Michael Mcdonald - The Ultimate Collection [compilation] (2005) by Michael Mcdonald (보컬) on maniadb.com

Listen, baby Ain’t no mountain high Ain’t no valley low Ain’t no river wide enough, baby If you need me, call me No matter where you are No matter how far Don’t worry, baby Just call my name I’ll be there in a hurry You don’t have to worry
‘Cause baby, there Ain’t no mountain high enough Ain’t no valley low enough Ain’t no river wide enough To keep me from you, gettin’ to you, baby Remember the day I set you free I told you you could always count on me, darlin’ From that day on I made a vow I’ll be there when you want me, some way, some how Oh, no, darling No wind, no rain or winter’s cold can stop me, baby (No, no, baby) ‘Cause you are my goal If you’re ever in trouble, I’ll be there on the double Just send for me, oh, baby, huh My love is alive, way down in my heart Although we are miles apart If you ever need a helpin’ hand, I’ll be there on the double Just as fast as I can Don’t you know that there Ain’t no mountain high enough Ain’t no valley low enough Ain’t no river wide enough To keep me from you gettin’ to you, baby

He came from somewhere back in her long ago The sentimental fool dont see Tryin hard to recreate What had yet to be created once in her life She musters a smile For his nostalgic tale Never coming near what he wanted to say Only to realize It never really was She had a place in his life He never made her think twice As he rises to her apology Anybody else would surely know he's watching her go But what a fool believes he sees No wise man has the power to reason away What seems to be Is always better than nothing And nothing at all keeps sending him.. Somewhere back in her long ago Where he can still believe theres a place In her life Someday, somewhere, she will return She had a place in his life He never made her think twice As he rises to her apology Anybody else would surely know He's watching her go But what a fool believes he sees No wise man has the power to reason away What seems to be Is always better than nothing Theres nothing at all But what a fool believes he sees...

[Chorus:]
I keep forgettin' we're not in love anymore
I keep forgettin' things will never be the same again
I keep forgettin' how you made that so clear
I keep forgettin'

Everytime you're near
Everytime I see you smile
Hear your "hello"
Saying you can only stay a while

Hey, I know that it's hard for you
To say the things that we both know are true
But tell me how come (I)

[Chorus:]

Everytime I hear
How you never want to live a lie
How it's gone to far
And you don't have to tell me why

Why you're gone and the game is through
If this is what's real, if this is what's true
Tell me how come (I)

[Chorus:]
Don't say that, don't say that, don't say that
I know you're not mine anymore-anyway-anytime
But tell me how come (I)

[Chorus:]

(James Ingram/Michael McDonald/Rod Temperton/Quincy Jones)

Heavenly Father watching us fall
We take from each other and give nothing at all
Well it's a dog-gone shame
But never too late for change
So if your luck runs low
Just reach out and call His name, His name

[Chorus:]
Yah mo be there (up and over)
Yah mo be there (up and over)
Yah mo be there (up and over)
Yah mo be there (up and over)
Whenever you call

Never be lonely lost in the night
Just run from the darkness
Looking for the light
'Cause it's a long hard road
That leads to a brighter day, hey
Don't let your heart grow cold
Just reach out and call His name, His name

[Chorus]

(Yah mo b there)
You can count on it, brother
'Cause we're all just finding our way
Traveling through time
People got to keep pushing on
No matter how many dreams slip away
Yah will be there

Well it's a dog-gone shame
But never too late for change
So when your luck runs low
Just reach out and call His name
Just call His name

You don't know me but I'm your brother I was raised here in this living hell You don't know my kind in your world Fairly soon the time will tell You, telling me the things you're gonna do for me I ain't blind and I don't like what I think I see Takin' it to the streets Takin' it to the streets Takin' it to the streets Takin' it to the streets Take this message to my brother You will find him everywhere Wherever people live together Tied in poverty's despair You, telling me the things you're gonna do for me I ain't blind and I don't like what I think I see Takin' it to the streets Takin' it to the streets Takin' it to the streets Takin' it to the streets -

No more runnin' down the wrong road
Dancin' to a diff'rent drum
Can't you see what's goin' on
Deep inside your heart

Always searchin' for the real thing
Livin' like it's far away
Just leave all the madness in yesterday
You're holdin' the key
When you believe it

Shine sweet freedom
Shine your light on me
You are the magic
You're right where I wanna be
Oh sweet freedom carry me along
We'll keep the spirit alive on and on

We'll be dancin' in the moonlight
Smilin' with the risin' sun
Livin' like we've never done
Goin' all the way

Reachin' out to meet the changes
Touchin' every shining star
The light of tomorrow is right where we are
There's no turnin' back
From what I'm feeling

Shine sweet freedom
Shine your light on me
You are the magic
You're right where I wanna be
Oh sweet freedom carry me along
We'll keep the spirit alive on and on

'Cause there'll be starlight all night
When we're close together
Share those feelings dancin' in your eyes tonight
They're guiding us
Shinin' till the mornin' light

Shine sweet freedom
Shine your light on me
You are the magic
You're right where I wanna be
Oh sweet freedom carry me along
We'll keep the spirit alive on and on

Hey, don't worry, I've been lied to
I've been here many times before
Girl, don't you worry, I know where I stand
I don't need this love, I don't need your hand
I know I could turn, blink, and you'd be gone
Then I must be prepared any time to carry on
But minute by minute by minute by minute
I keep holding on
Oh, minute by minute by minute by minute
I keep holding on

You will stay just to watch me, darlin'
Wilt away on lies from you
Can't stop the habit of livin' on the run
I take it all for granted like you're the only one
Livin' on my own
Somehow that sounds nice
You think I'm your fool
Well, you may just be right

'Cause minute by minute by minute by minute
I keep holding on
Oh, minute by minute by minute by minute
I keep holding on

Call my name and I'll be gone
You'll reach out and I won't be there
Just my luck you'll realize
You should spend your life with someone
You could spend your life with someone

Minute by minute by minute by minute
I'll be holding on
Oh, minute by minute by minute by minute
I'll be holding on...

SO MANY TIMES
SAID IT WAS FOREVER
SAID OUR LOVE WOULD ALWAYS BE TRUE

SOMETHING IN MY HEART ALWAYS KNEW
I'D BE LYING HERE BESIDE YOU
ON MY OWN
ON MY OWN
ON MY OWN

SO MANY PROMISES
NEVER SHOULD BE SPOKEN
NOW I KNOW WHAT LOVING YOU COST
NOW WE'RE UP TO TALKING DIVORCE
AND WE WEREN'T EVEN MARRIED
ON MY OWN
ONCE AGAIN
ONE MORE TIME
BY MYSELF
NO ONE SAID IT WAS EASY

BUT IT ONCE WAS SO EASY
WELL I BELIEVED IN LOVE
NOW HERE I STAND
I WONDER WHY I'M ON MY OWN
WHY DID IT END THIS WAY
ON MY OWN
THIS WASN'T HOW IT WAS
SUPPOSED TO BE
ON MY OWN
I WISH THAT WE COULD DO
IT ALL AGAIN
SO MANY TIMES
I KNOW I COULD HAVE TOLD YOU
LOSIN' YOU, IT CUTS LIKE A KNIFE
YOU WALKED OUT AND THERE
WENT MY LIFE
I DON'T WANT TO LIVE WITHOUT YOU

ON MY OWN
ONCE AGAIN
THIS WASN'T HOW IT WAS
SUPPOSED TO BE
ON MY OWN
I WISH THAT WE COULD DO
IT ALL AGAIN
ON MY OWN
I NEVER DREAMED I'D SPEND
ONE NIGHT ALONE
BY MYSELF

I'VE GOT TO FIND OUT WHAT
WAS MINE AGAIN
ON MY OWN
MY HEART IS SAYING THAT
IT'S TIME AGAIN
ON MY OWN
AND I THINK THAT
I'M AS SURE AS YOU

Why'd you tell me this
While you look for my reaction
What do you need to know
Don't you know I'll always be the one
You don't have to prove to me you're beautiful to strangers
I've got lovin' eyes of my own
You belong to me
In this life
Anyone could tell
Any fool can see who you need
I know you all too well
You don't have to prove to me you're beautiful to strangers
I've got lovin' eyes and I can tell

You belong to me
Tell him you were foolin'
You belong to me
You belong to me
Tell him he's a stranger
You belong to me

Darlin', I know I'm just another head on your pillow
If only just tonight, girl, let me hear you lie just a little
Tell me I'm the only man that you ever really loved
Honey, take me back in my memory place
When it was all very right, so very nice, so very nice
Here, darlin', stands another bandit wanting you
In and out your life, they come and they go
Your days and nights like a wheel that turns
Grindin' down a secret part of you
Deep inside your heart, that nobody knows

When you say comfort me to anyone who approaches
Chalkin' up the hurt, you live and you learn
Well, we've both lived long enough to know
That we'd trade it all right now for just one minute of real love, real love

When you say comfort me to anyone who approaches
Chalkin' up the hurt, you live and you learn
Well, we've both lived long enough to know
That we'd trade it all right now for just one minute of real love, real love

No greater power
No greater gift to lose
Then the message unspoken
The silence of the truth
Alone we hide in the shadows
But together we bring on the light

[Chorus:]
One voice is not strong enough
One heart just won't do
In this world I don't count for much
Unless I stand for you

Oh, we are the beginning
Of a sound that might be heard
To the many who lie waiting
Our words break through the cold grip of silence
And they guide us through the night

[Chorus]

One choice is all we got
One fact remains true
In this world I don't count for much
Unless I stand for you

Not another minute
Not another hour
We're gonna rise on up
Every man, woman and child

(I believe that the time has come)
Oh, I stand for you
Alone we hide in the shadows
But together we bring on the light

Where you gonna go,
Where are you gonna hide?
You go on leaving out your heart
And all it's saying deep inside.

I can feel your heart beat
You got me all wrong.
You don't have to worry
You just been lonely too long
I know what it means to hide your heart
From a long time ago -

[Chorus]
It keeps you running
It keeps you running etc.

I know how you feel
You know I been there
But what you've been keeping to yourself
Well you know it just ain't fair

Are you gonna worry
For the rest of your life
Why are you in such a hurry
To be lonely one more night?
I know what it means to hide your heart
From a long time ago -

I know that you're afraid to love
You've been hurt before
Love broke your heart so you closed the door
Now here I am outside your world

Wishin' you'd let me in
Give me half a chance to prove you wrong
Baby, all your tears have come and gone
Talkin' 'bout a brand new start

Take it to heart, baby, believe it
This love is so strong that it won't let you go
Baby, hold on, you'll see
Just how good it's gonna be

It's gonna be here long as you need it
Never take your world and tear it apart
Take it to heart, baby

You're gonna have to trust someone
It's a shame if you don't
Because it ain't no life living all alone
Let me show you how to love again

There's no broken heart that love won't mend
Talkin' 'bout a brand new start
I just want to be the one that'll be there by your side
So take this love of mine, take it to heart

Baby, believe it, this love is so strong, love is so strong, baby

(love is a second chance to find all that we lost)
(Love's always worth a try no matter what the cost)
(I know you don't believe your tears have come and gone)
(Give me but half a chance and I will prove you wrong)

Down here on loves killin' floor
I doubt if we could take much more
Here and now
(We)
Need to ask ourselves why
We've come this far only to find

The price of happiness we no longer pay
You gotta really love someone
Words alone are cheap, it's more of
What you do and less of what you say

Baby, I don't wanna live
In some prison of promises
Baby, look around at all this emptiness
There ain't no love to be found

With a love like this all broken and bruised
You just walk a way with nothin' to lose
Here and now
(We've)
Got to ask ourselves why
If love is through, then why even try

The price of happiness we no longer pay
You gotta really love someone
Words alone are cheap, it's more of
What you do and less of what you say

Baby, I don't wanna live
In some prison of promises
Baby, look around
It's all but hopeless know

Baby, look at you and me
This vision of loneliness any fool can see
The walls are tumblin' down
There ain't no love to be found

Take a look at you and me
This vision of loneliness baby any fool can see
That between you and me
There ain't no love to be found

C'mon, let's get popped in love
I know you popular, admitted your club
But I just wanna toss you up
Before I swallow you whole I need to wash it down
Tell your girls Avion, indulge you to hang out
Intoxicate me, free your mind, free my mind, freak all night
It's evident, when two worlds collide, you're twice as hot
Wet through the new extras, get you by in life, high on life

I wonder what life would be like if no more women were dykes
And trick hard at low prices, it's a cold cold world, yeah
How do we relieve that stress X
You know, pop them thangs to get extra horny baby girl
You on one, you can't ignore me, Rule and Missy E
How you love that? With IG, it's Murda INC, nigga

Hey, get me high tonight
Take me away
Come inside my world
Come ecstasy
Let me show you love
Between you and me
Let me love you boy

You want freak, I love a lot of excitement
I excite men, I make 'em dirty and trifling
I been known to leave 'em frightening
Stifling all in love by the end of the night
And I, I want a big "Don John"
To pop a few of these and make the John last long
X, now you can serve that, 'cuz no doubt it's Murda
Ya heard that?

Hey, get me high tonight
Take me away
Come inside my world
Come ecstasy
Let me show you love
Between you and me
Let me love you boy

Yeah, now that you got me feeling, high to Heaven, knows
Tight as the pussy holes, so, Lord knows
It stick to your X-O, them hoes to freak shows
You know how it goes, comin' out of my clothes
I'm coming outta my clothes, you better, dick me down
Then uh, turn me round, then uh, lay me down
'Cuz uh, you got me high as a kite, Ja-Rule

Yo, I scream your name tonight
Let me take a look in your eyes
And see, and get in your eyes right, hypnotize like
The late B I G, hey, take me away, ecstasy
Bitch! Please, pop a few of these
And make house calls on Ja Rule twice a week, heh
You and me, love you boy, yeah

You got me high as a kite
Feels like doing somethin' freaky tonight
When I think about you and me
Feels good when your sexing me

You got me high as a kite
Feels like doing somethin' freaky tonight
When I think about you and me
Ahw, ahw it's Murda!

Hey, get me high tonight
Take me away
Come inside my world
Come ecstasy
Let me show you love
Between you and me
Let me love you boy

Hey, get me high tonight
Take me away
Come inside my world
Come ecstasy
Let me show you love
Between you and me
Let me love you boy

You got me high as a kite
Feels like doing somethin' freaky tonight
When I think about you and me
Feels good when your sexing me

You got me high as a kite
Feels like doing somethin' freaky tonight
When I think about you and me
Ahw, ahw it's Murda!

Child, as I look in your eyes
You know my life seems like a minute
There I find living proof
Of all the wonder life hold in it
In the past I thought I had to learn
Any good that comes from this life we're living
Here and now, let us realize
That this life's gift and it's already been given

[Chorus:]
Someday when you stand in the middle
Like it or not you're gonna look both ways
You're gonna find that time is a riddle
Where days turn into years
And years into the blink of an eye

Child, once I saw a man on the tv
Lead a nation up a mountain
He said, children, look over yonder
The flame of truth is burning brightly
Sometimes you look so far, there's only so much time
Only so many of us are gonna get there
Here and now is all we really have
But if we can make it count
We got no reason to worry

[Chorus]

You're gonna walk that mile
You're gonna be in that number
You're gonna make that journey
Just like the good book says
There's a time to be born, a time to cross over
You can be sure it's in the blink of an eye

(Michael McDonald And Tommy Sims)

We're lost, baby that's ok
We may not always understand
We may not always know the way
We can cry and we can hurt sometimes
But we both know what's important
At the end of the line
It's not always the case that we know just what to do
But when it comes to me and you

[Chorus:]
We've both been here before
So let love open up the door
What love will surely show us
Ain't that what we came here for?
So let love open the door

Maybe it's time that we hold on tight
In each others embrace
We might just see the morning light
'cause when we touch
It's like a brand new start
It's there we find the music in each others heart
And we might just discover that we don't always see what's for real
Love is somethin' that you feel

[Chorus]

We've both been here before
So let love open up the door
What love will surely show us
Ain't that what we came here for?
It ain't nothin' new
Just a chance to finally see this love through
This love has one purpose (and)
Never asks for anything more
So let love open the door

Sometimes words only mean so much
They don't say how we feel
They don't keep us in touch
It's too late once we drift apart
All that's left are the pieces of two broken hearts

[Chorus]

Amy sings...
Love is sweet, love is kind
Love will open up your mind
Let love open up the door
All that counts, nothin' more
Love is what we came here for

The sight of her ain't like before
For a lonely heart, you should feel much more
You left behind a time when dreams came true
And in this real and lonely world we only do what we can do

All night long that telephone rings
You remember how you loved that girl
Now you think it don't mean a thing
It keeps coming back so you turn away

Well, that's all behind you now
Like rollin' thunder
It just fades away somehow
As we get lost in the parade

Never tried to give
What she was looking for
And to a lonely heart
Love's an open door

All night long that telephone rings
You remember how you loved that girl
Just when you think it doesn't mean a thing
It starts coming back so you turn away

Well, that's all behind you now
Like rollin' thunder
You got to walk away somehow
And the rest just make their way

Well, that's all behind you now
Like rollin' thunder
It just fades away somehow
As we get lost in the parade