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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby (1987)
If you all get to Heaven Say a prayer for my mother Say a prayer for my father Say a prayer for my brother But most of all please say a prayer for me Words of a feather All flock together Going round and round A soul is astral travelling Watching human motion Wasting thy seed upon the ground Discreet intermissions Coroners petitions Their work goes into the sand Voices from the middle Are gaining very little It's getting all out of hand If you all get to Heaven Say a prayer -volace menteh- Say a prayer for food and plenty Say a prayer -sehr sensible- But most of all please say a prayer for me If you all get to Heaven Say a prayer for my camel As I ride through the desert Say a prayer for the rumours The rumours of war The last moody summer Was autumn in covers Bespeaks of dogs in the dark A perfect reunion Of bloody communion Where do we find Noah's ark? A thousand words or more Seep through the floor And then take root in the soil Growing trees of doubt Helpless people shout Until their blood starts to boil If you all get to Heaven Say a prayer for Asmodeus Say a prayer for Belial Say a prayer for his denial But most of all you gotta say a prayer for me If you all get to Heaven Say a prayer for St. Religion Say a prayer for blood baptism Say a prayer for it's division But most of all please say a prayer for me Old men's cigars puff up the wars To protect their fuck-ups again Young men must die! To keep the old ones alive And to prove they're studs once again It you all get to Heaven Say a prayer for the peo |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby (1987)
Spoken: Sweetheart listen, I know the last few pages Haven't been good for the both of us And I've caused you a lot of grief But put those bags down, o.k.? Before you make a decision like that, Please just listen to me 'Cos I don't want you to leave. I definately don't want you to leave Just hear me out. Honey, don't leave me now With my head on my shoulders wrong Have I done something wrong for you to leave? I know I've been careless, girl And I must apologize I'll try better next time, baby If you let me stay If you let me stay I'll say what I should've said If you let me stay I should have said that I love you It you let me stay And I should have said it from my heart If you let me stay How can I compensate For my indiscretions, dear Tell me it's not too late That I'd love to hear If you walk out on me You will see a grown man cry I didn't miss my water Till my well ran dry But if you let me stay If you let me stay I'll say what I should've said If you let me stay I should have said that I love you It you let me stay And I should have said it from my heart If you let me stay Your pretensions aim for gullible fools And now who needs you anyway? I'll get mine elsewhere I taught the school You will regret it someday If you let me stay I'll say what I should've said If you let me stay I should have said that I love you It you let me stay And I should have said it from my heart If you let me stay |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby (1987)
Kissing like a bandit Stealing time Underneath a sycamore tree Cupid by the hour sends Valentines To my sweet lover and me Slowly But surely Your appetite is more than I knew Sweetly Softly I'm falling in love with you Wish me love a wishing well To kiss and tell A wishing well of butterfly tears Wish me love a wishing well To kiss and tell A wishing well of crocodile cheers Hugging like a monkey see Monkey do Right beside a riverboat gambler Erotic images float through my head So I wanna be Your midnight rambler Quickly Quickly The blood races through my veins Quickly Loudly I wanna hear those sugar bells ring Wish me love a wishing well To kiss and tell A wishing well of butterfly tears Wish me love a wishing well To kiss and tell A wishing well of crocodile cheers |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby (1987)
This isn't living now A thing my father said to me And get a haircut, boy If you want a chance in respectable society Why did you stop writing? I knew you had some trouble, son But you should know by now That my number doesn't change Because my dirty deed is done All I need from you And that's all Regardless of whatever you do And that is that you understand That I'll never turn my back on you How are your wife and child? I'm sure your little girl has grown And give them a kiss and a smile That's what my daddy said In a letter very long What kind of man would I be? If I left you in despair (and then he wrote) And I miss your mother, son Cause if she were still alive She'd tell you too You should cut your hair All I need from you And that's all Regardless of whatever you do And that is that you realise That I'll never turn my back on you Whatever you do just try to get through to me Remember the time we got drunk on wine by the sea And I laughed when you tried to stagger home by yourself You were stubborn then and you are still stubborn now All I need from you And that's all Regardless of whatever you do And that is that you understand That I'll never turn my back on you |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby (1987)
get up outta' your rockin chair grandma! or rather would you care to dance grandmother? hey you! give up the ghost that's haunting you now shout it out don't let it stay inside and eat you alive make up your mind don't you want to stay this side of the line i can assure you when you're my age you'll learn from all you've left behind (you've got to) dance little sister don't give up today hang on till tomorrow i don't wanna hear you're late dance little sister don't give up today hang on till tomorrow don't give up your stay say now share the weight and lay your cross down and let the long reaching arm of hope bring you around it ain't easy but giving up is the easy thing to do time is on your side would you just watch the clock and let it tick for you dance little sister don't give up today hang on till tomorrow i don't wanna hear you're late dance little sister don't give up today hang on till tomorrow don't give up your stay |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby (1987)
Teardrops rusting on a steel bar Harmonica blues Heartblood thick enough for pine tar I've got a hole in my delta shoes Grown men wither and they dry away Their lives compromised I've gotta hold on Struggle through another day To see the fire in my baby's eyes Society's debt have been more than paid In seven more days I'll be home to you And the walls will tumble down That's separating us two The Jericho mile and a river so wide In seven more days There will be no more divide Bad dreams, cornerstone realities Bears witness to shame Hell's gate - a landscaped brutality All material gain But she's home praying on her hands & knees That safe shall I part But I am guilty of her memory But there's no crime in my heart Society's debts have been more than paid In seven more days I'll be home to you And the walls will tumble down That's separating us two The Jericho mile and a river so wide In seven more days There will be no more divide Lawful society Says this is what you get Tearful sobriety of Matters that you soon regret It all adds up to time Debts have been more than paid In seven more days I'll be home to you And the walls will tumble down That's separating us two The Jericho mile and a river so wide In seven more days There will be no more divide |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby (1987)
Let's go forward with our love I don't ask for your money I don't ask for your honey All I want is love Let's go forward with our love I don't ask for your wallet Let's finish what we started All I need is love And in your private moments When all the world is sleep I watch you as you toss and turn And pray my soul you'll keep I sense you are afraid That I'm not holding fast But you are just nervous And I'm certain that this too will pass Let's go forward with our love I don't ask for your money I don't ask for your honey All I want is love Our dedication wanders You're hurt from what you hear But then the rain falls down And wipes away your tears The stars are everlasting But even they shift from time to time If we just slow down Catch our breath We'll be fine Let's go forward with our love I don't ask for your wallet Let's finish what we started All I need is love Silver turns to black And gold turns into green Giving my love back Would tear away our seed Like real silver and gold We can keep our vows Your hand I will hold Until the killing ground Let's go forward with our love |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby (1987)
Take off your topcoats Put on your raincoats And now give up your birthright And don't you cry 'Cause in 23 verses now A storm is a-comin' And you'll be too surprised To wonder why And it will Rain rain Go away, go away Rain rain Come back again another day Step out your cool suit Snap on you wet boots And now eat all you mushrooms Until you see That in 22 verses now A storm is a-brewin' And you'll be too annoyed For victory 'Cause it will Rain rain Go away, go away Rain rain Come back again another day China glass & A chocolate bar I'm leaving behind So my children's children Children's children Will see what's left of me Cue up the James Brown And jack up the funky sound now Say it won't be the last time You hear a scream 'Cause in 21 verses now A storm is a-ragin' And you will satisfy your destiny And it will Rain rain Go away, go away Rain rain Come back again another day |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby (1987)
fortunately you've got someone who relies on you we started out as friends but the thought of you just caves me in the symptoms are so deep it's so much too late to turn away we started out as friends sign your name across my heart i want you to be my baby sign your name across my heart i want you to be my lady time i'm sure will bring disappointments in so many things it seems to be the way when your gambling cards on love you olay i'd rather be in hell with you baby then in cool heaven, it seems to be the way sign your name across my heart i want you to be my baby sign your name across my heart i want you to be my lady birds never look into the sun before the day is gone but ohthe light shines bright in a peacefull day,stranger blue leave us alone we don't want to deal with you we'll shed our stains showering in the room that makes the rain all alone with you,makes the butterflies in me arise slowly we make love,and the earth rotates on our dictates slowly we make love............... sign your name across my heart.. |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby (1987)
Out by a shanty where the dust hangs high Far from a river where things grow green The flowers weep and they lean away From the blood stained soil beneath my feet The thorns outnumber the petals on the rose And the darkness amplifies the sound of printers' ink On propaganda page That will rule your life and fuel my rage I tried to bend my knees But my knees were already bent I haven't stood like a man for such a long time now I called to my god but he was sleeping on that day I guess I'll just have to depend on me Shall I tell my children if they ask of me Did I surrender forth my right to be? Y'see my daddy died to leave this haunting ground And this same ground still haunts me The cool September blows the seeds away The harvest blown again this year But I'll return a stronger man I'll return to me my homeland No grave shall hold my body down This land is still my home I said: But I'll return a stronger man I'll return to me my homeland No grave shall hold my body down This land is still my home This land is still my home Meanwhile, on the other side of the world |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby (1987)
When I had you
I treated you bad And wrong my dear And girl since, Since you been away Dontcha know I sit around with my head hangin' down And I wonder Who's lovin you I, I, I, I should have never ever Ever made you cry And girl since Since you been gone Dontcha know I sit around with my head hangin' down And I wonder Who's lovin you Life without love Is oh so lonely I dont think I dont think I'm gonna make it All my life All my life, yeah belongs to you only Come on and take it girl Come on and take it! Because, All I can do All I can do Since you been gone is cry And you, oooh Dontcha know I Sit around With my head hangin down And I wonder Who's lovin' you (Who's lovin you) Who's lovin you..... |
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from The Fan (더 팬) by Hans Zimmer [ost] (1996)
The knife's edge pierces Autumn
And stabs the wind we fear But we must find ourselves Before we disappear By knowing when to move on We keep the peace with our pride We seldom live our moments Before the leaves have dried But it's a peaceful feeling when We surrender And there is healing power in Letting go Alone, confused, and naked Is when we are most sacred Fear is the enemy That strikes out at our sanity By keeping faith in our promise We drink from Eros fountains We confirm that we are here Moving up on higher mountains... And it's a peaceful feeling when... We surrender And there is healing power in... Letting go And it's a peaceful feeling when... We surrender There is healing power in... Letting go Letting go Hush, hush I hear music Falling down like rain Hush, I feel mercy And forgiveness I see Golden Light... Shining ever-bright Into the light I'll go... And it's a peaceful feeling when We surrender And there is healing power in Letting go And it's a peaceful feeling when We surrender There is healing power in... In letting go Letting go... |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Ttd'S Vibrator (2003)
Beautiful soul don't keep it in Can you transform the pain you feel? The birds of prey have swallowed The breadcrumbs you left behind To find your way back from the soul mines But sooner or later Sooner or later you'll feel the spirit move you And it'll come down to this, vibrator It'll come down to this, vibrator It'll come down to Beautiful child of God and man There's a messiah inside of you At times you feel like your life don't mean a damn thing But beware of the reflections that sorrows bring But sooner or later Sooner or later you'll feel a groove It'll come down to this, vibrator It'll come down to this, vibrator It'll come down to ...... VIBRATE! Come and go with me Laughing children seldom weep Laughing angels never sleep When your candle is burning low Strike a match and curse the darkness Feel it shaking like a bowl of soup Let it go loop de loop Starts the shaking Like you can't stop it But sooner or later When you least expect it You will feel connected Way down deep in your soul It'll come down to lift you It'll come down to Come and go with me children Would you be my teacher? Would you be my electric preacher? Just know that I need you |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Ttd'S Vibrator (2003)
Flame fame flame fame flame fame flame Supermodel sandwich can I join your game? Flame fame flame fame flame fame flame Supermodel sandwich would you let me hang? You're so fine what's your solar sign? Yield the right of way she said without delay She said stop your advance 'Cause you don't stand a chance boy If you're not a girl I'll never let you touch my pearl Flame fame flame fame flame fame flame Supermodel sandwich can I join your game? Flame fame flame fame flame fame flame Supermodel sandwich would you let me hang? Babes on babes sticky finger wave (We don't need a man) But my ego couldn't understand So I raised my glass and grabbed a piece of aspirin (But if you've got a friend tell her she can join in) Flame fame flame fame flame fame flame Supermodel sandwich can I join your game? Flame fame flame fame flame fame flame Supermodel sandwich would you let me hang? Paris, New York, London and Milan Perfume bottle towns where funky girls make the rounds Babes on babes sticky sticky finger wave If you're not a girl I'll never let you touch my pearl She said flame fame flame fame flame fame flame Supermodel sandwich can I join your game? Flame fame flame fame flame fame flame Supermodel sandwich would you let me hang? Supermodel sandwich made with extra sexy doses |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Ttd'S Vibrator (2003)
I left the east side for a west coast beauty A girl who burned my thoughts like kisses She was down by street decree She swore she'd pull my best years out of me Fat painted lips on a live wire beauty A tangerine girl with tambourine eyes Her face was my favourite magazine Her body was my favourite book to read They say that all poets must have and unrequited love As all lovers must have thought provoking fears But holding on to you means letting go on pain Means letting go of tears Means letting go of rain Means letting go of what's not real Holding on to you I left the rough side for a seaside baby A chamomile smile that pouts on cue For every moment I breathe her sigh Her bosom contains my sweet alibi In an emotional mist she breathes in fog And breathes it out as garden flowers Why me of all the tough talking boys? I guess she heard my heartbeat through the noise They say that all poets must have an unrequited love As all lovers must have thought provoking fears But holding on to you means letting go of pain Means letting go of tears Means letting go of the rain Holding on to you Means letting sorrows heal Means letting go of what's not real Holding on to you They say that all poets must have an unrequited love As all lovers I'm sure must have thought provoking fears But holding on to you means letting sorrows heal Means letting go of what's not real Holding on to you I left the east coast for a west coast beauty A woman who burned my thoughts like kisses She was down by street decree She swore she'd pull my best years out of me Fat wet lips on a sea salt canvas Goodbye Picasso hello Dolly/Dali The soil is fertile where her footsteps trod She's my new religion she's all I got They say that all poets must have an unrequited love As all lovers I'm sure must have thought provoking fears But holding on to you means letting go of pain Means letting go of tears Means letting go of rain Means letting sorrows heal It means letting go |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Ttd'S Vibrator (2003)
The answer is yes
My sweet babe how many times do I have to tell you? How many ways do I have to find To tell you that you're mine all mine Does a moth fly to a flame? Does a man cling to his name? Turn your head around my sweet babe Look at me and Read my lips I dig your scene Read my lips I dig your scene I'm a match and you're kerosene Read my lips I dig your scene My precious dear push your coins aside Draw the veil above your fears And lay back in the coming tide Does a player play the game? Would I seek to cause you pain? Baby baby baby I'm not a player I'm your dragon slayer Read my lips I dig your scene Read my lips I dig your scene I'm your dragon slayer Read my lips I dig your scene I'm a match and you're kerosene Read my lips I dig your scene Baby baby girl The inflection in your sigh Suggests that in the fertile field Of gentle graces You've heard love's lullaby Does the light hold the reigns of day? Will you believe me when I say You're the Sugar, Honey, Ice and Tea? Baby baby baby now look at me and read my lips I dig your scene Read my lips I dig your scene Read my lips I dig your scene I'm a match and you're kerosene Read my lips I dig your scene |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Ttd'S Vibrator (2003)
Seems like the last guy you were with Was only interested in trying to bring you down Tear you down and keep you down But sweetness all I want to do is adore you And to help you restore you to your rightful glory The poet of your indecision speaks Undeniably I love you Undeniably I love you Baptized by the fire in your eyes I was mesmerized A perfect night in Paradise I spent with you and paid the price I know that angels must to their clouds return But I'm left to burn And blow a kiss to what might have been And blow a kiss to what might have been Undeniably I love you Undeniably I love you yes I do Inside of you I promised you a sweet refrain That only the sweetest grapes would pass your lips And then remain in cool sustain To let my words caress your ear and Say the things you long to hear But instead I blow a kiss to what might have been I blow a kiss to what might have been Undeniably I love you girl yes yes you know I do Undeniably |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Ttd'S Vibrator (2003)
Alone in a car driving me far to get to you today The wind at my wings whispering things for me to say The moon is in view when I get to you These tender moments are a precious few 'Cause we don't have that much time together 'Cause we don't have that much time together The smell of your skin and I begin To kneel and to pray to you Your sensual caress makes me confess my love for you As we're making love we can't get enough The clock is never kind when we unwind 'Cause we don't have that much time together 'Cause we don't have that much time together Heaven is only halt the distance Between your soul and mine Blood is thicker than water yes But love is thicker than blood You bring me provisions of perfect peace Your sugar stained tongue is sweet So Heaven is only half the distance Between your soul and mine Because of your sighs the hours fly As though they're filled with air Yet here we are ascending the stars as lovers dare The rising sun is ending our fun We'll leave to future promise what's left undone 'Cause we don't have that much time together 'Cause we don't have that much time together You bring me provisions of perfect peace Your sugar stained tongue is sweet So Heaven is only half the distance Between your soul and mine The eye of the storm where it is warm peaceful and serene Your spiral of tears as morning papers The bitter sweet aroma of ecstasy 'Cause we don't have that much time together 'Cause we don't have that much time together |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Ttd'S Vibrator (2003)
Though I need my soul for the next world I need my body for this one (and yours) Can you feel my love around you? Can you feel my love around you? Can you feel it, can you feel it? Can you feel my love around you? You're looking more like a real fine woman every day And you look like the kind of girl who likes to play Would you dance with me if I lied And told you you were fine? (hey I'm only kidding, If you were any more beautiful I'd have to spank you) Would you play with me? And let me eat you like a watermelon rind Get over here girl Can you feel my love around you? Can you feel my love around you? Can you feel it, can you feel it? Can you feel my love around you? You might be older, you might be younger It doesn't matter And stop freaking out 'Cause you think your ass is getting fatter (In this golden hour) Would you shower me if I read your poetry? Girl let's shake a leg, let's get stupid And hang around with Cupid Get over here girl Can you feel my love around you? Can you feel my love around you? Can you feel it, can you feel it? Can you feel my love around you? Push it over here sweet thing So I can re-examine those curves There's a fire crackling in your eyes It's warmth I long to feel Don't make me beg, don't take me down a peg Shake a leg, break an egg Just send TTD the bill Can you feel my love around you? Can you feel my love around you? Can you feel it, can you feel it? Can you feel my love around you? If You Go Before Me Dearest ones in an eye of a star life is brief A speck of dust from grass to leaf If on the ascendant your soul arises And doesn't contradict what your esence extemporises I've been the hermit and the love thief And paid for the privilege with tears of grief Which soon by nature circumcises This song will be brief One day in the spring a question fell And went straight through me Do bleeding angels sing when close to tears? I need the answer So if you go before me would you let me know? If you go before me would you let me know? One day in the year a bullet screamed And ripped straight through you And I saw the sun begin to bleed Above a flood of tears and sirens And are spirit's colour blind? So if you go before me would you let me know? If you go before me would you let me know |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Ttd'S Vibrator (2003)
Dearest ones in an eye of a star life is brief A speck of dust from grass to leaf If on the ascendant your soul arises And doesn't contradict what your esence extemporises I've been the hermit and the love thief And paid for the privilege with tears of grief Which soon by nature circumcises This song will be brief One day in the spring a question fell And went straight through me Do bleeding angels sing when close to tears? I need the answer So if you go before me would you let me know? If you go before me would you let me know? One day in the year a bullet screamed And ripped straight through you And I saw the sun begin to bleed Above a flood of tears and sirens And are spirit's colour blind? So if you go before me would you let me know? If you go before me would you let me know |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Ttd'S Vibrator (2003)
I took a good look at my life And what I saw it made me cry But there was nothing I could do But lift my head up to the sky and Surrender I took a good look at my friends And I saw that they were thieves Because they were stealing precious time So I dropped down on my knees and I Surrendered I took a good look at my soul And saw a liquid dancing fire light And the seed of man's most evil stare Could not deny my joy tonight Surrender I am a liquid dancing firelight I don't believe in the existence of sin But I believe in me and I believe in you And that's enough to believe in Surrender |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Ttd'S Vibrator (2003)
In the first dream you were a driver And I was a car, we didn't get real far We took a highway full of black top roadkill Could that be me? Could that be you? (Could that be me?) In the 2nd dream you were a rifle And I was a deer but with no shelter near You were camouflaged In pain I couldn't see through Could that be me? Could that be you? (Could that be me?) The slow striptease of time Releases now the seven veils And ages of sweet wanderlust Steals about a half step from my stride And hold me now accountable And throws a finger at my trust And barks like a big dog at my pride But shows me diamonds in the rain Diamonds in the rain that'll sparkle till I die Diamonds in the rain In this recurring dream You said you were lonely I said everyone's lonely And not just you Some people just hide their loneliness Behind the coats of others Could that be me? Could that be you? (Could that be me?) Please don't let that be me and you! Diamonds in the rain that'll sparkle till I die Diamonds in the rain |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Ttd'S Vibrator (2003)
Dress up to your thigh you wear it very high You walk by in a pig's eye I'm a guy so I sigh But you ain't shy Besta besta best of all, you're bi bi bi Flame fame flame fame flame fame flame Supermodel sandwich can I join your game? Flame fame flame fame flame fame flame Supermodel sandwich w/cheese I think I'm in love I think I want to fall in love with you 'Cause I'm an idiot One two three anatomy your academy will make a cad of me Flame fame flame fame flame fame flame Supermodel sandwich can I join your game? Flame fame flame fame flame fame flame Supermodel sandwich w/cheese (a funky sandwich vibe) Well Here we go, here we go Supermodel sandwich w/cheese Can I have some of that cheese please Black love flavour doing us all a favour Well Flame fame flame fame flame fame flame Supermodel sandwich can I join your game? Flame fame flame fame flame fame flame Supermodel sandwich w/cheese (very superficial) Black love slicing my cheese On your knees if you please Black love flavour doing us all a favour Turned on by the way you move You're the power I'm the fuse Turned on by the spunky cool 'Cause you're sex sexual Turned on by the way you grind The funky move with the jealous eyes Turned on 'cause I know you're mine And you're sex sexual But you're very superficial You're very superficial |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Ttd'S Vibrator (2003)
Have you had your death today And felt the loneliness of what you can't explain? Have you had your death today And resurrected joy from the jaws of pain? As a dark angelcalls my name I won't answer (loneliness) Arid landscapes call for me to be the desert cancer Have you had your resurrection And seen old opinions formed swept away? Have you had you soul baptism on a ragged flame And felt the loss of shame and seen the world had changed? As a dark angel calls my name I won't answer (loneliness) Arid landscapes call for me to be the desert cancer As a dark angel calls my name I won't answer (loneliness) Arid landscapes call for me to be the desert cancer Have you had your death today And crossed the line in the sand? You know the middle ground is wasted land As a dark angel calls my name The state of my soul is my concern (surrender) You see the more I sparkle the less I burn (Sacrifice) as a dark angel calls my name I won't answer (loneliness) Arid landscapes call for me to be the desert cancer If I were a little less stupid And a little less greedy Maybe I wouldn't be so needy But there's always faith and hope The dark angel calls my name But I won't answer I WON'T ANSWER |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Ttd'S Vibrator (2003)
It's been said be a poet better Sealed with a smile and perfumed letter It's been said by the painter's colours more brightly It's been said but here it goes again, I love you It's been said that your eyes are amazing And that they tell a deeper secret Than your body wishes to hold And that your quiet tears will be heard as gentle whispers It's been said but here it goes again, I love you It's been said by far too many drifters That perhaps your eyes had seen fall short the glory of It's been said from the soil of a prophet's graveyard It's been said by the light of your mirror's vanity It's been said but here it goes again, I love you (Please believe me that I love you) Take this you beautiful distraction I love you |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Symphony Or Damn - Exploring The Tension Inside The Sweetness (1993)
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Symphony Or Damn - Exploring The Tension Inside The Sweetness (1993)
She is negative as can be
And she's weak emotionally But she kissed me And she put it there She's got a chip on her shoulderblade And her attitude makes me afraid But she kissed me And she put it there She kissed me there The way no other girl has kissed me there She kissed me there The way no other girl has kissed me there When I'm bare She kisses me there When she bets She'd never hedge She likes walking on the razor's edge But she kissed me And she put it there She likes rap and metal really loud And she makes her other home girls proud But she kissed me And she put it there She kissed me there The way no other girl has kissed me there She kissed me there The way no other girl has kissed me there When I'm bare She kisses me there She kissed me there The way no other girl has kissed me there She kissed me there The way no other girl has kissed me there When I'm bare She kisses me there She's as simple as a girl can be Yet she has a cool complexity But she kissed me And she put it there When she met me I was still a boy Now I'm an older woman's toy Because she kissed me And she put it there |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Symphony Or Damn - Exploring The Tension Inside The Sweetness (1993)
Now do you love me like you say you do baby?
(Do you love me like you say you do?) Listen baby, until I find the river I won't be satisfied with who I am In my Monasteryo your love ran hot or cold Symphony or damn I wanna be careful not to lose by laughter What I've gained by tears So here's a question baby You answer I most need to hear Now do you love me like you say you do baby? (Do you love me like you say you do?) I give my best to the best of your breed Take my heart pretty baby I believe that I have all that I need I exist for you wholly in this hour As the leaves exist Surely for the sake of the flower Now do you love me like you say you do baby? (Do you love me like you say you do?) It seems that you have all these emotional dragons That you must slay I believe your daddy didn't treat you right So it seems now TTD must pay The troubles advance while the sorrows retreat Yet whichever road you travel baby I genuinely wish you godspeed But before you go answer my question Now do you love me like you say you do baby? (Do you love me like you say you do?) |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Symphony Or Damn - Exploring The Tension Inside The Sweetness (1993)
Baby let me share my love
Baby let me share my love Baby let me share my love Baby let me share my love My best lines Working on her, working on her overtime Working on her, working on her clever mind Working on her, working on her sleek lines She's sure fine As fine as Whitney Houston in the daytime Working on her, working on her big time Looking at her, looking at her waistline Baby let me share my love Baby let me share my love Baby let me share my love Baby let me share my love My last dime Working on her, working on her phone line Working on her, working with the best wine Working on her, trying to help her unwind She's so fine As fine as Cleopatra in her black prime I think about her so much people, I'm a go blind Working on her, looking at her waistline Baby let me share my love Baby let me share my love Baby let me share my love Baby let me share my love Jesus/Allah/Krishna/Buddha loves you So not this time but next time I'll be kicking out a poet's rhyme Picking on her, picking on her grapevine Working on her, looking at her waistline She's real fine As fine as Nefertitti in her black prime Working on her, working on her bed time Working on her, working on her Working on her, working on her Baby let me share my love |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Symphony Or Damn - Exploring The Tension Inside The Sweetness (1993)
Delicate like rain
Delicate like snow Delicate like birds Delicate just so Delicate like air Delicate like breeze Delicate like you and me A delicate advance A delicate retreat Delicately planned Delicate like peace Delicate like a touch That's delicately brief Delicate like you and me Delicate like trinkets on her bracelet (Like trinkets on her bracelet) Delicate like a bracelet on your arm (Like a bracelet on your arm) Delicate like sweet arms around me (Your sweet arms around me) Delicate like me on top of you Delicate like words Delicate how time So delicately runs Then delicately dies Delicate how eyes So delicately breathe Delicate like you my dear Delicate like me my love Delicate like you and Delicate like me and Delicate like Delicate like you and me |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Symphony Or Damn - Exploring The Tension Inside The Sweetness (1993)
She never wanted to be my neon messiah
She never wanted to be my neon messiah I saw the blood dripping from your caring hands I prayed it wasn't more blood Than your month could stand I didn't hear you say Kick my pedestal away She never wanted to be my neon messiah She never wanted to be my neon messiah I saw you suffocating in a wordless pain A whoreMadonna martyr is all that remains If Oedipus could rise He'd probably try me on for size She never wanted to be my neon messiah She never wanted to be my neon messiah Roll over tell Stravinsky She lost herself to please me I can't handle intelligent women They're far too deep to swim in She never wanted to be my neon messiah She never wanted to be my neon messiah |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Symphony Or Damn - Exploring The Tension Inside The Sweetness (1993)
I'm seventeen and under the illusion
A girl like you could end my confusion Penelope please Penelope please My jeans are not Big enough to hold me So come on girl Don't you try and scold me Penelope please Penelope please You will still be home in time To watch the 'Pops' featuring Chrissie Hynde I know you see me as an aggravation I dream of you in full moon frustration Penelope please Penelope please Don't make me wait But answer with affection So come on girl Look in my direction Penelope please Penelope please You will still be home in time To watch the 'Pops' featuring Chrissie Hynde I know you view me as a major horror But come on babe Don't say sayonara Penelope please Penelope please My head is hard So girl I will continue To plead and beg Baby till I win you Penelope please Penelope please You will still be home in time To watch the 'Pops' featuring Chrissie Hynde At twenty-one I came to this conclusion I married her But still I'm in confusion Penelope please ("Come on babe") ("No!") Penelope please ("No!") Penelope please ("Look you're going to wake up the baby!!!") Penelope please ("No!!!") Waaaaaaah!!! |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Symphony Or Damn - Exploring The Tension Inside The Sweetness (1993)
Wet your lips
And let's fall in love You are beautiful to me Wet your lips and let's do a thing With a view to make your spirit sing I have come to be your man In a strange and hostile land So wet your lips And let's fall in love And stay with me Wet your lips And let's fall in love You are blood and wine to me Wet you lips And let's do a turn With a view to make your body burn I'll rebuild the scenery Into garden greenery So wet your lips And let's fall in love And stay with me Wet your lips And let's fall in love You're the molecular soul of me Wet your lips And let's dip your wings Into shapes of many things I have come to bring new life And to help you squeeze it from your slice So wet your lips And let's fall in love And stay with me I will feed you like a bird From the mouth of my dying words So wet your lips And let's fall in love Wet your lips And let's fall in love Wet your lips And let's fall in love Stay..... Girl you take me higher Yeah you take me deeper Girl you take me higher |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Symphony Or Damn - Exploring The Tension Inside The Sweetness (1993)
You chose with age
To speak with a prima ballerina's rage And speak of all the kingdoms That would swoop down Stick around Then proceed to ignore you No flash pot pan, guitar man Or resurrected Apollo myth To seal your fate Feed your plate And just plain worship and adore you But the pills you swill Bring you no thrill So travel lightly on the wing this time Leaving all your baggage behind As you wander through your vagabond stage And find yourself shovelling shit With a rusty jack-handle queen of a broken spade You must not be afraid You must turn the page You wore your goddess down In jaundiced disarray Your halo fell into decay Swiped by those you loved But could not hold in sway behind you And then the dry spell leaves At a low shutter speed Long enough for you to see That you create your own reality And that the wait alone will not enshrine you And the war that you swore Would pour through your door To come to your rescue this time Is all in your mind Now as you wander through your vagabond stage And you find yourself shovelling shit With a rusty jack-handle queen of a broken spade And you find yourself kicking dirt around With your Paris green pumps Of pentacles and precious jade You must not be afraid You must turn the page You dreamt a world of things Like you were a duchess born Or Coretta Scott King And the queen does not invite you over for a tea at her gaff In Scotland Or in Buckingham's back-yard Now I'm sure 'Van the Man' of whom I'm a fan Can surely understand As he said "It is not why, it just is." So therefore you need not remain scarred And in time you'll find That your salvation is mine As you travel lightly on the wing this time Leaving all your baggage behind Now as you wander through your vagabond stage And you find yourself shovelling shit With a rusty jack-handle queen of a broken spade And you find yourself kicking dirt around With your Paris green pumps Of pentacles and precious jade Pulling the roots from your hair Dyed from a bottle You saw in a windows with An 'Everything must go!!' sale sign Prominently displayed And yet waiting for your dancing On the edge of a precipice heart to sing Those serenading soul songs That fulfillingness and consciousness brings Releasing you from your captive cage Replacing love for all your rage Turning your hope on a rope's magic pope kaleidoscope Into a rabbit's foot parade You must not be afraid (Eyes forward babe) You must turn the page One thing is sure And that is change When the water's rising You can't remain Move to dry land Move to dry land You've got to move on |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Symphony Or Damn - Exploring The Tension Inside The Sweetness (1993)
She was a paragon of soft scented chinois curls
She stood with nothing on As we watched my flag unfurl We fell in love so fast That it spun my head around Her coffee tawny skin Sent my blood pressure up and down Castilian blue Castilian blue I never ever thought I'd be so taken by a girl like you Lavender scented pillows Gave a smell to her room That when I smell it now Sends my heart into a sad mood Black men and her commitments She had a problem with And the mention of her father Would cause her to get very miffed at me Castilian blue Castilian blue I never ever thought I'd be so taken by a girl like you Bon bons and fishnet stockings Used to settle any score Till one day I felt the breeze awake me Coming in through an open door Recurring dreams I see her in Mirabella Magazine Multi-coloured babies Running round behind her knee She's long, long, gone Castilian blue Castilian blue I never ever thought I'd be so taken by a girl like you |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Symphony Or Damn - Exploring The Tension Inside The Sweetness (1993)
I know that it's your own life
I tell you this With an eye on your future Yes I know Mind my own business But I am here As an aid and a comfort I can see what you're going through 'Cause we've all been there before But all in all Here's that I'm wondering I want to know Are you happy? Look me in the eye And answer my question I want to know Are you happy? Or are you afraid Of decisions that you need to make? I know that life's about choices But making a wrong one Will not stop the world When in doubt just live the questions And someday you will grow into the answer You're allowed as many mistakes As you need to learn and move on Well, well, well now ponder this 'Cause my heart is ringing a bell I want to know Are you happy? I'm coming to you from Heartbeat Avenue I wanna know Are you happy, Or are you running From decisions that you need to make? I wanna know Are you happy? Can I be of service? What can I do to help you now? I know life's a bitch sometimes But you got to take it in Chew it up And spit it out again You got to accept the pain You can't get around it You can't get under it But you can get over it |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Symphony Or Damn - Exploring The Tension Inside The Sweetness (1993)
Whoever you are come forth
Come forth These are the days that must happen to you Come forth I am a spirit Up above your head Though I rest in you As though you were a bed In a molecular world In an electric state I sing the praise of angels And I sit and wait for you Baby, baby, baby Succumb to me Baby, baby, baby Succumb to me Give me your tears I'll keep them in a glass I'll store them with the treasures That I've amassed Give me your ears I have secrets to tell I will make you hear the delicate bell All around you Baby, baby, baby Succumb to me Baby, baby, baby Succumb to me Give me your anger And I'll soften the tone I am the kiss that grows Where love is shown I am the mirror That reflects your flickering flame So follow me through your mirror frame Baby, baby, baby Succumb to me Baby, baby, baby Succumb to me These are the days that must happen to you Whoever you are come forth I have not revealed myself to you To be another statistic I have come to you to be my mystic Baby, baby, baby Succumb to me Baby, baby, baby Succumb to me Baby, baby, baby Succumb to me Baby, baby, baby Succumb to me Whoever you are come forth These are the days that must happen to you These are the days that must happen to you |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Symphony Or Damn - Exploring The Tension Inside The Sweetness (1993)
I couldn't sleep last night wondering where were you?
In your mind I mean Why didn't you scream? Though I say the wrong thing now and then I still love you In my hour of passionate thought You know I say things that I ought (not to) And though we may not stay together I still love you All alone now long down the line And still these tear storms loneliness finds But like the tide that rises Slaps against the beach and falls And though it's no longer my pail to pull and all And though the weight of all our years Their silent whispers call I still love you I still love you I still love you |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Symphony Or Damn - Exploring The Tension Inside The Sweetness (1993)
I won't say goodbye
I don't want to use that exit line Please don't make me lie I have no excuse for you this time 'Cause sometimes (It's alright for a season) But then it's time to go The verses of my life are moving past And so now the chorus I must hear I've got to define my life and times Before I can give you more than tears 'Cause sometimes (It's alright for a season) But then it's time to go Your heart was stretched to the point of breaking Your tears are etched and your sorrow is waking This complicated curse Causes you to freeze our love in time If I awaken that first It's only 'cause you lost yourself in mine Please don't let me see you cry 'Cause sometimes It's alright for a season But then it's time to go |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Symphony Or Damn - Exploring The Tension Inside The Sweetness (1993)
You're top man on the scene
You don't think life comes in between But hey, she's just seventeen She feels that she's a worldly girl But man you've been around the world She is just some worried daddy's girl Even though there's nothing I can say To cheat you and nature any way Let her down easy Her heart is on a dime Let her down easy And you'll grow up in time In her strawberry eyes The way she sees you signifies That she's susceptible to your velvet lies But if you must lay her down May a butterscotch glow be her dressing gown And please do not lead her on when you leave town Even though there's nothing I can say To cheat you and nature any way Let her down easy Her heart is on the line Let her down easy And you'll grow up in time She's a woman now With a daughter to make her proud In her crayon world of paper clouds She still remembers you The first boy that she gave it to And she laughs at how little then she knew Her daughter's five and her grandfather adores her (of course) Let her down easy Her heart is on the line Let her down easy And you'll grow up in time |
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from Feels So Good 2 - The Smoothest Grooves (2004)
fortunately you've got someone who relies on you
we started out as friends but the thought of you just caves me in the symptoms are so deep it's so much too late to turn away we started out as friends sign your name across my heart i want you to be my baby sign your name across my heart i want you to be my lady time i'm sure will bring disappointments in so many things it seems to be the way when your gambling cards on love you olay i'd rather be in hell with you baby then in cool heaven, it seems to be the way sign your name across my heart i want you to be my baby sign your name across my heart i want you to be my lady birds never look into the sun before the day is gone but ohthe light shines bright in a peacefull day,stranger blue leave us alone we don't want to deal with you we'll shed our stains showering in the room that makes the rain all alone with you,makes the butterflies in me arise slowly we make love,and the earth rotates on our dictates slowly we make love............... sign your name across my heart.. |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Symphony Or Damn - Exploring The Tension Inside The Sweetness (1993)
You chose with age
To speak with a prima ballerina's rage And speak of all the kingdoms That would swoop down Stick around Then proceed to ignore you No flash pot pan, guitar man Or resurrected Apollo myth To seal your fate Feed your plate And just plain worship and adore you But the pills you swill Bring you no thrill So travel lightly on the wing this time Leaving all your baggage behind As you wander through your vagabond stage And find yourself shovelling shit With a rusty jack-handle queen of a broken spade You must not be afraid You must turn the page You wore your goddess down In jaundiced disarray Your halo fell into decay Swiped by those you loved But could not hold in sway behind you And then the dry spell leaves At a low shutter speed Long enough for you to see That you create your own reality And that the wait alone will not enshrine you And the war that you swore Would pour through your door To come to your rescue this time Is all in your mind Now as you wander through your vagabond stage And you find yourself shovelling shit With a rusty jack-handle queen of a broken spade And you find yourself kicking dirt around With your Paris green pumps Of pentacles and precious jade You must not be afraid You must turn the page You dreamt a world of things Like you were a duchess born Or Coretta Scott King And the queen does not invite you over for a tea at her gaff In Scotland Or in Buckingham's back-yard Now I'm sure 'Van the Man' of whom I'm a fan Can surely understand As he said "It is not why, it just is." So therefore you need not remain scarred And in time you'll find That your salvation is mine As you travel lightly on the wing this time Leaving all your baggage behind Now as you wander through your vagabond stage And you find yourself shovelling shit With a rusty jack-handle queen of a broken spade And you find yourself kicking dirt around With your Paris green pumps Of pentacles and precious jade Pulling the roots from your hair Dyed from a bottle You saw in a windows with An 'Everything must go!!' sale sign Prominently displayed And yet waiting for your dancing On the edge of a precipice heart to sing Those serenading soul songs That fulfillingness and consciousness brings Releasing you from your captive cage Replacing love for all your rage Turning your hope on a rope's magic pope kaleidoscope Into a rabbit's foot parade You must not be afraid (Eyes forward babe) You must turn the page One thing is sure And that is change When the water's rising You can't remain Move to dry land Move to dry land You've got to move on |
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from Terence Trent D. Arby - Symphony Or Damn - Exploring The Tension Inside The Sweetness (1993)
You're top man on the scene
You don't think life comes in between But hey, she's just seventeen She feels that she's a worldly girl But man you've been around the world She is just some worried daddy's girl Even though there's nothing I can say To cheat you and nature any way Let her down easy Her heart is on a dime Let her down easy And you'll grow up in time In her strawberry eyes The way she sees you signifies That she's susceptible to your velvet lies But if you must lay her down May a butterscotch glow be her dressing gown And please do not lead her on when you leave town Even though there's nothing I can say To cheat you and nature any way Let her down easy Her heart is on the line Let her down easy And you'll grow up in time She's a woman now With a daughter to make her proud In her crayon world of paper clouds She still remembers you The first boy that she gave it to And she laughs at how little then she knew Her daughter's five and her grandfather adores her (of course) Let her down easy Her heart is on the line Let her down easy And you'll grow up in time |
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from Dance Now (1992)
Now do you love me like you say you do baby?
(Do you love me like you say you do?) Listen baby, until I find the river I won't be satisfied with who I am In my Monasteryo your love ran hot or cold Symphony or damn I wanna be careful not to lose by laughter What I've gained by tears So here's a question baby You answer I most need to hear Now do you love me like you say you do baby? (Do you love me like you say you do?) I give my best to the best of your breed Take my heart pretty baby I believe that I have all that I need I exist for you wholly in this hour As the leaves exist Surely for the sake of the flower Now do you love me like you say you do baby? (Do you love me like you say you do?) It seems that you have all these emotional dragons That you must slay I believe your daddy didn't treat you right So it seems now TTD must pay The troubles advance while the sorrows retreat Yet whichever road you travel baby I genuinely wish you godspeed But before you go answer my question Now do you love me like you say you do baby? (Do you love me like you say you do?) |
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from Terence Trent D'Arby - Neither Fish Nor Flesh (1997)
...so I'm not you pearl
To this I am resigned But... to an outside world I will not be defined 'Cause I'm neither fish... nor flesh |
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from Terence Trent D'Arby - Neither Fish Nor Flesh (1997)
I have faith in these desolate times
A roar down the road of a rumbling war I have faith in these desolate times A chill from the eyes of a man of political skill I have faith but for how much longer? It seems to me, bitter trees, full of fleas Summarily hold the branches People we, falling leaves, watching thieves Stealing keys, to our ranches I have faith in these desolate times A score to the sound of the feet of a journeyman's tour I have faith in these desolate times A feel and a hope and belief that man's peace will be still I have faith but for how much longer? The village green, people seen, full of beans Imagining the course of action And in between, shopping scenes, plasticine Suburban dreams, an empty faction I have faith in these desolate times Show fear, and the smoke of a gun trigger pulling finger pressure comes near I have faith in these desolate times Before long, the lamb and the lion may lie with the lass in the grass at dawn I have faith but for how much longer? |
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from Terence Trent D'Arby - Neither Fish Nor Flesh (1997)
Desert sands
Heart's homeland 'Til you Flesh and bones Made of stone 'Til you Seasons never changed Reasons never came So it feels so good to love Someone like you Birds in trees Fantasies 'Til you Fire's cry The embers die 'Til you Dying on the roam Crying for a home And so it feels so good to love Someone like you |
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from Terence Trent D'Arby - Neither Fish Nor Flesh (1997)
Under a temperamental sun
On the dark hillside of your sorrow If there's pain in your heart Let it go Just reach inside and let it go Now dig To know someone deeply Is to know someone softly To know someone deeply Is to know someone softly Listen to me know In my love garden I wrestled with an angel Not in a dream Her eyes did seem Like the grapes of the vine Her lips were made like the gates of Heaven Not to be missed Made to be kissed But not to kiss goodbye The larger picture Will come with time But for tonight, dear Let's lullabye To know someone deeply Is to know someone softly To know someone deeply Is to know someone softly Listen to me know Once a flower opens It never closes Until it dies And the it lies Amongst the roses I wanted to play her like A black grand piano A clarinet A minuet Or lyric soprano In my arms there's A safety zone Where nothing can harm you Your heart or home To know someone deeply Is to know someone softly To know someone deeply Is to know someone softly Sing Dum Dum Dum Dum Sha La La Da Da Dum Sha La La La La To know someone deeply Is to know someone softly To know someone deeply Is to know someone softly |
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from Terence Trent D'Arby - Neither Fish Nor Flesh (1997)
Hold back your diamonds and pearls
'Cause the attraction's no good to me Hold back your California Girls Your prescriptions and your limousines Hold back your influential friends For they are really not my type 'Cause just as long as I've got my baby I'll be alright I'll be alright Despite all the finer things She'd have if she were monied Like a rich girl I'll be alright Despite all the candy coloured things The things that are so untrue Hold back your perfumes so rare 'Cause she smells like a rose untorn Hold back your designer underwear She's a beauty just the way she was born She may not move like Fred Astaire But her gingerly walk is out of sight 'Cause just as long as I've got my baby I'll be alright I'll be alright Despite all the finer things She'd have if she were monied Like a rich girl I'll be alright Despite all the candy coloured things The things that are so untrue I'll sing it for the last time y'all Hold back your critical reviews 'Cause my baby don't need the hype We're happy just to pay our little dues So get movin', get on your bike 'Cause just as long as I've got my baby If I can hold on and keep my baby If I can just hold on and keep my baby I'll be alright |
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from Terence Trent D'Arby - Neither Fish Nor Flesh (1997)
Billy was a young boy
Who's fate did decree That he would like only other boys So being with a boy came to him naturally Billy was a green boy His thoughts so naive He wondered why he was so victimised And his fear brought him close to me suddenly But Billy my friend Don't fall in love with me I'm not that kind of guy But I'll stand by your side If you need me to be But Billy my friend Don't fall in love with me Though it can't be wrong to be To be what you are Billy was a sick boy His life fading to grey He tried to grab for straws of family But his loved ones turned young Billy away Billy died a young man His face to the wind And of the things I regret the most Was seeing how hate and fear killed a friend But Billy my friend Don't fall in love with me I'm not that kind of guy But I'll stand by your side If you need me to be But Billy my friend Don't fall in love with me Though it can't be wrong to be To be what you are |
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from Terence Trent D'Arby - Neither Fish Nor Flesh (1997)
We're on the negative side of love
I'm subject to all bizarre whims she fancies I'm running escape to find the handle Of the door she locks me up in She's on the laughing side of sin What have I done in all my past lives (To end up on) This side of Love? We're on a permanent twist of fate She has dominion over time and torture I'm pinching myself to convince me that I'm in a living nightmare The killer attraction of a dare What have I done, emasculation (To end up on) This side of Love? If I should stay (Will the beat go on?) I must be strong (We tell you every day) Will I return (To normal lovers again?) Please peel my skin ('Cause my soul is burning) We're on a roundabout whirl of scorn The demons are smiling and the angels snoring I feel like a stepchild Caeser that's been Beaten and bruised to please her Wearing a rusted ring of thorns What have I done to piss the Gods off (To end up on) This side of Love? If I should stay (Will the beat go on?) I must be strong (We tell you every day) Will I return (To normal lovers again?) Please peel my skin ('Cause my soul is burning) We're on the negative side of love I see my condition as a sign of service I'll snuggle up close to her knowing That I'm practising my religion Warming the barrel of a gun This will be the deed that finds me next time (On this side of) (On this side of) (On this side of) This side of Love |
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from Terence Trent D'Arby - Neither Fish Nor Flesh (1997)
Everything I got
Everything I need And everything that I have Learned about Time Every word I speak Every pound I keep And everything that I have Learned about Rhyme Everything I got is Attracted to you babe Every noun I know And every adjective And everything that's on A Ticket to Ride All my relatives They seem to think your a whore But to me a whore's a Queen in disguise Everything I got is Attracted to you babe Everything I got Everything I need And everything that I have Learned about Time Every word I speak Every pound I keep And everything that I have Learned about Rhyme Everything I got is Attracted to you babe |
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from Terence Trent D'Arby - Neither Fish Nor Flesh (1997)
Your dangerous charm and your
Glamorous arrogance thrilled me In the melancholy winter time (Uncle Bill please give me time) But this war of attrition To prove your world ambition Worries me And you're too concerned with the Weight you want to lose Well if you listen to confusion Long enough it starts to make sense Can you hear me talking to ya? [Chorus:] Roly poly Holy holy Time is tight Get it right Aren't you lonely? Roly poly Holy holy Time is tight Get it right Aren't you lonely? Your fatalist's closet Where blood stained deposits hide deeply Underneath the cusp of venus fly A terrible beauty You are my dear of Aphrodisiacs and diamonds But your lonely tears trail Your penis envy eyes And now stop worrying about your Weight it looks alright to me dear Can you hear me talking to ya? [Chorus] All your somethings Are turning into nothings As you reach for Something greed inspired And all the hopes that I once held as your lover Are falling down as My manhood loses fire Your kinship with money A Queen bee with honey Suits you As you now belong to the ever Changing guard A signpost for progress A fine token lioness Leaves me 'Cause as you say dear i'm just a Face without a card Well if you listen to confusion Long enough it starts to make sense Can you hear me talking to ya? [Chorus] |
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from Terence Trent D'Arby - Neither Fish Nor Flesh (1997)
As I hold my head down
Against a whipping hard rain babe Slaps me like a sheet Sheets of rain coming down As I dig my heels deep In a minefield of muddy water I hear a voice loud and low Stays with me wherever I go sayin' You will pay tomorrow for what You do today Accept this as a truth For old as well as youth You will pay tomorrow for what You do today As sure as you are born Though you may be weak and torn As a snake pulls up beside me Thinking that my name is Eve My dark side starts to chide me But I bring him down to his knees As I close my eyes tight Deep in meditation Peaceful sleep evades me But a low pitched drone invades me sayin' You will pay tomorrow for what You do today Though you run you cannot hide It's a truth that shall abide sayin' You will pay tomorrow for what You do today It will find you in the morning A heartache for your warning As I shake my head twice Saying I'd rather fight than switch I was land rich but penny poor But I couldn't tell which from which As my kneecaps break the fall Of my begging for grace and favour Bell, Book and Candle holds me But a spellbinding whisper scolds me saying You will pay tomorrow for what You do today Though your vision may be bleary And your eyes that see may be weary - but You will pay tomorrow for what You do today On your mind it will wear Ignore it if you dare As I shed my second skin Beneath a bullet box roller-coaster I view my transformation Through the veil of a jokester As I gain my second sight I shed a tear and I shake the crowd I used to rather be dead than humble But now I'd rather be dead than proud You will pay tomorrow for what You do today After deep time tossed confusion I came to my own conclusion that You will pay tomorrow for what You do today Accept this as a notion As fish breathe in the dirty ocean |
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from Terence Trent D'Arby - Neither Fish Nor Flesh (1997)
(Spoken Intro)
People This is not a film This is my song Now pick up your shovel and Dig I don't want to bring your Gods down babe I don't want to bring your Gods down babe Their flesh and blood for you too real The wine that flows from their nostrils Too red Their master strokes too fundamental Their saint soaked cathedrals too done I don't want to bring your Gods down babe I don't want to bring your Gods down babe The ferocity of their cat claws too steel And we the weak kneed weeds of their Weaker breed never paused to feel We're not the masters of the land we survey But I guess you'd come to that conclusion When you're ready in your own time anyway I don't want to bring your Gods down babe I don't want to bring your Gods down babe Because their armour and their crest cuts too deep And the cold landcliffs where they rest are far too steep But I just wanna say to you that like your Gods, your guilt and your beliefs I too wanna be With you 'til the very end babe |
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from Terence Trent D'Arby - Neither Fish Nor Flesh (1997)
Shine on your light
Lead me to your home Lower your sights Put away your comb Though black babies are starving And cows fed for the carving All I know is I'm lonely And I need to be with someone tonight Lift up your chin Let me see your eyes Words are not my yen My tongue is often tied Though apartheid's a greater issue I long to hear "I miss you" All I know is I'm lonely And I need to be with someone tonight 'Till men stop being intimidated By women who have made it All I know is I'm lonely And I need to be with someone tonight |
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