Ladies & Gentlemen (CD 1 : for the heart)

Don't bring me down
Don't bring me down
Don't bring me down

I've never been one
For playing games
You can move your mouth forever
But the words sound just the same
Something like
Bang bang you're dead
Couldn't we just make love instead
Say yes because it's what we do best
And i've had such a hard day

Take me where their eyes can't find us
Without you i may as well just...

How much - do i have to say
What more - do you have to see
What will it take to make you love me
Well you're not the first
You're not the last
You're not even the one who loves me the best
But all i think about is you

So take me where their eyes can't find us
Without you i may as well just...

So take me where their eyes can't find us
Without you i may as well just...

Don't bring me down
Don't bring me down
Don't bring me down

Please don't wander from my door

I've never been one
For playing games
You can move your mouth forever
But the words sound just the same
Bang bang you're dead
Shouldn't we just make love instead
Say yes 'cause it's what we do best
And i've had such a hard day

So don't bring me down
Won't you give me a break
Somebody give me a break now!

Don't bring me down
Don't bring me down
Don't bring me down

Sweet little boy with oh such a big mouth
Harsh words can get you into hot water
When people don't understand you baby
I'm always here for you
And i
And i will never bring you down, down, down my baby

Trust me
I want you to trust me
Oh trust me
'cause i won't bring you down
(don't bring me down)
I won't bring you down
Do you trust me
Yeah
(return to top)

So you want to be free
To live your life the way you wanna be
Will you give if we cry
Will we live or will we die

Tainted hearts heal with time
Shoot bad love so we can
Stop the bleeding

Solitary brother, is there still a part of you that
Wants to live?
Solitary sister, is there still a part of you that
Wants to give?
Solitary brother,is there still a part of you that
Wants to live?
Solitary sister, is there still a part of you that
Wants to give?

If we try to live our lives
The way we wanna be

Solitary brother, is there still a part of you that
Wants to live?
Solitary sister,is there still a part of you that
Wants to give?
Solitary brother, is there still a part of you that
Wants to live?
Salitary sister, is there still a part of you that
Wants to give?

Racism in future kings can only lead to no good
And besides, all our sons and daughters already
Know how that feels

too funky


Hey, you're just too funky for me,
I gotta get inside of you,
And i'll show you heaven if you let me.
Hey you just too funky for me,
I gotta get inside, (i gotta get inside)
I gotta get inside of you (so then you will that be).
I watch your fingers working overtime (overtime),
I got to thinking that they should be mine. oh!
I'd love to see you naked baby,
I'd like to think that sometime maybe
Tonight, if that's all right. yeah!

Hey, you're just too funky for me,
I gotta get inside of you , (won't let you go)
Won't let you, no-no
Hey you're just too funky for me,
I gotta get inside, (i gotta get inside)
I gotta get inside of you (i'll let you love me).
I watch you drinkin' and i take my time,
I watch you drinkin' all that cheap red wine, oh!
I've got to see you naked baby,
I'd like to think that sometime maybe,
Tonight my goal's in sight, yeah!

Baby, baby, baby why do you do this to me?
Won't let you go, (won't let you go)
You're such a, you're such a
Baby, baby, baby why do you do this to me?
I've got to know. (i've got to know)
(i'm gonna be the kind of lover that you never had)
Hey you're just too funky.
(you're never gonna have another lover in your bed)
You're just too funky for me.

(would you like me to seduce you, is that what you're trying to tell me?)
(everybody wants a lover like that)
Baby
(everybody wants a lover like that) yeah! yeah!
(everybody wants a lover like that) everybody, everybody
(everybody wants a lover like that)
(is that what you are trying to tell me?)
(everybody wants a lover, everybody wants a lover like that.
Everybody wants a lover, everybody wants a lover like that.
Everybody wants a lover, everybody wants a lover like that.
Everybody wants a lover, everybody wants a lover like that.)
(would you like me to seduce you?)
You're such a, you're such a
(would you like me to seduce you?) yeah! yeah!
(would you like me to seduce you?) you're such a, you're such a.
Yeah! yeah!
(would you stop playing with that radio yorg, i'm trying to get to sleep!)

Let me tell you a secret
Put it in your heart and keep it
Something that i want you to know
Do something for me
Listen to my simple story
And maybe we'll have something to show

You tell me you're cold on the inside
How can the outside world
Be a place that your heart can embrace
Be good to yourself
Because nobody else
Has the power to make you happy

How can i help you
Please let me try to
I can heal the pain
That you're feeling inside
Whenever you want me
You know that i will be
Waiting for the day
That you say you'll be mine

He must have really hurt you
To make you say the things that you do
He must have really hurt you
To make those pretty eyes look so blue

He must have known
That he could
That you'd never leave him
Now you can't see my love is good
And that i'm not him

How can i help you
Please let me try to
I can heal the pain
That you're feeling inside
Whenever you want me
You know that i will be
Waiting for the day
That you say you'll be mine

Who needs a lover
That can't be a friend
Something tells me i'm the one you've been looking for
If you ever should see him again
Won't you tell him you've found someone who gives you more

Someone who will protect you
Love and respect you
All those things
That he never could bring to you
Like i do
Or rather i would
Won't you show me your heart
Like you should

Won't you let me in
Let this love begin
Won't you show me your heart now
I'll be good to you
I can make this thing true
And get to your heart somehow
(return to top)

(gotta get up, get down...)
(gotta get up, get down...)
(ooh ooh, baby baby...)

Looking for some education
Made my way into the night
All that bullshit conversation
Baby can't you read the signs?

I won't bore you with the detail baby
I don't even wannna waste your time
Let's just say that maybe
You could help to ease my mind
Baby, i ain't mr. right

But if you're looking for fastlove
If that's love in your eyes
It's more than enough
Had some bad luck
Some fastlove is all that i've got on my mind

(ooh ooh, baby baby)
Ooh, yeah yeah
(ooh ooh, baby baby)
What's there to think about baby?
(ooh ooh, baby baby)
Hey baby, oh yeah
(ooh ooh, baby baby)

Looking for some affirmation
Made my way into the sun
My friends got their ladies
They're all having babies
I just wanna have some fun

I won't bore you with the detail baby
You gotta get there in your own sweet time
Let's just say that maybe
You could help to ease my mind
Baby, i ain't mr. right

But if you're looking for fastlove
If that's love in your eyes
It's more than enough
Had some bad luck
Some fastlove is all that i've got on my mind
Get yourself arrested for love

So close
I can taste it now baby
So close

In the absence of security
Made my way into the night
Stupid cupid keeps on calling me
But i see nothing in his eyes
I miss my baby, oh yeah
I miss my baby tonight
So why don't we make a little room
In my bmw babe
Searchin' for some peace of mind
Hey, i'll help you find it
I do believe that we are practicing the same religion

Oh you really oughta get up now
That's right
Oh you really oughta get up
(ooh ooh, baby baby...)
Oh yeah....
Looking for some affirmation...
(return to top)

Turn down the lights, turn down the bed
Turn down these voices inside my head
Lay down with me, tell me no lies
Just hold me close, don't patronize
Don't patronize me

'cause i can't make you love me if you don't
You can't make your heart feel something it won't
Here in the dark in these final hours
I will lay down my heart, and i'll feel the power
But you won't, no you won't
And i can't make you love me
If you don't

I'll close my eyes and then i won't see
The love you do not feel, when you're holding me
Morning will come, and i'll do what's right
Just give me till then, to give up this fight
And i will give up this fight

And i can't make you love me if you don't
You can't make your heart feel something it won't
And here in the dark in these final hours
I will lay down my heart and i'll feel the power
But you won't, no, you won't
And i can't make you love me
If you don't

Ain't no use in you trying
It's no good for me baby without love
All my tears, all these years, everything i believed in
Baby
Oh yeah
Someone's gonna love me
(return to top)

she takes the back road and the lane
Past the school that has not changed
In all this time
She thinks of when the boy was young
All the battles she had won
Just to give him life

That man
She loves that man
For all his life
But now we meet to take him flowers
And only god knows why
For what's the use in pressing palms
When children fade in mother's armes **** missing
It's a cruel world
We've so mush to lose
And what we have to learn, we rarely choose

So if it's god who took her son
He cannot be the one living in her mind

Take care my love, she said
Don't think that god is dead
Take care my love, she said

You have been loved

If i was weak, forgive me
But i was terrified
You brushed my eyes with angels wings, full of love
The kind that makes devils cry

So these days
My life has changed
And i'll be fine
But she just sits and counts the hours
Searching for her crime

So what's the use of pressing palms
If you won't keep such love from harm
It's a cruel world
You've so much to prove

And heaven help the ones who wait for you

Well i've no daughters, i've no sons
Guess i'm the only one
Living in my life

Take care my love, he said *** he said / not she
Don't think that god is dead
Take care my love, he said *** he said / not she
You have been loved

I'd say love was a magical thing
I'd say love would keep us from pain
Had i been there, had i been there

I would promise you all of my life
But to lose you would cut like a knife
So i don't dare, no i don't dare

'cause i've never come close in all of these years
You are the only one to stop my tears
And i'm so scared, i'm so scared

Take me back in time maybe i can forget
Turn a different corner and we never would have met
Would you care

I don't understand it, for you it's a breeze
Little by little you've brought me to my knees
Don't you care

No i've never come close in all of these years
You are the only one to stop my tears
I'm so scared of this love

And if all that there is, is this fear of being used
I should go back to being lonely and confused
If i could, i would, i swear

i feel so unsure,
As i take your hand and lead you to the dance floor.
As the music dies...
Something in your eyes,
Calls to mind a silver screen,
And all its sad goodbyes.

Chorus
I'm never gonna dance again,
Guilty feet have got no rhythm.
Though it's easy to pretend,
I know you're not a fool.
I should have known better than to cheat a friend,
And waste a chance that i'd been given.
So i'm never gonna dance again,
The way i danced with you.

Time can never mend,
The careless whisper of a good friend.
To the heart and mind,
Ignorance is kind
There's no comfort in the truth,
Pain is all you'll find.

Repeat chorus

What am i without your love?
Tonite the music seems so loud,
I wish that we could lose this crowd.
Maybe it's better this way,
We'd hurt each other with the things we want to say.

We could have been so good together,
We could have lived this dance forever...
But now, who's gonna dance with me?
Please stay.
(alternatively):
And now it's never gonna be
That way...

Repeat chorus

Now that you're gone...
Now that you're gone...
Now that you're gone...
Was what i did so wrong?
So wrong that you had to leave me alone?

Spin the wheel

Five o'clock in the morning
You ain't home
I can't help thinking that's strange
Baby i just want you to know
I won't go through it again
Yes, those clouds are closing in

And i will not accept this as a part of my life
I will not live in fear
Of what may be
And the lessons i have learned...
I would rather be alone than watch you
Spinning that wheel for me

You've got a thing about danger
Ain't you getting what you want from me
You've got a thing about strangers
Baby that's what we used to be
You've got a thing about danger baby
I guess the hungry just can't see
One of these days
You're gonna bring some home to me

Six o'clock in the morning
You ain't home
I can't help thinking that's strange
It seems that everybody takes their chances
These days
Oh yeah we're standing in the rain

And i will not accept this as part of my life etc...

How can you love me
When you are playing with my life
You say give me time and i'll do better i swear
Give me time and i'll lead you back to despair
And i don't want to go back there
(return to top)

Father figure


That's all i wanted, something special,
Something sacred in your eyes,
For just one moment, to be bold and naked
At your side

Sometimes i think that you'll never understand me
Maybe this time is forever, say it can't be

That's all you wanted, something special,
Someone sacred in your life
Just for one moment, to be warm and naked
At my side

Sometimes i think that you'll never understand me
But something tells me together, we'd be happy

I will be your father figure (oh baby)
Put your tiny hand in mine (i'd love to)
I will be your preacher teacher (be your daddy)
Anything you have in mind (it would make me)
I will be your father figure (very happy)
I have had enough of crime (please let me)
I will be the one who loves you
Until the end of time

That's all i wanted
But sometimes love can be mistaken for a crime
That's all i wanted just to see my baby's blue eyes shine
This time i think that my lover understands me
If we have faith in each other
Then we can be strong

I will be your father figure
Put your tiny hand in mine
I will be your preacher teacher
Anything you have in mind
I will be your father figure
I have had enough of crime
I will be the one who loves you
Until the end of time

If you are the desert, i'll be the sea
If you ever hunger - hunger for me
Whatever you ask for, that's what i'll be

So when you remember the ones who have lied
Who said that they cared
But then laughed as you cried
Beautiful darling, don't think of me

Because all i ever wanted
It's in your eyes baby, baby
And love can't lie, no...
(greet me with the eyes of a child)
My love is always telling me so
(heaven is a kiss and a smile)
Just hold on, hold on
I won't let you go, my baby

I will be your father figure
Put your tiny hand in mine
I will be your preacher teacher
Anything you have in mind
I will be your father figure
I have had enough of crime
So i am gonna love you
Until the end of time
I will be your father
I will be your preacher
I'll be your daddy
I will be the one who loves you
Until the end of time
(return to top)

Kindness in your eyes
I guess you heard me cry
You smiled at me
Like jesus to a child

I'm blessed i know
Heaven sent and heaven stole
You smiled at me
Like jesus to a child

And what have i learned
From all this pain
I thought i'd never feel the same
About anyone
Or anything again

But now i know
When you find love
When you know that it exists
Then the lover that you miss
Will come to you on those cold, cold nights

When you've been loved
When you know it holds such bliss
Then the lover that you kissed
Will comfort you when there's no hope in sight

Sadness in my eyes
No one guessed
Or no one tried
You smiled at me
Like jesus to a child

Loveless and cold
With your last breath
You saved my soul
You smiled at me
Like jesus to a child

And what have i learned
From all these tears
I've waited for you all those years
And just when it began
He took you away

But i still say
When you find love
When you know that it exists
Then the lover that you miss
Will come to you on those cold, cold nights

When you've been loved
When you know it holds such bliss
Then the lover that you kissed
Will comfort you when there's no hope in sight

So the words you could not say
I'll sing them for you
And the love we would have made
I'll make it for two

For every single memory
Has become a part of me
You will always be my love

Well i've been loved
So i know just what love is
And the lover that i kissed
Is always by my side

Oh the lover i still miss
Was jesus to a child
(return to top)

Can anybody find me
Somebody to love?
Each morning i get up i die a little
Can't barely stand on my feet

Take a look in the mirror and cry
Lord, what you're doing to me
I have spent all my years in believing you
But i just can't get no relief, lord
Somebody, somebody

Can anybody find me someone to love
I work hard everyday of my life
I work till i ache my bones

At the end i take home my
Hard earned pay all of my own
I get down on my knees and i start to pray
'til the tears run down from my eyes, lord

Somebody, somebody
Can anybody find me somebody to love
Everyday i try and i try
But everybody want to put me down

They say i'm goin' crazy
They say i got a lot of water in my brain
Got no common sense
I got nobody to believe

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Ooh, somebody
Somebody can anybody find me
Somebody to love

Got no feel, i got no rhythm
I just keep losing my beat
I'm ok, i'm alright
Ain't gonna face no defeat

I just got to get out of this prison cell
One day i'm gonna be free, lord
Find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love
Find me somebody to love
Somebody, somebody, somebody, somebody
Somebody find me somebody
Find me somebody to love
Can anybody find me
Somebody to love

Find me somebody to love!
Find me somebody to love!
Find me, find me, find me, find me

Star people
Counting your money until your soul turns green
Star people
Counting the cost of your desire to be seen

I do not count myself among you
I may have been living in a dream
It's just there seem so many of you
Can't help but hope there's a difference between

And if i live to be a hundred and one
I will never understand what you are, honey?

I'm looking for sympathy
Just get me on nbc
And where's the hell's my dumb ass pr?

I said maybe your mama gave you up boy
(it's the same old same old)
I said maybe your daddy didn't love you enough girl
(how much is enough)

Star people
Never forget your secret's safe with me
Just look at all the wonderful people
Trying to forget just who and what they have been

Oh, it's a dream
With a nightmare stuck in the middle
Are you serious? i'm just curious
Without all this attention
You'd die
I'd die
We'd die (wouldn't we baby)

And if i live to be a hundred and one
I will never understand what you are (i'm talking to you)
You're looking for sympathy from people who work to eat
And they don't really seem to mind

I said maybe your mama gave you up boy
(it's the same old same old)
I said maybe baby your daddy didn't love you enough girl

How much is enough?
How much is enough?
How much is enough?
Are you serious? i'm just curious
Are you serious? i'm just curious

Yeah more glycerine
Let's go back to the day
Dj (why do you wanna tell me that?)
Dj (get yourself some oprah cash)
Is that what makes a star?

Did you get off on a bad foot, baby
Do you have a little tale to tell
Did you get off on a bad foot, bad, bad foot?
Is that why you're a star?

Do you really think you've got it so hard?
Do you think it might do you some good to look around you
And decide how you might feel
If the pain you felt was real
Tell me

Now nothing comes for nothing, baby
That fame and fortune's heaven sent
And who gives a fuck about your problems, darling
'cos you can pay the rent
You can pay