Giving Me Life Chords
by Mariah Carey
Giving Me Life by Mariah Carey is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Dm. It uses the chords Dm, F, Em, C, G, Am and B. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro
N.C. Dm F
Hey, baby, what's happenin'? How you doin'?
Dm
We can make it, baby, me and you
Em F C Dm Em C Dm F
(Me and you, me and you, me and you, me and you)
Dm Em F
It wasn't really, wasn't really
Dm F
It wasn't really much at all
It wasn't really
verse 1
G
So, it's summertime, lil splash a wine
F
And forget about it
G C
If you're so inclined, let's take a ride tonight
G
So, then maybe if the stars align
F
We'll fix our minds on another tangent
G F
And it's kinda like impossible to top this at a-all
Dm F
Giving me life and it's everything
Dm F
Thinkin' 'bout when we were seventeen
Dm F
Feelin' myself like I'm Norma Jeane
Dm Am F C Dm
Here in my arms is where you should be
Post-Chorus
Em C
It wasn't really, it wasn't really much
Dm
It wasn't really much at all
F
It wasn't really, it wasn't really
Wasn't really much at all
verse 2
Dm G
Oh, my philosophy
F C Dm
Doesn't quite apply to you and me
F
But I won't think too much
So, come on and feel my touch
G F
It wasn't really much at all
Just a little sensitivity, yeah that's all
G F
Here in my heart is where you should be, ooh, you are
Dm F C
Giving me life and it's everything
Dm F
Thinkin' 'bout when we were seventeen
Dm F
Feelin' myself like I'm Norma Jeane
Dm G F Am Dm
Here in my arms is where you should be
Post-Chorus
Em C
It wasn't really, it wasn't really much
Dm
It wasn't really much at all
F
It wasn't really, it wasn't really
Wasn't really much at all
verse 3
Dm
Wassup, ma? Hush, got fly
G F
Here's a quest, why you left? Was it my messed up eye? Why?
Reminisce, wannabe, huh?
G
See, hon, followed sheep from once the first chick
F
Clark Wallabees on (Beep, beep)
Swag, honey drip, spendin' some time
G
Remember them rhymes?
F
Your gold fronts looked better than mines did
Was ecstasy, poundin' in the BM
G C
Clownin' me and that was way before wore gowns and the skin'
Givin' me life
Dm Em C
Giving me life and it's everything (Mariah Carey)
Dm F
Thinkin' 'bout when we were seventeen
Dm F
Feelin' myself like I'm Norma Jeane (La, la, la-la)
Dm Em C
Here in my arms is where you should be (Where you should be)
Dm
Ooh, you are giving me life (Giving me life)
C
And it's everything (Everything)
Dm F
Thinkin' 'bout when we were seventeen
(Thinkin' 'bout when we were)
G F
Livin' like Babs 'cause it's evergreen ('Cause it's evergreen)
Dm F
Here in my arms is where you should be
Dm F Am
Ooh, you are giving me life and it's everything
(Wasn't really, wasn't really)
Dm
Thinkin' 'bout when we were seventeen
F
(Got me thinkin' bout' when we were, yeah, yeah)
(Wasn't really much at all)
Dm F
Feeling myself like I'm Norma Jeane
(Said, I'm feeling myself like I'm)
(Wasn't really, wasn't really)
Dm F
Here in my arms is where you should be (Right here in my arms)
(Wasn't really much at all)
Dm F
Giving me life and it's everything
Instrumental
B C B Em C B C B G Em B
Outro
G Em
It was a stone groove, my man
B G
You are the most righteous
Em
Yeah, right, just get the fuck out
G
(Get the fuck out, get the fuck out
Get the fuck out, get the fuck out)
Em
Oh, oh, oh-oh, oh
Giving me life and it's all (Giving me life)
B Em
Giving me life, da-da-da, yeah (Yeah, givin', givin' me life)
C
Giving me life and it's all (Wasn't really much at all, much at all)
Am
(Giving me life)
Em C
Giving me life and it's all (Wasn't really, wasn't really)
Em
Giving me life and it's all
G
Giving me life and it's all
Em C
Giving me life and it's all
Em G
Giving me life and it's all
Em C
Giving me life and it's all
Em
Whoa, whoa-whoa
G
Whoa, whoa-whoa
Dm C
Giving me life and it's all
Oh, giving me life and it's all