Me'Shell Ndegeocello Lyrics, Photos, Pictures, Paroles, Letras, Text for every songs

B i o g r a p h y
(by Greg Prato)

Although Me'Shell NdegéOcello scored a few hits early in her career, the singer/bassist opted to concentrate subsequently on more challenging material by exploring the politics of race and sex, among other topics. Born Mary Johnson in 1969 and spending the first few years of her life in Germany (her father was both a military man and a jazz saxophonist), NdegéOcello and her family relocated to Virginia in the early '70s as the youngster developed an interest in music. As a teenager, NdegéOcello began to play regularly in the clubs of Washington, D.C., but eventually settled down in New York City after a stint of studying music at Howard University. After auditioning for several local bands (one being Living Colour), NdegéOcello struck out on her own (often performing solo, with just a bass, drum machine, and keyboard), and in the early '90s became one of the first female artists signed to Madonna's Maverick label. 1993 saw the release of NdegéOcello's debut release, Plantation Lullabies, which spawned the hit "If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night)," as well as three Grammy nominations. But it was a duet with John Mellencamp on a cover of Van Morrison's "Wild Night" a year later brought the singer/bassist the most acclaim, as the song became one of the year's biggest hits. NdegéOcello took an extended period before a follow-up recording was issued, but during this time, she collaborated with Chaka Khan on the track "Never Miss the Water," as well as appearing on movie soundtracks (White Man's Burden, Money Talks) and on such multi-artist releases as Ain't Nuthin' But a She Thing and Lilith Fair, Vol. 3. 1996 finally saw the release of a sophomore effort, Peace Beyond Passion, which failed to match the success of her debut. Another three-year break between albums occurred, during which time she collaborated with rapper Queen Pen on the track "Girlfriend." NdegéOcello's third release overall, Bitter, was issued in 1999. She took another three-year break and emerged with Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape in June 2002. Comfort Woman followed in 2003. Dance of the Infidel, a sprawling album made with numerous collaborators from the jazz world, surfaced in mid 2005.

Just sit back and. Relax.
Listen to the 8-track
I’ll dig you like an old soul record

Remember back in the day
When everyone was black and conscious.
And down for the struggle.
Love brought us all together.
Just sittin’ back and talkin’.
Cultivating a positive vibe.
Blue lights in the basement.
Freedom was at hand and you could just taste it.
Everything was cool. Diggin’ on me diggin’ on you.
Everything was cool and brothers were singing
”Ain’t no woman like the one I got”

I’m diggin’ you
I dig you like an old soul record.
Just sit back. Relax. Listen to the 8-track.
I’ll dig you like an old soul record.

Now brothers (be) base-in.
Running from the beat-down cops that be chasin’.
Running out of time. Running out of patience.
In this war of the conscious mind.
I need some black-on-black love.
A slow grind for these changin’ times (the booty-slammin’ part!)

Beautiful brown bodies. Pimp, switch and sway.
To the soulful sounds. Gotta get up gotta get down.
‘Cause you give me good feeling.
You give me good feeling. Yes you do.

I’m diggin’ you
I dig you like an old soul record.
Just sit back. Relax. Listen to the 8-track.
I’ll dig you like an old soul record.

You say that’s your boyfriend
You say I’m out of line
Funny… he said I could call him up anytime
You can say I’m wrong say I ain’t right
But if that’s you boyfriend he wasn’t last night

Now I’m the kind of woman
I’ll do almost anything to get what I want
I might play any little game
Call me what you like but you know it’s true
You’re just jealous ‘cause he wasn’t with you
Don’t mean no harm I just like what I see
And it ain’t my fault if he wants me
Got what I wanted and the feeling was right
So if that’s your boyfriend he wasn’t last night!!!

Boyfriend boyfriend yes I had your boyfriend
Now late at night he calls me on the telephone
That’s why when you call
All you get is the busy busy tone
You’re upset ‘cause you’re one stuck-up bitch
Maybe he needed a change a switch
And who am I not to oblige
Especially if the man is fly
So call me what you like
Call me what you like
While I boot slam your boyfriend tonight

He lived two train stops away
I was a train ride away from heaven
We signify about politics, low income housing Birth control and abortion
The capitalistic hand around my throat
Shootin’ up dope to cope in this dehumanizing society
We both found God when he O.D’d
He found beauty in my black skin
Amidst the cover girls and clairol ads
Makin’ no mistake what’s white is right
Livin’ in a world where the TV shouts
”Forget where you come from!”
And damn I thought I was shootin’ up Africa in my veins
White man voodoo slow my brain the while man fights wars and enslaves
All in God’s name
What ya trying to achieve with your sun tan lotion
You wanna keep me down keep me down
Revolution against this racist institution
The white man shall forever sleep with one eye open
Dehumanize me.
Criticize, set aside.
Livin’ in the midst of genocide I hear voices voices are what I hear
Uprise would you die for your right

Let me run my fingers through your dred locks
Run them all over your body ‘til your hollor stops
As in life they grow a high on high
Ooh! How I love a black man oh my my
Lay your body down to give yourself strength
As you walk through this world of confrontation
Rest your weary head and let me run my fingers through your dreds

( sing along part )
Let me run my fingers through your dred locks
And rub your body down

As I bathe my body in the sun
In the land where life began stands a man
One with nature with his head held high
He never questions why
Together we make the fruit of life
So I love and treat him right
So rest you weary head and let me run my fingers through your dreds

( Sing along part )
Let me run my fingers through your dred locks
And rub your body down

( Mack vibe )
Let me run my fingers through your hair x4
*kinky dred love*
Caress and kiss your tears away
I wanna touch your body
Walk through your mind
Undress you slowly
Take my time…

“Her blackness is fine, the blackness of her skin the blackness of her mind”
Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind
Darker than blue darker than her blackness
Unblemished her features broad and striking
She cradles his body with her large hands
Her fingers stretch endlessly into his world of pain
Her caresses warm and penetrating she loves the black boy
His existence predestined to be one of no remorse compassion
Or the delusion of equality
But the love he gives (a doxology for her)
He praises and cares for what he can never be
There’s such purity in a love that is essential to the loving of one’s self

She’s darker than a child’s deepest sleep
And into his mind she creeps
In this world of lies and confusion
She’s the only thing not clouded by illusions
The pain of everyday life is hidden by the blackness of our skin
He searches to find peace within
He finds love in the blackness of her skin

Back to the ghetto
Serenaded by the violence outside the window
Project aristocrats gather they realize
That our hearts and minds are shackled by the lies
But he finds peace when he looks into her eyes
And see her blackness is fine
The blackness of her skin the blackness of her mind

Straight from the womb
Right smack dab in the middle of…
Poverty insecurity no one to save me
The young black man lays his head on her young black thighs
So that the child in her womb can hear the tears
That the black man cries
Soon come on a wave of positivity the big swinger,
Swingin’ like a jazz singer travelin’, movin’, movin’,
Steppin’ in my three-quarter shell-toes,
Groovin’ love to hear the brothers signify sisters with their head held high
Summertime, the livin’ is easy dreaming of seas of dark tranquility
On the project train full speed on the project train heading for my love that’s sweet like sugercrane

We’ve been indoctrinated and convinced by the white racist standard of beauty
The overwhelming popularity of seeing, better off being, and looking white
My brothers attempt to defy the white man’s law and his system of values
Defiles his white woman, but my mum, Master’s in the slave house again
Visions of her virginal white beauty
Dancin’ in your head
Your soul’s on ice
Your soul’s on ice
Brother brother
Are you suffering from a social infection mis-direction
Excuse me does the white woman go better with the brooks Brothers suit?
I have psychotic dreams
Your jism in a white chalk line
You let my sister go by
Used to be customary to bow one’s eyes at the sight of a white face konks and fade

Creams sad passion deferred dreams I am a reflection of you
Black and blue pure as the tears of coal-colored children crying for acceptance
You can’t run from yourself
She’s just an illusion
Black love anthems play behind white-skinned affection
New Birth stereophonic spanish fly let her cry.
But you no longer burn for the motherland brown skin
You want blond-haired, blue-eyed soul
Snow white passion without the hot comb

Dial the 7 digits,
It’s quite simple
I’ll be there in a hurry
Jack be quick Jack be nimble
Call me up when you feel the need to talk
When words aren’t of the essence I’ll soothe you with my presence
A kiss here and there from head to toe
Just call me up when you want more
You can be king for a day I’ll be your queen let me treat you that way
When you need me baby, yeah!
Just call me
Are you into this
If not we can do that ‘cause when we get together
it’s like Lena Horne singin’ Stormy weather”
We can get loose and kinky
Be my teddy bear, forget your every care
the M-E-S-H-E-E-L and I aim to please your every little fantasy
You can be king for a day I’ll be your queen let me treat you that way
Get loose work out
Work up a sweat till you fall out I’m in the mood for love
So we can play house I’ll treat you like Julius Caesar
Best to bet that I’ll treat you like a king, ring a ding ding
Just call me up ‘cause it ain’t nothing but the real thing
Dazin’ glazin’, so amazin’
Snugger than a bug in a rug
So let’s get crazy

Here I am waiting.
Just waiting.
Anticipating a chance to run into you.
I sit here for hours.
One day I even sat through a rain shower.
For just a glance.
A chance to talk to you.
You’re probably wondering how I even know you.
For now you’re just my dream.
And when I wake up I hope you talk to me.
Here I sit outside your door.
Talk to me.
I’d be content to just sit here and talk to you.
In my dreams you love me and me only.
The way you kiss and hold me.
Love is what I search and search to find.
But until then I’ll just dream for the meantime.

A hopeless romantic that’s what I’ve been called.
So don’t talk ‘bout love ‘cause I’ll fall.
Moved by the way you walk, talk.
The color of your eyes.
I want to hug and kiss you when you walk by.
The way you eat your cereal
So cute reading Shakespeare in your birthday suit
Just a hopeless romantic.
Hopelessly in love with you
I wanna hold your hand take you to a picture show.
I wanna hold your hand.
In my script there’s a love scene.
Just picture it.
Candles and warm apple cider.
Sly Stone on the radio.
Caress your funky dreads in the candle glow.
Whisper in my ear.
‘Cause I’m in the mood for love.
I’m just a hopeless romantic.
Hopelessly in love with you.
Kiss and hug you.
Baby squeeze you tight.
I wanna hold your hand.

Tell me, what is a girl to do.
I try so very hard to try and please you.
Even though you know you don’t really care.
Or is that you find your feelings too hard to share.
Friends say I’m crazy for the way that I feel.
You don’t love me now.
You probably never will.
But my love is far stronger than pride.
Even though I know there’ll always be another by your side

Cry my tears by candlelight.
I’m just another lonely heart, here on a lonely night.
Screams of passions.
I call out your name making love to another.
Just to ease my pain.
Will this ever change?
Will you ever feel the same way about me?

Excuse me, you headin’ my way?
Tryin’ to find something to brighten up my day
Maybe I could talk to you or you could talk to me
Your eyes seem to call out for some comfort
Is it the everyday racism
Or a pain from deep within
I may not understand now but then again
You could talk to me or we could just sit here and daydream

Say, you headin’ my way
Two lonely hearts on the subway
Singin’ the blues on the subway train

Black black yes it’s hard and that’s a fact
But I can rise above
When I have love
Here comes the train
Please don’t turn and walk away – stay
We could read some Ntozake Shange
And I loose myself in the book
I escape to my heavenly tomb
Or we could read The Voice
It’s your choice
I just want to get to know you
Your lovely black face
Accompanied by some STRICTLY ROOTS
As we venture – it’s just nice to be near you

Peace beyond passion

The Way

They say you're the way the light
The light is so blinding
Your followers condemn me your words used to enslave me

Jesus cured the blind man so that he could see the evils of the world
Perchance blindness is but a dark thought overcome by the light
Maybe Judas was the better man and Mary made a virgin just to save face
I too am so ashamed on bended knees
Prayin' to my pretty white Jesus

Brother John Paul convinced himself of his wisdom to judge to forgive to condemn
Mother Mary full of grace I'm so confused by her pale white face
God so loved the world he gave his only son
But many mothers bear children martyrs of greed bitter love
While the so called chosen make war
So many suffer in the name of god their faith at a closed door

Deuteronomy: Nigger Man

All I ever wanted was a nigger who would be true
All I wanted was a nigger man

All I ever wanted was a nigger who would be true, be good to me
While doin' the evil that niggers do
My view of self was that of a divine ho
Like the ones portrayed on the white man colonized minded rap shows
Oh the afro dizzy act of my blak rebel
I am a woman and to this world I accommodate myself
My place is in my blak man's defiance my nigger divine for his Sadness
So well complemented mine
When I look at you so blak and blue
My love for you sad but true

All I ever wanted was a nigger who would be true
All I wanted was a nigger man

One night on a love high we metamorphasized into gigantic blak butterflies
And for the first time I saw the god inside
I realized my nigger redefined was the blak man divine and he could take me higher
And the divine woman was what the blak man desired

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat;
for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die
To them he said I will greatly multiply your pain and your
conception; in pain shall you bring forth children, and you shall be
dependent on your husband and he shall rule over you
Then god said, let us make man in our image

Let's go back to the time when the mind and soul were divine faith unquestioned
Mother father god said let us make man in our own image god
was not alone as no one should be I search for a righteous hand to rule over me

For you are a holy people to the Lord your god; The Lord your god
has chosen you to be a beloved people to himself, above all
people that are upon the face of the earth

The Lord shall bring a nation against you from afar, from the ends
of the earth, as swift as the eagle that flies; a nation whose
language you do not understand

Your sons and daughters shall be given to another people and
your eyes shall look on, and you shall grieve over them all the day
long and there shall be no might in your hand to do anything

The fruit of your labors shall a nation that you know not eat up and
you shall be wronged and oppressed always

Ecclestiastes: Free My Heart

The sun rises and the sun goes down and hastens back to the
place Where it rose that from thence it may rise again
Finding all things wearisome unsatisfied my eyes not satisfied
with Seeing, my ears unsatisfied with hearing
Wondering of that which is now that which has been and that which is to be
For my time on earth I pay dearly for the past
Confusion embraces my heart for to know self is to forgive self my Sojourn of truth

Free my heart so my soul may fly
Free my mind of my worldly wants and desires
I look towards heaven with my arms open wide
Take my hand come and take my hand

Sadness fills my heart
Too weak to get by, slave to disConténtment self-pity
I come forth from my mother's womb naked shall I return to the
earth to go as I came
Taking nothing of this supposed worldly gain

Free my heart so my soul may fly
Free my mind of my worldly wants and desires
I look towards heaven with my arms open wide
Take my hand come and take my hand

Hook:
Free my heart

Leviticus: Faggot

Faggot better run learn to run 'cuz daddy's home
His sweet lil' boy just a little too sweet
Every night the man showed the faggot what a real man should be
The man and the faggot will never see
for so many can't even perceive a real man Tell me

Not that the faggot didn't find a woman fine and beautiful
He admired desired their desires
He wanted love from strong hands
The faggot wanted the love of a man

His mother would pray
Save him, save him, save him from this life

Go to church boy
Faggot you're just a prisoner of your own perverted world
No picket fence acting like a bitch that's all he sees ain't that what faggot means
No love dreams
Only the favors sweet Michael performed for money to eat
'Cause the man kicked the faggot out the house at 16
Amen mother let it be
Before long he was crowned QUEEN for all the world to see bloody body face down
The wages of sin are surely death that's what mama used to say
So there was no sympathy

Let he without sin walk amongst the hated and feared and know true trial and tribulations
See my dear we're all dying for something searchin' and searchin'
Soon mama found out that god would turn his back on her too

Save me save me from this life
I pray to my Lord above save me they say you're the way the light

Mary Magdalene

I often watch you the way you whore yourself
You're so beautiful
You flirt and tease enviously I wish you'd flirt with me
Perhaps I'm enticed by what you are
I imagine us jumpin' the broom foolish I know that's not the life you live
You live alone in a crowded bed never remembering faces
Conversations just a body for the lonely
Spend one night with me satisfy me for free and I'll love you endlessly
I overheard you say you'd give them what they wanted
So give me what I want

Tell me I'm the only one
I want to marry you
Tell me I'm the only one

In a harlot's dress you wear the smile of a child with the faith of
Mary Magdalene
Yet you wash the feet of unworthy men
Come and I'll set you free into an endless valley of fruits both sweet and sour
And whatever displeases your palate my kisses will wash away
Stay. If you must dance, dance for me
Blessed are the pure at heart for they shall see god so close your eyes and dream
For the world will blind you and I'll judge not so that I may not be judged
Please give me what I want

Tell me I'm the only one
I want to marry you
Tell me I'm the only one

God Shiva

God Shiva is imminent love and transcendent reality
God Shiva my supreme reality

I am here no longer a vision birthed into my body
I accept praise, blame, joy, sorrow
I realize we are in truth the truth we seek god
Perfect this very moment

God Shiva is imminent love and transcendent reality
God Shiva my supreme reality

Desire no more what you already possess
You are already free my nature is to love you
My soul identical to god
On a journey to return to my creator bliss

You are my mind of the mind
My eye of eye
Life of my life

Who is He and what is He to You

A man we passed just tried to stare me down
And when I looked at you you looked at the ground
I don't know who he is but I think that you do

Dag gummit
Who is he and what is he to you

Something in my heart and in your eyes
Tells me he's not someone just passin' by
And when you cleared your throat was that your cue

Dag gummit
Who is he and what is he to you

Now when I add the sum of you and me
I get confused and I keep coming up with three
You're too much for one but not enough for two

Dag gummit
Who is he and what is he to you

Now you think I'm one not much for intuition
Lord is that what you really think or are you wishin'
Before you wreck your old home be certain of the new

Dag gummit
Who is he and what is he to you

Stay

I want you
I can't get you off my mind
Ooh you turn me on-stay

So sorry you think it's wrong being here alone with me
I wish I could understand you and what you feel
You must feel something or you wouldn't have let me get this far
So don't be afraid just give in

If you let me have you just this once I promise never to want you anymore
'Cuz what's happening now feels so good
And the forbidden always arouses temptations
Come here let me have you
Just stay
Ooh baby come on let me

Bitter Sweet

You enchant me so my bittersweet flower
Mystery of the sages come into my realm of imagination let me digest you

You enchant me so my bittersweet flower
Shall we make love feel the waves of the ocean come to rest in the eye of a storm

I cry myself to sleep over you
You come then you go
The more I fall the more you let go
The sweet taste of you stains my lips
Even through the pain it's only you I miss

Unlike those before I wanna free you
Let the sweetness of your kiss rush over me
I search so many lifetimes
Let my soul rest in your arms
And I'll let you inside

Tear and a Smile

When we make love I feel it so deeply
When we make love I cry
When you kiss me my lips they burn with fear
For even a love that crowns may crucify
In the cradle of creation between the hand of love I died and there you were
I was warmed amidst the gaze of your eyes, our minds wounded
by The need for understanding, our bodies betrayed by time

Do you hear me can you taste my pain for love has no other desire but to fulfill itself
But to deny yourself the pleasure of that pain is to love selfishly

I stood there
Your heart lay captive in a cage fashioned by your fears not knowing what to say
You have many lovers and yet I alone love you far beyond any lily white fairy tale

I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart for the joys of the multitude
And I would not have the tears that sadness makes to flow from my every part turn into laughter
I want the hunger for your love and beauty to fill me from the depths of my spirit

I remember when you filled my heart with joy
Was I blind to the truth just there to fill the space
‘Cause now you have no interest in anything I have to say
And I have allowed you to make me feel dumb
What kind of fool am I that you so easily set me aside

You made a fool of me
Tell me why
You say that you don’t care but we made love
Tell me why
You made a fool of me you made a fool of me

I want to kiss you
Does she want you with the pain that I do
I smell you in my dreams
But now when we’re face to face you won’t look me in the eye
No time no friendship no love
Don’t say don’t touch you I can’t touch you no more
Can’t touch you any more any more
I don’t touch you anymore

You made a fool of me
Tell me why
You say that you don’t care but we made love
Tell me why
You made a fool of me you made a fool of me

My daddy made no excuse
I believe my lies are truth
Why won’t you eat what you are fed
When I touch myself I think of only you
And when I touch someone else

I hear voices and I can’t stand to be alone
‘Cause emptiness is all I have ever known
Soiled by my lust I feel no shame
No longer forsaken when they call my name
Beautiful angels come to my bed
I am satisfied on their flesh I have fed

Only you satisfy me only you satisfy me
Only you
Only you satisfy me only you satisfy me

The rays of the sun greet my body
I am naked in your world
Come walk me through the garden
And fill me with your love
I’ve searched my whole life this life
For the reason that we cry
Just one kiss then I close my eyes

Only you satisfy me only you satisfy me
Only you
Only you satisfy me only you satisfy me

Alone I am never
I am but one of many
And you have so that I may see
Freedom amidst this mockery
I hold out my hand and touch heaven
Tear out my grieving heart
But you come and fill it with love

Only you satisfy me only you satisfy me
Only you
Only you satisfy me only you satisfy me

You push me away bitterly
My apologies fall on your deaf ears
You curse my name bitterly
And now your eyes they look at me bitterly

I stand ashamed amidst my foolish pride
‘Cause for us there’ll be no more
For us there’ll be no more
And now my eyes look at you bitterly
Bitterly bitterly

Waterfall
Nothing can harm me at all
My worries seem so very small
With my waterfall

Some people say
Day-dreamings for all the, huh,
Lazy minded fools
With nothin' else to do
So let them laugh, laugh at me
So just as long as I have you
Just as long as I have you

Waterfall
Don't ever change your ways
Fall with me for a million days
Oh, my waterfall

He caresses the hair from her face
Thinks to himself such a lovely face
Gives his entire self
Shares his secrets
But it’s all in vain
His love for her drowns him
In a sea of denial
Her fear of being alone
Will it keep her there

He loves with sweetness and sincerity
While she may only pretend
He loves with sweetness and sincerity
While she may only pretend

In the morning he reaches out to feel her warmth
She pulls away
Closes his eyes
He’s so ashamed
He’s poor in all but truth
But what a fool is he
To wish for wine in her empty kiss

They were both young
He believed in himself only
In his oversize Dickeys cinched up way high
She lived in her books and fantasies
They both searched for some sort of loyalty
When they made love begged each other just don’t betray me

Her mother’s heart has been shattered
Told her daughter to be ware
But secrets and dreams you should never share
Trust only in change ‘cause hearts change
But betrayal always feels the same
But with him she found loyalty

‘Cause like a child you will never want for love
‘Cause all that I have I give to you
Come and take my hand and share my life with me
‘Cause you are my soul and I will always love you

Such pretty hair
May I kiss you
May I kiss you there
So beautiful you are
So beautiful
Please don't move
It feel so good to me
Hmm tell me my
Beautiful
Beautiful
So very beautiful
So beautiful
Beautiful
So beautiful

You rarely notice but I hang on your every word
Everything you say
You are much too busy to notice me
You turn and walk away
Into another’s arms hopeless ashamed
I wish I could hold you that way
Brokenhearted I dream for you to notice me

Wasted time on loving you wasted time
Wasted time on someone
Who won’t love you as much as I
As much as I as much as I as much as I

In my fantasy you are asleep beside me
I feel you breathe
If only I could be there for you
The one that you make love to

Wasted time on loving you wasted time
Wasted time on someone
Who won’t love you as much as I
As much as I as much as I as much as I

Can’t say I have ever been faithful
Except to God
Never felt I could call anywhere home
Till I fell asleep here in your arms

Your love is my only saving grace
You caress my heart
Kiss my face
Your love is my only saving grace

Sometimes God calls out to me to come home
‘Cause I feel so alone
Then I taste your kiss
Your touch your sweet love

Your love is my only saving grace
You caress my heart
Kiss my face
Your love is my only saving grace

Your love is my only saving grace
You caress my heart
Kiss my face
Your love is my only saving grace your love.

*** Thanx a lot to J.L. Peterka - W.L. Barlow - D. David Dismali
for their amazing job on this great new LP ! ***

Dead nigga blvd (pt. 1)

You sell your soul
Like you sell a piece of ass
Slave to the dead white leaders on paper
And welfare cases
Rapists and hoes
All reinforced your tv show
Exotic and beautiful videos

Yeah
A jail's a sanctuary for the walking dead
It fucks with your head
When every black leader ends up dead
Somebody said
Our greatest destiny is to become white
But white is not pure
And hate is not pride
And just cuz civil rights is law
Doesn't mean that we all abide

So tell me are you free?
While we campaign for every
Dead nigga blvd
So young motherfuckers can
Drive down it in your fancy cars
Free
You try to hold on to some africa of the past
One must remember
It's other africans
That helped enslave your ass
Cuz everybody's
Just trying to make that dollar
Remember what jesse used to say?
I am somebody
No longer do i blame others
For the way that we be
Cuz niggas need to redefine
What it means to be free

I can't even tell my brothers and sisters
That they're fine
This absence of beauty
In their heart and mind
Stopped breastfeeding the child
You put 'em on the cow
And now you wonder why they act wild
You see brown folks are the
Keepers of the earth
Unifiers of the soul and mind
Not these wannabe-gotti pimps and thugs
Wearing diamond watches
From african slave mines

Perhaps to be free
Is to all love those who hate me
And die a beautiful death
And make pretty brown babies

You campaign for every
Dead nigga blvd
So y'all young motherfuckers can
Drive down it in their fancy cars
You try to hold on to some africa of the past
Then one must remember
It's other africans
That helped enslave your ass
Everybody's trying to make that dollar
Remember what jesse used to say?
I am somebody
No longer do i blame others
For the way that we be
Cuz niggas need to redefine
What it means to be free

You campaign for every
Dead nigga blvd
Just trying to make that dollar
So y'all young motherfuckers can
Drive down it in your fancy cars
You try to hold on to some africa of the past
Then one must remember
It's other africans
That helped enslave your ass
Cuz everybody's
Trying to make that dollar
Remember what jesse used to say?
I am somebody
No longer do i blame white folks
For the way that we be
Cuz niggas need to redefine
What it means to be
Free.

Dick gregory : ("human rights & property rights") :

"Understand young folks, when you put property rights ahead of human rights
Understand you're tampering with nature.
Hmm. That's right. You see, property rights is controlled by man
And human rights, is controlled by nature."

Hot night

Angela davis :
"i was a member of the communist party.
I'm not a member of the communist party, anymore - but i consider myself very much a socialist.
So we'll get to that later."

Let's go

Angela davis:
"One of the reasons why the war in vietnam was able to happen as long as it did
Was because this - of this fear of communism.
And people pointed to the vietnamese as their enemy.
As if somehow or another
If the country defeated the communist enemy in vietnam
Things were gonna be okay at home."

But it’s a hot night,
Let's talk about the sign of the times
Politics
And the plight of the revolutionary soul singer
It’s a hot night
Head down to the club
For the pina coladas without the alcohol
And let's talk about the world y'all
Can you pick me up?
You know i hate driving in the evil city
And baby read my mind, hit la caridad
So i can get some coffee
And we can get our talk on
Seems i got caught up in this romanticized idea of revolution
With saviors, prophets and heroes
But in the silence of my prayers
I had a vision of my hatred
Dissolving into grains of sand
Realized
That to the universe
That's all i really am
Just a grain of sand
I know i get caught up in all that spiritual shit
But there aint much to hold onto
We all living in a world built upon
Rape, starvation, greed, need, fascist regimes
White man, rich man democracy
Suffer in the world trade paradise
Hear me now...
But it’s a hot night,
Let's talk about the sign of the times
Yeah
Politics
And the plight of the revolutionary soul singer
Word up
C'mon
It’s a hot night
Head down to the club for the pina coladas without the alcohol
Let's go
And let's talk about the world y'all
Angela davis: "and nike has a factory in ho chi minh city..."
Let me be the first to say this,
Fuck the first bitch
That ever asks me to buy her some dumb shit
C'mon
Niggas be fighting
For jordan's they can't afford
Bought in a store
Costing more than a hundred, yeah
Capitalism got em trapped in a vision
That ya love to watch way more than a sunset
Ah
I feed my babies with music
I tell the truth
But now i'm a target in they market,
Ain't that a summummabitch?
It's an urgent emergency
Courtesy of the counterinsurgency
Trying to murder me
Yeah
And now it's on, and ah
It's cuz i verbally hurdle all their absurdities
Accurate rhyme poem and i,
Survive the storm and ah
Certainly words can be weapons
If people heard me they thinking they god,
That they decide what's right and wrong
They live in a bubble
I live for the struggle
After the fight,
We home on a hot night,
My woman is nice and warm but ah...
It’s a hot night,
Yeah
Let's talk about the sign of the times
Politics
Ah
And the plight of the revolutionary soul singer
C'mon
It’s a hot night
Head down to the club for the pina coladas without the alcohol
And let's talk about the world y'all
Let's do it, c'mon
Join the party, fist in the air,
Everybody for the
Revolutionary soul singer
Side to side,
Third eye on the prize,
We'll take a ride with the
Revolutionary soul singer
Give the seeds what they need to breath and proceed
It's the revolutionary
Soul singer
Word up, yeah y'all,
We prepared y'all, no fear y'all
Come on
It’s a shame the way we all run around
Blind to the facts, yeah
It’s a shame the way we all run around
Cuz you blind, baby
Blind to the facts, ah
Yeah
It’s a shame the way we all run around
Cuz you blind, baby
Blind to the facts, yeah
It’s a shame the way we all run around
Cuz you blind, baby
Blind to the facts of who you are
Yeah
But it’s a hot night,
Ah
Let's talk about the sign of the times
Politics
And the plight of the revolutionary soul singer
C'mon
It’s a hot night
Head down to the club for the pina coladas without the alcohol
And let's talk about the world y'all
Let's do it

Soul singer
Soul singer

Angela davis : ("the prison industrial complex")
"And now of course, that the welfare system has been disestablished
And there are no jobs, so to speak - for for women who are told, that if they don't work...
They can only get welfare for a certain period of time and then they have to find a job.
Now they haven't had the opportunity to go to an institution like this.
They may not have the skills. Where are they going to find a job?
And if they have children, how are they going to pay for childcare,
In order to guarantee the conditions which will allow them to work?"

Bla bla bla, dyba dyba dyba

(ring)
(ring)

(picking up)

Hello?
Yeah, this is me
Who is this?
Oh, yeah
I remember you
(laughs)
Yeah i'm just a little busy
I was hanging out with cato
Listening to some music
Yeah... Yeah
...ooh
I'm trying to get to know you too
Yeah maybe i'll come by a little later
And um
You can get to know me a little better alright?
I got to go
Alright

(click.)

Priorities 1-6

I hail from a suburb
Outside southeast
No i ain't the type
I don't like to run in the streets
And i ain't really into none of that
Uh
Pimp & thug mentality
But i like to smoke some weed
And get close
And set my mind free

Can i hang with you?
I ain't gonna pay your rent
All i've got is Love
And time
To spend
I ain't gonna pay your rent
Cuz all i've got is Love
And time to spend
Can i hang with you?
Tell me
Can i hang with you?
I wanna hang with you

Yeah
I got a nice car
So what?
Yeah, and i got a nice house too
Come here
It don't mean a thing
Without someone there
To share
Give my Love to
And i think that's you

I just wanna talk and get to know you
I just wanna talk and get to know you
I just wanna talk and get to know you
Before i touch you
Learn to Love you

Can i hang with you?
I ain't gonna pay your rent
All i've got is Love
And time
To spend
I ain't gonna pay your rent
All i got is
Love
And time to spend
I wanna hang with you, baby
Can i hang with you?

Yeah
And yes, you know you fine
Yeah

I ain't gonna pay your rent
Cuz all i've got is Love
Cuz i ain't gonna pay your rent
Cuz all i've got is Love
Give you
What you really want
I ain't gonna pay your rent
Cuz all i've got is Love
What you really need
Tell me
Can i hang with you?

I just wanna talk and get to know you
I just wanna talk and get to know you
I just wanna talk and get to know you
Before i touch you
Learn to Love you

Tell me can i hang with you?

I just wanna talk and get to know you
I just wanna talk and get to know you
What you really need
I just wanna talk and get to know you
Before i touch you
Learn to Love you

Can i hang with you?
I ain't gonna pay your rent
Cuz all i got is Love
And time to spend
So tell me
Can i hang with you?
I ain't gonna pay your rent
Cuz all i got is Love
I wanna hang with you
Tell me can i hang with you?

I just wanna talk and get to know you
I just wanna talk and get to know you
I just wanna talk and get to know you
Before i touch you
Learn to Love you
Can i hang with you?

Pocketbook

Look-a-here
Huh

C'mon
Yeah
C'mon
C'mon
Yeah
C'mon

Ya like to have money in your pocketbook
That's alright
Ya gotta lotta sense
Runnin' through your bones
And that's alright

Your mama got to be fine
You probably breastfed
'Cause you look all healthy
Ooh
With your chi-chi pretty eyes
Put on your prada lip balm
And sit, baby
With the swerve in your hip
Order
Can i get a drink?
Yeah
Yes you can
Pull the wad from your purse
Tip
Start singin' my shit
With the chorus
First

Ya like to have money in your pocketbook
That's alright
Ya gotta lotta sense
Runnin' through your bones
And that's alright
You like to be in the know
With all the major figures
And
That's alright
You like to hang out and shake that thing
Mmm
And that's alright

Girl got your own thing
You know everybody
High class,
Mediocre
To riff raff
Love is the root politic
You read between the paragraphs
You know what you make after taxes
You like to get free
You've been to cuba
And you don't watch tv
You only get greedy
For the power of the p
Yeah
And me
Now

Ya like to have money in your pocketbook
That's alright
Ya gotta lotta sense
Runnin' through your bones
And that's alright
You like to be in the know
With all the major figures
And
That's alright
You like to hang out and shake that thing
All night
And that's alright

Yeah, ooh
How that feel?
How'd that feel baby
Whatcha feel?
What ya feel baby
I got feel
I'm gettin' you baby
Look-a-here, ah

Ya like to have money in your pocketbook
That's alright
Ya gotta lotta sense
Runnin' through your bones
And that's alright

Ooh, hey
Look-a-here
What you got?
C'mon
Yeah
Look-a-here
I like the way you switch
When you walk by
Everything
You know that you wanna try
Don't be ashamed
'Cause i can make you feel
Real
Good

Get it

So grab your ass
I mean my purse
Hit me with that chorus first
Check it

Ya like to have money in your pocketbook
That's alright
That's alright
Ya gotta lotta sense
A lotta sense c'mon
Runnin' through your bones
Yeah
And that's alright

You like to be in the know
With all the major figures
And
That's alright
You like to hang out and shake that thing
Mmm
And that's alright

Ya like to have money in your pocketbook
That's alright
Ya gotta lotta sense
Runnin' through your bones
And that's alright

You like to be in the know
With all the major figures
And
That's alright
You like to hang out and shake that thing
All night
And that's alright

Yeah
C'mon, c'mon
Yeah
I said
That's alright
Yeah
C'mon, c'mon
Yeah
I said that's alright
Now
Shit
Ooh
We in the pocket
Yeah
Make it swing
Do my thing

Ya like to have money in your pocketbook
That's alright
Ya gotta lotta sense
Runnin' through your bones
And that's alright

You like to be in the know
With all the major figures
And
That's alright
You like to hang out and shake that thing
All night
And that's alright.

Barry farms

Kiggo Wellman :
"So go-go music is party music..."

Slice 'em on up,
Slice 'em on up
Slice 'em on up,
Slice 'em on up

I'm gonna wind ya up
Let me wind ya up
I'm gonna wind ya up
Let me wind ya up
All the shorties in the house
Gonna wind ya up
Gonna wind ya up
Now
Let me wind ya up
Let me wind ya up

See
She was about seventeen
Ooh
Just young and fine, mmm
She had the kind of Kisses
That make you sad
She liked to flirt with me
Then act like she didn't know me
When her friends came around
But i didn't mind

Cuz when her friends weren't around
Shorty and i
We'd hang out real tight
Just sit up and talk

But one night
She wanted to see
Just how far
It could go
Just how far
I would go
Hahaha

Oh yeah
She couldn't Love me without shame
She only wanted me for one thing
But you can teach your boy to do that
Yeah
Can you Love me without shame?
I need you when i feel pain
Yeah
You like to mess around

I said ooh, baby babe
Baby baby
Trying to get up in your thing
I said ooh, baby babe
Baby baby
So young, you sweet thing

Now word had been gettin' around town
That shorty and i
We was a little bit more than just friends
And see
She really wasn't feelin' that
So she stopped calling me
Then one day i ran into her
She was hanging out with this young boy
That liked to take her out and buy her things
Yeah
And you know how we like material things
Yeah

And then she walked over
Licked her lips
And whispered in my ear
And she said,
“you know i've missed you baby...”
Ah
I said, “cool.”
And i said, “tell me,
Tell me...
What do you miss?”
She said,
“can't nobody eat my pussy
The way that you do...”

She couldn't Love me without shame
She only wanted me for one thing
But you should teach your boy
To do that
Can you Love me without shame?
I need you when i feel pain
But now
You like to fuck around

Won't you let me Love you baby,
You like to fuck around
Mmm
Kiss and hug you baby
And now you don't come around
No more
You wanna mess around

Can you Love me without shame?
You only want me for one thing
You know what?
You should teach your boy
To do that

Drop it
Yeah

I wanna slice it up

You'd say
Yes i Love you
Yes i Love you

You're so fine
So sweet
You're so
Fine
So sweet
You're so fine
So sweet.

Kiggo Wellman :
"When I play, I watch the crowd.
I watch the women, women party
Chain reaction..."

Trust

Put your tongue
In my mouth
Make me wet
Run your hands
Down my back
Grab my ass
Lay me down
Spread my legs
Mmm, tell me
What's it like

Inside me
Mmm
Inside me
Oh yeah
Inside me

You're so hard
Mmm, so warm baby
So deep
Deep
Let me hold you closer
Baby
I won't let go
Let me stroke you with my warmth
Make you come

Inside me
Inside me
Yeah, does it feel good?
Inside me
Can't you feel
My sadness
Inside me
Can you feel
So deep
Yeah yeah
So deep
Ooh
Ooh
Yeah.

Akel dama (field of blood)

[Gil Scott-Heron: "Comment #1"]

Who covers themselves with the light
As if it were a garment?
Who makes the angel's spirit
From the flames of the fire?
Laid the foundation of the earth
So that it shall not be moved
Covered it with the deep of the ocean
Who stands above the mountains
And at your word, they fled,
They hastened away
Send the springs into the valley
That flow through the hills
And give drink to the beasts of the field
And quench their thirst
By you the birds of the heavens
Have their home
And sing amongst the branches
The earth is satisfied by the fruit of your works
Cause the grass to grow for the cattle
And the vegetation
For the service of the human
So that they bring forth the fruit from the earth
The wine that makes glad the heart of man
And oil that makes his face shine
The wine that makes glad the heart of man
And oil that makes his face shine

Makes the face shine

I like to watch the leaves fall, last breath
Sweet ash from the slash and burn
And lazy eyes from being in a dream
Talk to the trees...
Please, me, see, be, free,
Heed, believe, see, breath
Need and want nothing
I need and want nothing

Dry roses hang from the bed
Nakedness is all around
Barren is my soul
I beg to be a child born for Love
So i sway to the pulses of the rivers of blood
That flow through my body
Cuz I believe in things you cannot see
To some god is the light
That leads them to believe,
That they see,
And know everything
To some god is the light
That leads them to believe
That they see,
And know everything
But if one is to truly be born again
You would have to gouge out your eyes,
Cut out your tongue,
And grieve
And cry like a baby
That's been snatched away
Cry like a baby that's been snatched away
Sister,
Cry like a baby that's been snatched away
Brother,
Cry like a baby that's been snatched away
To some god is the light
That leads them to believe that they see,
And know everything
I sway to the pulses of the rivers of blood
That flow through my body
Cuz i believe in things,
That you cannot see

I believe in things that i cannot see
To some god is the light
That leads them to believe that they see
And know everything.

Earth

Let me be the rain
You thirst for
Let me be the sun
That you adore
And let my sweet, sweet ocean
Caress your shore
Let your heart
Search no more

You're my earth
Mmm
Paradise
I say you're my earth
My earth, my my
You're my earth
You're my earth
Sweet paradise
I say you're my earth

There's no place i'd rather be
Your beauty is surrounding me
For your tears black orchids bloom
Orchids bloom
My soul is fed by you
Fed by you
The wanting with birth, then death
It's back to dirt
Home, to you

You're my earth
In paradise
I say you're my earth
My earth, my my
You're my earth
You're my earth
Sweet, sweet paradise
I say you're my earth

Sweet, sweet
Mmm
Sweet, sweet paradise

I searched for you all over the world
Yes, search
Searched for you
All my life

I've searched,
Searched for you
Searched for you all my life
Life
Mmm
Yeah

Oh i
Mmm
I've searched,
Searched for you
Searched for you all my life

I've searched,
Searched for you
Searched for you all my life
Oh i

Listen to my heart speak
Bathe in the warmth of the morning sun
Morning sun, morning sun
I wait for you
I wait for you
Hmm
Bathe in the warmth of the morning sun
Morning sun, morning sun
My earth

Bathe in the warmth of the morning sun
I wait for you, i wait for you
Bathe in the warmth of the morning sun
I wait for you, i wait for you
Bathe in the warmth of the morning sun
I wait for you, i wait for you.

Better by the pound

Pleasure is the motivation
For the human race
Everything starts and ends with sex
And appeal
Feeling good is the bait
They use to fish for you and me
Comfort is the poison
It's your spirit they want to kill

There's a tidal wave of mysticism
Surging through our space-age generation
And it's all designed
To take you to the sky

There is such a need
To get nice
And feel nice
And i need it more than i ought to
I said
My preacher keeps promisin' satisfaction
The ladies keep giving up the gratifaction
You know what?
I'm feeling better
By the pound

There's a tidal wave of mysticism
Surging through our space-age generation
And it's all designed
To take you to the sky
Take you to the sky
Take you to the sky

I'm feeling better by the pound
By the pound

Come on mother earth,
Come here let it speak to you
I say
Come on brother earth,
Come here let it speak through you...
Come on, and fly

There's a tidal wave of mysticism
Surging through our space-age generation
Try to take your mind, yeah
And it's all designed
To take you to the sky
Take you to the sky
Take you to the sky

I'm feeling better by the pound
Yeah

Hit my knees,
And stop wanting for the world
I gotta hit my knees,
And stop wanting for the world
Yeah
Satisfaction, gratifaction
Ain't got no reaction,
To the politricks
And stop wanting for the world
Gotta hit your knees,
And stop wanting for the world
Yeah
Satisfaction
Gratifaction
Ain't got no reaction, to the politricks

There's a tidal wave of mysticism
Surging through our space-age generation
And it's all designed
It's a tidal wave of mysticism
To take you to the sky
Take you to the sky
Take you to the sky

There's a tidal wave of mysticism
Surging through our space-age generation
Tidal wave
And it's all designed
To take you to the sky
Take you to the sky
Take you to the sky.

Criterion

Yeah
So its me
And some of this shit
Cuz it tells you
Every thang that you wanna hear

Have you
Save you
Take you
Know you
Know you
Soothe you
And please you

I Love you
Until these days are gone
Yeah
I Love you
Until these days are gone

Cuz i'll always Love
You
I'll always Love you
Let me ease your pain
Let me ease ya
Ease your pain
Let me ease ya
Cuz i'll always Love you
I'll always Love you
I said let me ease your pain
Let me ease ya
I said let me ease your pain
Let me ease ya

I'll reveal to you all i see
All i see, all i see...
Show you the way
Let me free you
With the warmth of the rising sun
Free you
With the warmth of the rising sun

Cuz i'll always Love
You
I'll always love you
Yeah
Let me ease the pain
Let me ease ya
Ease the pain
Let me ease ya
Cuz i'll always Love
You
I'll always Love you
Yes i will
I said let me ease your pain
Let me ease ya
I said let me ease your pain
Let me ease ya

Free you,
With the warmth of the rising sun
Let me
With the warmth of the rising sun
With the warmth of the rising sun

Cuz i'll always Love
You
I'll always Love you
I said let me ease your pain
I said let me ease your pain

Yeah
Cuz even though you break my heart
My wretched soul won't forsake me
Won't forsake me
Yeah
See the way you break my heart
Don't forsake me
Always
Love you

Lift me high
Lift me high
Lift me high
Lift me high
Take me high
Take me high
Don't forsake me
Don't forsake me
Hide me
The only one,
You're the only that Loves me
Hey
You're the only one
The only one,
Ease my pain
Yeah.

GOD FEAR MONEY

Yeah
God shinin' the light
He just turned on the spotlight
Yo, check it
The devil
Put you on display
Yeah

I say
I used to believe
Everything i read
& see on tv
I was way down for the revolution
Until i found out
It was contingent upon some
Corporate sponsorship
And if jesus was alive today
He'd be incarcerated
With the rest of the brothers
While uh
The devil would have a great apartment
On the upper east side
Be a guest v.j.
On total request live

God, fear and money
Make the world go 'round and 'round
God, fear and money
I say god, fear and money
Make the world go 'round and 'round
God, fear and money
Yes you do, lord

I say mary don't you weep
Mary don't you moan
Lord have mercy
Come carry me home
And my brother up in heaven
Hallow by thy name
And if you truly are the shepherd
Why do they want, destroy
Slaughter all in your name?
Tell me

God, fear and money
Make the world go 'round and 'round
God, fear and money
Yes you do
God, fear and money
Make the world go 'round and 'round
God, fear and money

God, fear and money
Make the world go 'round and 'round
God, fear and money

Walk the walk
If you gonna talk that talk
Politicians...
God, fear and money

The devil's work is never done
God
The devil's work is never done
The devil's work is never done
God
The devil's work is never done

The devil's work is never done
Free yourself from the chains
Of envy
The devil's work is never done
Yeah
God, fear and money.

Jabril

I could no longer
Hope
Wish or dream
As i watched the blood
Pour from me
I call for gabriel
But he will not come
There are no more angels left
To comfort thee
My life was not lost
In war
No spiritual rebellion
There is no uprise
I'm a victim of
Hate, fear and greed
Can you look my in my eye
Why
Have you slain me?

Forgive me lord
As i die in vain
No
You have no angels to comfort me
Forgive me
Forgive me lord
As i die
No
You have no angels to comfort me

Another day
Another day
I shall not see
I shall not see
Or feel the sun, and earth
Beneath me
I don't wanna die alone
So afraid
Is this the hell
That your father's fear?

Forgive me lord
As i die in vain
You have no angels to comfort me
Say
I forgive you lord
As i die
Have you no angels
Have you no angels
To comfort thee?
Say have you no angels
Take me home

I was blind
But now i see
That your world's so fucked
That there are no more angels left
To comfort me

To comfort me
To comfort me

I forgive you lord

My lord
Forgive me
Forgive me
Forgive me
I was blind
Forgive me
But now i see
Yeah, yeah yeah
I was blind
My weary soul
Now i see.

6 legged griot trio (weariness)

In my weariness...

[Claude Mckay: "If We Must Die."]

[June Jordan: "In Memoriam: Martin Luther King Jr."]

[Etheridge Knight: "Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane."]

Dead nigga blvd (pt. 2)

You can gain the world
And lose your soul
Worrying about what you ain't got

Trying to make that dollar
Trying to make that dollar
Trying to make that dollar

Lift me up!
Lift me up!
Lift me up!
Lift me up!
Lift me up!

Lift me up!

"They say, you're growing up in the rough neighborhood. You're mama's on crack.
Everytime she gets a welfare check - it's gone.
You ain't eatin' good. You're goin' to school.
People laughin' at ya 'cause you're dirty and shit... Get money square.
You're goin' to school. You're eatin'... Damn, niggas gettin' jealous.
They want to take your money. So, damn. You got to hold your's...
Can't keep takin' my money, 'cause i'm out here every single day trying to make this money..."

Lift me up!

"Nah, you ain't gonna take my money.
And if it lead up to a fight - you gonna fight.
But then the next time you see 'em, it's gonna be gunplay.
So you - basically you're defending yourself

Pocketbook (remix)

Yo, doctor
Hop out the cadillac
I'm so focused,
Smoke helps my cataracts
Mind on my money, no money on my mind
And i'm looking for me'shell
And a honey on the grind
Club is packed,
I got my honey on the line
So i close my phone,
Honey know me when i'm lyin'
Cuz i be tryin' to get my drink on,
Find two freaks tell them
"drink cuz keith's home"
Murray
Block to block we play dirty
My ball handle's good,
I shut the game early, ya heard me!
Take two women to the tele,
Let the animal out,
Ringling, barnum & bailey
You can't smell me?
That i'm a gorilla?
And i ain't goin' nowhere
Like puff and ben stiller, it's killa
People uh! On their waist line
Me'shell drop it
When i yell bass line,
Bass line, bass line

She like to have money in her pocketbook,
And that's alright
Got a lot of sense runnin' through your bones,
And that's alright

Your mama gotta be fine
You probably breastfed
Cuz you look real healthy
With your chi-chi pretty eyes,
Put on your prada lip balm and sit
With that swerve in your hip,
Order, can i get a drink?
Yes you can,
Pull the wad from your purse,
Tip,
Start singing my shit,
With the chorus,
First...

She like to have money in her pocketbook
And that's alright
Got a lot of sense runnin' through your bones
And that's alright
I like the way you shake that thing,
Baby, that's alright
You like to hang out and shake that thing,
Baby, that's alright

Baby girl got her own thing,
She know everybody
High class, mediocre to riff-raff
Love is the root politic
She read between the paragraphs,
She knows what she makes after taxes
She like to get free,
She been to cuba, she don't watch t.v.
She only get greedy,
For the power of the p, and me
Yeah

She like to have money in her pocketbook,
And that's alright
Got a lot of sense runnin' through your bones,
And that's alright
She like to be in the know,
With all the major figures
And that's alright
She like to hang out, shake that thing all night,
And that's alright

Talk to me, walk with me, bounce with me
That's alright
Introducing the illest mutha
You ever heard in your life
Look-a-here

I like the way you switch when you walk by
I can do everything,
You know that you want to try
Don't be ashamed
Cuz i can make feel real good
Grab your ass and your purse
Hit me with the chorus

She like to have money
That's alright
She like to have money in her pocketbook,
That's alright
Got a lot of sense runnin' through your bones,
That's alright
Like to be in the know with all the major figures
That's alright
Like to hang out, shake your thing all night.

Love song #1

When you want me baby, yeah
Just call me
When you want me baby, yeah
Just call me
Just call...
Just call, me
Just call.

Let me kiss your body
And feel you with love
Let me feed your body
And fill you with love
’Cause i can’t sleep
When i ain’t close to you
I cry, i cry
Let me feel your body

This is love
My love
This is how i love you

This is love
My love
This is how i love you
I love
You.

I adore you
Your mind, body & soul
I’ve searched my whole life
For you, baby
You’re deeper than love
Deeper than blood

This is love
This is how i love you
This is love
My love
This is how i love you

This is love
This is how i love you

Stir it up
Move your body nice and slow
Yeah
Stir it up

Stir it up
Move your body nice and slow
Yeah
Stir it up
Move your body nice and slow
Yeah.

Come smoke my herb

My voices tell me
Be still
Have faith
Stay clear of the rat race
It’s alright
I’m simple like the flowers
And just love
And worry not
About tomorrow

Be simple like the flowers
Come smoke my herb
Make your heart like the ocean
Your mind like the clear blue sky
Come smoke my herb
Make your heart like the ocean
Your mind like the clear blue sky
Come smoke my herb

Do you believe
Creation desires your devotion
Through murder and death
We squabble over
The pieces of the earth
The true beasts are
Those who believe in creation
Without mother, womb or birth
Be simple like the flowers

Come smoke my herb
Make your heart like the ocean
Your mind like the clear blue sky
Come smoke my herb
Make your heart like the ocean
Your mind like the clear blue sky
Come smoke my herb...

Clear blue sky
Clear blue sky
Clear blue sky

Come smoke my herb
Make your heart like the ocean
Your mind like the clear blue sky
Clear blue sky
Your mind like the clear blue sky.

Andromeda & the milky way

Take me down to your river
I wanna get free with you
Take me down,
Take me down
I wanna get free
I wanna get free with you

Take me down to your river
I wanna get free with you
Take me down
Take me down.

Here i wait for you
All my faith in you
All my love is for you
It’s you i wait for
To be free with you.

Take me down to your river
I wanna get free with you
Take me down,
Take me down
I wanna get free
I wanna get free with you

Take me down to your river
I wanna get free with you
Take me down
Take me down.

I wanna feel this feeling of love forever
With you
Forever with you
I wanna give you all my love
I wanna feel, all your love
Take me there with you.

Take me down to your river
I wanna get free with you
Take me down
Take me down
I wanna get free
I wanna get free with you

Take me down to your river
I wanna get free with you
Take me down,
Take me down.

This love
Is written in the stars
This love
Is written in the stars
Meant to be
Forever, forever

This love
Written in the stars
Forever, forever...

Love song #2

La la, la la la
So happy i’m here
La la, la la la
La la, la la la

Born on a black star
I’ve come so far
To give you love
Beautiful,
Beautiful love
Beyond the stars
Is where i’m from
Come with me
We can live in love

I come from a world made of love
I wanna take you there
I come from a world made of love
I, i wanna take you there
We can fly, butterflies

Don’t leave
Stay
Stay with me
Say you love me
Look in my eyes
“i love you”
Yeah, i just wanna love you
With beautiful,
Beautiful love

Made of love
I wanna take you there
I come from a world made of love
I wanna take you there
We can fly, butterflies

We can fly
Butterflies
Come with me
We can fly
Butterflies
We can fly

Come to me
We are the sun...

Body

Come on
Come on
You know what you like
Come on
You know what you want
Come on
You know what you like
Come on
You know what you want
I wanna watch ya baby
Show me, baby

I like the way you move
All around
Touch your body, baby
I like when you move it all around
I like the way you move
All around
Touch your body, baby
I like when you move it all around
All around

You
You, you blow my mind
’Cause i, really
Really
Really love you

I like the way you move
All around
Touch your body, baby
I like when you move it all around
I like the way you move
Up and down
Touchin’ your body
I like when you move it all around
All around

Here we go

You excite me, baby
You do
You excite me, baby
I wanna watch ya, baby
All around
All around
All around
All around

All around
Touch your body, baby
All around...

Liliquoi moon

Mama never cared much ’bout dreams
Or love
She said it reminded her of my daddy
My daddy
He loved to fly
He’d say

Death will come fast
I wanna be free
And closer to the sky
Love grows cold,
Lonely and tired
On the wings of angels
I want to fly

Daddy’s just the blood in my veins
Shadows in my mind
As i’d watch my mama drown in her tears
He’d say

“i can’t promise you love
And i can’t promise you me”
In my heart of hearts
I yearn to fly

And death will come fast
I wanna be free
And closer to sky
Love grows cold,
Lonely and tired
On the wings of angels
I want to fly
I want to fly
I yearn to fly

And death will come fast
Death will come fast
I yearn to fly

Love song #3

My joy
Happiness
No need for doubt
You ease my fears
You open my heart

I want love
To come lay down beside me
I want my love
To come lay down beside me
I wanna kiss
The beautiful
Come lay down beside me
I wanna love
I wanna love

Take me to your garden
Beneath rivers flow
Take me to your moon and stars
We can just swing low
Come take my hand,
Listen to the angels sing
Come take my hand,
Listen to the angels sing
You make me feel beautiful

I want love
To come lay down beside me
I want my love
To come lay down beside me
I want to kiss
The beautiful
Come lay down beside me
I wanna love

Take you to paradise
Your love
Take you to paradise
Your love
Guides me

Take you to paradise
Your love
Take you to paradise
Your love
Guides me

Take you to paradise
Take you to paradise
Your love
Guides me

Take you to paradise
Take you to paradise
Your love, your love

Take you to paradise

Take me to paradise

Fellowship

Would you walk
A righteous path
Without the promise
Of heaven,
Paradise
Streets paved in gold?

Would you slay
Your sister,
Your brotherman
For another man’s greed?

’Cause if you believe that your god
Is better than another man
How we gonna end
All your suffering?
’Cause if you believe that your god
Is better than another woman
How we gonna end
All your suffering and strife?

(from the book of bob)
You believe
Great god gonna come from the sky
Take away everything,
And make everybody feel high
But if you know what life is worth
You’ll look for your’s here on earth
. . . It’s at hand

’Cause if you believe that your god
Is better than another man
How you gonna end
All your suffering?
’Cause if you believe that your god

Say, i believe

May i find
Forgiveness and love
May i find
Forgiveness and love

I believe
Let faith guide you
Forgiveness and love
’Cause i believe that
Let light guide you

Forgiveness and love
Forgiveness and love
Forgiveness and love
Forgiveness and love.

Good intentions

So amazing
Your love
You are
Beautiful
You alone soothe
My lonely heart

Let me tell you where i’m coming from
My intentions are good
Let me tell you where i’m coming from
I pray,
I live for you.

You’re all
I need
Between us
There are no secrets
’Cause i
Adore
You
I love
You.

Let me tell you
Where i’m coming from
My intentions
Are good
Let me tell you
Where i’m coming from
I pray,
I live
For you.

You’re my shelter
Have mercy
On me
You’re my shelter
All my love is for you

You’re my shelter
You’re my shelter
All my love is for you
All my love is for you
All my love is for you

You’re my shelter
Have mercy on me
You’re my shelter
All my love is for you
All my love is for you
All my praise for you
Have mercy on me

You’re my shelter
You’re my shelter baby.

Thankful

Just wanna be happy

Motherfuckers like fancy things
Big houses,
Big cars,
Like movie stars
Gotta have everything
Numb myself to the suffering

Just wanna be happy
And thankful
Not just
Try to get through
Just wanna be happy,
Thankful
Not just
Try to get through

Should i lie
Should i cheat
Turn on my tv
Tell me what i want,
What i need
I lose my faith sometimes
I lose my faith sometimes, yeah

So much suffering for
Fancy cars,
Big houses,
Everything
I lose my faith sometimes
I lose my faith sometimes, yeah

Just want to be happy
And thankful
Not just
Try to get through

Just want to be happy
And thankful
Just want to be happy
And thankful
Try to get through

You’re all i need
Lay your burden down
Ease my sadness
You’re all i need

I lose my faith sometimes
I lose faith sometimes
Just trying to get through
I lose faith sometimes

You’re all i need
Lay your burden down
I lose faith sometimes
You’re all i need
I’m thankful
That i feel you

Ease your sadness
You’re all i need
Lay your burden down
Ease my sadness
You’re all i need
Lay my burden down

I laid my burden down.

Hmm, hmm, hmm

I'm a fish in an aquarium
Cut off from the outside world
The water's always lukewarm
And i observe

Hardly anyone takes notice of me
But I am, here
Quietly floating
My lips, moving
Just like yours

Always in motion
You, never seem to rest
Through my reflection
I watch you
Why do you keep me here, like this

I'm a fish in an aquarium
Cut off from the outside world
The water's always lukewarm
And i observe

No storms in these waters
So quiet, they're turning stale
Sometimes the tension
Keeps me hanging on each day
Each day

Will you starve me or feed me
I never really know
This love
My mountain
My detention
I'm dying slowly

I'm a fish in an aquarium
Cut off from the outside world
The water's always lukewarm
And I observe

I just want to fall
Fall

I'm a fish in an aquarium
And so i will remain
Where i slowly stir the water
And everyday's the same
The same
The same
The same
The same
The same
The same

Your lips are like strands of scarlet
Your mouth is my temple
Your neck's like the tower of David, shields my tunic
Your breast’s are like falls which feed among the lilies
Until the day breaks
To the sweet day breaks

Come bare your soul to me
Come bare your soul to me
Come bare your soul to me
You ravish my heart
Come bare your soul to me

I am dark and lovely
If there are chosen, then chosen is me
I sleep but my heart is awakened by the voice of my beloved
Bathed in the scent of sweet myrrh

Come bare your soul to me
Come bare your soul to me
Come bare your soul to me
You ravish my heart
Come bare your soul to me

Come
Come bare your soul
Come bare your soul to me
Your lips
Your lips are like strands of scarlet
Come bare your soul to me
Come
Come
Come

When did you leave heaven
How could they let you go
How's everything in heaven
I'd like to know

Why did you trade heaven
For all these earthly things
Where on earth did you hide your halo
Where did you lose your wings

Have, oow baby I know they missed you
Can you
Can you get back in
If I
If I kiss you
Would it be a sin
I am only human
But you are so divine
When
Tell me when did you leave
When did you leave heaven
Angel, angel mine
When did you leave heaven
Angel of mine
Take me back
Leave these earthly things
Take me back
I want you
To take me back

Get a bang out of life
Suicide
Straight to paradise
If you're the chosen
Why don't you just
Kill yourself now, kill yourself now
I hate
All you beautiful people

Open up your legs
???
Soothe my
My dissatisfaction
Dissatisfaction
My frustrated destructive reaction
To my life, to my life
???
The voices, they scorn and they mock me
This world is just cold and lonely
Soothe my
My dissatisfaction

Get a bang out of life
Suicide
Straight to paradise
If you're the chosen
Why don't you just
Kill yourself now
I hate
All you beautiful people
All you beautiful people
Why don't you
Kill yourself now, kill yourself now

They want me to believe that god
Is some kind of my imagination
You prefer I believe in leaders, democracy, and fame
They just a multi-sensation
To know me, to know i love
With my imagination
Can you imagine utter nothingness

Get a bang out of life
Suicide
Right straight to paradise
If you're the chosen
Why don't you just
Kill yourself now, kill yourself now
Cause I hate
All you beautiful people
Kill yourself now, kill yourself now

Get a bang out of life
Suicide
Straight to paradise
If you're the chosen
Why don't you
Kill yourself now
Cause i hate
All you beautiful people
???
???

Soothe my
My dissatisfaction

Lovely lovely

With your fingertips
When you kiss my lips
I know that you love me
The way you move your hips
I know that you love me
An earthly joy
A pleasure
I'm grateful, so grateful

Your love
Is lovely lovely
Oh, beautiful one
You're lovely lovely

You're careful
Of who and what you let in your mind
I want to protect what's yours and what's mine
I cherish you and I’ll honor you
Babe

Your love
Is lovely lovely
Oh, beautiful one
Beautiful one
You're lovely lovely

Shirk

You believe

You did nothing wrong
To lead us down this road
I wallow in shame, while you sit there on your throne
When I miss you...I cry
I miss you
I'm sorry I lied

If you can't forgive, and i can't forgive
You
We can't forgive

I'm sorry
I left you no home,
But your words...are shattered by bones
When I miss you, I cry
I miss you
I'm sorry I lied
I'm sorry I lied

( Basement Jaxx feat. Me'Shell Ndegeocello / Kish Kash LP )

Hold my hand while you sleep
So when you dream
I'm there with you

Hold my hand while you sleep
So when you dream
I'm there with you

Home

Hold my hand while you sleep
So when you dream
I'm there with you

Hold my hand while you sleep
So when you dream
I'm there with you

Home
Feels like home
Home
Feels like home

I hurry to make my way home
'Cause you are my truth and my light
And when night falls, I search for you
Make my way closer to you, closer to you

Hold my hand while you sleep
So when you dream
I'm there with you

Hold my hand while you sleep
So when you dream
I'm there with you

Home
Feels like home
Home
Feels like home

Feels like home
Feels like home
Feels like
Feels like
Home

Feels like
Feels like

Forgiveness & Love

Forgiveness and Love
Forgiveness and Love

Great white man discoveries (yeah...)
To another man
That mean robbery
Mr. Politician
How you sleep?
Hide behind
All the justice money can buy
All the justice money can buy

God Bless America
Who God you talk about?
God, Bless America
Who God you talk about?
My God
Is Forgiveness and Love, yeah
Forgiveness and Love

Mother, Mother, mother's mother, Government slave
They rape and murder
Tell me that i'm set free
Now my brother, (government slave)
Wear the uniforms of brutality
Who God you fight for?
Let me tell you who you kill for:
Welcome to the rain where the sun like thunder
Welcome to the reign where the son
Murder like his father

God Bless America
Who God you talk about? (hey)
God, Bless America
Who God you talk about?
My God
Is Forgiveness and Love, yeah
God, Bless America
Who God you talk about? (hey)
God, Bless America
Who God you talk about? (yeah)
My God
Be Forgiveness and Love, yeah
Forgiveness and Love
Forgiveness and Love

Forgiveness and Love
My God
Is Forgiveness and Love
Forgiveness and Love
Mother, Mother, mother's mother,
Government slave
Forgiveness and Love
Tell me
Forgiveness and
Love

Who God you talk about?
Check it.

Nah baby
Keep the lights on
You make me feel so good
Like that, hmm
You make me feel so good
So good, so good
You make me feel so good
You make me feel so good
Me
Feel
So good, so good

Must admit you often
Cross my mind
Yeah
Can't help myself
Think about you all the time
So very
Beautiful
Yes, you are
Just the thought of you
Make me feel
So
Good

You make me feel so good
So good
You make me feel so good
So good, so good
You make me feel so good
Yeah baby, right there
You make me feel so good
So good, so good

My sweet baby
Ooh baby, baby
Can't you see?
That everytime you're close to me
You make my heart stop
Stop stop
Stop
Come here
Just the thought of you
You make me feel so
Good

You make me feel so good
So good
You make me feel so good
So good, so good
You make me feel so good
You make it feel so good, baby
You make me feel so good
Me feel
So good, so good
Baby

You make me feel so good
You make me feel so good
You make me feel so good
I just wanted to
You know
You make me feel so good
Watch you for a little while
'Cause you're so
So beautiful
So
So brown, and round
Mmm
?
Just wanna
Get
Be a little closer
?
Just get a little closer baby
Don't stop
It's alright
Yeah
So, so good baby
Mmm, yeah
So good baby
Mmm, yeah
Mmm, my sweet baby

Damn, you're funky cato.

End the suffering
The meek shall one day inherit the earth
And for those who suffer?
We have no use for ill fated prophets promises
Of freedom
Of freedom

Not needing or wanting anything
That in your hatred you can deprive me of
As i do the time
Cleanse your sick mind
As i do the time
Cleanse your sick mind

Send me
Shall overcome
Someday

See, uh
When you are awake, i'm asleep
And when you are asleep, i will awake
And i will live neither in this cell
Nor in my heart
Only in my head

Yeah, some motherf*cker told me um
I needed to stop dwelling in the past
Deafened by the dissident harmonies
Of sick white crackers
And the tyranny of the self righteous
As i live in my desire
For emptiness

Hate
Is all you see
And in my fear of becoming like you
I gauged out my eyes, damn
You know ? Be worried about the man
? Need to worry about themselves
But all this political bullsh*t
Be fucking up my high

And to you?
I am but the offspring of an obsolete machine
But your myth of superiority
Would not exist
Without me

Send me
Shall overcome
Someday, someday
Someday

You prey on the weak to fulfill your lust
And what you perceive as the kingdom of god
Is no more than the word of man
And his fear of death

Shall overcome
Someday
Someday
?
Yeah, mmm

See paradise
Is the fact that i exist
And i exist
Despite you
I exist
I exist
Despite you
Despite you

Rape my women
Beat my children
Castrate my men
Poison my food, poison my body

Rape my women
Beat my children
Castrate my men
Poison my food, poison my body

Rape my women beat my children
Castrate my men
Poison my food and poison my body

Rape my women
Beat my children
Castrate my men
Poison my food and poison my body.

Let me have you

( How Stella Got Her Groove Back OST )

Let me hold you
Let me disappear inside your arms
Let me have you
Only you can take away this pain
Let me hold you
Let me disappear inside your arms
Let me have you
Only you can take away this pain

Here alone
I sit and wait
For your call
Can ya get away
Just for a little while, hey
What will it take?
To show you
To persuade you
You're the only one

You're the only one

Let me hold you
Let me hold you
Let me disappear inside your arms
Let me have you
Let me have you
Only you can take away this pain
My pain

Let me hold you
Let me disappear inside your arms
Let me have you
Let me have you
'Cause only you can take away this pain

Can't you understand that i
Can't you understand that i
I can't get over you, baby
'Cause my heart breaks for you
What will it take?
What will i say?
Yes
You're the only one

Let me have you
Let me have you
Please
Let me

Let me have you
?
Feels so good
Baby, baby
Baby baby
Feels so good
Take away this pain.

My soul don't dream

( Down In The Delta OST )

My god can't hear me
Sweet heaven done fallin' from the sky
I'm tryin' to find my way, home
My god, can't hear me
Sweet heaven fallin' from the sky
Tryin' to find my way back home
Yes i am

Yeah
Been sufferin' so long
Mama don't cry no more tears

I've broken my own heart
That my soul don't dream
?
Somebody save me
Somebody save me

'Cause god can't hear me
Sweet heaven done fallin' from the sky
Tryin' to find my way, home

God can't hear me
Sweet heaven done fallin' from the sky
Tryin' to find my way home
Oh

Yeah, i've been sufferin' so long
My mama don't cry no more tears
Don't cry no more tears

I wanna be, but i can't get no where
I wanna feel love, but ain't nobody there
My, my, my body get tired
Yeah, my mind gets so, weary
And the heart, oh so heavy