Graffiti Bridge

Performed by the time
Shake!

Hey, hey people what u come here 4?
Come on everybody, let's get out on the floor.
All the pretty girls shaking what they got
The boys swear to god that they're all 2 hot

Everybody shake.
U got to shake something. my lord.
Shake! u got 2 shake something.

Come on pretty baby now don't be shy.
New liberated girl, ask a guy
We can go dancing baby every night
Shake! shake, shake shake! shake!
But u got 2 shake your body 'til the early, early light.

Everybody shake. (shake, shake, shake)
U got 2 shake something. my lord.
Shake! (shake,shake,shake)
U got 2 shake something
Sing with me now...

Lucy's standing there with the false hair on
Don't shake it 2 hard or that hair will be gone (oops)
Marilyn's so worried about her 2 left feet
Pretty thing keeps worrying about keeping on her feet

That don't matter y'all, come on
Shake! oh lord. u got 2 shake something.
Everybody shake. (shake, shake, shake)
U got 2 shake something. (yeah, yeah, yeah)
Shake! come on y'all. u got 2 shake something.
Shake! (shake, shake, shake)

Every-everybody.
Hey, hey, people what u come here 4? we want to shake something.
Come on everybody let's get out on the floor. gotta shake something.
U shake it 2 the north, u can shake it 2 the south. gotta shake something.
(somebody help me with this)
Shake! if u come 2 party now open up your mouth. gotta shake something.
Come on, oh yeah. yeah.
Shake! shake. u gotta shake something.
Oh don't stop. oh. shake! (shake, shake, shake)
Shake! (shake on it... for me)
Shake!
U're hired. let's go. shake! shake!
Got to shake something

Ooh, i can't hold it
Ow! bang, b-b-bang, bang
Bang.

U, yeah.
U're such a big tease, u get me all excited,
All excited then u go home.
U're like ice cream,
Knew i got 2 getcha, got 2 getcha, before u're all gone.

U're such a bombshell,
And if i ever get ya, ever get ya, ever get ya,
There's no telling how long i'd last
Before i tick, tick bang all over u
Tick, tick-a-tick, bang, bang all over u
Tick, tick-a-tick, bang, bang, bang, tick, bang, bang

U ain't no cheap thrill,
Every time u tick i'd rather u bang,
But u leave me in a fire sweat (leave me in a fire sweat)
U're like a good pill
All i need is 2, and i'm so into u, u're the best stuff that i could get.

U're such a bombshell
If i ever get ya, ever get ya, ever get ya,
There's no telling how long i'd last.
Before i tick, tick, bang, all over u
All over u, tick, all over u, tick, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang

Ooh, i can't hold it. ooh, it's getting all over me.
Ooh, i can't hold it. ooh, it's getting all over me.

U're such a queen bee
Let me taste your honey, taste your honey, taste your honey, 4 it go bad
You're so slippery
Like this chain around my hip, i want a 24k relationship.
So baby don't spit me out, tick, tick, bang, all over u.
Tick, tick-a-tick, bang
Ooh, i can't hold it. ooh, it's getting all over me.

U're such a bombshell
If i ever get ya, ever get ya, ever get ya,
There's no telling how long i'd last.
Before i tick, tick-a-tick, bang, bang, bang, bang, all over u
All over u, bang, all over u, tick, tick, bang, all over u
Tick, tick, bang, all over u. tick, tick, bang, all over u
All over, bang, all over, bang, all over, tick, bang

(we r the new power generation)
Don't pick my apples, don't pick my peaches
(we r the new power generation)
Leave my tree alone...leave it alone...leave it alone
(we r the new power generation)
Don't u look at me
(we r the new power generation)
If you're sad and u know it and u think u want to blow it
Let your feelings out, love is there

Just go!

Kid! yo kid!
I got ta do this, i got the noise, i got ta do this
So pump the big noise, c'mon in the house...

This here rap's about the true confession
If ya listen close u 'bout to learn a lesson
U must know failure before success
Now this is the failure i must confess (well...)
I was hanging onto life trying deal with this
Playing the games, almost got dismissed
Cocaine was the thing that i took on
And nowhere was the place that i was going (preacher, cmon on)
I must tell the truth, i cannot lie
I was headed 4 the kill, steal, destroy, and die
Top 2 the bottom 2 bottom 2 top
Success is where i'm headed there ain't no doubt
Success is something that we all want
But the truth is what we need to reach our point
I had to give this message the so-called truth
I hope it's somthing in it that's there 4 u
{on top of:
Love to the left of me, love to the right
Come on make a noise, somebody
Party tonight! (oh yeah!)}
Like i told ya before, i'm a tell ya again
Success is something that's deep within
So remember the truth you cant go wrong
The flesh is weak and the spirit is strong
I know it to do this rap, and i know its right
'cause i did it in the name of jesus christ
(cmon somebody lets party tonite)
Party tonight! (oh yeah!)

You want me 2 what?? (shake!)
What? (shake! shake!)
Awww, right

The new power generation has just taken control

Lead voice by mavis staples
I've seen a many bridges in my time and crossed every one of 'em
With no trouble at all (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
I had trials and tribulations, heartaches and pains (well that's alright)
Survived 'em all baby (uh huh, say it, say it!)
Hmph, i'm still melody, and i'm still cool
Melody cool...

They call me melody cool (melody, melody)
I was here long before u (melody, melody)
If u're good i will love ya, (melody) but i'm nobody's fool (melody)
I'm melody cool

When i was born there were tidal waves (melody, melody)
Whole town went under nobody saved (melody, melody)
At every funeral it rained every time i sang
Melody cool

I have been here much longer, (melody) longer than u (melody)
I'm melody cool

Well now, everybody runnin' 'round talkin' 'bout saving souls
When they know good and plenty well they got enough trouble
Trying to save their own
(alright, say it, say it girl)

(melody...melody...melody)

Go on, go on.
Every woman and every man (melody)
One day they just got to understand (melody)
That if we play in the same key everything will be
Melody cool

(melody, melody, melody, melody)
What's your name? (melody, melody)
New power wave your hand, everybody sing out across the land
Say hey hey hey (hey hey hey)
Say hey hey hey (hey hey hey)
Everybody say hey hey hey (hey hey hey)

They call me melody cool (melody, melody, melody)

Looka here young un
Let me give u a piece of good advice, (melody)
And i do get paid for counseling
It ain't no big i's and little u's in my life
So that's why u see they call me melody cool (melody, melody cool, melody)
I was here long before u (melody, long before u)
If u're good (melody) i will love u but i'm nobody's fool (melody)
I'm melody cool
(melody, melody cool, melody... long before u)

Lay down your funky weapon.
Yeah y'all, here we go
Pumpin' the big noise in the 90's.

Pardon me 4 living, but this is my world 2
I can't help that what's cool to us might be strange to u
Pardon me 4 breathing, can we borrow some of your air?
The problem with u and your kind is that u don't know love is there

Lay down your funky weapon, come join us on the floor
Making love and music's the only things worth fighting 4.
We r the new power generation, we want 2 change the world.
The only thing that's in our way is u.
Your old fashioned music, your old ideas,
We're sick and tired of u telling us what 2 do.

Pardon me 4 thinking, but there's something under my hair
I bet u thought the lights were on but noone's living there
U think that if u tell enough lies they will see the truth?
I hope they bury your old ideas the same time they bury u

Lay down your funky weapon, come join us on the floor
Making love and music's the only things worth fighting 4.
We r the new power generation, we want 2 change the world.
The only thing that's in our way is u.
Your old fashioned music, your old ideas,
We're sick and tired of u telling us what 2 do.

We r the new, we r the new, we r the new,
Making love and music
New power, we stand

Pardon us for caring, we didn't know it was against the rules (shout it out)
If we only want to love one another
Then tell me now who's the fool (tell me, tell me)
No father, no mother, no sister, no brother, nobody can make me stop
Said if u didn't come 2 party child, i think u better get up offa my block.

Lay down your funky weapon, come join us on the floor
Making love and music's the only things worth fighting 4.
We r the new power generation, we want 2 change the world.
The only thing that's in our way is u.
Your old fashioned music, your old ideas,
We're sick and tired of u telling us what 2 do.
Why don't u just be happy, baby.

[chorus repeated with this sung over it]
Go on and get up offa my block
Get up offa my block, because
Love is there if you'd just open up 2 it.
If you'd just believe your whole world would change

New power generation, you've got to rearrange. we've got
We r the new power generation, you've gotta give up all the fight
We gotta try 2 love one another, baby. we r the new power generation
We r the new power generation.
We r the new power generation.

{crowd noise same as for "alphabet street"}

He like to frequent this club down up on 36th
Pimps and thangs like 2 hang outside and cuss for kicks

Talking 2 no one in particular, they say "the baddest i am tonight"
4 letter words are seldom heard with such dignity and bite.
All the poets and the part time singers always hang inside
Live music from a band plays a song called "soul psychodelicide".
The song's a year long and had been playing 4 months when he
Walked into the place.
No one seemed to care, an introverted this-is-it look on most of their faces.
Up on the mic repeating 2 words, over and over again
Was this woman he had never noticed before he lost himself in the
Articulated manner in which she said them.
These 2 words, a little bit behind the beat.
I mean just enough 2 turn u on.
4 everytime she said the words another one of his doubts were gone.

Should he try 2 rap with her? should he stand and stare?
No one else was watching her, she didn't seem 2 care.
So over and over, she said the words til he could take no more, (no more)
He dragged her from the stage and together they ran through the back door
In the alley over by the curb he said tell me what's your name
She only said the words again and it started to rain (rain, rain, rain)
2 words falling between the drops and the moans of his condition
Holding someone is truly believing there's joy in repetition.
There's joy in repetition.
There's joy in repetition.
There's joy in repetition.
There's joy in repetition.
She said love me, love me, what she say?
She say love me, love me.
Joy, why don't u love me baby, joy, why can't u love me baby
Joy, come on and love me baby, joy in repetition
Alright, joy in repetition,
Alright, joy in repetition,
Alright, joy in repetition,
Alright, joy, all my wishes add up to one
Love me, joy, love me, joy, love me, joy
Love me, love me, joy, joy, joy in repetition
Joy, joy in repetition,
Joy, joy (love me) in repetition,
Love me, love, joy, joy, joy in repetition
Joy, and i'm gonna say it again, joy, joy, and i'm gonna say it again,
Joy, i'd like 2 go way up high and say, love me, joy
I'll say love me, joy
Joy, joy in repetition, joy in repetition
There's joy in repetition

Lead voice by tevin campbell
Oh yeah
Round and round and round
Round, round
Yeah, yeah, yeah, ooh yeah

Can u tell me where we're going 2?
Can u tell me what it is we really want 2 find?
Is the truth really there? or is it right under our hair?
4 all we know it's been there all the time.

I say, nothing comes from dreamers but dreams
I say, sitting idle in our boat while everyone else is down the stream
Nothing comes from talkers but sound
We can talk all we want 2, but the world still goes around and round.
Round and round. we go round and round and round.
And what we're looking 4 still isn't found

Can u tell me when we gonna get 2 it.
I'm tired of fooling around i said i wanna do it. (go 4 it, get 2 it)
I learned my lesson young, i said if want to have fun (go 4 it)
And when u win say, "i knew it" (go 4 it, get 2 it)

Nothing comes from dreamers but dreams
I say, sitting idle in our boat while everyone else is down the stream
Nothing comes from talkers but sound
We can talk all we want 2, but the world still goes around and round.
Round, round, round, round, round, round
Round and round (get get get get 2 it, go 4 it, get 2 it)
We go round and round and round.
And what we're looking 4 still isn't found

1 day i'll make it in the big city
And i'll be looking 4 a girl who's pretty
1 day i'll make a play and she will say ok
'cause i plan 2 be a cool kitty

Round and round.
I say, nothing comes from dreamers but dreams
I say, sitting idle in our boat while everyone else is down the stream
Nothing comes from talkers but sound
We can talk all we want 2, but the world still goes around and round.
Round and round. we go round and round and round.
And what we're looking 4 still isn't found
Round and round we go. round and round we go.
Round and round and round and round and round and round we go.
Round and round, round and round,
Round and round we go, round and round we go
Round and round.

Performed by the time
Yo stella, if u think i'm afraid of u
Grace, if u so much as think i can't do the do
Girl, if u dream i came to jerk around
U better wake up and release it

Party people in the crib get hyped.
Let's get this party funking right, come on, yeah, come on
Release it, listen 2 me now, release it yeah.
Come, come, come on, release it

Who's crib is this? my crib.
Who's wine u drinking? mine.
Who asked your ugly ass what time it was? nobody.
Cuz we doing fine.
Take it all off. bass. i need the funk in my face
I can't stand tight asses in my place
Let's get hyped y'all. release it.

(yeah) release it.
(yeah) what time it is? band.
It's time to get sleazy up in here
Mary sweet mother jesus
Fuck that talk morris

Oh stella, i know u came alone
'cause ain't just any man qualified 2 take u home
Me? no i'm not a man. jerome? he's an adventure.
Oh! somebody slap me.
I don't know. party people in the crib get hyped. (yeah)
Party people in the crib get hyped. (yeah)
Release it. yes.
(yeah) release it. (yeah)

Jerome? yo.
When this solo's through, jerome? morris?
Find me a stella to rap 2. yes. (yeah) (yeah)

Who's beat is this? my beat.
Who's horns are these blowing? mine.
Who asked your dumb ass how to catch a groove? nobody.
Cuz we doing the do. jerome. yes?
Who's stella is this? my stella.
Who's stella is this? my stella.
Then what's she doing over here with me? umm.
Then what's she doing over here with me? umm.
Who told u that women like men with no money?
Release it, boy. go on stella, dance.
Say man, back up, give me some room.
Dance, shake it like a peckerwood.
Release it.

Over and over and over and over and over and over
Your girlfriends told u that i'm the rover
But i'm here to scold ya that if u live alone
Then we can bone. give me a number 2 phone. you groan.
And i am so, if u say no, instead of crying, i'll keep trying,
Until you're dying to have me 4 your own.
So peep stella, peep stella,
If u think that i'm afraid of u, (do it md)
If u think that i'm afraid of u, (rap 2 her)
If u think that i can't do the do (yeah papa)
If u think that i can't do the do
If u think i came 2 jerk around (don't say it)
U better wake up stella, (wake up) this is my town

Release it. man, let them drums kick.
Let's get the hell out of here.
Let's do it. yo. release it. (yeah)
Motherfucker, get your ass out of my way
(yeah) (yeah) release it. (yeah) (yeah). release it. (yeah) (yeah) release it.