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4 The Tears In Your Eyes•2045:
Radical Man "4 The Tears In Your
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"4 The Tears In Your Eyes" © 1985 Polygram Records |
Who changed stone 2 bread with one touch of his hand
He made the blind see and the dumb understand
And He died 4 the tears in your eyes (Your eyes)
Many people came from all around
2 hear this man preach with glorious sound
He spoke of man in harmony and love abound
And He died 4 the tears in your eyes (Your eyes)
He died 4 the tears in your eyes (Your eyes)
CHORUS:
4 the tears in your eyes if they're tears of sorrow
4 cents may be all that they're worth
4 the rising sun each day assures us
The meek shall inherit the earth, the earth
Faith is a word we all should try
In describing the man who willingly died
Believe that your sorrow, hunger, and fears
Is less than the tears in your eyes, your eyes
Your eyes, your eyes
Less than the tears in your eyes (Your eyes)
CHORUS
(Assures us)
(All they're worth)
CHORUS
© 1985 Controversy Music - ASCAP
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"2045: Radical Man" © 2000 NPG Records |
From anything other than a consumer point of view?
These people make decisions 4 the bulk of us
Without consulting any of us
Sales and distributions of our futures, hah!
If this world were fair and right
They'd give up the car keys this very night
Damn!
(Hit it!)
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Flash 4ward, 2045
What did U stand 4 in the life of your prime
When faced with the final judgment of 2day
Who profited from the game (The game)
That U and your niggas play
Radical man - (Yeah, yeah) save a life
Come on take a stand
Give that money back
Let's make a plan
The brand new currency
Taking care of one another
U and me (Oh)
(Radical, radical)
Flash backward, 1999 (backward, 1999)
In a world shockful of viruses (Tell me)
How'd y'all stay alive? (Everyone of y'all)
Depending on this so-called man
4 everything U got comes from his hand (From his hand)
Food, water, the clothes you wear
How many of y'all niggas really care?
We don't care (We don't care)
Let's define this word: nigga (Define, define)
Someone who stays high (high)
Watching their life go by (bye bye)
Someone content with riding it behind (ride that)
Nigga
They come in all colors
White, Black, Puerto Rican
But the main niggas we speakin' 'bout
Wear suits (Say what?) and buy and sell corporations
With only one thing in mind
(Only one thing in mind)(Break it up!)
That is the destruction of the so-called radical man by 2045
(Let's get radical) {x2}
Watch me now!
Schooled in the art of digital games
When the war broke out they called your name (What's your name?)
Everyone of color put on the front line
Holocaust Avenue, 2009
Get an education, good job, who say? (Who say?)
Fool with the gold fronts drinkin' Alize (Not 2day)
They don't play by the rules makin' no sense 2day
Gotcha online, so you think it's OK (It's not OK)
(Like U're grown)
Better built cellblock, (What?) Mos Def say
"That's where you gonna stay, nigga"
(Where U gonna stay, nigga)
(Oh my God, it's the Green Mile!)
(I wonder who's the man?)(Radical man) {repeated}
What's up y'all?
What y'all wanna do? (Talkin' about a radical man)
Ain't nobody up in that crew know
How 2 really run that computer
And make it flow (Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa)
If U ain't born with it (Radical man)
U know, talkin' about the 2 and 4, hit me!
(Oh)Come on
U know way down, huh
What George say? "Fall around"
All right
We claim Miles Davis, not Michaelangelo
We playin' D-flat in the funk
U better act like U know
We don't care what Albert Einstein did
I'd rather know, rather know (What?)
How they built the pyramid, hey!
James Brown, Chuck D. and Jimi
Turn me up louder now
I don't think y'all hear me (They don't hear ya)
2045 - We will stay alive
2045 (20.... 45) - God is on our side
The whole pop scenario is just nothin' but a dream (Nothin' but a dream)
The day U wake up is the day U get the real cream, nigga
Radical man (Radical man)
Who got the plan, who got the plan?
Radical man (Radical man)
Who got the plan, who got the plan?
This is the funk the industry most fears
All of us getting 2gether (Oh yeah)
In a locked board of directors
I don't think so
Ain't nobody runnin' this
It's all about DNA, nigga
Radical man
Where will U be in 2045?
30 million people right now are being wiped off the face of the planet
By a disease they claim has no cure
In the matter of a blinking eye, all of us right now can testify
Take a stand, radical man
Oh!
© 2000 NPG Records
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"The Daisy Chain" © 2001 NPG Records |
Oww!
Scream one more time
Scream, scream one more time
I bet U can't...
Oww!
Bless my soul, save my name
I ain't never goin' down 2 the daisy chain
Just a young man tryin' 2 feel the flow
(Flow, flow, flow)
Had no idea what the chain is 4
(No idea, no idea)
The nation of the TV bless your thighs
(Yeah, yeah)
Cop a teeny whiplashed, but still he tries
Bless my soul, save my name
I ain't never going down 2 the daisy chain
CHORUS:
Black girl givin' it up
White girl givin' it up
Black girl givin' it up
White girl givin' it up
Tell me now what's on the stereo?
Funky like a junkie with cornrows (So funky)
That's why your behind's so narrow (So narrow)
Switchin' numbers with the video
Leave ya with a headache, no more fame
I ain't never going down 2 the daisy chain
CHORUS
Girls gonna keep on givin' it up
A mouse 2 the trap, the cheese is up
A little bit of pleasure 4 the guilty pain
Think about it sister, now U're livin' in shame
Gots no hips 2 vibrate (Mm mm)
That's why U gets no page
Everyone of y'all suspect
I takes no blame (Takes no blame)
I writes no checks (No checks)
I ain't never going down 2 the daisy chain
(CHORUS)
I ain't never going down 2 the daisy chain {x3}
(Black girl givin' it up)
(White girl givin' it up)
(Givin' it up) {repeated}
(Daisy chain)
I knew a dancer, her name was Kelly
Nickname Candy with a hoop through her belly
A tongue ring with a voice 2 sing
With a body like whooo, die peace, everything
See, I used 2 deliver pizza 2 her house
But 2night she said, "Yo, come in and chill out"
I came in, sat down, I was lookin' around
What I found, I found she was steppin' out her gown
I had 2 stop that girl in her tracks
I said let me tell U something 'bout a guy that rap
Yo, why buy U if he can just lease U
Why iron U if he can just crease U
Why try U if he won't breed U
Why drive through if he won't eat U
Why VIP U when he can nose bleed U
OK, stop cryin'
I'm sorry, I'll leave U (Bye)
Daisy chain {x4}
Daisy chain
This will make your hips vibrate, will make your hip vibrate
This will make your hips vibrate, will make your hip vibrate
Make em hip 2 that bass, make the hip vibrate
Make the hip vibrate
Daisy chain
Leave U with a headache, daisy chain
Daisy chain
I ain't never, never, never going down 2 the daisy chain
© 2001 NPG Records
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"Peace" © 2000 NPG Records |
Artist formerly known as Prince
U gotta get your peace in
CHORUS:
Peace, whoa oh
Peace: that's what we're here 4
And not 2 war
When the war upon people of color through needles
Designed 2 disease instead of relieve
When it ceases, I'll be a man of peace (Say it)
(What?)
When this mask of vendetta
Like tears on the face of Coretta
Roll down and go away
I'll be happier (Happier)
I'll be a man of peace
Everybody say...
CHORUS
(That's what we're here 4)
When the time that we spend watching TV depends
On whether or not it destroys or transcends
Then I won't need, (I won't, I won't) won't need a warranty
When the power of the hour is not yours but is ours
And the faces that we see reflect all that would be
Indeed, there'll be a jubilee
Whoa oh
Everybody say...
CHORUS
(That's what we're here 4)
Bass!
(Tell me about the bass, Larry)
The rewards that we share will be based on what's fair
And not the curliness, huh, or the thick of our hair
Real competition, if U dare!
Music is our middle name
And we don't wanna play your game
So when the mergers U make
Are with us and U take a fair slice of the cake
That we bake then U break
That'll would be real cool
But y'all wanna act like fools (What's up with that?)
Can't we all just get along?
And have...
CHORUS
Peace {x2}
CHORUS
In case some of y'all didn't hear..head it right
I didn't call him, his name wasn't The Artist
Artist, Artist
I said, Artist - every syllable must be heard (That's good)
Artist - formerly known as Prince
U got 2 get your peace in
Y'all tryin' 2 start somethin' up in here
That's enough (Oh God!)
© 1998 NPG Music Publishing - ASCAP
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"Purple Medley" © 1995 Warner Bros. Records, Inc. |
Keep bustin'!
Dig if U will the pictureOf U and I engaged in a... kiss
U don't have 2 be beautiful 2 turn me on
If we can not make babies
Maybe we can make some time
(Baby, U're so creamy)
She said how'd U like 2 waste some time
And I could not resist when I saw little Nikki grind
Nikki, oh
Don't worry, I won't hurt U
I only want U 2 have some fun
Baby, baby, baby I'm a star (Star, ooh)
Might not know it now
Baby, but I are, I'm a star, eh (Star, ooh)
I don't wanna stop 'til I reach the top, oh
Ow!
If I gave U diamonds and pearls
Would U be a happy boy or a girl?
All I can do is just offer U my love
All I can offer U is my love
I never meant 2 cause U any sorrow
I never meant 2 cause U any pain
I only wanted one time 2 see U laughing
Only want 2 see U laughing in the purple rain
Dearly beloved
We are gathered here 2day 2 get through this thing called life
Sexy dancer, I want your body, want your body
Sexy dancer, dance
Sexy dancer, I want your body, want your body
Sexy dancer, dance
Ahhh!
Work it baby, work it
Let's work {x2}
I've had my eyes on U
Ever since U walked in the room
Come on and take my hand
Don't try 2 understand
Hey baby, nothing can stop us now
I'm gonna show U how, oh yeah
Show U how 2 work
Come on, let's have some fun
We'll work till the morning comes
Yeah yeah, I wanna see U work
Come on
Every Friday night I call yo ass up on the phone
A deeper voice answers and says U're not at home (Sexy {x4})
If U think that I'm some fool who'll go 4 that silly line
Honey, put down all your money U win everytime, oh (Sexy {x4})
Oh, irresistible bitch - I love the way U walk (U sexy mutha...ow!)
Irresistible bitch - I love the way U talk
Irresistible bitch - I love the way U kiss (U sexy mutha...ow!)
Ain't it a shame?
Huh, I wish I could resist
I ain't trying 2 pressure U baby
But all I ever wanted 2 do
I wanna be your lover
I wanna be the only one that makes U come running
I wanna be your lover
I wanna turn U on, turn U out
All night long make U shout
Ooh, lover, yeah!
I wanna be the only one U come 4
Yeah {x4}
I'm goin' down 2 Alphabet Street
I'm gonna crown the first girl that I meet
I'm gonna talk so sexy, she'll want me from my head 2 my feet
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Talk 2 me lover, come and tell me what U taste
Didn't your mama tell U life is 2 good 2 waste?
Talk 2 me lover, come and tell me what U taste
Didn't your mama tell U life is 2 good 2 waste?
2 good 2 waste, 2 good 2 waste
Didn't your mama tell U life is 2 good 2 waste?
Love come quick
Love come in a hurry
There are thieves in the temple 2night
The moon up above shines down upon our skin
Whispering words that scream of outrageous sin
If that's what we are
We all want a love bizarre
If I was your girlfriend
Ooh, if I was your girlfriend
Would U let me wash your hair?
Could I make U breakfast sometime?
Would U let me pick out your clothes?
Would U let me drive U 2 work?
I was working part time in a 5 and dime
My boss was Mr. McGee
He told me several times that he didn't like my kind
Cuz I's a bit 2 leisurely
It seems that I was busy doin' something close 2 nothin'
But different than the day before
That's when I saw her, ooh, I saw her
She walked in through the out door, out door
She wore a raspberry beret
The kind U find in a second hand store
Raspberry beret
And if it was warm, she wouldn't wear much more
Raspberry beret
I think I love her
Guess I shoulda known by the way U parked your car sideways
That it wouldn't last
See, U're the kinda person that believes in makin' out once
Love 'em and leave 'em fast
Guess I must be dumb, she had a pocket full of horses
Trojan and some of them used
But it was Saturday night, I guess that makes it all right
And U say - "What have I got 2 lose?"
And honey, I said little red Corvette
This is it
Time for U 2 go 2 the wire
U will hit
Cuz U got the burnin' desire
The kinda girl U wanna teach
She's a peach
(Go!) {repeats}
(Oops, upside yo ass) {x5}
{Crowd noise}
Ladies and gentlemen, Prince!
© 1995 Controversy Music - ASCAP
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"Supercute" © 2001 NPG Records |
About 20 2 11
She comes 2 see him, him as in me
She comes 2 see, uh
And it's never complicated
Other women cannot fade it
Whenever I call
She gets dressed up and all - supercute
Maybe it's cuz she come from East LA
But every time I see her body on display
I gotta call her name from the DJ booth
Strobe light flash and U know the truth
Baby got game, she'll take your loot
Keys 2 the crib with no dispute
When U see her dancing in her birthday - supercute
2gether we wonder how we got enslaved and why
(It's time 2 get free, my people)
And Jericho falls (falls) when we all desert the light
(Yo man, yo, why the man wanna lie?)
I look at her eyes go wild, (yeah) she smiles - supercute
Maybe it's cuz she come from East LA
But every time I see her body on display
I gotta call her name from the DJ booth
Strobe light flash and U know the truth
Baby got game, she'll take your loot
Keys 2 the crib with no dispute
When U see her dancing in her birthday suit
On a dare I wanna see if she will share (Will U share, baby?)
The kinda toys she uses when I'm not there (Not sure, baby)
"None at all", she swears
I don't care; I make her buy another one (Yeah)
'Nother one and a new dress 2 wear
Bzzzzz goes the toy against her curly hair
Now she must confess (Confess)
How she really like 2 play (How U play)
Or if she don't, I lower the speed
And bad words she'll say
Tell me how U play, how U play, how U play
Even in her anger she's still supercute
Maybe it's cuz she come from East LA
But every time I see her body on display
U gotta call her name from the DJ booth
Strobe light flash and U know the truth
Baby got game, she'll take your loot (Take it all)
Keys 2 the crib with no dispute
When U see her dancing in her birthday
When U see her dancing in her birthday - supercute
{Ad-libbing in background}
Shake it around, baby
When U see her dancing in her birthday - supercute
Supercute
Hit it
© 2001 NPG Records
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"U Make My Sun Shine" © 2000 NPG Records |
Put your ass right down here on this throne
Don't U say nary a little word
Until U learn how 2 leave, leave that devil alone
Let me run it down
I'd keep your paper coming in real steady
I could tell U what the "I" in the pimp stands 4
If U're ready, ready, ready
Your eyes are wide shut
U cannot even see
That behind your back, he calls U names
But U're still a queen 2 me
In this trusted place U can erase
Every tear that ever rolled down your weary face
All the time U waste in that paper chase
Is time better spent in these arms of mine
My heaven sent angel so divine
U're my complement
U make my sun shine
U make my sun shine at night
Listen 2 me, now baby, oh
Let me tell ya, tell ya what I gotta do (Do)
(Gotta stop lettin' these devils)
I gotta stop lettin' them devils
(Define what it takes 2 be a woman)
Stop lettin' 'em tell me what it takes 2 be a woman
Gotta never stop believing in me, myself, and I (Me)
Pretty little lies that the rich keep using
I opened up my eyes
The only reason they're winning is 'cuz I keep losing
Gotta get back 2 my rightful place
This is the subject of my song
The queen of the human race
This is where I belong
In this trusted place U can erase (Can erase)
Every tear that ever rolled down your weary face
(Every little tear droppin')
All the time U waste in that paper chase (U, time)
Is time better spent in these arms of mine (These arms of mine)
Heaven sent angel so divine (Heaven sent)
U're my complement (So divine)
U make my sun shine at night
My lover, U're truly killing me
With the words I wish in every song
Come here now pretty baby let me take U somewhere
And put your real clothes back on
We've both been in the dark much 2 long
But now that we got the knowledge of the truth we can both be strong
Kings and queens gettin' it on!
Trusted place U can erase
Every tear that ever rolled down your weary face
All the time U waste (Wasted time)
In that paper chase
(Can't U see that it's all time better spent right here)
Is time better spent in these arms of mine
My heaven sent angel so divine (Sweet angel, U're so divine)
U're my complement
U make my sun shine (U make my sun shine)
U make my sun shine at night
Can U feel me?
Sun shine, sun shine, sun shine
Doobay doobay doobay doobay (Doo)
© 2000 NPG Records
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"Underneath The Cream"< © 2001 NPG Records |
Turn the, turn the phones up
Yeah, cool
Lookin' out the window of the big black limousine
Thinkin' 'bout your thighs, wishin' I was somewhere in between
In one single motion, deep inside your ocean
I just wanna be, ooh
Underneath the cream
Can't stop thinkin' about your thighs
Somewhere in between
That's where I wanna be, that's where I wanna be
Underneath the cream
U and I
Somewhere in between
Your thighs
Cell phone, passport, all your inhibitions
Spread out on the floor
Deep inside your life-givin' ocean, babe
(Deep inside, coco ocean, sugarpop)
Rests my consciousness (Let me stay) just a little more
Is what I wanna do, baby
So talk 2 me
Don't get me started
Come into this wet dream-eternal
Pretend I am U and teach me without shame
Take my hand, put it in the place
That turned U out the most last time U came
Useless deliberation, the beast of frustration
Trust me, I know
Somewhere in between 7 days and nights
That's how far, baby
U wanna go?
Underneath the cream
Can't stop thinkin about your thighs
Somewhere in between
That's where I wanna be, that's where I wanna be
Underneath the cream
U and I
Somewhere in between
Your thighs, your thighs
(Underneath the cream)
Somewhere in between this wet dream, it seems
I never shoulda let U go
But now that U've returned I yearn 2 learn
All the feelings U never dared 2 show
Come into this wet dream eternal
Pretend I am U and uh, let's... oh!
Somewhere in between, I dreamed
Underneath the cream
(Underneath the cream)
Tell me, tell me, tell me (Tell me)
Whatcha waitin' on baby, tell me
We can do this thing, yeah
Underneath the cream
We need 2 get back down
Cuz I've got something
Groovy groovy groovy...
(Underneath the cream)
It's groovy underneath the cream
Underneath the cream {x2}
© 2001 NPG Records
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"When Will We B Paid?" © 2000 NPG Records |
When will we be paid 4 the work we've done
When will we be paid 4 the work we've done
We fought in your wars in every land
2 keep this country free, y'all, 4 women, children and men
But every time we ask 4 pay or a loan
That's when everything seems 2 turn out wrong
We been beat up, called names, shot down and stoned
Every time we do right, somebody say we're wrong
Tell me...
CHORUS
Listen...
We worked this country (Say it!) from shore 2 shore (Well)
Our women cooked all your food (Food) and washed all your clothes
We picked cotton and laid the railroad steel (Said we laid it)
Worked our hands down 2 the bone at your lumber mill
(At your lumber mill)
Tell me...
CHORUS
Will we ever be proud of "My country, tis of thee"?
Will we ever sing out loud, "Sweet land of Liberty"?
When will we be paid (Tell us) 4 the work we've done? (Well?)
I wanna know {x2}
I wanna, I wanna, I wanna know (When, when, when, when)
(CHORUS) {x2}
Why can't we be paid?
Oh, oh when, when will we be paid?
We've given up our sweat, now, and all of our tears
Stumbled through this life 4 more than 300 years
I, I wanna know, the work we've done