Biography:
India.Arie, born India Arie Simpson on October 3, 1975, in Denver, Colorado.
She absorbed musical skill early in life, encouraged by both parents: her mother, Joyce, herself a former singer, and now India Arie's stylist; and her father, former ABA and NBA basketball player Ralph Simpson (not former NBA star player Ralph Sampson, as has been mistakenly reported in some media). She had taken up a succession of musical instruments throughout her schooling in Denver
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Other songs:
- Beautiful
- Beautiful Flower
- Beautiful Surprise
- Break The Shell
- Brown Skin
- Can I Walk With You
- Chocolate High
- Complicated Melody
- Ghetto
- Gift Of Acceptance
- Give Thanks
- Good Man
- Good Mourning
- Headed In The Right Direction
- I Am Light
- Indias Song
- Just For Today
- Just Let It Go
- Promise
- Purify Me
- Ready For Love
- Soulbird Rise
- The Truth
- Therapy
- Theres Hope
- Video
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Intro :
C G Am Em F Em C
Verse :
Am F G
I met a prophet dark as the night
C G Am
She could see into my soul
F G
Said she'd been watching and had some advice
C G Am
She said shadows make you whole
F G
A life without pain is a wolf in sheep's clothes
C G Am Em F
Cause if you listen to the lessons that it holds
G
You'll find the gold
Chorus :
C G Am Em
Child it's time to break the shell
F Em F G
Life's gonna hurt but it's meant to be felt
C G Am Em
You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself
F Em F G C
You cannot fly until you break the shell
Verse :
Am F G
I can remember when I was a child
C G Am
How the grown folks seemed so crazy
F G
Why are they so angry, why are they so loud ?
C G Am
And when I grow up that's never ever gonna be me
F G
That was the moment that I decide
C G Am Em F
That I would build a wall just shy of six feet tall
G
Too strong to fall
Chorus :
C G Am Em
Child it's time to break the shell
F Em F G
Life's gonna hurt but it's meant to be felt
C G Am Em
You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself
F Em F G C
You cannot fly until you break the shell
Bridge :
F C
Courage is not being hard
Em
It's time to peel back all of the layers
Am D
You put between who you're meant to be
F
And who you are
Fm
And go be who you are
Verse :
Am F G
So much disappointment to finally understand
C G Am
That there is no such thing as perfect
F G
Were all simply doing the best that we can
C G Am Em F
And we have a choice to live or truly be alive
G C
This is your life
Chorus :
(C) G Am Em
Child it's time to break the shell
F Em F G
Life's gonna hurt but it's meant to be felt
C G Am Em
You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself
F Em F G C
You cannot fly until you break the shell
(C) G Am Em
Child it's time to break the shell
F Em F G
Life's gonna hurt but it's meant to be felt
C G Am Em
You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself
F Em F G C
A bird cannot fly until it breaks the shell
Ending :
Am G C G
Do with these words what you will
F G D
It's time for us to be for real
F G D F
You'll be stuck on the ground until
Am G C
You finally break the shell
C G Am Em F Em C
Verse :
Am F G
I met a prophet dark as the night
C G Am
She could see into my soul
F G
Said she'd been watching and had some advice
C G Am
She said shadows make you whole
F G
A life without pain is a wolf in sheep's clothes
C G Am Em F
Cause if you listen to the lessons that it holds
G
You'll find the gold
Chorus :
C G Am Em
Child it's time to break the shell
F Em F G
Life's gonna hurt but it's meant to be felt
C G Am Em
You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself
F Em F G C
You cannot fly until you break the shell
Verse :
Am F G
I can remember when I was a child
C G Am
How the grown folks seemed so crazy
F G
Why are they so angry, why are they so loud ?
C G Am
And when I grow up that's never ever gonna be me
F G
That was the moment that I decide
C G Am Em F
That I would build a wall just shy of six feet tall
G
Too strong to fall
Chorus :
C G Am Em
Child it's time to break the shell
F Em F G
Life's gonna hurt but it's meant to be felt
C G Am Em
You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself
F Em F G C
You cannot fly until you break the shell
Bridge :
F C
Courage is not being hard
Em
It's time to peel back all of the layers
Am D
You put between who you're meant to be
F
And who you are
Fm
And go be who you are
Verse :
Am F G
So much disappointment to finally understand
C G Am
That there is no such thing as perfect
F G
Were all simply doing the best that we can
C G Am Em F
And we have a choice to live or truly be alive
G C
This is your life
Chorus :
(C) G Am Em
Child it's time to break the shell
F Em F G
Life's gonna hurt but it's meant to be felt
C G Am Em
You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself
F Em F G C
You cannot fly until you break the shell
(C) G Am Em
Child it's time to break the shell
F Em F G
Life's gonna hurt but it's meant to be felt
C G Am Em
You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself
F Em F G C
A bird cannot fly until it breaks the shell
Ending :
Am G C G
Do with these words what you will
F G D
It's time for us to be for real
F G D F
You'll be stuck on the ground until
Am G C
You finally break the shell
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