Marlon Saunders [보컬]

It's late Saturday night about 1 45
heads everywhere folks are feelin' the vybe
The Dj's on blue lights in the basement
a groove so deep ya could almost taste it
Incense burnin' to get ya feelin' right
Earth tones of all shades, shadows dance by candlelight ...
yeah this is like back in the day
ya gotta party 'til the sun up if ya fixin' to stay

Cause it's a love thang
So get up and start a swang

A chocolate rainbow in the sky
Spread ya wings like butterflies
Ain't no need to be afraid
It's a love serenade
Dancin' on a velvet moon
Early morning's sweet perfume
Makes it cooler in the shade
It's a love serenade

Hands are lifted in the air in a sanctified style
bodies sway as the brutha free styles over Miles
Just love from beginning to end
everybody feel it 'bout to do it again
Come on pretty baby ya starting to swing
Ya lookin' phyne sportin' that natural thang ...
Love's the revolution, feel it's almighty fire
let the feel good take ya higher

I don't know what you've come to do
But I think ya best ta catch the groove
I don't know what you've come to do
Somethin' funky's got a hold of you

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Afro Blue My Mind
Yeah Yeah

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

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

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

Afro Blue My Mind
Yeah Yeah

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

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

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

Afro Blue My Mind
Yeah Yeah

Enter My Mind
and dream all the love we've been needing
Enter My Mind
open our hearts and fill them with love

Champagne colored sky lives inside her lavender Soul
As she dances miles ahead of limitations
Quickly she goes through the garden of possibilities
Yeah today she's sure 'nough 'bout to groove
Raising her hands she says

Enter My Mind
and dream all the love we've been needing
Enter My Mind
open our hearts and fill them with love

Let's wear our Blackness
like it's a fine cloth
woven from a phat hip hop track and Trane's horn
taking us to our maiden voyage
Langston and Nikki G.
are sewing sweet poetry
Rappin' about race, poverty, and sensuality
We lift our hands and say

Enter My Mind
and dream all the love we've been needing
Enter My Mind
open our hearts and fill them with love

Take a ride on a mind adventure
A spiritual high that'll last forever
Mystical sights yeah ya gonna see
A new reality!!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sitting here, watching you watch me silently
never thought this would be
what to say, whose to blame ... right or wrong
No words to explain
My heart so deep for your so real
and the tears you cry I feel
But the words we both pray I say
won't change or take away

The inevitable pain that I'd rather bear myself
than give to you
That unspeakable phrase ...
ain't nothin' we can do

Stone out of hope we passed the time
sitting holding on to what we know is gone
Cold out of love scared to look inside thinking
what went wrong ... where did we fall off
There used to be a time not so long ago
we'd be going strong thinking it last long
So out of luck can't meet your eyes
I wish we could find what we have lost

If I could you know I would see red
Had I been mislead ... but no
A sincere heart from the start you gave
a vow to never part
But with time an opened mind you find
leads you question why
the what, when, where, how's of life ...
it's alright
Don't wanna fuss or fight

Stone out of hope we passed the time
sitting holding on to what we know is gone
Cold out of love scared to look inside thinking
what went wrong ... where did we fall off
There used to be a time not so long ago
we'd be going strong thinking it last long
So out of luck can't meet your eyes
I wish we could find what we have lost

Given a chance
I'd paint for you a world
Where this man would be all that ya need and more
Given a chance
I promise true to be
and give you all of me
So what you waiting for ...

I'd like to ... explore ya many ways
Yeah I'd love to ... go deep within for days
ooh I want to ... massage you from head to toe
Don'tcha know
I'd like to ... just chill, check out ya mind
Make love to you 'til nine
A .M. and then hold ya tight
Ya know I'd love ya right
Given a chance

Given a chance
With each kiss I'm a let ya know
that deep in ya mind I'm stayin all the time
yeah that's right
Given a chance
Naw there's no place I won't go
Red fire against ya thigh
Hmmmm that's mine
bouts to let ya know just why