Biography:
Anastacia (born Anastacia Lyn Newkirk; September 17, 1968) in Chicago, Illinois, to a showbiz family and is an American singer songwriter. Anastacia has been highly successful in Europe, Asia, South Africa and South America, but has not had as much success in her native United States. Her debut album, Not That Kind, released in 2000, achieved multi-platinum sales in Australia, New Zealand and much of Europe.
In 2005, she was recognized for worldwide sales of over 20 million albums/records.
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Other songs:
- I'm Outta Love
- Left Outside Alone
- Sick And Tired
- Apology
- Army Of Me
- Best Of You
- Broken Wings
- Caught In The Middle
- Cowboys And Kisses
- Evolution
- Heavy On My Heart
- I Belong To You
- I Dont Want To Be The One
- Im Outta Love
- In Your Eyes
- Lifeline
- My Everything
- Not Coming Down
- Not That Kind
- One Day In Your Life
- Paid My Dues
- Pieces Of A Dream
- Pretty Little Dum Dum
- Rearview
- Saddest Part
- Same Song
- Staring At The Sun
- Stay
- Stupid Little Things
- The Saddest Part
- Time
- Welcome To My Truth
- Why Did You Lie To Me
- Youll Be Fine
- Youll Never Be Alone
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PAID MY DUES
From Album: Freak of Nature
Written By: G. Lawson - D. Sharpe - L. Kafi - Anastacia
Intro: C#m B A B C#m
Spoken:
C#m B
You can say what you want about me
A
Wanna do what you want to me
B C#m
But you can not stop me
C#m
I've been knocked down it's a crazy town
B
Even got a punch in the face in LA
A B
Ain't nothing in the world that you keep
C#m
me from doing what I wanna do
C#m
'Cause I'm too proud, I'm too strong
B
Life by the code that you gotta move on
A B C#m
Feel excited for yourself and got nobody no way so I...
C#m
(Held my head high)
D#m
Knew I (Knew I survive)
E
Well I made it (I made it)
F#
I don't hate it (Don't hate it)
C#m
That's just the way it goes Yeah
C#m
I done made it through
B
Stand on my own two
A B C#m
I paid my dues, yeah
C#m
Tried to hold me down
B
You can't stop me now
A B C#m
I paid my dues
Spoken:
C#m
So straight back on
B
You cannot stop me
A B C#m
I paid my dues
C#m
Now I'm still trusted every day
B
people try to mess with Anastacia
A
gotta nothing in common
B
cause I handle mine
C#m
and I thought I better let you know
C#m
I'm no punk I can't get down
B
I don't give a damn about abuse around
A B C#m
that was just fine 'til now So I...
C#m
(Held my head high)
D#m
Knew I (Knew I survive)
E
Well I made it (I made it)
F#
Oaaah (Don't hate it)
C#m
That's just the way it goes Yeah
C#m
I done made it through
B
Stand on my own two
A B C#m
I paid my dues, yeah yeah
C#m
Tried to hold me down
B
You can't stop me now
A B C#m
I paid my dues, yeah yeah yeah yeah
C#m B
Took so long to get me here (here)
A
But I won't live in fear (fear)
B C#m
You try to steal my shine (shine)
C#m B
But first they wanna build you up (up)
A
Then they tear you down (down)
B C#m
It's a struggle, you try to bubble so I...
C#m
(Held my head high)
D#m
Knew I (Knew I survive)
E
Oaah (I made it)
F#
(Don't hate it)
C#m Dm
Said that's - just - the - wayyyyy
-Dm
(I done made it through)
C
(Stand on my own two)
Bb C Dm
I said I paid my, I paid my dues Yeahhhhh
Dm
(Tried to hold me down)
C
But you can't stop me now (you can't stop me now)
Bb C Dm
(I paid my dues) I paid my, paid my dues
Dm
(I done made it through) oahhh
C
(Stand on my own two) oh
Bb C Dm
(I paid my dues) I paid my, I paid my dues
Dm
yeahh (Tried to hold me down)
C
But you can't stop me now (you can't stop me now)
Bb C Dm
I paid my dues
From Album: Freak of Nature
Written By: G. Lawson - D. Sharpe - L. Kafi - Anastacia
Intro: C#m B A B C#m
Spoken:
C#m B
You can say what you want about me
A
Wanna do what you want to me
B C#m
But you can not stop me
C#m
I've been knocked down it's a crazy town
B
Even got a punch in the face in LA
A B
Ain't nothing in the world that you keep
C#m
me from doing what I wanna do
C#m
'Cause I'm too proud, I'm too strong
B
Life by the code that you gotta move on
A B C#m
Feel excited for yourself and got nobody no way so I...
C#m
(Held my head high)
D#m
Knew I (Knew I survive)
E
Well I made it (I made it)
F#
I don't hate it (Don't hate it)
C#m
That's just the way it goes Yeah
C#m
I done made it through
B
Stand on my own two
A B C#m
I paid my dues, yeah
C#m
Tried to hold me down
B
You can't stop me now
A B C#m
I paid my dues
Spoken:
C#m
So straight back on
B
You cannot stop me
A B C#m
I paid my dues
C#m
Now I'm still trusted every day
B
people try to mess with Anastacia
A
gotta nothing in common
B
cause I handle mine
C#m
and I thought I better let you know
C#m
I'm no punk I can't get down
B
I don't give a damn about abuse around
A B C#m
that was just fine 'til now So I...
C#m
(Held my head high)
D#m
Knew I (Knew I survive)
E
Well I made it (I made it)
F#
Oaaah (Don't hate it)
C#m
That's just the way it goes Yeah
C#m
I done made it through
B
Stand on my own two
A B C#m
I paid my dues, yeah yeah
C#m
Tried to hold me down
B
You can't stop me now
A B C#m
I paid my dues, yeah yeah yeah yeah
C#m B
Took so long to get me here (here)
A
But I won't live in fear (fear)
B C#m
You try to steal my shine (shine)
C#m B
But first they wanna build you up (up)
A
Then they tear you down (down)
B C#m
It's a struggle, you try to bubble so I...
C#m
(Held my head high)
D#m
Knew I (Knew I survive)
E
Oaah (I made it)
F#
(Don't hate it)
C#m Dm
Said that's - just - the - wayyyyy
-Dm
(I done made it through)
C
(Stand on my own two)
Bb C Dm
I said I paid my, I paid my dues Yeahhhhh
Dm
(Tried to hold me down)
C
But you can't stop me now (you can't stop me now)
Bb C Dm
(I paid my dues) I paid my, paid my dues
Dm
(I done made it through) oahhh
C
(Stand on my own two) oh
Bb C Dm
(I paid my dues) I paid my, I paid my dues
Dm
yeahh (Tried to hold me down)
C
But you can't stop me now (you can't stop me now)
Bb C Dm
I paid my dues
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