Marlon Saunders [보컬]

Long ago ... yet so brand new
A morning frost in early June
That's the dream I see
Your vision for me

And what was tomorrow is today
A wonderland where the grown ups play
and sing our Mother's lullaby
A peaceful melody

From above calling out to us
A beautiful sight right before our eyes
Silent sounds dance with autumn leaves
She lifts her hands and paints the sky tangerine

Runaway, get away, got to go far away
To the beginning of never
Nowadays holidays seem to be every day
It's the beginning of never

Sweet nectar from the ancient tree
Seems to flow pure and free
It's just the way I feel
Mystical ... so real

An unknown joy that I have found
I rest my head upon dark clouds
Sweet sweet soul music fills the air
Spirits everywhere

Come on, come on come on, why don't you

Folks are feeling it, hanging out
Riding the wave of Being ...
Together, oh ya know everything is everything
Sistah, why don't ya play that ole Chi - Lites tune Oh girl
Brutha, it's good to see ya yeah

We're coolin' outside
Where we groove as one and everybody is family
We're coolin' outside
Here lovin' one another is the only reality
We're coolin' outside
Dancin' under the sun we close ours eyes and get real free
Coolin' ... we are coolin'

Shades of brown dance around shades of red, black, and green
I go easy ... I like this real funky scene
Oh everybody's feelin' nice and so fine
Just to be a part of a spiritual time

Whenever ya need a little breeze
Come on it's cool outside

Your love pours down like rain
I like it when I see everybody feelin' so free
Cause love takes away all the pain we feel inside
So I ask you why? Why don't we love? why don't we love?
Just imagine if we loved ... just imagine if we loved

I close my eyes and dance
to a hypnotic beat
that Mother Earth decides to send my way today

Capricorn inside an Aquarian
I AM that you are
foreplay for the mind
Oh how sweet it is

The pulsating rhythm of Imagination
dances to a place of no today
tomorrow no time or space
Promise to Be

A goddess of never ending
gently guiding my footsteps
to that someday when Donny said
We'd all be free

and I hear Mama say
(Keep doin' what ya do)
My Father sayin'
(Keep doin' what ya do)
Somethin' inside me say
(Keep doin' what ya do)

Oh Brutha say it
(Keep doin' what ya do)
I hear ya Sistah say it
(Keep doin' what ya do)
Everybody say
(Keep doin' what ya do)

Thought I'd see my Self
when I decided to let you in
But you've become another kind of tear that I'm crying

One whose reflection is never shown - yet felt
kind of like a good sermon on a Sunday morning
where the Sistah's be shoutin' and dancin'
and folk be testifyin'

I've gone down to the river
and danced with the ghost
who've come to tempt my Soul
to question my reason for Love or not to Love

I've slow grind with uncovered pain and fear
Hustled with liberal minded
Electric slid in to the hands on the trigger
and fake smiles that say
"We don't see you Nigger!"

Time to get jazzy y'all - jazzy
Bwi ah boo wah
Babba bwi ah bwi ah boo wah
Bwi ah boo wah

So let's all go back to the time
when the rhythm was the Word that soothed and grooved
and the Word was spoken yet silently heard

A cool breeze sends my heart runnin'
to a rainbow of colors
where no one trips and my chocolate skin
doesn't evoke fear or offend

A place where we can play like a never ending symphony
whose movements are swift and flowing
like the fruits of the Earth used to be

Outstretched hands she cries
Dance! Sistah Brutha Dance ... Come on!
sing of the Love our peep's dreamed of
An ever loving plan, ya gotta understand
the one thing that makes us free

Whenever I look at you
Forever gives sun and moon to me
Stories told through your eyes
Mysteries unfold so wise and free

Ah - Heart's a fire
My desire
You inspire
Ah - Higher, higher
I admire
You inspire

I reach out for your hand
We dance, our hearts romance the song
As if I always knew
the deep inside of you
So strong

So we play the melody that sounds so sweet in perfect time
and we say three little words the poet's pen cleverly rhyme
I'm bathing in your groove
tasting all of you
Feel my love rain down

And morning as I wake
to you the love we make reveals
Each moment so profound
Body and soul ... I 'm heaven bound
So real

Curtis say People get ready
on a lazy rainy Sunday
As I lay back and watch Link do his thang
on the Mod Squad - Oh God

Yeah Herbie, George C, and Rufus too
take turns spinning
While Roberta and Donny give us the news
yeah I'm a 70's child
Be real Black for me

My sistah's doin her thang on the Soul Train line
While my Brutha lays back chillin'
Flippin' through Vibe

Afro Blue My Mind
Yeah Yeah

If Beale Street could talk she'd say
lots about retro, blow out combs, and slaves
"Just a touch of Love" - remember?

Those were the days when life was fun and free
and the only mystery was platform shoes
while discovering Billie's blues

Stevie's talking book of innervisions
leaped Kareem Abdul Jabar into the air
Screaming! We sat eating collard greens and chittlins
Not a happier soul could ya find

Afro Blue My Mind
Yeah Yeah

Lionel, Lamont, Freddie Boom Boom Washington
Yeah you know they had 'em
and Angela's sayin'
Right on, Right on
Do ya see what I see
Right On

Uptown Saturday Night
Hip hop takes flight!
To a time and place where the Natural's in

and in psychedelic shacks
folks listen to Ben Harper
As he creeps up on us
like a fine wine- yeah!

Afro Blue My Mind
Yeah Yeah