Rave un2 the joy fantastic

1999

Lyrics transcribed by www.raveun2thejoyfantastic.co.uk
Checked by The Warponian Lyric Team


Rave un2 the joy fantastic

World full o' lovers, city full o' good times - Rave!
Don't go undercover, I can get U out of yo mind - come on - Rave!
All you need is a good walk and a brand new position
Then we can spread the real soul, doin' it like a mission - Rave!
Rave un2 the joy fantastic - Rave!

Arrividerci cock poppy, that was hip yesterday - Rave!
Now thang hittin' where it feel good, what'd U say?
Tell me U'all: ain't that a bomb? mack daddy ain't got no gun
Everybody got a new thang, new fun - scandalous - Rave!
Ooh, U've got 2 - rave un2 the joy fantastic - Rave!
Everybody, rave un2 the joy fantastic - Rave!

Take a look inside ur mind
Sister got a sizzler on, ooh - know she 2 hot
Brutha playin' an apache scarf
Gaultier - stop!

If I had a dollar 4 every time they smiled
I'd sho nuff jump and holla
Cuz I'd sho nuff B rich for a while - Rave!
Everybody rave un2 the joy fantastic


© 1999 Emancipated Music - ASCAP


Undisputed

Once again I don't follow trends, they just follow me
Just like Israelites thru the red sea
It might take U some time but U'll want 2 C
The undisputed truth and get free

At the very core of thinking I originate
That's y U'll never know my thinking or my fate
Invisible - unless of course u r my mate
If not, U think U C me - I disintegrate
I disintegratemythoughtsfromyoursucanfeelmecuminouta
everyoneofyourporesreintegratingwhereIamunderstoodandadored

"U're just my subject - that's y U're outtatouch!"
What's this claim - outtawhat?...my dear, I am the touch!

I can give U power OR I can take it away
I can make U dance cuz this guitar I play
Heavy rotation never made my world go 'round
Commercialization of the music is what brought it down

My level is now what U must learn 2 rise above
Talk to D'Angelo or better yet - ?uestlove
It might take u some time but U will want 2 C
The undisputed truth and get free

Come 1 come all 2 the download ball
There's no curfew 2 hurt U - no substitutions
School's now in session
Put down the Smith & Wessons
Real renegades don't invite grenades 2 make the grade
This is a brain raid - who rise above the lies
Raise above these days
New ways disguised as a craze
Uh, gotcha back against the status they thrown at us
Back against the wall again - high trees catch a lot of wind
Last band standin'
Gotta knock 4 overstandin'
Accordin' 2 plan and look up in the sky
No cable wire
God bless the child


© 1999 Emancipated Music - ASCAP


The greatest romance ever sold

So what do you know, U and me finally face 2 face
Checkin' each other up and down
In all of the obvious places
Was there ever a reason 4 us 2 B apart?
The air that fills up this room says, "not hardly"
So this is where U end, and U and I begin...
The greatest romance that's ever been sold

Baby, baby
Now ur mind is open 2 poetry seldom heard
Ur heart has never been broken
Until U've heard these words:
"Ur body was designed 2 respond 2 mine
In spite of ur desire 2 mold me"
And in the middle of it all -
We kiss and like rain we fall in2
The greatest romance that's ever been sold

I know U can feel me, I know that U can dance
But what do you know about the greatest romance?
Not what U think, but what U believe
What was the real reason that Adam never left Eve?
And if the truth sounds like a memory
Then U know it was meant to B
Leave ur inhibitions behind come on, come on, and C
So this is where U end U and I begin...
The greatest romance that's ever been sold
The greatest romance that's ever been sold

I know U feel me, know that U can dance
But what do you know about the greatest romance?
Not what U think, but what U believe
Can u tell me the reason that Adam never left Eve?
The greatest romance that's ever been sold

Listen 2 me, U brought me
The grapes from the vine
Can I talk 2 U
They said U help me 2 remember the secrets of time
U, U, U, U offer me ur love
So divine
And in return, girl, in return I will surrender

The greatest romance that's ever been sold


© 1999 Emancipated Music - ASCAP


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Miles Davis - 199?


© 1999 Emancipated Music - ASCAP


Hot with U

I wanna get hot with U
Get U underneath the cream and ooh
Get U doin' thangs U thought U'd never do
Make U suck your tongue and say "ooh"
I wanna get hot wit U
Take U upstairs 2 the 14th room
Multicolored lights and an ocean view
Ooh, I wanna get hot wit U

I want 2 get hot wit U
Wanna get U underneath the cream
And do the marshmallow
Ooh, I wanna get hot wit U
I wanna get U to do something
U thought U'd never do
Like dance in front of my headlights
On a hot summer night ... nude
I wanna get hot wit U

I wanna get hot wit U
Get U underneath the cream and ooh
Get U doin' thangs U thought U'd never do
Make U suck your tongue and say "ooh"
I wanna get hot wit U
Take U upstairs 2 the 14th room
Multicolored lights and an ocean view
Ooh, I wanna get hot wit U

I wanna get hot wit U
Make U climb this chain around my waist
So I can prove that I'm the only one that brings out
The freak in U ... I wanna get hot wit U

I wanna get hot with U
I wanna get hot with U
Know the body bangin', got me singin'
No shouts from the neighbours, telephone ringin'
Put me in positions thought I'd never do proper
Created a machine, now U know U can't stop her
Tryin' to turn me on - I never had this, so stop this
I'm supposed 2 tremble cuz they call U 'the Artist'?
Let's wild out - can U handle ruff ridin'?
Treat U like a freak of the week and had U hidin' from me
I do whatever U like, if U could take it
If I could be ur girlfriend, U could catch me naked
Can't front sexually, I'd like a sample
But I don't think I'm ready 4 U 2 make me an example
I mean - come on - y front on
I'd never place time - queen of ur life


Meet me early mornin' in a 4th dimension plane
Astral travellin' hottie, I know U know my game
Underneath the cream I'll meet U
And then we'll rearrange everything U know of love
I'll give U reason 2 change

I wanna get hot wit U
I wanna steal a kiss in the middle of
An overcrowded room, yeah that's what I wanna do
I wanna get hot wit U

Take a drive to the ocean
And drown U in a wave of 100,000 compliments, boo
And the only way 2 do that is every night - get hot wit U
Yea baby


© 1999 Emancipated Music - ASCAP


Tangerine

Some days I feel tangerine
Some days I feel blue
Some days I just wanna black out
Everything I felt for U
Even tho I take ur picture
Everywhere I go
I use it as a coaster and drink the overflow

Some days I make a lot of money
And give it all away
2 take my mind off the tangerine colour
Of ur negligee
Beggars can't B choosy
If they don't know how 2 serve
U got a different phone number
...and a lot of nerve

Some days I feel tangerine
Some days I miss U, 2


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So far, so pleased

So far, so pleased
I like the way U touch me
I like the way U tease
No car, no keys
I had 2 get us stranded
If U know what I mean
Big scar on my knee
Beggin' 4 a kiss is
Such a dull routine
Still I'm so far, so pleased

So far, so fine
I find another beauty mark
With every glass of red wine
So fast the time
Everytime I have to go, I go and lose my mind
It's hard, okay
That's what happens when a boy and girl
Don't get 2 play
So far, so pleased

So far, so pleased
I like the way U touch me
I like the way U tease
No car, no keys
I could spend the night and leave at 10:15
So far, so pleased


© 1994 Emancipated Music - ASCAP


The sun, the moon and stars

It's late and I'm runnin' out of clever things 2 say
The kind that will bring a girl like U to tears
There's only one more glass of this rose
Let's throw it on the fire with R past
And dance the night away until...

The sun, the moon and stars
Don't seem as far as they did yesterday
The sun, the moon and stars
In love we R - 4ever, always

It's late and I think it's 'bout time 4 U and me 2 get closer
...closer than we ever did B4
Whenever there's a tide U can let it ride inside your interior
Lay back, relax upon my shore
Ooh baby, I wanna make love 2 U right here
1 inside the other one - no fear, we're here until...

The sun, the moon and stars
Don't seem as far as they did yesterday
The sun, the moon and stars
In love we R - 4ever, always

Blow out this candle sunlight
And come lay down next 2 me
And paint another rainbow
Eclipse the light with xtasy


© 1999 Emancipated Music - ASCAP


Everyday is a winding road

I hitched a ride with a Crazyhorse showgirl
She says she's been down this road more than twice
She wanted 2 know if I could tell the future
I said, "I've never been there before, but the brochure looks nice"

Jump in, let's go
Lay back, enjoy the show
Everybody gets high, everybody gets low
These R the days when anything goes
Everyday is a winding road
I get a little bit closer
Everyday is a faded sign
I get a little bit closer to feeling fine

She's got a daughter she calls Easter
She was born on a Tuesday night
I'm just wondering y people feel so all alone
Feelin' like a stranger in their own life

I've been swimmin' in a sea of anarchy
I've been living on compliments and herbal tea
I've been wondering if all the things I've seen
Were ever real... were ever really happening

Everyday is a winding road
I get a little bit closer
Everyday is a faded sign
I get a little bit closer to feeling fine


© 1996 Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. / Old Crow Music - BMI


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Strings per4med by the NPG Orchestra


© 1999 Emancipated Music - ASCAP


Man 'O' war

Y U screaming?
U know I'm not a man 'O' war
Break the gold chain that I gave U
Throw it down on the floor!
Instead of this 7 page letter
I wish I had piece of mind
My friends tell me: 'U should go get her'
But lovin' U is a waste of time

I need 2 get out of this city
I need 2 get U out of my head
I need 2 get away from the words that U said 2 me

Y U screaming?
U know I'm not a man 'O'war
How could U think that I
Could put something inside of someone
That I put inside of U?
Even if I tried 2
I couldn't cuz I still smell like the last time that we...
Lovin' U, lovin' U, lovin' U
Is a waste of time

I need 2 feel wanted again
I need 2 feel love is alive
I need 2 hear U say that U ain't
Lookin' 4 another reason 2 make me cry

Y U screaming?
U know I'm not a man 'O' war
I've been tryin' 2 make U happy, baby
Ever since we were sophomores
But lovin' U is a waste of time

And if there's no future
Then there is no past
And all we've got is right now
Let's make it last
Make it last

U know I'm not a man 'O' war


© 1999 Emancipated Music - ASCAP


Baby knows

Baby knows this funky joint in the city
Where the freaks come out 2 play
Venezuelan, black and pretty
The kind that make U wanna pay

She got the long dark legs
She got the butt that go round
This kind of poochie make U beg
Turn a dog in2 a hound

She tell me what I wanna hear
She stroke me up and never down
Whisperin' sexiness in my ear
I'm just a junkie 4 the sound

She make U call ur boys in a pow-wow
2 scope a plan
How 2 ditch her man in a trunk of a lexus
A perplexin' hex this witch has flexed

She knows how to make U feel
Like ur stuff ain't brown 2nite
And her perfume... it smells like the weekend!

Baby knows this funky joint way down in the city
Where the girls sing along 2 the hip-hop all nite long
White girls, black girls, latinas - oh so pretty
Won't make me give U this ring, baby!
Baby knows


© 1999 Emancipated Music - ASCAP


I love U, but I don't trust U anymore

I could tell from the moment U walked in the room
That it wasn't your dress U had on
That wasn't ur perfume
And what happened 2 the ring that I gave U?
What am I 2 assume?
I love U, but I just don't trust U anymore

U could tell from the moment U looked in my eyes
That I could C right through U
U must apologise
I've always given U the best in life
Even in the wrong, I was right
I know U trust me, but U don't love me anymore

I remember meeting U here in the good ol' days
I would never pick the flower of my favourite protegé
Maybe if I would have
Then U would not treat me this way
U tricked me - but u will not anymore
I love you, but I don't trust you anymore


© 1999 Emancipated Music - ASCAP


Silly game

I never thought U would B the one that I'd wanna run 2
I never thought U would B the one that would make me care
And even tho u done me wrong
4 some strange reason I can't xplain
I get happy knowin' U phoned
Cuz ur voice could kill my every pain
Y do we play this silly game?

I never thought u would b the one that I'd wanna give 2
A diamond ring, anything that U ask me 2
But there U were, braggin' 2 ur friends
Makin' up a story that's so lame
That I was down 2 B ur sugardaddy
One way ticket to ghetto fame
Y do we play this silly game?

Every other night U weren't at home
Out in the streets, just acting grown
Never with a bodyguard or chaperone
Then I hear a rumour that breaks my heart
Instead of takin' care of urself, U're tearing urself apart
Now y U wanna go and do that, love?

Y do we play this silly game?

I never thought U would B the one that I'd wanna run 2
I never thought U'd be the one that would make me care
No matter how far I run, I'll never B the same
In the end, there's only us 2 blame
Y do we play this
Y do we play this silly
Y do we play this silly game?


© 1999 Emancipated Music - ASCAP


Strange but true

Okay, let me say this quick - B4 I start 2 cry
U're the only one that I gave it 2, the one I fantasised 4
And time away from U has taught me
What I should have known
That this hole I'm trying 2 fill with another - yeah, it's grown
And I got ur package
But when I tried 2 write back I bailed
C, trying 2 xpress the future, sometimes language fails
And over this time I've learned
My life force is increased by knowing U
Every door that closes, another one opens
Strange but true

No regrets bcuz I 4get the unfamiliar faces
Those petty lies and alibis, just golddiggas chasin'
Dreams of sovereignty, they tried to come between u and me
A curse therein set 4th a chain of events
That only freed me when I remembered
Where I was and who I am
The only Prince that will ever rule this holy land
All understand and all standunder this affirmation now:
By the power invested in me by God...
ALL NEGATIVITY BOWS
Strange but true, let's c what u can do

U may have lost me, but I found myself
The ones who love me without condition - this is my wealth
And with these words I will win
Repeat them over and over again:
All understand and all standunder this affirmation now:
By the power invested in me by God...
ALL NEGATIVITY BOWS

Strange but true


© 1999 Emancipation Music - ASCAP


Wherever U go, whatever U do

Wherever u go, whatever u do
Please remember that I'll always B there 4 U
U don't have 2 call, U don't have 2 say
Just think about me and I'll b on my way
I don't have 2 worry, I'm sure U'll b fine
Cuz if U stay happy, then what's ur's is mine
Wherever U go, whatever U do
Please, remember that I'll always be there 4 U

Wherever U R, think of ur dreams
Please remember life ain't always what it seems
4 each rainy day that comes ur way
The sun will come shining, and U'll be okay
Keep on smilin' - every girl and boy
Remember when U were children U had toys
Wherever U R, think of ur dreams
Remember dreams become the life U lead

Whatever U play, it's okay 2 lose sometimes
As long as U learn from every game U choose
If one thing is sure, U'll always endure
If U try ur best at everything U do
Say what U mean and mean what U say
The price 4 a broken heart is 2 much 2 pay
And nothing is worth it if U don't have 2 try
The higher the stakes - the higher the sky

Wherever U go, whatever U do
Please remember I'll always be there 4 U


© 1999 Emancipated Music - ASCAP


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