Happy Birthday

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Em  D  G  C
            happy birthday
Em  D  G  C
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     so make a wish

[Verse 1]
                   Em              
Please accept my apologies, I 
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wonder what would have been
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Would you have been a little angel 
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or an angel of sin
     Em                 D
Tom-boy running around, hanging with
 all the guys
      G                    C
Or a little tough boy with beautiful
 brown eyes
                   Em            
I paid for the murder before they 
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determined the sex
         G                  C
Choosing our life over your life 
meant your death
    Em                             
And you never got a chance to even 
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open your eyes
           G                       
Sometimes I wonder as a fetus if 
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you fought for your life
                Em                 
Would you have been a little 
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genius, in love with math?
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Would you have played in your 
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school clothes and made me mad
               Em                  
Would you have been a little rapper
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 like your poppa the piper
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Would you have made me quit smoking
      C
 by finding one of my lighters
   Em                            
I wonder about your skin tone and 
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shape of your nose
         G                         
And the way you would've laughed 
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and talked fast or slow
         Em                      
I think about it every year, so I 
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picked up a pen
      G                       C
Happy birthday, I love you whoever 
you would've been

[Chorus]
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      Em                   D      
Happy birthday    (What I thought 
            G   C
was a dream)       make a wish
Em          D                  G 
    (Was as real as it seemed)      
  C
 Happy birthday
Em          D                  G 
 (What I thought was a dream)       
  C
 make a wish
Em          D                  G
    (Was as real as it seemed   
    C
 I made a mistake)

[Verse 2]
         Em                    D
I got a million excuses, as to why 
you died
           G                  
And other people got their own 
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reasons for homicide
         Em                        
Who's to say it would've worked and
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 who's to say it wouldn't have
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I was young and struggling, but old
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 enough to be a dad
     Em                        
The fear of being my father has 
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never disappeared
  G                             
I ponder it frequently while I'm 
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sippin' on my beer
    Em                        D
My vision of a family was artificial
 and fake
            G                     
So when it came time to create, I 
C
made a mistake
         Em                   D
Now you got a little brother, maybe 
it's really you
 G                          C
Maybe you really forgave us knowing 
we were confused
Em                        D
Maybe, every time that he smiles 
it's you proudly
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knowing that your father's doin' 
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the right thing now
     Em                         D
I'll never tell a woman what to do 
with her body
            G                      
But if she don't love children, 
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then we can't party
          Em                      
I think about it every year, so I 
D
picked up a pen
         G                    C
Happy birthday, I love you whoever 
you would've been

[Chorus]
      Em                   D      
Happy birthday    (What I thought 
            G   C
was a dream)       make a wish
Em          D                  G 
    (Was as real as it seemed)      
  C
 Happy birthday
Em          D                  G 
 (What I thought was a dream)       
  C
 make a wish
Em          D                  G
    (Was as real as it seemed   
    C
 I made a mistake)

[Verse 3]
             Em                    
And from the heavens to the womb to
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 the heavens again
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From the ending to the ending, 
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never got to begin
      Em                  D
Maybe one day we can meet face to 
face
     G                        C
In a place without time and space 
happy birthday
          Em                       
From the heavens to the womb to the
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 heavens again
         G                         
From the ending to the ending, 
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never got to begin
      Em                   D
Maybe one day we can meet face to 
face
     G                        C
In a place without time and space, 
happy birthday

[Chorus]
      Em                   D      
Happy birthday    (What I thought 
            G   C
was a dream)       make a wish
Em          D                  G 
    (Was as real as it seemed)      
  C
 Happy birthday
Em          D                  G 
 (What I thought was a dream)       
  C
 make a wish
Em          D                  G
    (Was as real as it seemed   
    C
 I made a mistake)

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