Lyrics transcribed by the Databank
Transcription Team (DTT)
Checked by The Warponian Lyric
Team
Ooh!
This is the joint I've been layin' 4 all night
Gotta new Puerto Rican score
CHORUS:
Gimme a drummer and a funky bass line
Gotta new Puerto Rican score
CHORUS
Ooh! Let's make a toast 2 the host with the most, heh
(Whatcha say, baby?)
This is the joint I've been layin' 4 all night
Gotta new Puerto Rican score
CHORUS
Did U come 2 jam, baby? (Oh yeah)
CHORUS {repeat refrain 3 times}
CHORUS
Ooh! {x8}
Ooh, everybody's here (Everybody)
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© 1996 Emancipation Music - ASCAP
{"Cuz that's my only mission" sample repeats in song}
Oh baby
Don't want U 2 write me no letters
I ain't checkin' 4 the sweet talk, baby (Right)
(Right back here in my arms)
I know U got a lot on your mind (Right)
I know U need a little space, just a little
Oh baby
No, no, no 2 the postman bringin' me letters
Oh baby (Right back here in my arms) Don't want U 2 write me no letters
Ooh yeah, right back here in my arms
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© 1996 Emancipation Music - ASCAP
Somebody's somebody
Somewhere, someone It's 2 o'clock in the morning and I just can't sleep
CHORUS:
This big ol' world can be so empty livin' in it all alone
(CHORUS)
Someone 2 hold me in that hour midnight
It's 2:05 in the morning and I got no one 2 call
(CHORUS) {x2}
Ooh, I don't wanna wait, no!
(2night I wanna be somebody's somebody)
Somebody's somebody |
© 1996 Emancipation Music - ASCAP
Get your groove on
I got some money cuz I just got paid
CHORUS:
I got some honey and some peppermint tea
CHORUS I'm usually workin' both night and day
Come on! Speak
I got some money cuz I just got paid
Come on, everybody get your groove on (Hey baby)
Get your groove on {Repeat CHORUS in BG}
Get it on, get on
(Get your groove on) {repeat in BG}
Girl, U believe that brother that came over here?
Gettin' that groove on (Get your groove on)
Girl, I think we better leave
Y'all help me find Juice, I'm tryin', I can't find him
Sir, I'm sorry
What U mean?
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© 1996 Emancipation Music - ASCAP
It's courtin' time
I've been holdin' back a good deal longer than I shouldaoughta
Every day I wait is just another day your baby's lonely
Yes it is
All the friends I thought I had found out they were not at all
Yeah!
Courtin', it's courtin' time! {x3 in BG}
When I do that (do that), when I do that (do that), when I do that
It's courtin', courtin' time! {x2}
Come on and get some, baby
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There's a spark of magic in your eyes
Candyland appears each time U smile Never thought that fairy tales came true But they come true when I'm near U U're a genie in disguise
CHORUS:
If I could, I'd catch a falling star
Write your name across the sky
(CHORUS)
Baby, sometime
2 say I love U (I love U)
(CHORUS)
I love U, baby |
© 1996 Emancipation Music - ASCAP
Oh yeah, what'd U think was gonna happen?
Come on! CHORUS:
We gets up - ain't no need 2 trip
CHORUS Yeah! How U think we comin'?
We just bad - we so bad, we good
CHORUS Yeah, NPG, New Power Soul, K-k-k-kick it! Oh yeah!
If y'all take a left, we gonna go right
People, wave your hands
Oh yeah! {x2} CHORUS We gets up {x5} (Oh yeah)
We gets up! |
© 1996 Emancipation Music - ASCAP
Big white mansion
Top of the road Latest fashion Happy, don't U know? Here I am in New York, yeah
But one day I'll have a big white mansion
I could use a new guitar
Then I'll live in a big white mansion
Hey there, what's your name? (What's your name, cutie?)
Cuz U're livin' in a big white mansion (Oh yes)
Big white, big white mansion (Big white mansion)
("Yo, Anita!") {Martin sample}
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© 1996 Emancipation Music - ASCAP
Damned if I do
Tell me what's up with the teenage indecision
Damned if I do, damned if I don't
Damned if I do Tell me the truth, how many U do it 2?
CHORUS:
Goodbye Damned if I don't try 2 make U see yourself the way I do
CHORUS Damned if I do, damned if I don't
Tú siempre estás hablando de lo qué tenemos qué
hacer
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© 1996 Emancipation Music - ASCAP
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 Cuz I can't make U love me if U don't
Do U?
I'll close my eyes, then I won't see
Cuz I can't make U love me if U don't
(I can't make U love me if U don't)
I offer U (My heart)
I wanna, I wanna, I wanna make U love me
I can't make U love me if U don't
Turn down the lights, turn down the bed
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© 1996 Almo Music Corp. - ASCAP
{"Microphone check" sample repeated in song}
Turn off that weak jam, man
CHORUS:
I got some money, I got some juice
CHORUS Oh yeah Sugarbaby, with the curly hair
CHORUS Pump it up, pump it up
CHORUS {x2}
Yeah, one, well
Oh, I will take care of U
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© 1996 Emancipation Music - ASCAP
2 these walls I talk
Tellin' 'em what I wasn't strong enough 2 say 2 these walls I talk Tellin' 'em how I cried the day U went away How do we ever lose communication?
Yeah In this bed I scream
Tell me, how're we gonna put this back 2gether?
Living and loving In this bed I, in this bed I, in this bed I scream In this car I drive
How do we ever lose communication? (How did we?)
Maybe we can't, maybe we can
In this bed I, in this bed I, in this bed I scream
In this bed I scream |
© 1996 Emancipation Music - ASCAP