Musicology Illusion, Coma, Pimp & Circumstance A Million Days
Life 'O' The Party Call My Name Cinnamon Girl
What Do U Want Me 2 Do? The Marrying Kind If Eye Was The Man In Ur Life
On The Couch Dear Mr. Man Reflection
[lyrics R from my own interpretation and that of some close FRIENDS]
Eww!
Lord, funky
Heard about the party now
Just east ‘O’ Harlem
Doug E’s gonna B there
But U got 2 call him
Even the soldiers
Need a break sometimes
Listen 2 the groove U’all
Let it unwind Ur mind
No intoxication
Unless U C what I C
Dancin’ hot and sweaty
Right in front of me
Call it what U like
I’m gonna 2 call it how it B
This is just another one
Of God’s gifts
Musicology
CHORUS:
(Got 2) Keep the party movin’
Just like I told U
Kick the old school joint
4 the true funk soldiers
Musicology
(Wait a minute band)
Wish I had a dollar
4 everytime they say
Don’t U miss the feeling
Music gave ya
Back in the day?
Let’s groove, September
Earth, Wind and Fire
Hot Pants by James
Sly’s gonna take U higher
Minor keys and drugs
Don’t make a rollerskate jam
Take Ur pick – turntable or a band?
If it ain’t Chuck D.
Or Jam Master Jay
Know what?
They’re losin’
‘Cause we got a PH.D. in
Advanced body movin’
(Sing)
CHORUS:
Keep the party movin’
Just like I told U
Kick the old school joint
4 the true funk soldiers
Musicology
Alright
Hold it down, band
Get back, fool, get back
Don't U touch my stereo
These is my records
Don't touch
Don't U ever touch
These is- these is- these is- these is my records
Musicology {x2}
Everybody get down on the up stroke!
Old school joint 4 the true funk soldiers
(Ten-hut!)
Good gawd!
Keep the part- keep the- keep- keep the party movin'
Keep the party- keep- keep- uh, Don't stop dancin'
Keep- keep- keep the party movin'
Musicology
Keep- keep- keep the party movin'
Drummerman, ride on the bass
All the way to the crib
CHORUS:
Keep the party movin’
Just like I told U
Kick the old school joint
4 the true funk soldiers
Musicology
(That's what I'm talkin' about)
(Yeah)
(Sing!)
4 the true funk soldiers
Good gawd!
Alright, on the one y'all
Don't U
hear this old school joint?
Don't U ever touch my stereo!
He said, "I got good 'N' plenty
Of what U need the most
And that's time"
If I was Ur girlfriend... {If I Was Ur Girlfriend sample}
17 days (Uh, watch it now...) {17 Days sample}
Uh! {Kiss sample}
Oh yeah! (Rockin' U coast 2 coast) {Sign 'O' The Times sample}
Little red cor-- {Little Red Corvette sample}
Hips and lips, chips and whips
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Illusion, Coma, Pimp & Circumstance
CHORUS:
She knew which fork 2 use
But she couldn’t dance
So he hipped her 2 the funk
In exchange 4 the finance
Who’s pimping who when
Nobody getsa second chance?
This is the story of illusion,
Coma, pimp and circumstance
She was older
But rich beyond compare
She’d drop a thousand dollars
At the salon
Just 2 get her hair did
He was good at compliments
Better in the bunk
She laced him with a crib in Paris
He hipped her 2 the funk
Way 2 fine he was 4 her
A dirty dog in expensive fur
As long as she is providing chips
And whips
We can do this funky thang
As long as she was playing the host
He figured he would make the most
Of them hips and lips
He hooked her up
Rocked her coast 2 coast
Funky thang
(Ugly) She was so ugly
But rich beyond compare
Dropped a couple hundred thousand
Dollars on a silver whip
Just 2 match the color of her hair
She said, “I got plenty of what U need
Put the spoon down honey
Come on, let mama feed ya”
CHORUS:
She knew which fork 2 use
But she couldn’t dance
So he hipped her 2 the funk
In exchange 4 the finance
Who’s pimping who when
Nobody getsa second chance?
This is the story of illusion,
Coma, pimp and circumstance
Where was I? Oh, yeah
A gentleman he was
He never spoke about her nose
So prominent because
In the dark - it glowed
If she was only tan
Instead of so lily white
Her name was Doris
But he called her Flo
As in ‘Rescent
That ain’t right
Florescent
Every night
A situation bound 2 fail
As sure Doris’
Skin was pale
Money might talk
But what does it say?
“U better get busy if U want 2 get paid
Boy I was fine back in tha day”
CHORUS:
She knew which fork 2 use
But she couldn’t dance
So he hipped her 2 the funk
In exchange 4 the finance
Who’s pimping who when
Nobody getsa second chance?
This is the story of illusion,
Coma, pimp and circumstance
Now dance
Dance
He spent her money oh so well
Takin’ baths in cold cristal
He took a trip 2 burn an old flame in ‘Frisco
Like -WoW!
When Doris caught him in her arms
She shrugged her shoulders and said, “No harm…
Just put Ur name on this pre-nup
And we can all hit the disco!”
CHORUS: {x3}
She knew which fork 2 use
But she couldn’t dance
So he hipped her 2 the funk
In exchange 4 the finance
Who’s pimping who when
Nobody getsa second chance?
This is the story of illusion,
Coma, pimp and circumstance
Now dance!
Dance!
Dance!
Dance!
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It's only been an hour since U left me
But it feels like a million days
If I had magic wand that could turn back time
I never let U go away
I didn't have the
heart 2 say I'm sorry
Now I haven't got a heart at all
I could tolerate the pain if I could talk 2 my best friend
But U won't even call...U won't even call
(will U call me baby?)
I'm contemplating
pulling out my suitcase
And packing everything I own
I didn't back then, but I do know now
That wherever U R is home
I'd crawl on my belly
and beg U
But U're so far away
U only been gone 4 an hour
But it seems like a million days
A million days
A million days
It's only been an hour since U left me
I wish I had somebody 2 blame
But U're the perfect picture of what
love should look like
And I want 2 B Ur frame
(It's only been an hour but it feels like a million days)
A million days
A million days
One hundred thousand...
A million days
Come home, come home baby
I can't take this no more
(A million days)
Come home girl
Oh ya, baby, baby,baby, baby, baby
(A million days)
I know I shouldn't put my faith in heroes
But I can't see U any other way
(A million days)
It's only less than hour since U left me girl
(A million days)
Come home baby
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This is the life 'O' the party
We gonna do it right
So U're havin' a party?
Goody 4 U
All the beautiful people gon' B there
Yeah that's cool
U know U gonna have a good time
Cause U got the n.e.w.s.
That's the life 'O' the party
Is gonna party with U
We doin' R own thang
'Til the sun comes up
Sweet Candy's gon' B there
Yeah, it's gonna B rough
She ain't got no OFF switch
And neither do I
When U read it in the paper 2morrow
U gonna hang Ur head and cry
CHORUS:
We gonna have us a party
All R welcome 2
We ain't down with nobody
That don't party like we do
Once we get it started
We got 2 go all night
This is the life 'O' the party
We gonna do it right
Y party in Ur own yard
When U can party in mine?
All the beautiful people gonna B there
Puttin' the ' i ' in FiNE
Throwin' records out the window
CDs out the door
Might as well give 'em 2 the milkman
'Cause we don't want 'em no more
Everybody can smell this funk U'all
Even down in Atlanta GA
Everybody-Even Dre 'N them
Know it's OK
We ain't even trippin' U'all
On this special day
We just called 2 let U know
U betta not come if U can't stay
CHORUS:
We gonna have us a party
All R welcome 2
We ain't down with nobody
That don't party like we do
Once we get it started
We got 2 go all night
This is the life 'O' the party
We gonna do it right
(Horns)
I'm the life 'O' the party
'Long as I got Ur body
Shakin' like a leaf on a tree
U come dance with me
U and me, we got mad chemistry
Don't it make U wanna holla?
Life 'O' the party U'all
We're still makin' dollars
25 years 2 life
The judge sentenced me
2 hard labor with a knife
Makin' cuts 4 U'all
Keepin' the party packed
Fans wall 2 wall
I don't care what they said -
"He don't play the hits no more
Plus I thought he was gay."
It ain't nothin' if it ain't fun
My voice is gettin' higher
And I ain't never had my nose done!
Look out
All the purple hippies bang Ur heads on the 1
We gonna have us a party
All R welcome 2 come
We ain't down with nobody
That don't party like we do
Once we get it started
We got 2 go all night
This is the life 'O' the party
We gonna do it right
Life 'O' the party
All R welcome 2...
We ain't down with nobody
Once we get it started
We got 2 go all night
This is the life 'O' the party
We gonna do it right
Life 'O' the party, yeah
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Call, call my name {x2}
I heard Ur voice this morning
Calling out my name
It had been so long since I heard it
That it didn't sound quiet the same
But it let me know that my name
Had never really been spoken B4
B4 the day I carried U
Thru the bridal path door
Ever since that day I haven't wanted anyone but U
And anybody who really knows me knows the truth
CHORUS:
I can' stop writing songs about U
I love U so much
I just can't wait 2 get my arms around U
And feel Ur touch
If I don't C U real soon babygirl
I might go insane
I know it's only been 3 hours
But I love it when U
Call my name
{yes I do}
I heard a voice on the news sayin',
People wanna stop the war
But if they had a love as sweet as U,
They'd 4get what they were fighting 4
What's the matter with the world 2day?
Land of the free? Somebody lied!
They can bug my phone,
Peep around my home,
They'd only C U and me
Makin' love inside
CHORUS:
I can' stop writing songs about U
I love U so much
I just can't wait 2 get my arms around U
And feel Ur touch
If I don't C U real soon babygirl
I might go insane
I know it's only been 3 hours
But I love it when U
Call my name
I never seen the moon look so lovely
As the night I saw it with U
It let me know that I'd never seen the moon B4
So many speak of the moon
As if it had no flaws
But 2 compare it 2 a beauty like Urs
Would give one pause
Nothin' about U is false,
That's why Ur love is real
God 4bid U belonged 2 another
I'd have 2 steal ya...
Take U from Ur man
I might B tempted 2 break the law
{Around here}
Because Ur beauty - it gives one pause
It slows me down
CHORUS:
I can' stop writing songs about U
I love U so much
I just can't wait 2 get my arms around U
And feel Ur touch
If I don't C U real soon babygirl
I might go insane
I know it's only been 3 hours
But I love it when U
Call my name
{Honey won't U call...}
Call my name
Call my name
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As war drums beat in Babylon
Cinnamon Girl starts 2 pray
I never heard a prayer like this one
Never B4 that day
Tearful words of love 4 people
She had never met B4
Asking God 2 grant them mercy
In this face of holy war
Cinnamon Girl
Cinnamon Girl
Cinnamon Girl of mixed heritage
Never knew the meaning of color lines
9/11 turned that all around
When she got accused of this crime
So began the mass illusion
War on terror alibi
What's the use when the god of confusion
Keeps on telling the same lie?
Cinnamon Girl
Cinnamon Girl
Don't cry, don't shed no tears
One lie won't make us fear
'Cause we now how
This movie's ending
Cinnamon Girl
As war drums beat in Babylon
And torched the blood red sky
Militants bomb with 4eign guns
Both sides-children die
Cinnamon Girl opens up the book
She knows will settle all the scores
Then she prays: after the war-
That there will not B anymore
Cinnamon Girl
Cinnamon Girl
Cinnamon Girl
Cinnamon Girl
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I see U picked me out
from the crowd
Could it B the way I play guitar?
Master of the soft, not 2 loud
One day, maybe I will B a star
I see U picked me out like U want something
But shame on U, baby, can't U see this ring?
CHORUS:
What do U want me 2 do, girl?
What do U want me 2 do, babe?
What do U want me 2 do, girl?
What do U want me 2 do, babe?
I got a woman, U got a
man
So we got 2 do what's right
I said U'd get beheaded in other lands
If I were in Ur arms 2night
Quit tryin' 2 get me under that icy plunder
Boy, oh boy, what a scare, ooh
CHORUS:
What do U want me 2 do, girl?
What do U want me 2 do, babe?
What do U want me 2 do, girl?
What do U want me 2 do, babe?
U picked me out of the
crowd
And ooh, just so bold and so proud
And dressed like U want everybody 2 just say, "Wow!
Didn't her mama teach her better?"
Ow, dressed like that, somebody gon' get her
I see U picked me from
the crowd
Could it B the way I play guitar?
Master of the soft, not 2 loud
I don't ever really wanna B where U R, where U R, no
What do U want me 2
do, girl?
Tell me, what do U want me 2 do, babe?
What do U want me 2 do, girl?
Tell me, tell me, what do U want me 2 do, babe?
I ain't tryin' 2 do that
What do U want me 2 do, girl?
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If U leave her now
U ain't never gonna see her again
She's gonna need a shoulder 2 cry on
She's gonna need a friend
She's gonna need a pillow case
Something 2 put those tears on
And I've got some purple satin laces
One second later than the second U're gone
She's gonna miss U at first
But than she's gonna buy me things
That's when I'm gonna lay her
Across my piano stool and sing 2 her...
CHORUS:
"Honey I tried 2 tell him
That U were the marrying kind
A faithful one-man woman
Best he would ever find
I guess he wasn't trying 2 hear that
So there ain't nothing left 2 say
I tried 2 tell him that if U run 2 me
I won't run away."
If U leave her now
U'll never get another glimpse
I'm gonna lace her
With enough ice 2 recap the pole
There might B another solar eclipse
She's gonna find out
What I like in my eggs,
My bathwater
And how a brutha likes 2 B touched
I am gonna put her on
The same diet Missy went on
U know she eats 2 much
She's gonna miss U at first
Then she'll get used 2 me
All of the tricks I would try
2 make her take this ring and make love 2 me
CHORUS:
"Honey I tried 2 tell him
That U were the marrying kind
A faithful one-man woman
Best he would ever find
I guess he wasn't trying 2 hear that
So there ain't nothing left 2 say
I tried 2 tell him that if U run 2 me
I won't run away."
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CHORUS:
If I was the man in Ur life
I'd make U happy
I'd treat U right
I'd buy U flowers every single day
I'd give U power
I'd do whatever U say
I heard a rumor that Ur man they said he do U wrong
And Ur so vain U think that U're the one behind this song
U know he got plenty of lyrix, yeah, up his sleeve
And after he got what he want he just gonna up and leave
Sunday chocolate on the roof right after his game
He like the Lakers but the Sixers on when he came
If he's with another now U best believe the party's crackin'
U gettin' played girl and U better get Ur mack on
And do un2 others
As they do un2 U
And call me on the day
That U and him R just thru
CHORUS:
If I was the man in Ur life
I'd make U happy
I'd treat U right
I'd buy U flowers every single day
I'd give U power
I'd do whatever U say
Was that U I saw outside the liquor store
Waitin' on that fool 2 purchase what U been dyin' 4?
Never thought I would C a drop of spirit ever bring U down
Now U got that triffilin' barracuda hangin' 'round
Hangin' 'round Ur neck like a cheap gold chain
He don't deserve 2 say that he ever knew Ur name
Much less get 2 smell the perfume I gave ya
Please don't tell me U'all got down
Better do un2 others
As they do un2 U
And call me on the day
That U and him R just 2 thru
If I was the man in Ur life
I'd make U happy
I'd treat U right
I'd buy U flowers every single day
I'd give U power
I'd do whatever U say
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Come on baby
Don't make me sleep on the couch
'Love Jones' is on the TV again, baby
I wanna go down south, yeah
Oh come on, baby
It's undignified (undignified) 2 sleep alone
That's what all the people that
Ain't got nobody do -
Talkin' on the telephone
Don't make me crash (Don't U do it)
(Don't make me sleep)Without Ur kiss
(Oh darlin')
Tossin' and a turnin'
With every inch of me yearnin'
Don't cha make me, don't cha make me
Don't cha make me, don't cha make me
Don't cha make me suffer like this
I know, I know, I know we agreed 2 B married
(We agreed 2 B married)
U shouldn't of let me unzip Ur dress
Y did U do it babe, Y did U do it, Y...
Confess U tease
Unless U please
Please don't...
Don't make me sleep out on the couch
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What's wrong with the world 2day?
Things just got 2 get better
Sho' ain't what the leaders say
Maybe we should write a letter
(said)Dear Mr. Man
We don't understand
Y poor people keep struggling
And U don't lend a helping hand
Matthew 5:5 say:
THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH
We wanna B down with that way
But U been trippin' since the day of Ur birth
Who said that 2 kill is a sin
And started every single war
That Ur people been in?
Who said that water
Is a precious commodity
Then dropped a big, ol' black oil slick
In the deep blue sea?
Who told me Mr. Man
That working 'round the clock
Will buy me a big house in the 'hood
With cigarette ads on every block?
Who told me Mr. Man
That I got a right 2 moan?
How 'bout this big ol' hole in the ozone?
CHORUS:
What's wrong with the world 2day?
Things just got 2 get better
Dear Mr. Man, we don't understand
(mm, mm)Maybe we should write a letter
(listen) Ain't no sense of voting
Same song with a different name
Might not B in the back of the bus
But it sho' feel just the same
Ain't nothing fair 'bout welfare
Ain't no assistance in AIDS
Ain't nothing affirmative about Ur actions
'Til the people get paid!
Ur thousand years R up
Now U got 2 share the land
Section 1, the 14th Amendment says:
NO STATE SHALL DEPRIVE ANY PERSON
OF LIFE, LIBERTY OR PROPERTY
WITHOUT DUE PROCESS OF LAW
Mr. Man,
We want 2 end this letter with 3 words
"We tired U'all"
(fade out)
(Hey, what's wrong with the world 2day?)
(Things have got 2 get better)
(Dear Mr.)
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2 7's 2gether
Like time, indefinite
Try 2 catch the glass B4 it falls
Without a frown, can U turn up the stereo?
I wanna play U this old song
It's about love
Huh, can I do that?
Did we remember 2
water the plants 2day?
I 4got 2 look up at the moon because
I was 2 busy, said I was 2 busy
I was 2 busy looking at U, babe
Still it's nice 2
know, that uh
If bodies wear out we can get another
What does that one thing have 2 do with the other one?
I don't know, I was just thinking bout my... mother
U know what?
Turn the stereo back down
Ain't nothing worse than an old worn out love song
Tell me, do U like my hair this way?
Remember all the way back in the day
When we would compare whose afro was the roundest?
Mirrored tiles, huh
Above the bed
Fishin' nets and posters
All over the walls, aw yeah
(Sometimes) Sometimes, I just wanna go sit out on the stoop
And uh, play my guitar
Just watch all the...
All the cars go by
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