spittin |
| Before label execs was bullshittin |
| Way back when Aunty Leann Aunt Mimi and Aunt Jackie was babysitting |
| Before food was bitten, consumed through a nipple |
| I’m talking about when times were simple |
| To make a long story short it goes |
| Port-au-Prince Knoxville Anvan love and the city that never sleeps |
| From thought to finish I was born just a couple of weeks late |
| Stayed home longer just to make sure everything was on straight |
| All systems go cut the umbilical cord |
| From old earth to new earth Manhattan to turf |
| For what its worth my mum held me down one deep |
| Pops was absentee but minds you don’t sleep |
| It took her feelings to raise me lean taught me how to read |
| By the time I went to school I was in high speed |
| Ready willing and able jackie taught me how to add with |
| Dried up black eyed peas on the kitchen table |
| And coming home to a mothers love and good care |
| Never wanted it was always enough |
| But when it came to education its like she had one rule |
| Theres no such thing as too much school |
| Not to mention lean taught me how to play the piano and then |
| Every summer I was out in south ben |
| Grandpops a bartender at a country club |
| Me and my cousins from grand rapid was living it up |
| Me and granny watching ??? |
| football golden blue |
| She said you can’t beat the team and them b’s too |
| Some say I got my sense of humour from her |
| And I learned patience from making models in the basement |
| Brookyn, new york to wherever you at |
| This is autobiographical taking you back |
| With no time for refrains I barely got enough time to explain |
| How hip hop captivated my brain |
| My mama raised me on soul and beethoven |
| Sports clubs from private school put me up on soft rock |
| That was cool but I left Z100 and WGLJ |
| To find bliss with real s and kiss |
| Video music rocks showed my what time it is |
| Wrote my first rhymes as corey but j-live was sparked |
| Making pause mix demos with my main man mark |
| Playing ball in the park, there was other heads too |
| I was the herb of the crew, then I learned what to do |
| Got my way from school started battling fools |
| G nice my friendly rival at the lunch table |
| He started spark at a dark with damian and I date |
| I was down for a bit but that was just a DJ |
| Starting spinning in the PJs with satcho and them |
| Back and forth from the tables to the pad and the pen |
| Then I had to do a bit upstate but wait |
| I wasn’t incarcerated but college educated |
| As soon the albany I was a full time student part time emcee |
| At the time raw shack was the place to be |
| Living on judge clark |
| Started building with gods |
| 16 man squad |
| By the time knowledge was 120 we was just 5 deep |
| I went from mekka to albany a student and landed in medina as a teacher |
| I had this rhyme reacher |
| We recognised what whats happening |
| I’m making records and I’m winning |
| But that’s another story and it’s only the beginning |
| Brooklyn, New York to wherever you at |
| This is autobiographical taking you back |
| Not my whole entire life but just a slice of the pie |
| A few pieces of the who what when wheres and whys |