The Velvet Rope

How could it be

That you know me

My deepest fears

My fantasies

Confide in you

What no one knows

But it feels so good



Chorus:

When i close my eyes

I can see your face

When i lick my lips

I can taste your smile

When i see your name

My heart starts to race

If i can't read your thought

Then i feel empty



Is this a new

Way to love

Never face to face

Is it enough

Does it really count

Or am i a fool

So tell me please

Am i wasting my time



Your phrases

Descriptive

And though the textured words

With beauty

You post it

And use such colored verbes

We've never meet



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I'm rushin' home

To turn you on

Sometimes you're there

Sometimes you're gone

Wait for hours

For your return

So tell me please

Am i wasting my time



Your phrases

Descriptive

And though the textured words

With beauty

You post it

And use such colored verbes

So tell me



You think that

Maybe we're gone insane

To find a, a lover

And thought the words of pain

We never meet



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Here i an in your face

Tellin' truths and not your old lies

Seems to me that you care

And i know that you're runnin' out of time

See ya can't get away

I'll be here forever and again

Whisperin' in your ear

Do believe 'cause you know you cannot win



Spent most your life pretending not to be

The one you are but who you choose to be

Learned to survive in your fictitious world

Does what they think of you determine your worth

If special's what you feel when you're with them

Taken away, you feel less then again

That's right



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You gotta mean what you say

You gotta say what you mean

Tryin' to please everyone

Sacrifice your own needs

Check in the mirror my friend

No lies will be told then

Pointin' the finger again

You can't blame nobody but you



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There's a feelin' inside

No you cannot change it right away

Gotta make it try

And with time it'll start to go away

I'll be here when you need

That one to sit and cry to

'cause i'm the you you forgot

The only one you know you cannot lie to



Bitter you'll be if you don't change you ways

When you hate you, you hate everyone that day

Unleash this scared child that you've grown into

You cannot run for you can't hide from you

Can't hide from you

That's right



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Tie me up tie me down

Make me moan real loud

Take off my clothes

No one has to know

Whisperin'

I wanna feel a soft rope burn

Wanna feel a rope burn



When you walked in the room

You knew just what to do

You could have gone from door to door

But you knew just where to go to

Come into my velvet rope

And tell me fantasies

The passion in your voice i wanna hear

As you start to tell me

While you're at it take the blind fold

Tie it gently on me

Don't wanna see but feel the things

You're gonna do to me



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One in the mornin'

I'm feelin' so free and sensual

Lyin' here wearin'

Just my imagination for you

Sensation will do

Can you feel the warmth of the

Candlelight embrace your body

I'm feelin' the hot candle wax

Drippin' down the small of my back



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Hold me

Kiss me

Show me

You wanna be with me

Feel me

Taste me

And maybe

I'll let you have me



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When you do convince me

Can't turn back

I'll be your best

You know that good things don't come easy



Chorus:

(hold me)

So are you ready

(kiss me)

To journey

(show me)

Within' me

(feel me)

I'll satisfy you

(taste me)

I would do anythind

(have me)

You ask me to

(ask me)

Anything

(with me)

Anything



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For you



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(hold me)

So are you ready

(kiss me)

I will do anything

(show me)

For you

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My love

My need

Tonight

I feel so tight

My love

My need

Tonight

Just how i like



I know

You know

What exactly is on my mind

I can't help

Myself

Part of how i feel tonight

Won't make

Excuses

I just want you inside baby

We don't

Need to

Talk about no promises



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Let's just

Pretend

That we have no more tomorrow

Can we

Make love

Like it's our last time baby

Let's not

Get too

Soft and gentle with it 'cause

I am not

Feelin'

In no mood to play about



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I need you

Like the flowers need the rain

I need you

Like the blues need the pain

I need you

Like the stars need the night

I need you

Like the waves need the sea



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I get so lonely

Can't let

Just anybody hold me

You are the one

That lives in me my dear

Want no one but you



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Sittin' here with my tears

All alone with my fears

I'm wonderin' if

I have to do

Withoutcha

But there's no reason why i

Fell asleep late last night

Cryin' like a new born child

Holdin' myself close

Pretendin' my arms are yours

I want no one but you



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Still remember to the day

In fact it was a 3rd monday

You came along

To be the one for me

Now i'm alone

Sittin' here by the phone

Call and say that your ok

So that i'll have

The chance to beg you to stay

I want no one but you



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I get so lonely

(every time i see your face baby)

Can't let

(every time i hear you're name)

Just anybody hold me

(hard to believe that you and me)

You are the one

(are no longer)

That lives in me my dear

Want no one but you



I get so lonely

(every time i see your face baby)

Can't let

(every time i hear you're name)

Just anybody hold me

You are the one

That lives in me my dear

Want no one but you



Gonna brake it down, brake it down, brake it down

Gonna brake it down, brake it down, brake it down

You know that i know

That i get so lonely thinking about you



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we walked along the beach
What a moon lit night
He held my hands in his
He kissed me he said
I wanna spend my life with you
I want you for my wife
Just then i thought



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What about the times you lied to me
What about the times you said no one would want me
What about all the shit you've done to me
What about that
What about that
What about the times you yelled at me
What about the times i cried
You wouldn't even hold me
What about those things
What about that
What about that



I took a pause
And then a deep sigh
He looked right into my eyes
As he said
I know i didn't say somethin' wrong
I didn't have the courage to say
But then i thought



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Oh

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What about the times you hit my face
What about the times you kept on when i said
No more please
What about those things
What about that
What about that oh
What about the times you shamed me
What about the times when you said you didn't fuck
Her
She only gave you head
What about that
What about that



Don't wanna live my life in misery
Don't tell me you did it 'cause you love me
I don't believe
I'm sick and tired
Your deceptive games
Wonder where
You have been
I can't live life wondering



My heart was poundin'
But the time had come
To stop lettin' my whisperin' heart control me
And tellin' my screamin' mind what to do
I looked him straight in the eye
And then i said



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Stay away from my window

Stay away from my back door too

Disconnect the telephone line

Relax baby and draw the blind



Kick off your shoes

And sit right down

Loosen up the back

Of your pretty french gown

Let me pour ya

A good long drink

Oh baby don't you hesitate



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Tonight's the night

It's gonna be alright

'cause i love you girl

Ain't nobody gonna

Stop us now



Come on angel

My heart's on fire

Don't deny

This one desire

You'll be a fool

To stop this time

Spread your winds and let me

Come inside



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Don't say a word

My virgin child

Just let your

Inhibitions run wild

The secret is

About to unfold

Upstairs before the

Night's to old 'cause



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Tonight's the night

It's gonna be alright

'cause i love you boy

Ain't nobody gonna

Stop us now