The Temptations

I've got sunshine
On a cloudy day
And when it's cold outside,
I've got the month of May

Well, I guess you'd say
What can make me feel this way
My girl (my girl, my girl)
Talkin''bout my girl (my girl)

I've got so much honey
The bees envy me
I've got a sweeter song than the birds in the trees

Well, I guess you'll say what can make me feel this way?
My girl(my girl, my girl)
Talkin''bout my girl (my girl)


Oooo~~h, Hoooo~~

I don't need no money,
Fortune, or fame
I've got all the riches, baby,
One man can claim

Well~ I guess you'll say
What can make me feel this way
My girl (my girl, my girl)
Talkin''bout my girl (my girl)

I've got sunshine on a cloudy day
With my girl
I've even got the month of May
with my girl

Sunshine blue skies please go away
The girl has found another and gone away.
With her went my future my life is filled with gloom
So day after day I stay locked up in my room.
I know to you, it might sound strange but I wish it would rain,

Cause so badly I wanna go outside
But everyone knows that a man ain't supposed to cry
Listen, I gotta cry 'cause crying eases the pain,
Oh yeah, people this hurt I feel inside.
Words could never explain, I just wish it would rain.

Day in day out my tear-stained face
Pressed against the window pain,
My eyes search the skies desperately for rain,
Cause rain-drops will hide my tear -drops
And no one will ever know that I'm crying,
Crying when I go outside.
To the world outside my tears,
I refuse to explain, oh I wish it would rain,
let it rain, let it rain.
I need rain to disguise the tears in my eyes.
Oh, let it rain.
I'm a man and I got my pride
Til' it rains I'm gonna stay inside and let it rain.

Night and day, you are the one
Only you beneath the moon or under the sun
Whether near to me, or far
It's no matter darling where you are
I think of you Night and day

Day and night, why is it so
That this longing for you follows wherever I go
In the roaring traffic's boom
In the silence of my lonely room
I think of you Night and day

Night and day Under the hide of me
There's an oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me
And this torment won't be through
Until you let me spend my life making love to you
Day and night, night and day

Only you beneath the moon or under the sun
Whether near to me, or far
It's no matter darling where you are
I think of you Night and day

Night and day Under the hide of me
There's an oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me
And this torment won't be through
Until you let me spend my life making love to you
Day and night, night and day

I've got sunshine on a cloudy day
When it's cold outside
I've got the month of May

*I guess you'd say
What can make me feel this way
My girl, talking about my girl

I've got so much honey
the bees envy me

I've got a sweeter song
than any bird you got in any tree

* Repeat

ho~
ho~

I don't need no money, fortune nor fame
I've got all the riches, baby
One man can claim, oh yes I do

* Repeat

I've sunshine
on a cloudy day with my girl

I've even got
the month of May with my girl
So I can think about

You broke my heart 'cause I couldn't dance,
You didn't even want me around.
And now I'm back to let you know I can really shake 'em down.

Do you love me?
(I can really move, )
Do you love me?
(I'm in the groove.)
Now do you love me?
(Do you love me now that I can dance?)
Watch me, now.
(Work, work)
Ah,work it out baby.
(work, work)
Well, you're drivin' me crazy.
(work, work)
With just a little bit of soul, now
(work!)
Now I can mash potatoes, I can do the twist,
Tell me, baby, do you like it like this?
Tell me,
(Tell me,)
Tell me.

Do you love me?
(I can really move, )
Do you love me?
(I'm in the groove.)
Now do you love me?
(Do you love me now that I can dance?)
Watch me, now.
(Work, work)
Ah,work it out baby.
(work, work)
Well, you're drivin' me crazy.
(work, work)
With just a little bit of soul, now
(work!)
Now I can mash potatoes, I can do the twist,
Tell me, baby, do you like it like this?
Tell me,
(Tell me,)

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Written By GORDY, BERRY JR
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Power, boom boom
Power, boom boom boom
Power, boom boom
Power, boom boom boom
Power, boom boom boom
Power boom boom
Power boom boom boom
Power boom boom
Power boom boom boom
Power

My hands are clean
My heart is so pure
The world is sick
I am the cure
I don't want no money, gold or gifts
Give me your minds and souls to lift
Put you faith and trust in me
I'll move your mountains
Part your sea
All you poor all you needy
All you're doin' is givin' to the greedy
All you poor all you needy
All you're doin' is givin' to the greedy
Get off your knees, believe in me
I'll set you free

All I need's a little more power
Power, power, power, power, power,
Power, power, power, power.

I have for you a master plan
To lead you to the Promised Land
I give you peace, I give you pride
I save you from mass suicide
I'm your hope, your one salvation
I'm your one man United Nation
All you poor all you needy
All you're doin' is givin' to the greedy
All you poor all you needy
All you're doin' is givin' to the greedy
Tell me your sins, I'll be your friend
I won't do you in.

All I need's a little more power
Power, power, power, power, power,
Power, power, power, power.

I'll make you all the master race
Just put me in my godly place
We'll march the world down in defeat
Take the fields of oil and the lands of wheat
Power, I need it, more, I got to have it
One thing I must make perfectly clear
Nuclear weapons, all men fear
Their hands sweat, their fingers itch
I'm the only one you can trust with the switch
Give it to me, more power

More, give it to me
More, give it to me

I, my, my, my, my
Oh I,
Can turn the gray sky blue, I
You see I can make it rain, when I want it to, oh I
I can build a castle from a single grain of sand, I
You see I can make a ship sail, on dry land tell 'em yeah
I'm unhappy with all the powers I possess, yeah
Girl you're the key to my happiness and I
(I can't get next to you, babe )
(I can't get next to you)
I've trying a long time
(I can't get next to you, babe)
(I can't get next you)
I don't know what to do

I,
Oh I,
I, oh Lord
I can fly like a bird in the sky, oh I
And I can buy anything that money can buy, oh I
Can turn a river into a raging fire, oh I
And I can live forever if I so desire, yeah
I'm unhappy with all the power I possess, yeah girl
'Cause girl your the key cause
(I can't get next to you babe)
(I can't get next to you)
(I can't get next to you babe)
(I can't get next to you)

Let me tell that
I can turn back the hands of time,
You better believe I can, oh I
You see I can take the season's change just by waving my hand, let me say I
I can change anything from old to new girl, oh I
All the things I want to do the most, you see, I'm unable to do, yeah

Unimportant these things that I'm trying to do here today
'Cause girl, you see, I
(Can't get next to you babe)
I've been trying a long time
(I can't get next to you)
Oh somebody oughta help me
(I can't get next to you, babe)
Let me, let me go
(I can't get next to you)
Let me

I, Lord I've been working on it, baby
I've been thinking about it
Oh I
But you see, I've been trying to call you all day long
But you see I don't have your phone number, honey, I
I've been, I've been, thinking about you baby, something awful
You see, I, oh I, sometimes I feel like I want to moan about it
And I, I don't just know what to say about it

Yeah!
Psychedelic Shack, that's where it's at.
Psychedelic Shack, that's where it's at.
Yeah! People,

Let me tell you 'bout a place I know, to get in it don't take much dough.
Where you can really do your thing.
It's got a neon sigh outside that says,
"Come in and take a look at your mind.
You'll be surprised what you might find."
Strobe lights flashing from sun up to sundown,
People gather there from all parts of town.

Right around the corner, you know it's just across the track.
People I'm talking abut the Psychedelic Shack.
Psychedelic Shack, that's where it's at.
Psychedelic Shack, that's where it's at.
Psychedelic Shack, that's where it's at. Yeah!

You can have your fortune told, you can learn the meaning of soul.
There ain't no such thing as time.
Incense in the air, peace signs painted everywhere,
I guarantee you this place will blow your mind.
They got music so high you can't get over it,
So low you can't get under it.

Right around the corner, you know it's just across the track.
People I'm talking abut the Psychedelic Shack.
Psychedelic Shack, that's where it's at.
Psychedelic Shack, that's where it's at.
Psychedelic Shack, that's where it's at. Yeah!

Millionaires, kings and queens go there to do their thing,
You might see anybody there, yeah.
Bearskin rugs, tails and minks
It don't really matter what you wear.
Take off your shoes, sit on the floor,
Join in and be what you wanna be, don't you know it's

Right around the corner, you know it's just across the track.
People I'm talking abut the Psychedelic Shack.
Psychedelic Shack, that's where it's at.
Psychedelic Shack, that's where it's at.
Psychedelic Shack, that's where it's at. Yeah!

They got a cat there shoutin' the blues, talkin' 'bout payin' some dues.
People walkin' round reciting poetry, yeah.
Screaming guitars and a thousand colored lights,
People, I'm telling you this place is really out of sight.
You can have your fortune told, you can learn the meaning of soul,
I can tell you the place will blow your mind, don't you know it's

Right around the corner, you know it's just across the track.
People I'm talking abut the Psychedelic Shack.
Psychedelic Shack, that's where it's at.
Psychedelic Shack, that's where it's at.
Psychedelic Shack, that's where it's at. Yeah!
Psychedelic Shack, that's where it's at.
Psychedelic Shack, that's where it's at. Yeah!

People moving out,
People moving in.
why, because of the color of their skin
run, run, run but you sho' can't hide

An eye for an eye,tooth for a tooth,
vote for me and I'll set you free
rap on, brother, rap on

The only person talking about love thy brother is the preacher
and it seems
nobody's interested in learning
but the teacher

segregation, determination, demonstration, intergration,
Aggravation, humiliation, obligation to our nation

Ball of confusion, oh yeah
That's what the world is today, hey

The sale of pills are at an all time high
young folks walking round with their heads in the sky
the cities ablaze in the summertime, and oh
the beat goes on

evolution, revolution, gun control, sound of soul
shooting rockets to the moon
kids growing up too soon
politicians say more taxes, will solve everything
and the band played on

So, round and around and around we go
where the world's headed, nobody knows

Oh, Great Googamooga, can't you hear me talking to you
just a ball of confusion, oh yeah
that's what the world is today, hey

Fear in the air, tension everywhere
unemployment rising fast, the Beatles new record's a gas
and the only safe place to live, is on an indian reservation
and the band played on

Eve of destruction, tax deduction
city inspectors, bill collectors
mod clothes in demand,
population out of hand,
suicide, too many bills
hippies moving to the hills
people all over the world are shouting end the war
and the band played on

Oh, Great Googamooga, can't you hear me talking to you
just a ball of confusion,
thatc

Ooo
Each day through my window I watch her as she passes by.
I say to myself, you're such a lucky guy.
To have a girl like her is truly a dream come true.
Out of all the fellas in the world, she belongs to me.

But it was just my 'magination, running away with me.
It was just my 'magination, running away with me.

(Soon) Soon we'll be married and raise a family. (Oh, yeah)
A cozy little home out in the country with two children, maybe three.
I tell you, I can visualize it all. This couldn't be a dream, for too real it all seems.

But it was just my 'magination, once again.
Running away with me.
Tell you it was just my 'magination,
Running away with me.

Paul: Every night on my knees I pray.

Dear Lord, hear my plea.
Don't ever let another take her love from me.
Or I will surely die. Hmm

(Her love is) heavenly.
When her arms enfold me.
I hear a tender rhapsody.
But in reality, she doesn't even know me.

Just my 'magination, once again.
Running away with me.
Oh, tell you it was just my 'magination,
Running away with me.

I never met her but I can't forget her.
Just my 'magination,
Ooo yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Running away with me.

Ooo, just my 'magination running away with me.
She's in my mind and hard to find.
Just my 'magination...

Each day through my window I watch her as she passes by.
I say to myself, "You're such a lucky guy."
To have a girl like her
is truly a dream come true.
Out of all of the fellas in the world
she belongs to you...

But it was just my imagination
running away with me.
It was just my imagination
running away with me...

Ooh-hoo-hoo-hooh
Soon we'll be married..
and raise a family.
In a cozy, little home out in the country
with two children, maybe three.
I tell you, I can visualize it all.
This couldn't be a dream for too real it all seems.

But it was just my imagination -- once again --
running away with me.
I tell you it was just my imagination
running away with me...

Every night, on my knees I pray,
"Dear Lord, hear my plea...
don't ever let another take her love from me
or I will surely die.."
Ooh, her love is heavenly;
when her arms enfold me,
I hear a tender rhapsody...
but in reality, she doesn't even know me

Just my imagination -- once again --
running away with me.
Tell you it was just my imagination
running away with me.
I never met her, but I can't forget her.
Just my imagination..
-- ooh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah --
running away with me

Where I was born ev'rything was dull and dingy
I lived in a place they called the inner city
Getting ahead huh was strictly a nono
Cause nobody cares what happens to the folks
That live in the ghetto
Thousands of lives wasting away
People living from day to day
It's a challenge just staying alive
'Cause in the ghetto only the strong survive

Money I ain't got none, job can't find one
The streets raised me from a baby, ooh
Thousands of lives wasting away
People living from day to day
It's a challenge just staying alive
'Cause in the ghetto only the strong survive

Broken down homes, kids strung out
They don't even know what life's all about
Stealin' cars, robbin' bars
Mugging drugs, rat infested
And no one's interested

Kids dodging cars for recreation
Only adds to a mother's frustration
Breakings, folks comin' home
And finding all their possessions gone
Oh it's an ev'ry day thing - well well - in the ghetto
Oh it's an ev'ry day thing in the ghetto

hey girl (tell me) whats ur name
i like your style (i like your style)
can i stick around enrapture you a little while

and hey girl
dont turn away (dont turn away)
please listen to what i have to say
dont tell me some other day
please wont u stay

all my life i've prayed for someone like u oh yeah
oh the look in your eyes
tell me you feel the same way too oh yeah

hey girl (hey girl hey girl hey girl)
cant i be your friend
can i see u again
no dont walk away (dont walk away)
if in your heart u really want to stay
girl what u feel is for real and believe me its ok

Lady luck and a 4 leaf clover
Wanting this hurt I feel all over
My life was one special occasion
Till your leavin' ended the situation
That's why I'm standin' on shakey ground
Ever since you put me down
Standin' on shakey ground
Ever since you put me down
My car got repossessed this morning
Hardest times I've seen in years
Lord, you got to throw me a life preserver
Cause I'm about to drown in my own tears
That's why I'm standin' on shakey ground
Ever since you put me down
Standin' on shakey ground
Ever since you put me down

Lady luck and a 4 leaf clover
wanting this hurt I feel all over
my life was one special occasion
till your leavin ended the situation

thats why I'm standin on shakey ground
ever since you put me down
standin on shakey ground
ever since you put me down

my car got repossesed this morning
hardest times I've seen in years
lord, you got to throw me a life preserver
cause I'm about to drown in my own tears

thats why I'm standin on shakey ground
ever since you put me down
standin on shakey ground
ever since you put me down

Power, boom boom
Power, boom boom boom
Power, boom boom
Power, boom boom boom
Power, boom boom boom
Power boom boom
Power boom boom boom
Power boom boom
Power boom boom boom
Power

My hands are clean
My heart is so pure
The world is sick
I am the cure
I don't want no money, gold or gifts
Give me your minds and souls to lift
Put you faith and trust in me
I'll move your mountains
Part your sea
All you poor all you needy
All you're doin' is givin' to the greedy
All you poor all you needy
All you're doin' is givin' to the greedy
Get off your knees, believe in me
I'll set you free

All I need's a little more power
Power, power, power, power, power,
Power, power, power, power.

I have for you a master plan
To lead you to the Promised Land
I give you peace, I give you pride
I save you from mass suicide
I'm your hope, your one salvation
I'm your one man United Nation
All you poor all you needy
All you're doin' is givin' to the greedy
All you poor all you needy
All you're doin' is givin' to the greedy
Tell me your sins, I'll be your friend
I won't do you in.

All I need's a little more power
Power, power, power, power, power,
Power, power, power, power.

I'll make you all the master race
Just put me in my godly place
We'll march the world down in defeat
Take the fields of oil and the lands of wheat
Power, I need it, more, I got to have it
One thing I must make perfectly clear
Nuclear weapons, all men fear
Their hands sweat, their fingers itch
I'm the only one you can trust with the switch
Give it to me, more power

More, give it to me
More, give it to me