Lyrics transcribed by The PRiNce
Lyric Transcription Team (PLTT)
Checked by The Warponian Lyric
Team
Dear Dad,
things didn't turn out quite like I wanted them 2 sometimes I feel like I'm gonna explode Everybody wanna see U down 4 the count
I can't stop this feeling I got
can't stop this feeling I got, I can't stop this feeling I got
I can't stop this feeling I got
can't stop this feeling I got, can't stop this feeling I got
can't stop. try 2 tell me how 2 paint my palace,
I, I, I can't stop. can't stop.
Yeah. Only we can change the world
1, 2, 1, 2, 3
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© 1990 Controversy Music - ASCAP
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
Lay down your funky weapon, come join us on the floor
Pardon me 4 thinking, but there's something under my hair
Lay down your funky weapon, come join us on the floor
We R the new, We R the new, We R the new,
Pardon us for caring, we didn't know it was against the rules (shout
it out)
Lay down your funky weapon, come join us on the floor
[chorus repeated with this sung over it]
New power generation, you've got to rearrange. We've got
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© 1990 Controversy Music - ASCAP
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.
Who's crib is this? My crib.
(yeah) release it.
Oh stella, I know U came alone
Jerome? Yo.
Who's beat is this? My beat.
Over and over and over and over and over and over
Release it. Man, let them drums kick.
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© 1990 Controversy Music / Ya D Sir Music / Michael Anthony Music - ASCAP
So what is the answer 2 the question of U
what do I look 4, what shall I do? Which way do I turn when I'm feeling lost? if I sell my soul, now what will it cost? Must I become naked? No image at all? Shall I remain upright? Or get down and crawl? All of the questions in my life will be answered
U |
© 1990 Controversy Music - ASCAP
Boy is lonely on a burning hot summer night
he's looking 4 some action, he's looking 4 a fight he's looking 4 a saviour in a city full of fools maybe he just needs a good talker to give him a good talking 2. Can we talk baby? Strip down, strip down. I think I'm gonna fall in love tonight. Elephants and flowers, hot sweaty light paints a picture red and gold
love the one who is love, (love) the one who gives us the power, (power)
Elephants and flowers. Strip down. Think I'm gonna fall in love tonight.
Boy is lonely on a burning hot summer night
love the one who is love, (well) the one who gives us the power, (power)
love the one who is love, (love) the one who gives us the power, (power)
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© 1990 Controversy Music - ASCAP
Oh yeah
round and round and round round, round yeah, yeah, yeah, ooh yeah Can U tell me where we're going 2?
I say, nothing comes from dreamers but dreams
Can U tell me when we gonna get 2 it.
nothing comes from dreamers but dreams
1 day I'll make it in the big city
Round and Round.
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© 1990 Controversy Music - ASCAP
Jump 'em and funk 'em, pump 'em and funk 'em
We can funk I'm testing postive 4 the funk
I could tell U stories 'til U get tired.
I'm scared 'cause though we just met there's this energy between us,
I'm testing postive 4 the funk
Bump 'em and funk 'em, jump 'em and funk 'em,
Every time I could, I would compilment U on the things,
I could tell U things 2 get U excited, things U never heard
But I'm scared, 'cause if I don't kiss ya, I'm gonna go mad baby
I'm testing postive 4 the funk
Wait a minute. Let me turn on some lights. we can funk.
[verse echoed slightly off time]
See this gold chain around my waist
We be funkin' over here, and over there ain't shit
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© 1990 Controversy Music - ASCAP / Warner-Tamerlane Pub. Corp. / Exoskeletal
Music - BMI
{crowd noise same as for "Alphabet Street"}
He like to frequent this club down up on 36th
Talking 2 no one in particular, they say "the baddest I am tonight"
Should he try 2 rap with her? Should he stand and stare?
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© 1990 Controversy Music - ASCAP
Love machine, yeah. Hey, yeah.
I've got the toys, 2 turn your body out
Don't lie, U want some love that will make U cry
I've got the toys, 2 turn your body out
Love machine. Don't bathe.
I've got the toys, 2 turn your body out (think I don't)
Hey yeah, What time it is, love machine
Shall we say we're in Paris? (I don't know)
I've got the toys, 2 turn your body out
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© 1990 Controversy Music / Ya D Sir Music / Michael Anthony Music - ASCAP
Ooh, I can't hold it
Ow! Bang, b-b-bang, bang Bang. U, yeah.
U're such a bombshell,
U Ain't no cheap thrill,
U're such a bombshell
Ooh, I can't hold it. Ooh, it's getting all over me.
U're such a queen bee
U're such a bombshell
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© 1990 Controversy Music - ASCAP
Shake!
Hey, hey people what U come here 4?
Everybody shake.
Come on pretty baby now don't be shy.
Everybody shake. (Shake, shake, shake)
Lucy's standing there with the false hair on
That don't matter y'all, come on
Every-everybody.
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© 1990 Controversy Music / Ya D Sir Music - ASCAP
Love come quick
Love come in a hurry There are thieves in the temple tonight They don't care where they kick
Love if u're there come save me
Love come quick
I feel like I'm looking for my soul (Soul)
Voices from the sky say rely on your best friend to pull U through
Come on There are thieves in the temple tonight Kicking me in my heart, tearing me all apart
Baby don't U know I'm holding on
Better than the thieves in the temple
Oh, thieves in the temple (Tonight) tonight
Love come quick
Thieves in the temple U said U loved me! (Thieves in the temple)
Thieves in the temple tonight |
© 1990 Controversy Music - ASCAP
Fellas? Yeah! Hit Me!
R we ready? I do believe we R ready! What time is it? Yount! It's killing time, Morris! I know that's right, 'cause I am the latest fashion (Go Morris, Go Morris, Go Morris, Go Morris, Go Morris, Go Morris, Go Morris, yount, Go Morris, Go Morris, Go Morris, Go Morris, Go Morris, Go Morris, Go Morris, Go Morris) I know I said I loved U
people tell us what we want 2 hear
this year the latest fashion is 2 lie in the heat of passion
(Go Morris, go Morris, go Morris, go Morris, go Morris)
people tell me what I want to hear
{Go Morris chanted 16 times over}
this year the latest fashion is 2 lie in the heat of passion fellas? (yeah) hit me, but dontcha lag
I aint thru yet...band!
everybody wanna tell me how to play the game
(Go Morris go Morris go Morris)
this year the latest fashion is 2 lie in the heat of passion
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© 1990 Controversy Music - ASCAP
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)
When I was born there were tidal waves (Melody, Melody)
I have been here much longer, (Melody) longer than U (Melody)
well now, everybody runnin' 'round talkin' 'bout saving souls
(Melody...Melody...Melody) Go on, go on.
(Melody, Melody, Melody, Melody)
they call me Melody Cool (Melody, Melody, Melody) looka here young un
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© 1990 Controversy Music - ASCAP
It's just around the corner, it's just around the block
vthis love that I've been waiting for, a Love solid as rock A Love that reaffirms that we R not alone A Love so bright inside U it glows and night and day would run together, and all things would b fine still would stand all hate around us still would stand all time still would stand all time it's not a thousand years away, it's not that far my brother
(all time)
no one man will be ruler, therefore love must rule us all
Oh, love, Love, oh Love if U would just please give us a sign
we R not alone people (we're not alone)
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© 1990 Controversy Music - ASCAP
everybody wants 2 find Graffiti Bridge
something 2 believe in, a reason 2 believe that there's a heaven above everybody wants 2 find Graffiti Bridge everybody's looking 4 everybody's looking 4 everybody's looking 4 love everybody wants 2 find the perfect 1
the love of a boy, the love of a girl
everybody wants 2 find Graffiti Bridge
(Love is shining) (everybody wants 2 find Graffiti Bridge)
there is a future (a future worth fighting 4)
everybody wants 2 find Graffiti Bridge |
© 1990 Controversy Music - ASCAP
(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!
this here rap's about the true confession
U want me 2 what?? (shake!)
the New Power Generation has just taken control |
© 1990 Controversy Music - ASCAP
MC T on a hit and to make sure I don't miss,
kick the beat as this fool persists Step off me, get the hell off, well I'm riding
We got our own ideas!
Antogonistic action, it's just a fraction
We got our own ideas! (yeah, yeah)
Fuck it, you're tryin' to step on my tip, yeah {on top of a slow NPG chorus:}
Suckers are trying to step off on my tip
As I roast, U toast - can't stand the heat of the aftermath
What's up?
Brothers be jocking, freaks keep clocking
We got our own ideas!
trying to get to this
We got our own ideas! (yeah, yeah) |
© 1990 Controversy Music - ASCAP
New power
Let down your funky... Get off Get off baby What can a brother do when the clock keeps ticking U off
On the positive tip, I'm equipped with a whip
I will still be hip, when the words from your lip
On the positive tip, I'm equipped with a whip
uh, is this a dream?
On the positive tip, I'm equipped with a whip
Once I give her back to ya,
get off
What can a brother do when the clock keeps ticking U off
get, get, get off
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© 1990 Controversy Music - ASCAP
The girls of steel, like the way my body feels
they need to put their hands on but ooh it gets 'em gone thinkin' 'bout the way things might have been In another life, if U were my wife And I don't mean one, but the two of U every night (ooh) Lord knows I'll do my best
Love to the left of me, love to the right
The girls of soul, like the way my booty goes,
Lord knows I'll do my best
Love to the left of me, love to the right
I can't help it baby, it really gets me going
A notion of the ocean
Love Lord knows I'll do my best
Love to the left of me, love to the right
I can't help it baby, it really gets me going (love to the left of me)
The notion of the ocean (love to the left of me)
(love 2 the right
Party tonight (oh yeah)
Are there really angels?
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© 1990 Controversy Music - ASCAP
I'm holdin' on (I'm holdin' on) the best that I can
Love please, (let me be) let me be the better man Better than the ones that wanna count me out Better than the ones that don't know what my love's about I'm talkin' 'bout the kinda love that can move a mountain The kinda love that could part the sea The kinda love that'll last 4 ever (no matter what U say we should be together) U should be with me (thieves in the temple) Yeah, U should be with me I said I wanna know (talk to me)
How come U said that I was your baby
(Put it in)
Put your foot on the rock
Put your foot on the rock
Thieves in the temple
Who got the party, who got the party, who?
(hurt me) Thieves in the temple |
© 1990 Controversy Music - ASCAP