Neneh Cherry

Into the morning Got me through the night
I've seen the light I see the light
I live of what I need I've got greed
I've been a sinner for as long as I know
So help me understand
The little that I know
Shadow dancing with my spirit
Got to face your demon on your own
Take my body and put it through the dust
I've been buried in the crust
Together now So help me understand
The little that I know
Together now, together now
It's us now, It's us now
And there's them, and there's them
And should we start again
Together now, together now
It's us now, it's us now...
The descendants of Christ
And it's you Will you help me I'm confused
What you gonna do With the little that I know
With the little that I got
We're together now, we're together
It's us now And there's them, and there's them
And should we start again
Together now, together now
It's us now, it's us now...

You gotta be fortunate
You gotta be lucky now
I was just sitting here
Thinking good and bad
But I'm the kinda woman
That was built to last
They tried erasing me
But they couldn't wipe out my past
To save my child
I'd rather go hungry
I got all of Ethiopia
Inside of me
And my blood flows
Through every man
In this godless land
That delivered me
I've cried so many tears even the blind can see

Chorus:
This is a woman's world.
This is my world.
This is a woman's world
For this man's girl.
There ain't a woman in this world,
Not a woman or a little girl,
That can't deliver love
In a man's world.

I've born and I've bread.
I've cleaned and I've fed.
And for my healing wits
I've been called a witch.



I've crackled in the fire
And been called a liar.
I've died so many times
I'm only just coming to life.

Chorus:
This is a woman's world.
This is my world.
This is a woman's world
For this man's girl.
There ain't a woman in this world,
Not a woman or a little girl,
That can't deliver love
In a man's world.

My blood flows
Through every man and every child
In this godless land
That delivered me
I cried so many tears even the blind can see

Chorus:
This is a woman's world.
This is my world.
This is a woman's world
For this man's girl.
There ain't a woman in this world,
Not a woman or a little girl,
That can't deliver love
In a man's world.

You gotta be fortunate
You gotta be lucky now
I was just sitting here
Thinking good and bad
But I'm the kinda woman
That was built to last
They tried erasing me
But they couldn't wipe out my past
To save my child
I'd rather go hungry
I got all of Ethiopia
Inside of me
And my blood flows
Through every man
In this godless land
That delivered me
I've cried so many tears even the blind can see

Chorus:
This is a woman's world.
This is my world.
This is a woman's world
For this man's girl.
There ain't a woman in this world,
Not a woman or a little girl,
That can't deliver love
In a man's world.

I've born and I've bread.
I've cleaned and I've fed.
And for my healing wits
I've been called a witch.



I've crackled in the fire
And been called a liar.
I've died so many times
I'm only just coming to life.

Chorus:
This is a woman's world.
This is my world.
This is a woman's world
For this man's girl.
There ain't a woman in this world,
Not a woman or a little girl,
That can't deliver love
In a man's world.

My blood flows
Through every man and every child
In this godless land
That delivered me
I cried so many tears even the blind can see

Chorus:
This is a woman's world.
This is my world.
This is a woman's world
For this man's girl.
There ain't a woman in this world,
Not a woman or a little girl,
That can't deliver love
In a man's world.

You gotta be fortunate
You gotta be lucky now
I was just sitting here
Thinking good and bad
But I'm the kinda woman
That was built to last
They tried erasing me
But they couldn't wipe out my past
To save my child
I'd rather go hungry
I got all of Ethiopia
Inside of me
And my blood flows
Through every man
In this godless land
That delivered me
I've cried so many tears even the blind can see

Chorus:
This is a woman's world.
This is my world.
This is a woman's world
For this man's girl.
There ain't a woman in this world,
Not a woman or a little girl,
That can't deliver love
In a man's world.

I've born and I've bread.
I've cleaned and I've fed.
And for my healing wits
I've been called a witch.



I've crackled in the fire
And been called a liar.
I've died so many times
I'm only just coming to life.

Chorus:
This is a woman's world.
This is my world.
This is a woman's world
For this man's girl.
There ain't a woman in this world,
Not a woman or a little girl,
That can't deliver love
In a man's world.

My blood flows
Through every man and every child
In this godless land
That delivered me
I cried so many tears even the blind can see

Chorus:
This is a woman's world.
This is my world.
This is a woman's world
For this man's girl.
There ain't a woman in this world,
Not a woman or a little girl,
That can't deliver love
In a man's world.

You gotta be fortunate
You gotta be lucky now
I was just sitting here
Thinking good and bad
But I'm the kinda woman
That was built to last
They tried erasing me
But they couldn't wipe out my past
To save my child
I'd rather go hungry
I got all of Ethiopia
Inside of me
And my blood flows
Through every man
In this godless land
That delivered me
I've cried so many tears even the blind can see

Chorus:
This is a woman's world.
This is my world.
This is a woman's world
For this man's girl.
There ain't a woman in this world,
Not a woman or a little girl,
That can't deliver love
In a man's world.

I've born and I've bread.
I've cleaned and I've fed.
And for my healing wits
I've been called a witch.



I've crackled in the fire
And been called a liar.
I've died so many times
I'm only just coming to life.

Chorus:
This is a woman's world.
This is my world.
This is a woman's world
For this man's girl.
There ain't a woman in this world,
Not a woman or a little girl,
That can't deliver love
In a man's world.

My blood flows
Through every man and every child
In this godless land
That delivered me
I cried so many tears even the blind can see

Chorus:
This is a woman's world.
This is my world.
This is a woman's world
For this man's girl.
There ain't a woman in this world,
Not a woman or a little girl,
That can't deliver love
In a man's world.

The first kiss you planted to my face.
The second twist tonight, a fate.
And somehow the taste of fear
took up all the space in here.

(more or less)
I pick a way out in the twisted mess. (more or less)
Disintegrated, strategically impressed. (more or less)
No longer residents at the new address. (more or less)
Scratch me like a perfume ad,
recycle all the plans we had. (more or less)

Whenever I fake, (more or less)
whoever I take, (more or less)
however it breaks, (more or less)
someone's gonna fall.
I sense a grain of stress (more or less)
hurting you more or less. (more or less)
I pick up this twisted mess. (more or less)

Like sinking ships dragged into abyss,
just slammin in simpleness.
Wherever I take the night,
keeping it eye to eye,
just slammin with tastiness. (more or less)

I pick a way out in the twisted mess, (more or less)
Disintegrated, strategically digress. (more or less)
No longer residents at your own address. (more or less)
Watch me like a prison guard,
swipe me like a credit card. (more or less)

Whenever I fake, (more or less)
whoever I take, (more or less)
however it breaks, (more or less)
someone's gonna fall. (more or less)
I sense a grain of stress (more or less)
hurting you more or less. (more or less)
I pick up this twisted mess. (more or less)
(more or less)
(more or less)

Take me, shake me, knock me with
a million ways that we relate.
We both come to suffocate
to make it through the night today. (more or less)
Count the days strategically (more or less)
creeping to believe in me. (more or less)
Who to blame and who will be, (more or less)
make it through an irony. (more or less)

Whenever I fake, (more or less)
whoever I take, (more or less)
however it breaks, (more or less)
someone's gonna fall. (more or less)
I sense a grain of stress (more or less)
hurting you more or less. (more or less)
I pick up this twisted mess. (more or less)
(more or less)

Those that think and those that do. (Whenever I fake, (more or less))
Am I up or am I blue? (whoever I take, (more or less))
Take up all the space in here (however it breaks, (more or less))
as we try to hide our fear. (someone's gonna fall. (more or less))
When we try the simple sense, (I sense a grain of stress, (more or less))
faded out the sun will cleanse (?) (hurting you more or less. (more or
less))
Now I start to reminisce, (I pick up this twisted mess. (more or less))
moving on to picture this. (more or less)
Take me, shake me, knock me with (Whenever I fake, (more or less))
a million ways that we relate. (whoever I take, (more or less))
We both come to suffocate (however it breaks, (more or less))
to make it through the night today. (someone's gonna fall. (more or less))
Count the days strategically, (I sense a grain of stress, (more or less))
creeping to believe in me. (hurting you more or less. (more or less))
Who to blame and who will be, (I pick up this twisted mess. (more or less))
make it through an irony. (more or less)
Now that's tasting on my lips (Whenever I fake, (more or less))
fear that's always sour bliss. (whoever I take, (more or less))
Now I start to reminisce, (however it breaks, (more or less))
moving on to picture this. (someone's gonna fall. (more or less))
Is this terror, is this bliss (I sense a grain of stress, (more or less))
sinking down deep to abyss? (hurting you more or less. (more or less))
Drinking up and making kisses (I pick up this twisted mess. (more or less))
searching for the surfaces. (more or less)
Those that think and those that do
Am I up or am I blue?
Take up all the space in here
as we try to hide our fear.
When we try to save ourselves.....

I think I could give myself up to you
Cause you pushed your way thru my attitude
But a taste of life on the tip of my tongue
Won't let me forget. It just reminds me
Of all the things I've been fed
And all the magazines that I've read
I'm suspicious of what you said

How long can we be this way
How long can we live this way
Will twisted tongues bring us down
Or the twisted world we're living in
Or am I the one that's twisted too
Thinking we'll make it thru

Lipstick smiles bring me worries
When I imagine you with somebody else
That's when I know you got me twisted baby
Oh these wicked jealousies could bring us down
Every woman to herself
Every man is his own
When I'm with you the feeling's stronger
I wonder

chorus:
How Long can we be this way
How long can we live this way...

The thought of saying I'll give you everything I got
Seems so empty cause it's stereotype
To protect my sanity

chorus

You can find some time to be someone
Like a valentine for a lonely soul
You can treat me like a fool
And hate-

Some love brings me down
Some love turns me round and round
And round and round
And round and round and round and round and round
Is it something that i said
Is it something that i did
Is it something that i, that i got
In my head
Laying in my bed is so real
'cause i know what i feel
But together we stand and together
We lay

Hey listen to the voice of experience

This is how i live tomorrow and today

Listen to the voice of experience

That's how i live

Stop the beat. listen to the melody

Round and round and round and round

Huh, yeah i know when i got the feeling
A feeling of love knocking on my door
First there was fifty and then there was more
What a bore then there was none
Now there's one cause i'm a lucky one
Feelings of love i've got feelings of affection
Come on and give it to me give it with protection
There's no time we're out of luck
The law says we can't talk about a -?
Huh




Chorus:

Round and round and round
Round and round and round
Round and round and round
Round and round and round
Round and round and round

But i need some s-e-x-e-d-u-c-a-t-i-o-n yeah
Sex education
For the people ya 'all

Parents and teachers get together get cool
Children need to learn about sex
In school
Children need to learn about sex in school
You think they don't do it??
Don't get fooled
Parents don't turn your back on the pack
Teachers want to teach but the law says whack
Don't let your ki

I've come up hard baby
And now I'm cool
Didn't make it sugar
Playing by the rules
I've come up hard baby
But now I'm fine.
In checking trouble sugar
Moving down the line
I've come up hard baby
But that's ok
'Coz trouble man
Don't get in my way
I've come up hard baby
I've been for real
Gonna keep on moving
Gonna go to town
I've come up hard
Come up and get down
There's only three things that's for sure
Taxes death and trouble
This I know baby
Oh I've come up hard baby
With a troubled mind
But then I've got my share
Of what's mine
Oh I've come up hard baby
But that's Ok
'Coz trouble man
Don't get in my way
Oh I've come up hard baby
I know some places
And I see some faces,
I've got the connections,
They dig my directions,
What people say
That's ok
They don't bother me
I'm ready to make it
Don't care what the weather
Don't care about no trouble
Got myself together
Got the kind of protection
It's all around me
I've come up hard but now I'm cool
I didn't make it baby
Playing by the rules
Oh I've come up hard baby
But that's Ok
'Coz trouble man
Don't get in my way
Oh I've come up hard baby
With the troubled mind
But then I've got my share
Of what's mine
I've come up hard
But now I'm fine
Checking trouble sugar
Moving down the line ....

I've come up hard baby
And now I'm cool
Didn't make it sugar
Playing by the rules
I've come up hard baby
But now I'm fine.
In checking trouble sugar
Moving down the line
I've come up hard baby
But that's ok
'Coz trouble man
Don't get in my way
I've come up hard baby
I've been for real
Gonna keep on moving
Gonna go to town
I've come up hard
Come up and get down
There's only three things that's for sure
Taxes death and trouble
This I know baby
Oh I've come up hard baby
With a troubled mind
But then I've got my share
Of what's mine
Oh I've come up hard baby
But that's Ok
'Coz trouble man
Don't get in my way
Oh I've come up hard baby
I know some places
And I see some faces,
I've got the connections,
They dig my directions,
What people say
That's ok
They don't bother me
I'm ready to make it
Don't care what the weather
Don't care about no trouble
Got myself together
Got the kind of protection
It's all around me
I've come up hard but now I'm cool
I didn't make it baby
Playing by the rules
Oh I've come up hard baby
But that's Ok
'Coz trouble man
Don't get in my way
Oh I've come up hard baby
With the troubled mind
But then I've got my share
Of what's mine
I've come up hard
But now I'm fine
Checking trouble sugar
Moving down the line ....

Into the morning
Got me through the night
I've seen the light
I see the light
I live of what I need
I've got greed
I've been a sinner for as long as I know
So help me understand
The little that I know
Shadow dancing with my spirit
Got to face your demon on your own
Take my body and put it through the dust
I've been buried in the crust
Together now
So help me understand
The little that I know
Together now, together now
It's us now, It's us now
And there's them, and there's them
And should we start again
Together now, together now
It's us now, it's us now...
The descendants of Christ
And it's you
Will you help me I'm confused
What you gonna do
With the little that I know
With the little that I got
We're together now, we're together
It's us now
And there's them, and there's them
And should we start again
Together now, together now
It's us now, it's us now...

Into the morning Got me through the night
I've seen the light I see the light
I live of what I need I've got greed
I've been a sinner for as long as I know
So help me understand
The little that I know
Shadow dancing with my spirit
Got to face your demon on your own
Take my body and put it through the dust
I've been buried in the crust
Together now So help me understand
The little that I know
Together now, together now
It's us now, It's us now
And there's them, and there's them
And should we start again
Together now, together now
It's us now, it's us now...
The descendants of Christ
And it's you Will you help me I'm confused
What you gonna do With the little that I know
With the little that I got
We're together now, we're together
It's us now And there's them, and there's them
And should we start again
Together now, together now
It's us now, it's us now...

Autumn breeze, a spring tease
Summer days and winter nights
The seasons change and that's a fact
Is it not
Domo arigato, danke, merci

Mothers and daughters, fathers and sons
Here's hoping you'll know the right time when it comes
Like i did 'cause i knew though nobody told
Me a damn thing about how the world grows
Right here before you, you can't even blink if you do you'll miss it so take time to think
About your position, your place in this world
About what you're here for so check it out girl
Boys to the right and you're in this too
Come on be real now can we count on you
To be strong and to love us like through thick and thin with your heart and your soul not the size of your dick.

Yeah, uh huh yeah uh huh
So check this out
Hey what's this sitting in my lap
Why it's the next generation.
And do you know what comes from the best love in the world you could possibly ever have,
Yes it's the next generation

The children are the chosen ones,
Society's got it's piorities wrong. the schools are closing down.
Don't be messing with our future - black babies, white babies,
Quarter puerto ricans, two sixths chinese,
Any combination you could possibly imagine,
But this important as the ground we walk on, people are people you know what i mean,
Even the baby with a portaphone
Attached to its' buggy pushed by a clone
And the black market baby that unwanted baby.
For 50,000 it belonged to the rich
Well he didn't like his face,
She said it didn't matter
'cause her husband was a surgeon.
Ha ha ha ha - urr - sick
Ain't ain't that ain't that sick -
Shucks it breaks my heart.
Operate on a baby urr sick.
-acapo

Wake up without a blink
To an even pace where nothing moves
Except the pressure from a funky saturday
Dropping like bricks on my head
Or over the milkyway
Starlit electric beams had only just touched me
I must have dreamt myself astray
The only milkyway i have is in the middle of the day
Chorus:

Somedays are better than somedays
Good sundays are better than somedays
Today i'd even take a bad monday
Cause this sunday's a pure pressure inside of me





Danced till my feet were blue
To erase the thoughts i just remember you
Tears lost in the turn of the years
Return on days like this
Kissing in the sunrays
I knew that it was sunday
Cause my memory's like blueprint in my head
Chorus

(and the little rap says)
Give me grits and eggs give me ham and bacon
And a pancake with some maple syrup
Cause it is sunday
(god knows what the dogs are saying)
We made it thru....maybe

I can see this picture of myself
In a green dress i felt lost
The first time i went to school
I was 4 feet 2, 6 feet scared and so distressed
This dress was green, i was the best dressed
I'd ever been, first day at school
I said teacher teacher i know my abc's
I want to read and write, i want to understand
Why the sky never ends and why the sky is blue
And not white - right
But when i spoke my heart broke
'cause it was plain to see that school
Would never be the picture for my fantasy

I know where i'm going and where i'm coming from
So here i come, so here i come
I know where i'm going and where i'm coming from
So here i come, so here i come

Slowly i came to discover
Time, heals, time feels so young
When you're having fun
At 13 my kiss was sweet and not deep
Covered in blush kiss 'n tell
My lips were deep red and shiny as hell
In my stairwell kiss "n" love discovered me
Undercover my fantasy my first kiss hit and miss
He wasn't impressed 'cause i wouldn't get undressed



Wrote my name on the wall - my hair was pressed
He had blue balls

If you want to rock you've got to roll it
If you gonna live you've got to show it
And if you're gonna do it, you got to do it right - don't you know it

I know where i'm going and where i'm coming from
So here i come, so here i come
I know where i'm going and where i'm coming from
So here i come, so here i come

On the rooftops i seen panties drop
And thru the windows behind the screens
In the red light after a fight love was made
Love was saved
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 in hell just to go straight to heaven
I might have been lost but now

So sassy...
So sassy...

Fellas got to give me the most respect
Cause you know I don't like to waste my time
So don't give me that
I'm laying down I syzzle slow
I might be tripping but I do my thing
I play the games like monkey in the middle - not -
Piece by piece like a puzzle we come together

Guru...

"You never seen a girl like this before
Because she's so sassy completely secure
Check out the way she walks and talks
She got the force to knock it out the box
Now I know this lady for some time
Yes of course she's fine
The only one of her kind - buss it
The lady has so much pazzaz if you step
To her wrong you're getting played the jazz"

Conversations
Don't say the most
Along the way I've heard some boasting

I roll my dice and take what comes
Numbers, numbers, numbers
As I hang with my chums
I count my lucky days - cause I know when they come
If you're looking for a ride boy watch me run
All the way to China
Or just between peace and man

"On yes she's nifty-hefty
The beat plays on
She's bout to rip the roof from
Dusk to dawn
So when you see lady for must give her props
Keep the champagne floran???
Until the music stop
I'm man of my time she's a woman of hers to
Old fashioned but still stashing a few
New styles for roughneck rude
So I'm gonna stuff it in your face like gourmet food. "

And hooked like a picture and look to the wall
And hanging like Picasso seems so tall
Voluptous I had a choice to be monagomous
Me and my baby forgot to check what day it was
Under the covers kissing the way it was
Freshly squeezed so pure and natural
unique in character and this is factual.

So sassy...
So sassy...

On a table lies the crust of what he
Had and just leaves behind
As i put bread down on the list of things
That i had to buy
By the store leaves your mountain bike
You on the floor still looking hard core
The colour is read under my show
And the friend is gone who put a hole
In you

Insensitivity took a hold of me
And i felt it colour me blue inside
And i left taking a part of you
Like red red paint on the sole
Of my shoe nothing to do with
Common sense or

Chorus:
Sensitivity. i'm feeling cold
Like concrete
Your dignity's reflecting
In the way i feel it

Open minded. the thoughts are clear
From feeling regardless. heart beats



With pain
You were oh so happy just the other day
Now heartbeats with pain took it all away

The cradle did rock for you too
Looking out from the inside
While life turns to blue
Watching all the glass faces
Leave their red red footprints
On our

Chorus

By the store lays your mountain bike
You on the floor no more hard core
The colour was red under my shoe
And the friend has gone
Who put a whole in you

Guided by the blue light that
Takes you away i'm on my way home

Guided by the blue light

That takes you away
I'm on my way home

Guided by the blue light
I'm on my way home...

If you're gonna play with my soul,
Why don't you take a look at your own first.
No pain is lean enough, it's always filled with hurt,
And those feelings, you know i felt them first
And it hurts.

So why don't you stop phoney ladies in my face to cramp my freedom,
Phoney ladies that mess me up, calling names to cramp my freedom
And you don't even wanna see them calling names to cramp my freedom
Phoney ladies that mess me up.
Nobody's gonna grab my freedom, nobody's gonna mess me up.

You becoming a victim of the game,
Don't you forget i'm your sister and your friend too.
The way you treat me will put this house to shame,
Your secret conversations put you in the frame.
In the frame

So why don't you stop phoney ladies in my face to cramp my freedom,
Phoney ladies that mess me up, calling names to cramp my freedom



And you don't even wanna see them calling names to cramp my freedom
Phoney ladies that mess me up.
Nobody's gonna grab my freedom, nobody's gonna mess me up.

No money money money can buy what we've got,
No money money money can buy what we've got,
No money money money can buy what we've got,
No money money money can buy what we've got.

[spoken] you're playing games,
Trying to make me jealous.
It'll never save us now.

So why don't you stop calling ladies in my face to cramp my freedom,
Phoney ladies that mess me up, calling names to cramp my freedom
And you don't even wanna see them calling ladies to cramp my freedom
Phoney ladies that mess me up.
Nobody's gonna grab my freedom, nobody's gonna mess me up...
(no money money money can buy what we've got...)

I've got a little piece of mind
From the comfort of a stranger
Like vulture love does
We took from each other
Justify desire with a verdict that comes empty
When we exist
In the air that we breath in

Acoustic
Loneliness
Incidental
Relationships

[Chorus]
Nothing in this time is done
With peace in mind
So I claim a piece of this world
To get peace in mind from
Memories I took to heart
That left me colorblind
So I'm taking daily bread and wine
To keep me cool inside

I had a home
Inside of me

Acoustic
Acoustic loneliness

I knew a young girl by the name of Suzie
Now she sleeps with her arm on a Uzi
Cause she sleeps giving up what she's got for free
Acoustically trained in love
She talks in mono monologues

[Chorus]

Tomorrow's promises
They have all just past away
They slip through my fingers
Now their all
Just history

[Chorus:Repeat x2]

Keep me cool inside
Like the wind on me
My memories
Coming to me
Come on honey
Aaw baby
Let's take it slow
Let's some bread
Let's take some wine
Let's spend some time

When you dance all night giving it all you got,
And you cover me in your body sweat
Like liquid honey, your kiss is so sweet
You're my fantasy.
Oh won't you stay with me.

You're driving me wild.
You're driving me crazy
Baby,
You are outr?risqu?locomotive, driving me crazy.
Baby baby,
You're a super static automative, crazy or lazy.

I know the flesh is weak,
I pray my soul to keep providing me with dignity.
My body's clean but my mind is so bad
If you want some of this
You've got to be my man, don't you see.

You're driving me wild.
You're driving me crazy (baby)
Baby,
You are outr?risqu?locomotive, driving me crazy.
Baby, baby,
You're a super static automative, crazy or lazy.

Hey boy your love is kicking
No i think your love is dope
What am i gonna do when the night is through?
I got an obsession and you know that's you
Punping in my body, driving me crazy
Ina dry land you're like an oasis
Making me hot, making me lazy - you amaze me.

So you be the train and i'll be the track
You turn me into a mono maniac
There ain't no stopping me when i go off



I don't show off, i need to cool off
My body's pullin' me in each and everyday
Coca cola kool aid wet my whistle baby, baby, baby

Everyone's looking for a true love
Everyone's looking for a true love
For the true love

Baby,
You are outr?risqu?locomotive, driving me crazy.
Baby, baby,
You're a super static automative, crazy or lazy.

I make sure to preserve what i have
My body's clean but my mind is bad
You know some girls and boys it's sad
Lost t

When you turn around baby,
I'll be watching you,
I can see through you,
Maybe then you'll see,
That i ain't playing.
I'm to be taken seriously.
You know what i'm saying?.
And so the story goes.

One night when i was shaking,
And i definately wasn't faking,
I was lost in a trance,
Doing my own dance,
My girls on my side,
Were concentrating on the music playing,
And the speakers vibrating,
I shut my eyes, and the next thing i knew,
All i could smell was leather and brute,
Imposing on my groove, standing on my side,
And licking your lips, and rocking your thighs,
I wanted to die laughing, at your serious,
I've come to save you expression,
But i held my breath and said who are you?


Baby, my name is drew,
I'm gonna make you my bitch,
Maximum tender,
Feminine gender,
Come on baby it's time to surrender,
I'm drew,

(so what you gonna go)


I just want to get into you,
Hey bitch don't be so uptight,
We can make a date through tonight,
And then before hell breaks loose,
I'll just turn up the juice.


I say:
Hey all you people my name is mr smalls,
And some of the girls are saying i am the one with the greatest heart,
No matter where i go (gimme a break) no matter who i show
And i'm mr smalls


(is that right, wait now),
I stomped this joint from top to toe,
I found nothing but half pint two bit guys,
Acting out the parts, who might have been charming,
Some are in a movie being batman and robin,
It's not the way you look, cause you ain't half bad,
It's the way you act that makes me sad,
You know you think you're finger licking and thatc1

Into a world i plunge thru my headphones, escape into the streetlight
I begin to believe in destiny when my surroundings in rhythm with me
I'm just a grain of sand walking in a sea of people
I look around me and my name is just someone
For a moment in time i belong
Where my heart beats the fear is gone like destiny
:
So move with me i'm strong enough to be weak in your arms
Move with me i'm strong enough to be real in your armsWhispering as i was driving quietly the car was rolling like a bulletI was feeling the speed moving me faster. addicted to the rhythm on my ghetto blaster
That's me supposing that the clarity of thought
Is clear enough to think it's real enough to touch
The wind on me got me tripping can i keep you next to me
Till the end of the worldLike the joker on the pile never coming or going
The colour of my true cards was showing
Keeping in touch with an idea that i been growing
Trust trust i must trust with my head on my chest
I rest with the rest of the restless
.

Into a world I plunge thru my headphones
Escape into the streetlight
I begin to believe in destiny
When my surroundings in rhythm with me
I'm just a grain of sand walking in a sea of people
I look around me and my name is just someone
For a moment in time I belong
Where my heart beats the fear is gone
Like destiny

So move with me I'm strong enough
To be weak in your arms
Move with me I'm strong enough
To be real in your arms

Whispering as I was driving
Quietly the car was rolling
Like a bullet
I was feeling the speed moving
Me faster. Addicted to the rhythm
On my ghetto blaster
That's me supposing
That the clarity of thought
Is clear enough to think
It's real enough to touch
The wind on me got me tripping
Can I keep you next to me
Till the end of the world

Like the joker on the pile
Never coming or going
The colour of my true cards was showing
Keeping in touch with an idea
That I been growing
Trust trust I must trust
With my head on my chest
I rest with the rest of the restless

Into a world I plunge thru my headphones
Escape into the streetlight
I begin to believe in destiny
When my surroundings in rhythm with me
I'm just a grain of sand walking in a sea of people
I look around me and my name is just someone
For a moment in time I belong
Where my heart beats the fear is gone
Like destiny

So move with me I'm strong enough
To be weak in your arms
Move with me I'm strong enough
To be real in your arms

Whispering as I was driving
Quietly the car was rolling
Like a bullet
I was feeling the speed moving
Me faster. Addicted to the rhythm
On my ghetto blaster
That's me supposing
That the clarity of thought
Is clear enough to think
It's real enough to touch
The wind on me got me tripping
Can I keep you next to me
Till the end of the world

Like the joker on the pile
Never coming or going
The colour of my true cards was showing
Keeping in touch with an idea
That I been growing
Trust trust I must trust
With my head on my chest
I rest with the rest of the restless

With the power that some lovin' can bring
Makes the mountain high stacks of money and things
That i need change
And fade away sometimes
When i look in the mirror
I see a little clearer
I am what i am
And you are you to
Do you like what you see?
Do you like yourself?

Chorus:
Money love
And goldpayments
We spend our lives thinking they are saviors
Money talks but love is for real
And you know that, uhuhuh...

Then a picture comes into my mind
Everybody knows you need some money sometimes
Could it be that we need lovin' to survive



So look into my eyes
I wont tell you lies
Who do you see?
Do you see yourself?
Do you like what you see?
Do you like yourself?

Chorus

So how do we drink in a sinking ship?
How do we float in a sinking boat?
How do we rock when the rock is rollin'?
Give me a float

Ok, you're on your own, it's late
Your girlfriend is on another date with the hero in your dream
Turn around, ask yourself. so, you think you're gonna win this time manchild?

Is it the pain of the drinking
Or the sunday sinking feeling
The car never seems to work
When it's late your girlfriend's on a date
And the hero with her in your dream
In your sleep it seemed to like you
Turn around and ask yourself
Turn around ask yourself

Chorus:
Manchild, will you ever win
Manchild, look at the state you're in

Could you go undercover
And sell your brand new lover (could you)
Be someone else for a night
Maybe someone else will love you
You sell your soul for a tacky song
Like the one you hear on the radio
Turn around ask yourself
Turn around and ask yourself

Chorus:
Manchild, will you ever win
Manchild, look at the state you're in
Manchild, he will make you cry
Manchild, manchild, manchild

From monday down to friday
You're working on another man's car
Or is it in the factory?
It doesn't matter where you are

Just turn around and ask yourself is this communication
Accentuate the positive and give some illustration


See manchild, you're no one, you turn the microphone on
Control communication when i'm kickin' it and so on
To the point that i need, the air that i breathe
Into an audience that's waiting and ecstatic to receive
For the meantime another mean rhyme, i keep on sayin' it
I know what the time is the crowd will keep playing it
Through the speaker boxes loud's my diagnosis
'cause i believe in miracles and words in heavy doses.
Enough r-e-s-p-e and c-t
Respect your

Ok, you're on your own, it's late
Your girlfriend is on another date with the hero in your dream
Turn around, ask yourself. so, you think you're gonna win this time manchild?

Is it the pain of the drinking
Or the sunday sinking feeling
The car never seems to work
When it's late your girlfriend's on a date
And the hero with her in your dream
In your sleep it seemed to like you
Turn around and ask yourself
Turn around ask yourself

Chorus:
Manchild, will you ever win
Manchild, look at the state you're in

Could you go undercover
And sell your brand new lover (could you)
Be someone else for a night
Maybe someone else will love you
You sell your soul for a tacky song
Like the one you hear on the radio
Turn around ask yourself
Turn around and ask yourself

Chorus:
Manchild, will you ever win
Manchild, look at the state you're in
Manchild, he will make you cry
Manchild, manchild, manchild

From monday down to friday
You're working on another man's car
Or is it in the factory?
It doesn't matter where you are

Just turn around and ask yourself is this communication
Accentuate the positive and give some illustration


See manchild, you're no one, you turn the microphone on
Control communication when i'm kickin' it and so on
To the point that i need, the air that i breathe
Into an audience that's waiting and ecstatic to receive
For the meantime another mean rhyme, i keep on sayin' it
I know what the time is the crowd will keep playing it
Through the speaker boxes loud's my diagnosis
'cause i believe in miracles and words in heavy doses.
Enough r-e-s-p-e and c-t
Respect your

I'm in a home run, i'm in a home run,
On the last stretch,on the last stretch.
I'm in a home run, i'm in a home run,
On the left foot, with the right foot.

I'm in a home run, i'm in a home run,
On the last stretch,on the last stretch.
I'm in a home run, i'm in a home run,
On the left foot, with the right foot.

You could have reached for me, saved me from lying and i wanted to touch you.
But i was stuck on my island,
With a puddle of misunderstanding like a sea between us.
When we anchored our love in the harbour seems so long ago.
When we anchored our love in the harbour seems so long ago.

I'm in a home run, i'm in a home run,
On the last stretch,on the last stretch.
I'm in a home run, i'm in a home run,
On the left foot, with the right foot.

Come rain come shine i'm leaving this love ghetto.
Come rain come shine i'm leaving this love ghetto.

Chasing you is haunting me, but i know that girl is lying.
You upset my chemistry.
Baby i'm sick of crying,
Forever is only like the sky and the sea between us.
When we anchored our love in the harbour seems so long ago.
When we anchored our love in the harbour seems so long ago.

Come rain come shine i'm leaving this love ghetto.



Come rain come shine i'm leaving this love ghetto.

I can't see a way every day we are the same
Turning round and round i pick you up and then you let me down
Never will i blame, never will i hate
I'll just have to go saving you from saving me.

I'm in a home run, i'm in a home run,
On the last stretch,on the last stretch.
I'm in a home run, i'm in a home run,
On the left foot, with the right foot.-ac

You say what you say
And you pray that one day
You'll be seen between the shadows
Now that's a waist of your pain
Living your life like a saint
When it don't...no
It don't even matter
Even saints make their mistakes
Letting their dreams fall and break
All it feels like
Living in sunshine with the shades pulled down
Now i want you to see
How good life can be
You can turn around
And better your life
With the good times found

People will always take the long way around
Before you know it you'll be lost and found
Living in sunshine with the shades pulled down
People will always take the long way around
People will always take the long way around
Before you know it you'll be lost and found
Living in sunshine with the shades pulled down
People will always take the long way around

I'm not afraid of pride
When it's for the right side
Don't betray what i believe in
Stand where you want to stand
And i'll believe when i can
'cause i'm telling you now
I been where you're living in

People will always take the long way around
Before you know it you'll be lost and found
Living in sunshine with the shades pulled down
People will always take the long way around
People will always take the long way around
Before you know it you'll be lost and found
Living in sunshine with the shades pulled down
People will always take the long way around

Will tomorrow keep it's promise
No one here can say
The past is all behind us
And all we have is today
And all we have is today

People will always take the long way around
Before you know it you'll be lost and found
Living in sunshine with the shades pulled down
People will always take the long way around
People will always take the long way around
Before you know it you'll be lost and found
Living in sunshine with the shades pulled down
People will always take the long way around

I love the way you walk,
i love the way you talk
With your mouthful
The way you park on the sidewalk
The way you are in the car
I'll make you love the way I behave
On my bad days
Show you the trigger to my bitch switch
And how to play with my witch stitch
Kiss my dirty feet
i'll take you out for dinner
Laugh at my jokes
I wanna sit on your back
Close my eyes
Take your pulse
It's 120
And it's rising
All I wanna do, Is kootchi koo with you X4
I love the way you rob a shop
I love the way your belly flops
As the morning drops
And the way you change from playing cup
When you force me to stop
First my assailant
Then my private federal agent
Bang my feet chain my hands
And ignore my demands
Kiss my dirty feet
i'll take you out for dinner
Laugh at my jokes ahah
I wanna sit on your back
Close my eyes
Take your pulse
It's 120
(ahhhhh) And it's rising (ahhhh)
All I wanna do, Is kootchi koo with you
All I wanna do, Is kootchi koo with you now
All I wanna do, Is kootchi koo with you oh
All I wanna do, Is kootchi koo with you yeah
All I wanna do, Is kootchi kootchi kootchi koo with you
All I wanna do, Is kootchi koo with you oh
All I wanna do, Is kootchi kootchi kootchi kootchi koo with you
All I wanna do, Is kootchi koo with you
All I wanna do, Is kootchi koo with you now
You're like maggots in my brain
Crawling through my veins
All I wanna do, Is kootchi koo with you
All I wanna do, Is kootchi koo with you
All I wanna do, Is kootchi koo with you
Kootchi X9 koo.

Down this wild street walks
Walks a child with no trace
Of ever being as young as her sister is
A local neighborhood crush the boys would hide out and watch
Her hanging washing on the line all the time

Chorus:
More like a woman she talks like one
She was the first girl, she was the first girl
To turn the boys on
Boys boys
Wrapped around her finger
So young
Making love was only dreaming
This girl she's got another story
When they are gone she blows them kisses on the wind

At the corner shop half way down the block
All the radios pumping to the way she walks
Past the fly boy's art where her name's engraved
Sweet liberty is what it says

Chorus

The price of puberty's got
A way of showing
It doesn't come in easy stages
Her mother's face in the pot
She won't ever leave it
She needs a bell to ring the changes

Chorus to fade...

I'm just another voice from the street,
And since it's my choice, I feel that I must speak.
Now I know that you won't listen to little me,
But I can't rest unless I get this off my chest.
See the city's my home, the streets where I roam,
But still I leave the drugs and violence alone.

And so I try to stay in the right frame of mind,
Although I know some people who might say that I'm
Crazy and lazy for not breakin' out,
But the city has soul and that's what I'm about.

I have an appetite that must be fed,
No longer blind and being led.
The type of freedom that you can buy,
My bank won't lend me yet.
But still I can get by, and even smile.
So don't judge me by the colour of my skin;
My blood runs as deep as your runs red,
Which takes me out of the rap.

[Chorus]
The choice is mine,
With my joy and pain inside,
And I ain't gone under yet!

See bodies with souls living in the street.
No one wants to live with nothing to eat,
But to climb over living people and feel
That they brought it on themselves 'cause
They lazy or would rather steal is a mystery.

So don't judge me by the colour of my skin;
My blood runs as deep as your runs red,
Which takes me out of the verse.

[Chorus]

Your under is my over; I've never seen your over yet,
But don't forget
I ain't gone under yet!

Your under is my over; I've never seen your over yet,
But don't forget
I ain't gone under yet!

Your under is my over; I've never seen your over yet,
But don't forget
I ain't gone under yet!

Your under is my over; I've never seen your over yet,
But don't forget
I ain't gone under yet!

I don't steal, I don't run tricks or scams,
'Cause I'm a strong young woman; yes I know who I am.
But sometimes it's so hard to get by,
Tough circumstances make me want to get high.
But I don't go too far 'cause that ain't my style,
So why don't you come live next to me for a while?

Hard black soil called the chernozem
Driving uptown with some per diems
Won't somebody check the hem
Falling down this dress again
Sporting hot jeans on the butt again
Got to get home before the Mayhem
Won't somebody check the tide
Before we run and hide again
Got a hornbeam growing in the garden
Always climbing the tree is the morphine
Got a view of the love and I'm chillin'
Got a view of the hem of the horizon
Stole the wheel off a car called a Porsche
While I was chewing the fat that disturbs me
It's always there because
We play the game the way we are
I got a view on outer space paparrazi
It's always there cause I know that they watch me
I bathe away in darkness
All because I'm paranoid
Got a hornbeam growing in the garden
Always climbing the tree is the morphine
Got a view of the love and I'm chillin'
Got a view of the hem of the horizon
Won't you
Unbutton my stuff
Won't you
Come and zip me up
Won't you
Unbutton my stuff
Won't you
Come and zip me up
Chauvinistic femme come arousing
Got a groove in the hem of your hygiene
Won't somebody break my boundary
Or leave that femme for another day
I like a brain and I like my bimbo
I like 'em vain let 'em lick my limbo
The boldest kiss the mayhem
Slipping down the waterside
Mum & Dad are feeling kind of hurt
To get me back they got to get me first
Am I guilty quench my thirst
Spill my wine and french I quim
Got a hornbeam growing in the garden
Always climbing the tree is the morphine
Got a view of the love and I'm chillin'
Got a view of the hem of the horizon
Won't you
Unbutton my stuff
Won't you
Come and zip me up
Won't you
Unbutton my stuff
Won't you
Come and zip me up
Repeat

Hard black soil called the chernozem
Driving uptown with some per diems
Won't somebody check the hem
Falling down this dress again
Sporting hot jeans on the butt again
Got to get home before the Mayhem
Won't somebody check the tide
Before we run and hide again
Got a hornbeam growing in the garden
Always climbing the tree is the morphine
Got a view of the love and I'm chillin'
Got a view of the hem of the horizon
Stole the wheel off a car called a Porsche
While I was chewing the fat that disturbs me
It's always there because
We play the game the way we are
I got a view on outer space paparrazi
It's always there cause I know that they watch me
I bathe away in darkness
All because I'm paranoid
Got a hornbeam growing in the garden
Always climbing the tree is the morphine
Got a view of the love and I'm chillin'
Got a view of the hem of the horizon
Won't you
Unbutton my stuff
Won't you
Come and zip me up
Won't you
Unbutton my stuff
Won't you
Come and zip me up
Chauvinistic femme come arousing
Got a groove in the hem of your hygiene
Won't somebody break my boundary
Or leave that femme for another day
I like a brain and I like my bimbo
I like 'em vain let 'em lick my limbo
The boldest kiss the mayhem
Slipping down the waterside
Mum & Dad are feeling kind of hurt
To get me back they got to get me first
Am I guilty quench my thirst
Spill my wine and french I quim
Got a hornbeam growing in the garden
Always climbing the tree is the morphine
Got a view of the love and I'm chillin'
Got a view of the hem of the horizon
Won't you
Unbutton my stuff
Won't you
Come and zip me up
Won't you
Unbutton my stuff
Won't you
Come and zip me up
Repeat

Out of control
Mmm - stick it where it hurts
Girl, i'll be peeling you off the ceiling. that's right hee hee
Ladies and gentlemen - neneh cherry

Well you laughed at me right in my face
At the wrong time and in the wrong place
You turned around and said "i'm all shook up"
Said to me "i'm your sweet buttercup" you're lying, you're lying, begging him to stay and crying
You're lying, you're lying, you're never satisfied

Chorus:
Heart, heart you can't break my heart
Hard, hard you think you're so hard
If you meant what you did it wouldn't been half as bad
But you did it in spite and that just isn't right

You took my man and didn't mean it
But you did it to hurt my feelings
What i should do is slap you in your face
You left me here with a pain below my waste


You lose a guy you move into the larder
You got no style, why don't you try a little harder
Chocolates, bananas, doughnuts and salami
Ain't gonna fit cause you're full of bologna

Chorus:

Only back alley rats take other people's cats
And then strike back, that isn't where i'm at

Anyway, it's gonna get you anyway
Anyday, i'm gonna get you, get you

Chorus
I thought you were my friend. god, you're so digital girl.
You're like one of those cabbage patch creatures - dj


You burn the candle at both ends
You're gonna feel the heat
If everything you do comes back to you
By now you'd be dead meat
You took my man and took his body strapped him to your bed just to have his baby
Everybody knows you're a phoney
You just want his alimoney

Chorus

Out of control
Mmm - stick it where it hurts
Girl, i'll be peeling you off the ceiling. that's right hee hee
Ladies and gentlemen - neneh cherry

Well you laughed at me right in my face
At the wrong time and in the wrong place
You turned around and said "i'm all shook up"
Said to me "i'm your sweet buttercup" you're lying, you're lying, begging him to stay and crying
You're lying, you're lying, you're never satisfied

Chorus:
Heart, heart you can't break my heart
Hard, hard you think you're so hard
If you meant what you did it wouldn't been half as bad
But you did it in spite and that just isn't right

You took my man and didn't mean it
But you did it to hurt my feelings
What i should do is slap you in your face
You left me here with a pain below my waste


You lose a guy you move into the larder
You got no style, why don't you try a little harder
Chocolates, bananas, doughnuts and salami
Ain't gonna fit cause you're full of bologna

Chorus:

Only back alley rats take other people's cats
And then strike back, that isn't where i'm at

Anyway, it's gonna get you anyway
Anyday, i'm gonna get you, get you

Chorus
I thought you were my friend. god, you're so digital girl.
You're like one of those cabbage patch creatures - dj


You burn the candle at both ends
You're gonna feel the heat
If everything you do comes back to you
By now you'd be dead meat
You took my man and took his body strapped him to your bed just to have his baby
Everybody knows you're a phoney
You just want his alimoney

Chorus