Don't see me from a distance
Don't look at my smile
And think that I don't know
What's under and behind me
I don't want you to look at me
And think
What's in you is in me
What's in me is to help them
I assume the reasons that push us to
Change everything
I would like us to forget about
Their color
So they can be optimistic
Too many views on rave that make them
Desperate
Let's leave the doors wide open
So they can talk about their pain
Then we can give them information
That will bring us all together
Chorus:
It's not a second
7 seconds away
Just as long as I stay
I'll be waiting
Nothing can move us, we should
Be moving
From the ones who practice wicked
Charms
For the son and the stone
Bad to the bone
Man is not evil, even when it's born
And when a child is born into this world
It has no concept
The tone the skin is living in
Chorus
There's a million voices
There's a million voices
To tell you what she should be thinking
Call yourself a family man
Talking 'bout the families plan
To bring the sweet talk deep and down
Works better than an average pick up line
You put your woman out to pasture
On the promises you gave her last year
Peace and love is on your head
And the grass is greener playing 'round
Your family seed is what you spread
Chorus:
Buddy my friend
Who you think you fooling
Buddy my friend
And what about your woman
Buddy my friend
Who you think you fooling
Buddy my friend
I don't care what you do
But there's a hypocrite that lives in you
Cause if your woman gave her love
In the same way that you do
You'd feel a-way
You know you would
Chorus
Buddy my friend
Treat her that way
And you'll be X-D soon
When you dance all night giving it all you got,
And you cover me in your body sweat
Like liquid honey, your kiss is so sweet
You're my fantasy.
Oh won't you stay with me.
You're driving me wild.
You're driving me crazy
Baby,
You are outre risque locomotive, driving me crazy.
Baby baby,
You're a super static automative, crazy or lazy.
I know the flesh is weak,
I pray my soul to keep providing me with dignity.
My body's clean but my mind is so bad
If you want some of this
You've got to be my man, don't you see.
You're driving me wild.
You're driving me crazy (baby)
Baby,
You are outre risque locomotive, driving me crazy.
Baby, baby,
You're a super static automative, crazy or lazy.
Hey boy your love is kicking
No I think your love is dope
What am I gonna do when the night is through?
I got an obsession and you know that's you
Punping in my body, driving me crazy
Ina dry land you're like an oasis
Making me hot, making me lazy - you amaze me.
So you be the train and I'll be the track
You turn me into a mono maniac
There ain't no stopping me when I go off
I don't show off, I need to cool off
My body's pullin' me in each and everyday
Coca cola kool aid wet my whistle baby, baby, baby
Everyone's looking for a true love
Everyone's looking for a true love
For the true love
Baby,
You are outre risque locomotive, driving me crazy.
Baby, baby,
You're a super static automative, crazy or lazy.
I make sure to preserve what I have
My body's clean but my mind is bad
You know some girls and boys it's sad
Lost their love and all they had
Layin' layin' down all the time
Layin' layin' down on the ground
Being better known as a doormat
Hey what kinda life is that
So climb into my head
Let's do the dirty
You wanna go to bed
Don't get shirty
The answer is no, 'cause your love is dope
Can't you see it's not that I won't, just wait, just wait
Baby,
You are outre risque locomotive, driving me crazy.
Baby, baby,
You're a super static automative, crazy or lazy.
Baby,
You are outre risque locomotive, driving me crazy.
Baby, baby,
A bit of friendly beastiality
With the stockings that I tied you up so easily
As the window breaks the window pain
Puts the hand in to the till to get some pretty change.
What love
What hate
Could reach the point of no return
What love
What hate
Could reach the point
Take you down into a dead end lane
Make me walk on broken glass
And let my liquid make petal coloured moves
Removes the lipstick stains that still remain
Am I still the same
What love
What hate
Could reach the point of no return
What love
What hate
Could reach the point
As I take you through the bedroom door
You can be my mother
You can be my whore
Take a lesson in geography
Wash me down in pepsi
Sweet obsess possess me
What love
What hate
Could reach the point of no return
What love
What hate
Could reach the point
What love
What hate
Could reach the point of no return
What love
What hate
Into the morning
Got me through the night
I've seen the light
I see the light
I live of what I need
I've got greed
I've been a sinner for as long as I know
So help me understand
The little that I know
Shadow dancing with my spirit
Got to face your demon on your own
Take my body and put it through the dust
I've been buried in the crust
Together now
So help me understand
The little that I know
Together now, together now
It's us now, It's us now
And there's them, and there's them
And should we start again
Together now, together now
It's us now, it's us now...
The descendants of Christ
And it's you
Will you help me I'm confused
What you gonna do
With the little that I know
With the little that I got
We're together now, we're together
It's us now
And there's them, and there's them
And should we start again
Together now, together now
I think I could give myself up to you
Cause you pushed your way thru my attitude
But a taste of life on the tip of my tongue
Won't let me forget. It just reminds me
Of all the things I've been fed
And all the magazines that I've read
I'm suspicious of what you said
How long can we be this way
How long can we live this way
Will twisted tongues bring us down
Or the twisted world we're living in
Or am I the one that's twisted too
Thinking we'll make it thru
Lipstick smiles bring me worries
When I imagine you with somebody else
That's when I know you got me twisted baby
Oh these wicked jealousies could bring us down
Every woman to herself
Every man is his own
When I'm with you the feeling's stronger
I wonder
How Long can we be this way
How long can we live this way...
The thought of saying I'll give you everything I got
Seems so empty cause it's stereotype
To protect my sanity
How Long can we be this way
Autumn Breeze, a Spring Tease
summer days and winter nights
The seasons change and that's a fact
Is it not
Domo Arigato, Danke, Merci
Mothers and daughters, fathers and sons
here's hoping you'll know the right time when it comes
like I did 'cause I knew though nobody told
me a damn thing about how The world grows
right here before you, you can't even blink If you do you'll miss it so take time to think
about your position, your place in this world
about what you're here for so check it out girl
Boys to the right and you're in this too
come on be real now Can we count on you
to be strong and to love us like Through thick and thin with your heart and your soul not the size of your dick.
Yeah, Uh huh yeah uh huh
So check this out
hey what's this sitting in my lap
Why it's the Next Generation.
And do you know what comes from the best love in the world you could possibly ever have,
Yes it's the next generation
The children are the chosen ones,
society's got it's piorities Wrong. The schools are closing down.
Don't be messing with our future - black babies, white babies,
Quarter Puerto Ricans, two sixths Chinese,
any combination you could possibly imagine,
but this important as the ground We walk on, people are people you know what I mean,
Even the baby with a portaphone
attached to its' buggy Pushed by a clone
and the black market baby that unwanted baby.
For 50, 000 it belonged to the rich
well he didn't like his face,
She said it didn't matter
'cause her husband was a surgeon.
Ha ha ha ha - urr - sick
Ain't ain't that ain't that sick -
shucks it breaks my heart.
Operate on a baby urr sick.
Hey what's that sitting in my lap
Why it's the Next Generation.
And do you know what comes from the best love in the world you could possibly ever have,
Yes it's the next generation
And is it true that even though they keep you awake at night
Sometimes and mess on your clothes that you worry about
Whether it's really worth the sacrifices that we all have to make
no matter how rich or poor
Why yes they're the next generation honey
(free up)
Push push push, in the bush down on your knees with the birds and bees
your basic needs is what you're fulfilling
This dude down this way must be making a killing
'Cause then in the morning
she finds herself illing
You planted a seed that won't grow a tree
'Cause the love that's showing is a baby growing
Inside there's a life that's well worth knowing, knowin, knowin
Ha ha ha ha that's nasty ain't it
If you're gonna do it, think before you do it and do it right - right
Hey what's this sitting in my lap
Why it's the Next Generation oh yeah
And do you know what comes from the best love in the world you could possibly ever have,
Yes it's the next generation
And is it true that even though they keep you awake at night
Sometimes and mess on your clothes that you worry about
Whether it's really worth the sacrifices that we all have to make
no matter how rich or poor
Why yes they're the next generation honey
You know, you know you see some people look at them right,
Old people, guys on the corner holding on, girls right walking
Arm in arm, spittin' on the pavement or whatever
And you wonder right if they've forgotten or if they just
Can't remember that they ever were small one time,
'Cause god knows we got to save the babies right,
'Cause if we don't save the babies
we ain't Gonna have a world to live in right
And god knows we love this world right,
ain't that, right so right.
(N. Cherry/C. McVey/L. Kravitz)
Into a world I plunge thru my headphones, escape into the streetlight
I begin to believe in destiny when my surroundings in rhythm with me
I'm just a grain of sand walking in a sea of people
I look around me and my name is just someone
For a moment in time I belong
Where my heart beats the fear is gone like destiny
Chorus:
So move with me I'm strong enough to be weak in your arms
Move with me I'm strong enough to be real in your arms
Whispering as I was driving quietly the car was rolling like a bullet
I was feeling the speed moving me faster. Addicted to the rhythm on my ghetto blaster
That's me supposing that the clarity of thought
Is clear enough to think it's real enough to touch
The wind on me got me tripping can I keep you next to me
Till the end of the world
Chorus X2
Like the joker on the pile never coming or going
The colour of my true cards was showing
Keeping in touch with an idea that I been growing
Trust trust I must trust with my head on my chest
I rest with the rest of the restless
Chorus...
When you turn around baby,
I'll be watching you,
I can see through you,
maybe then you'll see,
that I ain't playing.
I'm to be taken seriously.
you know what I'm saying?.
and so the story goes.
one night when I was shaking,
and I definately wasn't faking,
I was lost in a trance,
doing my own dance,
my girls on my side,
were concentrating on the music playing,
and the speakers vibrating,
I shut my eyes, and the next thing I knew,
all I could smell was leather and brute,
imposing on my groove, standing on my side,
and licking your lips, and rocking your thighs,
I wanted to die laughing, at your serious,
I've come to save you expression,
but I held my breath and said who are you?
Baby, my name is Drew,
I'm gonna make you my bitch,
maximum tender,
feminine gender,
come on baby it's time to surrender,
I'm Drew,
(So what you gonna go)
I just want to get into you,
hey bitch don't be so uptight,
we can make a date through tonight,
and then before hell breaks loose,
I'll just turn up the juice.
I say:
Hey all you people my name is mr smalls,
and some of the girls are saying I am the one with the greatest heart,
no matter where I go (gimme a break) no matter who i show
and I'm mr smalls
(Is that right, wait now),
I stomped this joint from top to toe,
I found nothing but half pint two bit guys,
acting out the parts, who might have been charming,
some are in a movie being batman and robin,
it's not the way you look, cause you ain't half bad,
it's the way you act that makes me sad,
you know you think you're finger licking and that's the problem,
looking rightin the mirror ain't gonna solve it,
thats something special deep inside,
called heart and soul might give you style,
all that time you sent looking at yourself,
you're so transparent,
it makes me sick
Baby you said I'm vain,
but i've got so much to gain,
for instance if i had you,
here's what i would do,
dine you by candlelight,
hold you baby all through the night,
and the love that i give to you
will be cooking like your mama's stew
I say:
Hey all you people,
(sorry?)
my name is mr. smalls
(I didn't hear that!)
and some of the girls are saying
I am the one with the greatest heart
(the greatest what?)
everywhere I go, no matter who show,
(don't try me)
I'm mr. smalls
Give me some more
I ain't impressed,
I ain't getting undressed just yet,
I'm saving my personal stash,
for a male who can handle me with care,
I don't beat around the bush,
cruise a little, wicked and slow,
I can't take none of that degenerate stuff,
a little discretion can melt me like butter,
and I'll give you sweet love,
'til you cry to your mother,
we can wear out the backbone in my couch,
you care where i am, what I'm about,
I'm not about to change, more or less,
I know what's morally right for me,
there are certain conditions you see
Hey all you people,
my name is mr. smalls,
and some of the girls are saying I'm the one with the greatest heart,
everywhere i go,
no matter who I show,
and I'm mr. smalls
Hey all you people,
my name is mr. smalls,
and some of the girls are saying I'm the one with the greatest heart,
everywhere i go,
no matter who I show,
and I'm mr. smalls
(I've heard everything this is tops)
Hey Drew why is it you got to treat ladies like they were hanging off a meat hook, that's you problem man?
My problem, my problem is you got an attitude!
Yeah and you know what you leave us with...
what?
...feminine itch
Ah that's cool! I can dig that, you're a bitch baby!
I ain't gonna be your bitch!
You what?
I'm finished with you drew!
Ah come on baby...
Forget it you're tired!
If you want to call your mama you can use my car phone!
Yeah, your car phone, I'll phone Australia... I'll phone Panama... I'm the phone way down in Mississippi
That's cool, I'll pay the rent! Next week now baby, we can do this like, Brutis...
I'm going on my own, see you later honey, later, much much much much much much later.
? (Well I might give you a ring)
where you from Gilly G
Birmingham
Aaah! well that's all right then
Born to the way things work
Told that's the way things are
You know when you never kiss at all
Till you got the kiss of life, right
It's uplife and real
Something to die for
Something to live for
Something to fight for
And still you wait in vain
When you close your mind to change
Longing for tomorrow to come
And I'm still waiting
And I'm still waiting
And then we understand
That's the way things are
We look as though we don't believe a word
But that should be enough truth
Mind's sealed
Something to cry for
Something to laugh at
Something to try for
Remains the same
You're the player and life's the game
The kiss of life...
Longing for tomorrow to come
And I'm still waiting
And I'm still waiting
I saw it take your ache away
Another excuse to deliberate
You hate all that's fake but you're detached
Mishmash the fighting the right cause
Something about you, you're all real
Open up your sealed attitude
to gratitude and understanding
Demanding time to wake up
Your lack of mind at peace now
With the peace of my mind we'll find time
To achieve nothing impossible
It's alright, improbable
And I'm still waiting
And still you wait
And still you wait
Longing for tomorrow to come
And I'm still waiting
And I'm still waiting
And still you wait
Longing for tomorrow to come
And I'm still waiting
And I'm still waiting
I've come up hard, baby, now I'm cool
Didn't make it sugar, playing by the rules
I've come up hard, baby but now I'm fine
In checking trouble sugar, moving down the line
I've come up hard, baby, but that's okay
'Cause Trouble Man don't get in my way
I've come up hard, baby, I've been for real
Gonna keep on moving, gonna go to town
I've come up hard, I come up and get down
There's only three things that's for sure
Taxes, death and trouble
This I know, baby
Oh, that's right
Oh, I've come up hard, baby, with troubled mind
But then I've got my share of what's mine
Oh, I've come up hard, baby, but that's okay
'Cause Trouble Man don't get in my way
Oh, I've come up hard, baby
I know some places and I see some faces
I've got the connections, they dig my directions
What people say, that's okay
They don't bother me
I'm ready to make it, don't care what the weather
Don't care about no trouble, got myself together
Got the kind of protection
It's all around me
I've come up hard but now I'm cool
I didn't make it, baby, playing by the rules
Oh, I've come up hard, baby, but that's okay
'Cause Trouble Man don't get in my way
Oh, I've come up hard, baby, with troubled mind
But then I've got my share of what's mine
I've come up hard, now I'm fine
I'm checking trouble sugar, moving down the line
Moving down the line, moving down the line
With the power that some loving can bring
Makes the mountain high, stacks of money and things
That I need change and fade away sometimes
When I look in the mirror, uuh, I see a little clearer, uuh
I am what I am and you are you too
Do you like what you see? Do you like yourself?
Money love and goldpayments
We spend our lives thinkin' they are saviors
Money talks but love is for real and you know that, uuh
Then a picture comes into my mind
Everybody knows you need some money sometimes
Could it be that we need lovin? to survive
So look into my eyes, uuh, I won't tell you lies, uuh
Who do you see? Do you see yourself?
Do you like what you see? Do you like yourself?
Money love and goldpayments
We spend our lives thinkin' they are saviors
Money talks but love is for real and you know that, uuh
So how do we drink in a sinkin' ship?
How do we float on a sinkin' boat?
So how do we rock when the rock gets rollin??
Give me a float and keep the moon light rollin??
Talkin' about, talkin' about, talkin' about money
Nothin?s for free in the land of milk and honey
Got a foot on the bridge over troubled water
A credit cards cool but I?ll settle for a quarter
Money, money, money
[Incomprehensible] what I'm sayin'
I'm talkin' about money, I'm talkin' about money
C'mon, I'm talkin' about money
Money love and goldpayments
We spend our lives thinkin' they are saviors
[Note: it begins with Tricky speaking in the background to someone in the studio.]
(i shoulda been a women. i don't understand why im a man)
[Tricky & Neneh: singing]
had you in me [x4]
in me [x2]
sick of what i feel, sick of being real
Better stay clear or I might hijack a plane
im getting sick of what i feel, sick of being real
you better stay clear cos im about to blow the fuck up
[Neneh:]
soap on my body's gonna make me clean,
giving birth makes me scream,
see my light (life?) pass before me as i drown in the shadow under
bubble bath,
a forced laugh a forged autograph,
first my body,
now my corpse
i exercise daily...love my sports
i need when i concieve,
i sow seed, i can see no remourse,
[Tricky & Neneh: x2]
i had you in me
had you in me
you in me
in me
sick of what i feel
sick of being real
Better stay clear or I might hijack a plane
im getiing sick of what i feel
sick of being real
you better stay clear cos im about to blow the fuck up
[Tricky:]
im liquid
[Neneh:]
serving speed, self deceit,
i teased you now youre tame,
put treacle on your tummy to keep you sticky when i steal,
i take from you i hate for you
you fools who feel free (?)
you look like a little somebody looking for something
[Tricky:]
Who's that gigolo on the street
With his hands in his pockets and his crocadile feet
Hanging off the curb, looking all disturbed
At the boys from home. They all came running
They were making noise, manhandling toys
That's the girls on the block with the nasty curls
Wearing padded bras sucking beers through straws
Dropping down their drawers, where did you get yours?
Gigolo, Huh, sucka?
Gigolo. Gigolo, Huh, sucka?
Who's looking good today?
Who's looking good in every way?
No style rookie
You better watch don't mess with me
No moneyman can win my love
It's sweetness that I'm thinking of
We always hang in a Buffalo Stance
We do the dive every time we dance
I'll give you love baby not romance
I'll make a move nothing left to chance
So don't you get fresh with me
Get funky. Yeah Timmy
Tell it like it is. Check out this DJ
So you say you wanted money but you know it's never funny
When your shows worn through and there's a rumble in your tummy
But you had to have style get a gold tooth smile
Put a girl on the corner so you can make a pile
Committed a crime and went inside
It was coming your way but you had to survive
When you lost your babe, you lost the race
Now you're looking at me to take her place
Who's looking good today?
Who's looking good in every way?
No style rookie
You better watch don't mess with me
Smokin.' Not cokin.' Get funky sax
Looking good, hanging with the wild bunch
Looking good in a Buffalo Stance
Looking good when it comes to the crunch
Looking good's a state of mind
State of mind don't look behind you
State of mind or you'll be dead
State of mind may I remind you
Bomb the Bass rock this place
What is he like? What's he like anway?
Yo' man what do you expect the guy's a giggolo man
You know I mean?
No moneyman can win my love
It's sweetness that I'm thinking of
We always hang in a Buffalo Stance
We do the dive every time we dance
I'll give you love baby not romance
I'll make a move nothing left to chance
So don't you get fresh with me
No moneyman can win my love
It's sweetness that I'm thinking of
We always hang in a Buffalo Stance
We do the dive every time we dance
I'll give you love baby not romance
I'll make a move nothing left to chance
So don't you get fresh with me
Wind on my face, sound in my ears
Water from my eyes, and you on my mind
As I sink, diving down deep deeper into your soul
No moneyman can win my love
It's sweetness that I'm thinking of
We always hang in a Buffalo Stance
We do the dive every time we dance
I'll give you love baby not romance
I'll make a move nothing left to chance
You gotta be fortunate
You gotta be lucky now
I was just sitting here
Thinking good and bad
But I'm the kinda woman
That was built to last
They tried erasing me
They couldn't wipe out my past
To save my child
I'd rather go hungry
I got all of Ethiopia
Inside of me
And my blood flows
Through every man
In this godless land that delivered me
I've cried so many tears even the blind can see
This is a woman's world
This is my world
This is a woman's world
For this man's girl
There ain't a woman in this world
Not a woman or a girl
That can't deliver love
In a man's world
I've born and I've bread
I've cleaned and I've fed
And for my healing wits
I've been called a witch
I've crackled in the fire
And been called a liar
Died so many times
I'm only just coming to life
(Woman)
This is a woman's world
This is my world
(Woman)
This is a woman's world
For this man's girl
(Woman)
There ain't a woman in this world
Not a woman or a girl
(Woman)
That can't deliver love
To a man's world
[Incomprehensible]
And my blood flows
Through every man and every child
In this godless land that delivered me
I cried so many tears, even the blind can see
(Woman)
This is a woman's world
This is my world
(Woman)
This is a woman's world
For this man's girl
(Woman)
There ain't a woman in this world
Not a woman or a girl
(Woman)
That can't deliver love
In a man's world
(Woman)
Oh, this is a woman's world
Woman
Woman
Sporting hot jeans
[Incomprehensible]
Hard black soil called the chernozem
Driving uptown with some per diems
Won't somebody check the hem
Falling down this dress again
Sporting hot jeans on the butt again
Got to get home before the mayhem
Won't somebody check the tide
Before we run and hide again
Got a hornbeam growing in the garden
Always climbing the tree is the morphine
Got a view of the love and I'm chillin'
Got a view of the hem of the horizon
Stole the wheel off a car called a Porsche
While I was chewing the fat that disturbs me
It's always there because
We play the game the way we are
I got a view on outer space paparrazi
It's always there 'cause I know that they watch me
I bathe away in darkness
All because I'm paranoid
I got a hornbeam growing in the garden
Always climbing the tree is the morphine
Got a view of the love and I'm chillin'
Got a view of the hem of the horizon
Won't you
(Unbutton my stuff)
Won't you
(Come and zip me up)
Won't you
(Unbutton my stuff)
Won't you
(Come and zip me up)
Chauvinistic femme come arousing
Got a groove in the hem of your hygiene
Won't somebody break my boundary
Leave that femme for another day
I like a brain and I like my bimbo
I like 'em vain let 'em lick my limbo
The boldest kiss the mayhem
Slipping down the waterside
Mum and dad are feeling kind of hurt
To get me back they got to get me first
Am I guilty quench my thirst
Spill my wine and French, I quim
Got a hornbeam growing in the garden
Always climbing the tree is the morphine
Got a view of the love and I'm chillin'
Got a view of the hem of the horizon
Won't you
(Unbutton my stuff)
Won't you
(Come and zip me up)
Won't you
(Unbutton my stuff)
Won't you
(Come and zip me up)
Won't you
(Unbutton my stuff)
Won't you
(Come and zip me up)
Won't you
(Unbutton my stuff)
Won't you
(Come and zip me up)
Won't you
(Unbutton my stuff)
Won't you
(Come and zip me up)
Won't you
(Unbutton my stuff)
Won't you
(Come and zip me up)
You can find some time to be someone
Like a valentine for a lonely soul
You can treat me like a fool
And hate-
Some love brings me down
Some love turns me round and round
and round and round
and round and round and round and round and round
Is it something that I said
Is it something that I did
Is it something that I, that I got
in my head
Laying in my bed is so real
'Cause I know what I feel
But together we stand and together
we lay
Hey listen to the voice of experience
This is how I live tomorrow and today
Listen to the voice of experience
That's how I live
Stop the beat. Listen to the melody
Round and round and round and round
Huh, yeah I know when I got the feeling
A feeling of love knocking on my door
First there was fifty and then there was more
What a bore then there was none
Now there's one cause I'm a lucky one
Feelings of love I've got feelings of affection
Come on and give it to me give it with protection
There's no time we're out of luck
The law says we can't talk about A ---?
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Round and round and round
Round and round and round
Round and round and round
Round and round and round
Round and round and round
But I need some S-E-X-E-D-U-C-A-T-I-O-N yeah
Sex education
For the people ya 'all
Parents and teachers get together get cool
Children need to learn about sex
in school
Children need to learn about sex in school
You think they don't do it??
Don't get fooled
Parents don't turn your back on the pack
Teachers want to teach but the law says whack
Don't let your kid get caught
Without a jimmy hat
and that's just the start
Take it to the heart
of the matter
talk about it talk about it
Sister sister, kissing by the tree
Ripe right for picking something sweet
Brother brother what's it gonna be
K-I-S-S-I-N-G
Teacher, teacher, teacher teach us S-E-X
Teach it to us stupid without the FX
Teacher teach us with your ABCs
Rollin' on the alphabet I'm gonna
Get to Z.
Chorus
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S E X E D U C A T I O N
[Incomprehensible]
Wake up, without a blink
To an even pace, where nothin' moves
Except the pressure from a funky Saturday
Droppin' like bricks on my head
Over the milky way
Starlit electric beams had only just touched me
I must have dreamt myself astray
The only milky way I have is in the middle of the day
Somedays are better than somedays
Good Sundays are better than somedays
Today I'd even take a bad Monday
'Cause this Sunday's a pure pressure inside of me
Danced till my feet were blue
Can erase the thoughts, I just remember you
Tears lost in the turn of the years
Return on days like this
Kissin' in the sun rays
I knew that it was Sunday
'Cause my memory's
Like blueprint in my head
Somedays are better than somedays
Good Sundays are better than somedays
Today I'd even take a bad Monday
'Cause this Sunday's a pure pressure inside of me
Give me grits and eggs, give me ham and bacon
And a pancake with some maple syrup 'cause it is Sunday
I can see this picture of myself in a green dress
I felt lost the first time I went to school
I was 4 foot 2, 6 feet scared and so distressed
This dress was green, I was the best dressed I'd ever been
First day at school, I said, "Teacher, teacher I know my A B C's
I want to read and write, I want to understand
Why the sky never ends and why the sky is blue
And not white? Right"
But when I spoke my heart broke
'Cause it was plain to see that school
Would never be the picture for my fantasy
And I know where I'm going and where I'm coming from
So here I come, so here I come
I know where I'm going and where I'm coming from
So here I come, so here I come
Slowly I came to discover
Time heals, time feels so young
When you're having fun
At 13 my kiss was sweet and not deep
Covered in blush, kiss and tell
My lips were deep red and shiny as hell
In my stairwell kisses and love discovered me
Undercover my fantasy
My first kiss, hit and miss
He wasn't impressed 'cause I wouldn't get undressed
Wrote my name on the wall, my hair was pressed
He had blue balls
If you wanna rock, you've got to roll it
If you gonna live, you've got to show it
And if you're gonna do it, you got to do it, right
Don't you know it?
I know where I'm going and where I'm coming from
So here I come, so here I come
I know where I'm going and where I'm coming from
So here I come, so here I come, right
Sock it to me
Aren't we just having a lovely time?
Oh yeah
On the rooftops, I seen panties drop
And through the windows, behind the screens
In the red light after a fight, love was made
Love's saved
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 in Hell
Just to go straight to Heaven
I might have been lost but now I'm found
I got my two feet on the ground
I know where I'm going and where I'm coming from
So here I come, so here I come
I know where I'm going and where I'm coming from
So here I come, so here I come
I know where I'm going and where I'm coming from
So here I come, so here I come
I know where I'm going and where I'm coming from
So here I come, so here I come, right, right
I know where I'm going and where I'm coming from
So here I come, so here I come, so here I come
So here I come, got it
Enough already
So here I come
I came already, I came already, I came already
I love the way you walk
I love the way you talk
With your mouthful
The way you park on the sidewalk
The way you are in your car
I'll make you love the way I behave
On my bad days
And show you the trigger to my bitch switch
And how to play with my witch stitch, ohh
Kiss my dirty feet
And I'll take you out for dinner
Laugh at my jokes
I wanna sit on your back
Close my eyes take your pulse
It's hundred and twenty and it's rising
All I wanna do is kootchi koo with you
All I wanna do is kootchi koo with you
All I wanna do is kootchi koo with you
All I wanna do is kootchi koo with you
I love the way you rob a shop
And I love the way your belly flops
As the morning drops
And the way you change from playing cup
When you force me to stop
First my assailant
Then my private Federal agent
Bang my feet, chain my hands
And ignore my demands
Kiss my dirty feet
And I'll take you out for dinner
Laugh at my jokes
I wanna sit on your back
Close my eyes, take your pulse
It's a hundred and twenty and it's rising
All I wanna do is kootchi koo with you
All I wanna do is kootchi koo with you now
All I wanna do is kootchi koo with you, oh
All I wanna do is kootchi koo with you, yeah
All I wanna do is kootchi, kootchi, kootchi koo with you
All I wanna do is kootchi koo with you, oh
All I wanna do is kootchi, kootchi, kootchi, kootchi koo with you
All I wanna do is kootchi koo with you
All I wanna do is kootchi koo with you now
You're like maggots in my brain
Crawling through my veins
All I wanna do is kootchi koo with you, with you now
[Incomprehensible]
All I wanna do is kootchi koo with you
All I wanna do is kootchi koo with you, yeah
Kootchi, kootchi, kootchi, kootchi, kootchi
I'm just another voice from the street
And since it's my choice, I feel that I must speak
Now I know that you won't listen to little me
But I can't rest unless I get this off my chest, see
The city's my home the streets where I roam
But still I leave the drugs and violence alone
And so I try to stay in the right frame of mind
Although I know some people who might say that I'm
Crazy and lazy for not breakin' out
But the city has soul and that's what I'm about
I have an appetite that must be fed
No longer blind and being led
The kind of freedom that you can buy
My bank won't lend me yet
But still I get by and even smile
So don't judge me by the color of my skin
My blood runs as deep as yours runs red
So you can see it, it ain't over yet
Which takes me out of the rap
The choice is mine
With my ordinary joy and pain inside
I try to get by
And I ain't gone under yet, no no
[Incomprehensible]
See bodies with souls lying in the street
No one wants to live with nothing to eat
But to climb over livin' people and feel
That they brought it on themselves 'cause they lazy
Or would rather steal is a mystery
So don't judge me by the color of my skin
My blood runs deep as your runs red
So you can see it, it ain't over yet
Which takes me out of the verse
The choice is mine
With my ordinary joy and pain inside
I try to get by
And I ain't gone under yet
The choice is mine
With my ordinary joy and pain inside
I try to get by
And I ain't gone under yet, no
Your under is my over
I've never seen your over yet
But don't forget
I ain't gone under yet
I ain't gone under yet
I ain't gone under yet
I ain't gone under yet
I don't steal, I don't run tricks or scams
'Cause I'm a strong young woman, yes, I know who I am
But sometimes it's so hard to get by
And touch circumstances make me want to get high
But I don't go too far 'cause that ain't my style
Out of control, totally out of control
Mmm, stick it where it hurts
Girl, I'll be peeling you off the ceiling
That's right, hee hee
Ladies and gentlemen, Neneh Cherry
Well you laughed at me right in my face
At the wrong time and in the wrong place
You turned around and said, "I'm all shook up"
Said to me, "I'm your sweet buttercup"
You're lying, you're lying, begging him to stay and crying
You're lying, you're lying, you're never satisfied
Heart, heart you can't break my heart
Hard, hard you think you're so hard
If you meant what you, did it wouldn't been half as bad
But you did it in spite and that just isn't right
You took my man, the only one I ever had
You took my man, I didn't treat you bad
Anyway, it's gonna get you anyway
Any day, it's gonna get you
Heart, heart you can't break my heart
Hard, hard you think you're so hard
If you meant what you did, it wouldn't been half as bad
But you did it in spite and that just isn't right
You took my man and didn't mean it
But you did it to hurt my feelings
What I should do is slap you in your face
You left me here with a pain below my waste
You lose a guy, you move into the larder
You got no style, why don't you try a little harder
Chocolates, bananas, dough nuts and salami
Ain't gonna fit 'coz you're full of boloni
Heart, heart you can't break my heart
Hard, hard you think you're so hard
If you meant what you did it wouldn't been half as bad
But you did it in spite and that just isn't right
Only back alley rats take other peoples cats
And then strike back, that isn't where I'm at
Anyway, it's gonna get you anyway
Anyway, I'm gonna get you, get you
Heart, heart you can't break my heart
Hard, hard you think you're so hard
If you meant what you did it wouldn't been half as bad
But you did it in spite and that just isn't right, no, no
I thought you were my friend
God, you're so digital girl
You're like one of those 'Cabbage Patch' creatures
You're burning the candle at both ends
You're gonna feel the heat
If everything you do comes back to you
By now you'd be dead meat
You took my man and took his body
Strapped him to your bed just to have his baby
Everybody knows you're a phony
You just want his alimony
Heart, heart you can't break my heart
Hard, hard you think you're so hard
If you meant what you did it wouldn't been half as bad
But you did it in spite and that just isn't right
Heart, heart you can't break my heart
Hard, hard you think you're so hard
If you meant what you did it wouldn't been half as bad
I wasn't born, born to stay
Thought that I'd buy you
A golden ring, golden ring for your finger
Yeah, a golden ring for your finger, um
I was a woman that was born to travel
I'd go anywhere that whims would allow
Now I'm gonna buy a ring
A golden ring for your finger
A golden ring for your finger
A golden ring for your finger, yeah
I thought you'd never ever relate to a stranger
On the thousand years to late
Now I'm going to buy a ring, yeah
A golden ring for your finger
A golden ring for your finger, yeah
Everything, anything I see
Anything, everything I feel
Everyday, anytime I know
Anything everyone has to go
Champagne lingers in my glass
Party's over
I see my reflection sipping
And it reminds me
I'd like to see you
Having more fun
If you can
I look at you
But it's me I see
It's everything I know
(It's me I see)
It's everything I feel
(It's me I see)
It's everything and everyone around me that I see
Everything is real
Everything I feel
In my mirror
I see myself
In that mirror
Inside myself
Sometimes I feel it coming to me
Thinking of you when I'm looking at my body
I can touch myself with my own understanding
My resolution to be broken that I see now
(But it's me I see)
And it's everything I know
(It's me I see)
And it's everything I feel
(It's me I see)
And it's everything and everyone around me that I know
Everything is real
Everything I feel
No real solutions
In clippings from the past
I see my reflection at last
Books full of pictures
Remembering the blasts
Times consequences
Makes me go fast
(And it's me I see)
And it's everywhere I go
(It's me I see)
It's everything I see
(It's me I see)
And it's everywhere I go, yeah
(It's me I see)
And it's everything I feel
(It's me I see)
And it's everywhere I go
(It's me I see)
And it's everything I see
(It's me I see)
And it's everything and everyone around me that I love
Everything is real
You fed the fire all my letters
Like you fed me french fries
And in my dead mouth
Lies the taste that's like the
Look in your dead eyes
Don't give me your expression
Don't even swim with me
I've got the nerve to tell you
You'll never live thru me
Carry me carry me carry me
I wanna go home
Carry me bury me
I wanna go home
Carry me carry me carry me
I wanna go home
Carry me bury me
I wanna go home
And like a witness that has
Come to be that's my expression
And though I live through your eyes
I've just lived in one dimension
You wanna let off a gun
Press one hard be hard on
I wonder is your wisdom
Telling you'll never get to you
Carry me carry me carry me
I wanna go home
Carry me bury me
I wanna go home
Carry me carry me carry me
I wanna go home
Carry me bury me
I wanna go home
I gave you satisfaction
It's murder here when I'm round
So keep my felt tip impressions and bury me
Never to be found
Carry me carry me carry me
I wanna go home
Carry me bury me
I wanna go home
Carry me bury me carry me
I wanna go home
Carry me bury me
I wanna go home
Carry me, bury me
I wanna go home now
Carry me I wanna go home
Carry me yeah
Bury me yeah
Carry me carry me carry me
I wanna go home
Bury me carry me
Carry me bury me
On a table lies the crust of what he
Had and just leaves behind
As I put bread down on the list of things
That I had to buy
By the store leaves your mountain bike
You on the floor still looking hard core
The colour is read under my show
And the friend is gone who put a hole
In you
Insensitivity took a hold of me
And I felt it colour me blue inside
And I left taking a part of you
Like red red paint on the sole
Of my shoe nothing to do with
Common sense or
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Sensitivity. I'm feeling cold
Like concrete
Your dignity's reflecting
In the way I feel it
Open minded. The thoughts are clear
From feeling regardless. Heart beats
With pain
You were oh so happy just the other day
Now heartbeats with pain took it all away
The cradle did rock for you too
Looking out from the inside
While life turns to blue
Watching all the glass faces
Leave their red red footprints
On our
Chorus
By the store lays your mountain bike
You on the floor no more hard core
The colour was red under my shoe
And the friend has gone
Who put a whole in you
Guided by the blue light that
Takes you away I'm on my way home
Guided by the blue light
That takes you away
I'm on my way home
Guided by the blue light
I'm in a home run, I'm in a home run,
On the last stretch, on the last stretch.
I'm in a home run, I'm in a home run,
On the left foot, with the right foot.
I'm in a home run, I'm in a home run,
On the last stretch, on the last stretch.
I'm in a home run, I'm in a home run,
On the left foot, with the right foot.
You could have reached for me, saved me from lying and I wanted to touch you.
But I was stuck on my island,
With a puddle of misunderstanding like a sea between us.
When we anchored our love in the harbour seems so long ago.
When we anchored our love in the harbour seems so long ago.
I'm in a home run, I'm in a home run,
On the last stretch, on the last stretch.
I'm in a home run, I'm in a home run,
On the left foot, with the right foot.
Come rain come shine I'm leaving this love ghetto.
Come rain come shine I'm leaving this love ghetto.
Chasing you is haunting me, but I know that girl is lying.
You upset my chemistry.
Baby I'm sick of crying,
Forever is only like the sky and the sea between us.
When we anchored our love in the harbour seems so long ago.
When we anchored our love in the harbour seems so long ago.
Come rain come shine I'm leaving this love ghetto.
Come rain come shine I'm leaving this love ghetto.
I can't see a way every day we are the same
Turning round and round I pick you up and then you let me down
Never will I blame, never will I hate
I'll just have to go saving you from saving me.
I'm in a home run, I'm in a home run,
On the last stretch, on the last stretch.
I'm in a home run, I'm in a home run,
On the left foot, with the right foot.
Come rain come shine I'm leaving this love ghetto.
Come rain come shine I'm leaving this love ghetto.
I'm in a home run, I'm in a home run,
On the last stretch, on the last stretch.
I'm in a home run, I'm in a home run,
On the right foot, with my left foot.
On my right foot.
What your eyes tell you, your ears can be deceived
And the poor teacher can always be relieved
In the love ghetto
In the love ghetto
What your eyes tell you, your ears can be deceived
And the poor teacher can always be relieved
In the love ghetto
In the love ghetto
What your eyes tell you, your ears can be deceived
And the poor teacher can always be relieved
In the love ghetto
Luck has been on your side boy,
And life is what you made it
As you've done what you can do
People say
People say that your the only one
Time keeps slipping thru the hour class
You're living in the future boy
But there something inside
Something to hide
In too much pride
Maybe you cried
Wondering why
You know you've got to feel it
Feel it over you, under you
Talking to your little sister now
Tell her how you turned to liquid love
Don't get beaten by the tide boy
You've got so much to give of yourself
Some of the things you said
Been living in your head you know
And what you feel
Are just trade marks of your suffering
But you're looking for a reason for everything
'Coz you know that there has to be something in
Every little thing that you're
Feeling feeling feeling feeling, over you
Voices on your shoulder
Pounding in your temple
Like a bullet in your head
Waiting for release
Your simplistic measures
Your holistic treasures
What you want and what you need
What you feel in your dreams
Been around and fought a lot of wars
Before you could walk
But then again you walked
A lot of miles before you could talk
And now you know that you feel it
What you gonna
Can you can you
Feel it, feel it, feel it
Over you,
Can you can you feel it
Feel it, feel it, over you
Can you can you feel it
If you're gonna play with my soul,
Why don't you take a look at your own first.
No pain is lean enough, it's always filled with hurt,
And those feelings, you know I felt them first
and it hurts.
So why don't you stop phoney ladies
In my face to cramp my freedom,
Phoney ladies that mess me up,
Calling names to cramp my freedom
And you don't even wanna see them
Calling names to cramp my freedom
Phoney ladies that mess me up.
Nobody's gonna grab my freedom,
Nobody's gonna mess me up.
You becoming a victim of the game,
Don't you forget I'm your sister and your friend too.
The way you treat me will put this house to shame,
Your secret conversations put you in the frame.
In the frame
So why don't you stop phoney ladies
In my face to cramp my freedom,
Phoney ladies that mess me up,
Calling names to cramp my freedom
And you don't even wanna see them
Calling names to cramp my freedom
Phoney ladies that mess me up.
Nobody's gonna grab my freedom,
Nobody's gonna mess me up.
No money money money can buy what we've got,
No money money money can buy what we've got,
No money money money can buy what we've got,
No money money money can buy what we've got.
You're playing games,
trying to make me jealous.
It'll never save us now.
So why don't you stop calling ladies
In my face to cramp my freedom,
Phoney ladies that mess me up,
Calling names to cramp my freedom
And you don't even wanna see them
Calling ladies to cramp my freedom
Phoney ladies that mess me up.
Nobody's gonna grab my freedom,
New York - Just like I pictured it - skyscrapers and everything
Inna city love, you crushed me into a pulp - I trusted you
When I loved you from a distance
And your skyline made me a promise
In my safe world to be somebody
In your city to own your streets
Where I'd strut covered in money
Shattered dreams. It ain't funny
Now I look at you with tears in my eyes
The good the bad the ugly
As I start to cry I search for the sky
Taste the breeze and watch a block of docking clouds, they're coming.
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Inna City Mamma
You bore another child to be victim of
Your cold blooded ways
Inna city love
From the gutter
So destructive when you sing your blues
I want to love you baby
I don't mean maybe baby, but I need everything you got
You can't break your promise
I'm inna city hunger, you think you're tough I'm stronger
If you're weak I'll eat you up
I'm gonna touch you where you've never been touched before
And by your spine I'll bruise your veins and touch your very core
Let my concrete be your red carpet
My shooting galleries your personal starship
Give me all your dreams, this city loves you
Use my roots to deliver your body
Under my skies where you make your money
You rejected love, but this city loves you
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Inna city love, inna city mamma, inna city love
You hurt me - real bad - inna city love
You meant to love me and you cut me up into too many little pieces
But I wanna love you
I trusted you and you crushed me into a pulp
Down this wild street walks, walks a child with no trace
Of ever being as young as her sister is
A local neighborhood crush, the boys would hide out and watch
Her hanging washing on the line all the time
More like a woman she talks like one
She was the first girl, she was the first girl to turn the boys on
Boys, boys wrapped around her finger
So young making love was only dreaming
This girl, she's got another story
When they are gone, she blows them kisses on the wind
At the corner shop half way down the block
All the radios pumping to the way she walks
Past the fly boy's art, where her name's engraved
Sweet liberty is what it says
More like a woman she dress like one
She was the first girl, she was the first girl to turn the boys on
Boys, boys wrapped around her finger
So young making love was only dreaming
This girl, she's got another story
When they are gone, she blows them kisses on the wind
The price of puberty's got a way of showing
It doesn't come in easy stages
Her mother's face in the pot, won't ever leave it
She needs a bell to ring the changes
More like a woman she walk like one
She was the first girl, she was the first girl to turn the boys on
Boys, boys wrapped around her finger
So young making love was only dreaming
This girl, she's got another story
When they are gone, she blows them kisses on the wind
Boys, boys wrapped around her finger
So young making love was only dreaming
This girl, she's got another story
When they are gone, she blows them kisses on the wind
Boys, boys wrapped around her finger
So young making love was only dreaming
This girl, she's got another story
When they are gone, she blows them kisses on the wind
Boys, boys wrapped around her finger
So young making love was only dreaming
This girl, she's got another story
i've got a little piece of mind
from the comfort of a stranger
like vulture love does
we took from eachother
justify desire with a verdict that comes empty
when we exist
in the air that we breath in
acoustic
loneliness
incidental
relationships
chorus:
nothing in this time is done
with peace in mind
so i claim a piece of this world
to get peace in mind from
memories i took to heart
that left me colorblind
so i'm taking daily bread and wine
to keep me cool inside
i had a home
inside of me
acoustic
acoustic loneliness
i knew a young girl by the name of Suzie
now she sleeps with her arm on a Uzi
cause she sleeps giving up what she's got for free
acousticly trained in love
she talks in mono monologues
chorus
tomorrow's promisses
they have all just past away
they slip through my fingers
now their all
just history
chorus 2x
keep me cool inside
like the wind on me
my memories
coming to me
come on honey
aaw baby
let's take it slow
let's some bread
let's take some wine
OK, you're on your own, it's late
Your girlfriend is on another date with the hero in your dream
Turn around, ask yourself. So, you think you're gonna win this time Manchild?
Is it the pain of the drinking
Or the Sunday sinking feeling
The car never seems to work
When it's late your girlfriend's on a date
And the hero with her in your dream
In your sleep it seemed to like you
Turn around and ask yourself
Turn around ask yourself
Manchild, will you ever win
Manchild, look at the state you're in
Could you go undercover
And sell your brand new lover (could you)
Be someone else for a night
Maybe someone else will love you
You sell your soul for a tacky song
Like the one you hear on the radio
Turn around ask yourself
Turn around and ask yourself
Manchild, will you ever win
Manchild, look at the state you're in
Manchild, he will make you cry
Manchild, Manchild, Manchild
From Monday down to Friday
You're working on another man's car
Or is it in the factory?
It doesn't matter where you are
Just turn around and ask yourself is this communication
Accentuate the positive and give some illustration
See Manchild, you're no one, you turn the microphone on
Control communication when I'm kickin' it and so on
To the point that I need, the air that I breathe
Into an audience that's waiting and ecstatic to receive
For the meantime another mean rhyme, I keep on sayin' it
I know what the time is the crowd will keep playing it
Through the speaker boxes loud's my diagnosis
'Cause I believe in miracles and words in heavy doses.
Enough R-E-S-P-E and C-T
Respect yourself express no stress the mike is easy
Just believe that all you need is the air that you breathe.
Turn around ask yourself
Manchild, will you ever win
Manchild, look at the state you're in
Manchild, he will make you cry
Manchild, Manchild, Manchild
He's the apple of your eye
Once bitten twice shy, why don't you bite me again
Just take it in the right and go tell your friend
Are you ready for the words I turn the microphone on
A figure of speech to reach you at the back and so on
The style I'm stimulating dance floors
Raise your body temperature now and
This demands for power in the amp you know louds my diagnosis