스티비 원더는 미국의 싱어 송라이터이자 음반 프로듀서, 사회 활동가이다. 루치아노 파바로티는 스티비 원더의 콘서트에서 그를 "훌륭한, 아주 훌륭한 음악 천재"(great, great musical genius)라 평하기도 했다.
스티비 원더는 30개 이상의 톱 10 히트곡을 냈으며, 총 21번 그래미 상을 수상했다[2]. 또한 그는 아카데미상을 수상하기도 했으며, 로큰롤 명예의 전당(1989) 및 작곡가 명예의 전당(1983)에 올라있다. 원더는 1999년 폴라음악상을,[3] 2009년 2월 25일 미국 의회 도서관 거쉰 공로상을 수상했다[4].
유아기 때 실명한 스티비 원더는, 청소년기에 모타운 레코드와 계약한 후 지금까지 계속 같은 음반사에서 활동하고 있다. 첫 앨범의 이름은 '리틀 스티비 원더(Little Stevie Wonder)'이며, 발표연도는 1963년으로 그의 나이 12세 때였다. 이후 그는 9개의 빌보드 차트 1위 곡들을 발표하는 등, 지금까지 총 1억장이 넘는 음반 판매고를 올렸다.
스티비 원더는 피아노, 하모니카, 오르간, 베이스 기타, 콩가, 드럼 등 여러가지 악기를 능숙하게 연주하는 것으로 유명하기도 하다. .... ....
Like a fool I went and stayed too long Now I'm wondering if your love's still strong Ooh baby Here I am, signed, sealed delivered I'm yours
Then that time I went and said good-bye Now I'm back and not ashamed to cry Ooh baby Here I am, signed, sealed delivered I'm yours
Here I am baby Oh, you've got the future in your hand (Signed, sealed delivered, I'm yours) I've done a lot of foolish things That I really didn't mean Hey, hey, yea, yea, didn't I, oh baby
Seen a lot of things in this old world When I touched them they did nothing, girl Ooh baby Here I am, signed sealed delivered I'm yours, oh I'm yours
Oo-wee babe you set my soul on fire That's why I know you are my only desire Ooh baby Here I am, signed, sealed delivered I'm yours
Here I am baby Oh, you've got the future in your hand (Signed, sealed delivered, I'm yours) Here I am baby Oh, you've got the future in your hand (Signed, sealed delivered, I'm yours) I've done a lot of foolish things That I really didn't mean I could be a broken man but here I am
With your future, got your future babe (Here I am baby) Here I am baby (Signed, sealed delivered, I'm yours) Here I am baby (Here I am baby) (Signed, sealed delivered, I'm yours) Here I am baby (Here I am baby) Here I am baby (Signed, sealed delivered, I'm yours)
Born to open for Mankind nature's door A life known by a few
And those who knew that shared Their knowledge fewer cared About what plants could do
For most felt it was mad to conceive That plants thought, felt, and moved quite like we But with instruments Bose would devise Would take Science itself by a surprise, so
On we go to where who knows To a place where there's still non-believers What will it take for heaven sakes For those who find what's real too hard to believe in It's that same old story again.
Born of slaves who died Too soon to realize The need his life would be
Selflessy he gave His wisdom to a way Where first no minds would see
He said if farm land was to be rich We must plant crops to replenish it But it took him persuasion and tests To convince them Canver's way was best, so
On we go to where who knows To a place where there's still non-believers What will it take for heaven sakes For those who find what's real too hard to believe in It's that same old story again.
There is a garden Where every heart can Share in the joy of giving
It like no other Has love to cover Bearing no price on living
Quietty listen and you might hear them singing their lullaby Calling for you to join in their love filled garden
Kibo-ni afure ikiru yorokobi Shiawase ni michi te Ai no rakuen Subete no kokoro ga Ai o wakachiau Shizuka ni mimi katamuke yo Ai no komori uta Kimi sasoi yobikakenu Ai no sono
Pan is my name I live outside the door I have to keep the score of things around you
Fire and air, water I prepare I am the piper at the gates of dawning
It's not magic it's not madness Just the elements I style And I guarantee faithfully I will never go Until all is said and done In a twinkling I'll be gone Well excuse me I have so much more to do
Fancy I fell, A childlike tap I'll steal Look twice my friend it's not the wind at all
You'll never see, What you refuse to be The power in the seeing is believing.
It's not magic it's not madness Just the elements I style And I guarantee faithfully I will never go Until all is said and done In a twinkling I'll be gone Well excuse me I have so much more to do
It's not magic it's not madness Just the elements I style And I guarantee faithfully I will never go Until all is said and done In a twinkling I'll be gone Well excuse me I have so much more to do
(Background) Flower Power, Power Flower, Flower Power, Power of Love Power Flower, Flower Power, Power Flower, Flower of Love
(repeat) He's a power flower yeah, oh Protecting all the flowers, yeah, oh He's a flower's power, yeah Through earth, wind, fire, showers, yeah, oh, oh, oh, oh oh, oh, oh, oh
He's a power flower yeah, oh Protecting all the flowers, yeah, oh
Send her your love With a dozen roses Make sure that she knows it With a flower from your heart
Show him your love Don′t hold back your feelings You don′t need a reason When its straight from the heart
I′ve heard so many say that the days of romance are no more And people falling in love is so old fashioned But waiting are they the day they once let slip away Hiding need to fulfill their heart′s desire for love′s passion
Send her your love With a dozen roses Make sure that she knows it With a flower from your heart
Show him your love Don′t hold back your feelings You don′t need a reason When its straight from the heart
I know that people say two hearts beating as one is unreal And can only happen in make believe stories But so blind they all must be that they cannot believe what they see For around us are miracles of love′s glory
Show him your love Don′t hold back your feelings You don′t need a reason When its coming from your heart
This world is moving much to fast They're race babbling This world is moving much to fast The end's unravelling
Man's production Life's corruption World destruct
Help me people Save you people God's induction Life's construction These instruct Will save every living thing Can't you see that Life's connected You need us to live Both we don't need you
This world is moving much to fast They're race babbling
This world is moving much to fast They're race babbling This world is moving much to fast The end's unravelling This world is moving much too fast You can't conceive the nucleus of all Begins inside a tiny seed And what you see as insignificant
Man's production Life's corruption World destruct
Help me people Save you people God's induction Life's construction These instruct Will save every living thing Can't you see that Life's connected You need us to live Both we don't need you
This world is moving much to fast This world is moving much to fast They're race babbling This world is moving much to fast They're space travelling
This world is moving much to fast They're race babbling This world is moving much to fast The end's unravelling This world is moving much to fast This world is moving much to fast This world is moving much to fast They're race babbling This world is moving much to fast They're space travelling
Send her your love With a dozen roses Make sure that she knows it With a flower from your heart
Show him your love Don′t hold back your feelings You don′t need a reason When its straight from the heart
I′ve heard so many say that the days of romance are no more And people falling in love is so old fashioned But waiting are they the day they once let slip away Hiding need to fulfill their heart′s desire for love′s passion
Send her your love With a dozen roses Make sure that she knows it With a flower from your heart
Show him your love Don′t hold back your feelings You don′t need a reason When its straight from the heart
I know that people say two hearts beating as one is unreal And can only happen in make believe stories But so blind they all must be that they cannot believe what they see For around us are miracles of love′s glory
Show him your love Don′t hold back your feelings You don′t need a reason When its coming from your heart
Much has been written about The world and all its kind of loves But the sweetest of them all You seldom will find stories of, oh oh oh oh
My love lives outside my window Clouds burst to give water So her love can grow, oh My love smiles to me each morning Says she’ll never leave me and I know it’s so
You will often hear her name Describing another’s prettiness But if ever there was choice My flower would be the prettiest, oh oh oh oh
My love lives outside my window Clouds burst to give water So her love can grow, oh My love smiles to me each morning Says she’ll never leave me and I know it’s so
A flake of snow within a storm A new way waiting to be born In a world with need for change A touch of love in fear of hate A rushing wind that's asked to wait For the promises of rain A pearl of wisdom entrapped by poverty She gives love with purity Filling minds with hopeful schemes To build worlds enhanced by peace Draped in sparkling morning dew She expresses life anew From the earth beneath her feet She is a flower that grows In love abilty, she's femeninity
Black Orchid, black Orchid Why did they make you begin When they know in time you'll find your truth Before your cycle ends Black orchid, black orchid Why are you crying their fears When the true reflection of you that they see Is love besieged by years
She has touched the farthest star Her beauty speaks of what we are And her freedom makes us free Her now is an eternity Infinite to all that see And her dreams have been acheived Now there is the sound of laughter Nature sings out her name For the world to know her fame
Black orchid, black orchid Why did they criticize When they knew your love would cast it's spell And consecrate their eyes Black orchid, black orchid Why do you lingr in space When you know in every heart that beats You hold a speacial place When you know in every heart that beats You hold a special place
The starngest thought came to me On this morning As I awake to greet the coming dawn The sun was hardly peaking through the garden It felt that with everything I was one
Then I wished that I could come back As a flower, as a flower, as a flower How I wished that I could come back As a flower, as a flower
To spread the sweetness of love To spread the sweetness of love
The dew had finished making love to many A rainbow smelling sweet was in the air I envied all the silence I saw growing So unmoved by things outside themselves
Then how I wished that I could come back As a flower, as a flower, as a flower How I wished that I could come back As a flower, as a flower To spread the sweetness of love
How I wished that I could come back As a flower, oh as a flower, as a flower How I wished that I could come back As a flower, as a flower, as a flower
To spread the sweetness of love To spread the sweetness of love
We're a people black as is your night Born to spread Amma's eternal light Which since time began Has been to bring truth to every man
Our ancestors have since long ago Passed their wisdom down so we to know For here lies the key That will help unfold the mistery
A seed's a star A seed's a star's a seed A star's a seed A star's a seed's a star
In myself I do contain The elements of sun and rain First a seed with roots that swell I gradually burst through my shell Pushing down into the ground The root of me is homeward bound A trunk, a leaf and there I am A miracle of least by far
Tree - you are the longest living one we know the largest of all plants and still you grow
Tree - within your branches there's such history so much of what we're searching for to know
Every fifty years we celebrate
Po Tolo, our star, as it rotates Though infinitely small It is still the heaviest of them all
(Background)
A seed's a star A seed's a star's a seed A star's a seed A star's a seed's a star A seed's a star A seed's a star's a seed A star's a seed A star's a seed's a star
(Background-simultaneous)
Ye Lolo De Ye Lolo Ye Kesse De Ye Kesse ye lolo De Ye Lolo Ye Kesse De Ye Kesse ye lolo De Ye Lolo Ye Kesse De Ye Kesse ye lolo De Ye Lolo Ye Kesse De Ye
And some believe antennas are their leaves That spans beyond our galaxy They've been, they are and probably will be Who are the mediocrity
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