Lauryn Hill other songs:

 

All My Time lyrics - Lauryn Hill (feat. Paid Alive)

[Lauryn Singing]

You can't run away...gonna find you

and take it slowly

You can't run away...gonna find you

and make you want me

[Chorus]

All my time it could be spent with you

So what you gonna do?

Make sure your game is true

See all my time it could be spent with you

So what you gonna do?

Make sure your game is true

[Rapping]

Well could it be that through these Cartiers I swear

their stares a specimen smooth as Sidney Poitier

Clean cut & dapper seems he's straight & narrow

Tingle in the bone marrow ???

but I ain't that aggressive instead I act suggestive

bat my eyelashes make smooth & subtle passes

timed perfectly with the classic under my dark glasses

(he must have put a spell on my mind) [sung overlapping]

amountin' all the words to do magic

with all due respect he approached it

and offered the roach clip as I respectfully declined to smoke it

(Nah nah I don't I don't do that) [spoken]

Broken the ice his demeanor was nice

he tried to freak it to my mental

(Ay yo it wasn't accidental)

Yo his talk was slick my resume is kinda thick

(So let's blow this scene girl and check this flick)

and show me why ?Paid alive? ain't ya average click

Recognize Paid Alive about to lock this shit

[Chorus]

Yeah yeah I know you got a car

but we should keep it in the lot

I got a urge to ride the train

let's do some walkin' in the rain

it sounds insane but meditative for the brain

plus I'd like to get to see if you as crazy as you claim.

[Paid Alive]

?? like Iceberg Slim in Donald Gowens

uncut it's all raw dog hit me off

Paid Alive baby girl on sand this connection

be hit through your burrow territorial section

True I come correct in all mine & denim

truck trues top kid really wear linens

No question I'll show you affection

as I proceed to lead ya direction

[Lauryn: rapping]

Well these procedures that you agreed to

I'm gonna need to know a little more

about ya self & family [License]

well who's paid and who's live?

Where you live what you drive?

Ever did a homicide?

[I hope not] let our molecules collide

In time we'll tell if you can indoor with L

if you tryin to knock it down then I'm not that type of girl

my mind's a pearl and I done been around the world

but if you righteous I might just let you spend the night and...

[Chorus]

[Lauren: sung parts]

(See all my tiiiime)...OK that's right what?

Nah ain't nobody about wastin' my time

Like (ye yeah ye yeah ye yeah ye yeah ye yeah ye yeah)

Show me why Paid Alive ain't ya average click

(See all my time...)

[ad libs]

Black Rage lyrics - Lauryn Hill

Black rage is founded on two-thirds a person

Raping and beatings and suffering that worsens

Black human packages tied up in strings

Black rage can come from all these kinds of things.

Black rage is founded on blatant denial,

sweet economics, subsistent survival,

deafening silence and social control,

black rage is found in all forms in the soul,

When the dog bites, when the bee stings, when I’m feeling sad,

I simply remember all these kinds of things, and then I don’t fear so bad

Black rage is founded who fed us self hatred

Lies and abuse while we waited and waited

Spiritual treason

This grid and it's cages

Black rage was founded on these kinds of things

Black rage is founded on dreaming and draining

Threatening your freedom

To stop your complaining

Poisoning your water

While they say it's raining

Then call you mad

For complaining, complaining

Old time bureaucracy

Drugging the youth

Black rage is founded on blocking the truth

Murder and crime

Compromise and distortion

Sacrifice, sacrifice

Who makes this fortune?

Greed, falsely called progress

Such human contortion

Black rage is founded on these kinds of things

So when the dog bites

And the bee stings

And I'm feeling mad

I simply remember all these kinds of things

And then I don't fear so bad

Free enterprise

Is it myth or illusion

Forcing you back into purposed confusion

Black human trafficking

Or blood transfusion

Black rage is founded on these kinds of things

Victims of violence

Both psyche and body

Life out of context IS living ungodly

Politics, politics

Greed falsely called wealth

Black rage is founded on denying of self

Black human packages

Tied and subsistence

Having to justify your very existence

Try if you must

But you can't have my soul

Black rage is founded on ungodly control

So when the dog bites

And the beatings

And I'm feeling so sad

I simply remember all these kinds of things

And then I don't feel so bad

Black Woman lyrics - Fatoumata Diawara & Lauryn Hill

(from "The Harder They Fall" soundtrack)

[Fatoumata Diawara:]

Woman cry, give life

Mother Mary and baby the burden she carry all time

Woman cry, when give us life

And she beg He forgive us, the sin and dem sinners all time, whoa

Foreign man take me from land

Banished my name, I survive all the same

Nuff commotion, way across ocean

Through whip and chain, I survive all the same

So dem a go make war before we free

Why dem a go make war before we free?

So dem a go make war before we free

Why dem a go make war before we free?

Tie my neck, ship, it don't wreck

Bind me to tree, I survive, they will see, ah

Whip they crack, scar me 'pon back

So we gon' see who survive make us free

So dem a go make war before we free

Why dem a go make war before we free?

So dem a go make war before we free

Why dem a go make war before we free?

[Lauryn Hill:]

Follow, follow, people, they know they follow

People, they know they copy, people all in my grotto

They see me like a genie, try to keep me in a bottle

Petty, petty people, keep them incommunicado

They tie you up in strings, they play niggas like pizzicato

Lose sight of the picture scripture, now they not so steady

Meanwhile I'm like Curtis Mayfield, getting people ready

See into the future then cut through like a machete

Or cutlass, all these trappings leavin' nigga gutless

You can't make moves for justice, you can't make no adjustments

Drowning in corruption, Charlie addict to convenience

Now they got you caught up and callin' freedom extremists

We're not in agreement, I won't lay down politely

I closed my mouth for years and they still tried to fight me

I sat down on the sidelines and they still tried to bite me

they buried my career and promoted my peers to spite me

But they can't tell me nothing Charlie, they don't underwrite me

I've had a lot of money thrown at me, none of that shit excites me

It's just another kind of case to get up in my psyche

To use me as an instrument to further push their puppet show

But I'm not inexperienced and this not my first rodeo

I'm not so shallow Charlie, I call it too precisely

Separate bone from marrow, so much soul that they dislike me

Intuitives (Intuitives) Charlie, we be like fugitives (Fugitives)

Until the universe responds to show them who the student is

Woman cry (Woman cry) gives life (Gives us life)

Mother Mary and baby the burden she carries all time (Burden she carries)

Woman cry (Woman cry) gives us life (Gives us life)

And she beg He forgive us, the sin and the sinners all time (Begs He forgives us)

[Fatoumata Diawara:]

So dem a go make war before we free

Why dem a go make war before we free?

So dem a go make war before we free

Why dem a go make war before we free?

Coming Home lyrics - Pusha T & Ms. Lauryn Hill

[Pusha T:]

Uh, ah, fuck it, we all poor

Even if you got money, still lookin' for more

Why am I buyin' Rollies? I got 20 for sure

Still connect with you, it's still hid in the drawer

With no Js on, I'm still lookin' to score

You see they gave us crack, then started wagin' a war

Uh, all these lies, they steady tellin' me

Before Obama, we had Eric B. (Woo)

Or Tony Lewis out in D.C

The '80s kingpins, gotta free them

All these faces, they ain't believe in

If no child's left, then how can we leave them?

[Lauryn Hill:]

When love is gone, you hold onto anything

Some do wrong, just to feel anything

But when the void is filled, you stand up to anything

When love is real, you can do anything

(You can do anything)

[Pusha T:]

Uh, I do it for my big Benz drivers (Drivers)

For my street-corner survivors (Survivors)

For my niggas that miss The Wire (Woo)

And throwback mamis, that won't retire

Reminiscin' on the days

When the trips was Cancún and the bottles got sprayed

You can't relate 'cause you wasn't there

Nah, you wasn't hot, let me make it clear

Y'all was breakin' into cars, we was breakin' bad

When y'all was fightin' dogs, we was racin' Jags

This the life for the fast

Ain't no future, ain't no past, we won't worry 'bout the crash, uh

Now it's jail poses and club pictures

Airbrush backdrops and jail visits

This the dope boy song for the dope boys gone

Let 'em know it's still snowin'

[Lauryn Hill:]

When love's withdrawn, you hold onto anything

(You hold onto anything)

Some do wrong, they have to do anything

(They have to do anything)

But when the void is filled, you stand up to anything

(You stand up to anything)

When love is real (When love is real)

You can do anything (You can do anything)

[Pusha T:]

I'm speakin' to the soul of my black native bros

Who ain't get to go to school like a J. Cole

Who ain't have a silver spoon or a bankroll

Who weren't taught the golden rule, but they made do

Free lunches and apple juices, uh

Food stamps, ashamed to use 'em

You ever lived with the user?

Shared a bed with abusers, that's the worst way to lose 'em

[Lauryn Hill:]

New plan, but it's a new day

Black people past their due date

Settin' the captives free in a new way

I'm coming home, I'm coming home, I'm coming home

I'm coming home, I'm coming home, I'm coming home

It's a new day, black people past their due date

Settin' the captives free, in a new way

Said it's not over, it's not over

Yes, it's just started, it's just started

When love is strong, you can do anything

Things go wrong, but you'll stand up to anything

(But you'll stand up to anything)

'Cause when the void is filled, you can do anything

(When the void is filled)

When the love is real, you can do anything

Ex-Factor (A Simlpe Mix) lyrics - Lauryn Hill

[Lauryn Hill]

Y-yo.. [echoes], y-yo.. uhh

Y-yo.. [echoes], y-yo.. uhh

Y-y-yo.., yo, y-yo..

Y-y-yo.. [echoes]

Y-yo..

uhh, y-yo..

Uh-uh..

Y-y-yo..

It could all be simple but you'd rather make it hard

Loving you is like a battle we both end up scarred

Tell me who I have to be to get some reciprocity

No one loves you more than me and no one ever will

Is this just a silly game that forces you to act this way

Forces you to scream my name, then pretend, that you can't stay

Tell me who I have to be to get some reciprocity

No one loves you more than me and no one ever will

[Lauryn harmonizes]

[Chorus: Lauryn]

No matter how I think we grow

You always seem to let me know

It ain't workin, it ain't workin, uhh

And when I try to walk away

You'd hurt yourself to make me stay

This is crazy, this is crazy..

[Lauryn Hill]

I keep letting you back in, how can I explain myself?

As crazy as this thing has been, I just can't be with no one else

I know what we've got to do, you let go I'll let go too

No one's hurt me more than you and no one ever will

[Lauryn: rapping]

Yo, y-yo, yo yo

I'm here now, not just because it's my year now

I'm clear now, only feelin cats that's sincere now

Heart of lioness, scientist, street Zionist

Don't twist it, it's consistantly consistent

If you missed it, this train is bound for glory

End of story, my whole repoitory is Psalm 40

They bomb for me

Thinkin they can mess with your plan, but I'ma play lamb

Knowin that the Kingdom's at hand, and showin those who want it

you gon' bring em the land, descendants of Ham

Not concerned with the platinum status

Cause every joint I threw, I would do for gratis

I'm on the train with my Pips like I'm lil Gladys

or in the Range throwin chips to the kids in Addis (Ethiopia)

Abbaba, two kids and and a baby father

Hot to lava, we Don Dadda, Don Dadda

[Chorus: Lauryn]

No matter how I think we grow

You always seem to let me know

It ain't workin, it ain't workin

And when I try to walk away

You'd hurt yourself to make me stay

This is crazy, this is crazy..

[Lauryn Hill]

Care for me, care for me, I know you care for me

There for me, there for me, said you'd be there for me

Cry for me, cry for me, you said you'd die for me!

Give to me, give to me..

Care for me, care for me, you said you'd care for me

There for me, there for me, said you'd be there for me

Cry for me, cry for me, you said you'd die for me!

Give to me, give to me, why won't you live for me?

Ohh noo.. why won't you live for me?

Why..hahhhihhhhhh, won't you live, for me, for me, for meeee

Care for me, care for me, I know you care for me

There for me, there for me, said you'd be there for me

Cry for me, cry for me, you said you'd die for me!

Give to meeeeeee..

Give to meeeeeee..

It could all be simple, but you'd rather make it harrrrrd..

Loving you, loving you, is like a bat-tle..

Hmmmhmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Give to meeee.. care for meeee..

Give to meeee.. care for meeeeeee..

Care for meeee.

Feeling Good lyrics - Lauryn Hill

(originally by Nina Simone)

Birds flying high, you know how I feel

Sun in the sky, you know how I feel

Breeze drifting on by, you know how I feel

It's a new dawn, it's a new day

It's a new life for me, yeah

It's a new dawn, it's a new day

It's a new life for me

And I'm feeling good

Fish in the sea, you know how I feel

River running free, you know how I feel

Blossom on the tree, you know how I feel

It's a new dawn, it's a new day

It's a new life for me

And I'm feeling good

Dragonfly out in the sun, you know what I mean

Don't ya know

Butterflies having fun, you know what I mean

Sleep in peace when day is done, that's what I mean

And this cold world is a new world

And a bold world for me

Stars when they shine, you know how I feel

Scent of a pine, you know how I feel

Oh, freedom is mine and I know how I feel

It's a new dawn, it's a new day

It's a new life for me

[Scatting]

I'm feeling good

Guarding The Gates lyrics - Lauryn Hill

(from "Queen & Slim" soundtrack)

Everybody, everybody wants to know

Where you going to

What you running from

What you going through

Where you coming from

What you going through

Where you coming from

Everybody, everybody wants to know

What you gonna do

Where you going to

'Cause they wanna come

Where I'm showing you

Yes, they wanna come

Where I'm showing you

All that you could be is a spectacle

Following after every single miracle

Watch them marvel at

All the joy you have

But they're too important to have all the joy you have

What a tragedy, you can laugh at me, you can laugh at me

But I'm in love

Yes, I'm in love

Don't you wish you had real love

Yes, I'm in love

Tryna fix myself for society

Tryna mix myself for society

But can you tell me where is love in anxiety?

Can you tell me where is love in anxiety?

What you say to me

I don't mind at all

What you say to me

I don't really care at all

'Cause I'm in love

Don't you wish you had real love?

I know you do

Yes, I'm in love

Watch them speculate

All the life you live

Watch them try to hate

All the love you give

All the love you give

Everybody, everybody wants to know

Where you going to

'Cause they wanna come

Or so they think, until they find the cost of it

Till they found out, found out what you lost for it

And I'll do it all again

'Cause I found love

'Cause I found love

Don't you wish you had real love?

I know you do

Yes, I'm in love

Everybody, everybody wants to know

Where you going to

What you running from

What you going through

Where you coming from

What you going through

Where you're coming from

Everybody, everybody wants to know

What you gonna do

Where you going to

'Cause they wanna come

Where I'm showing you

Yes, they wanna come

Where I'm showing you

All that you could be is a spectacle

Following after every single miracle

Watch them marvel at

All the joy you have

But they're too important to have all the joy you have

What a tragedy, you can laugh at me, you can laugh at me

But I'm in love

Yes, I'm in love

Don't you wish you had real love?

I know you do

Yes, I'm in love

So what you say to me, I don't even mind at all

What you say to me, I don't even care at all

'Cause I'm in love

Don't you wish you had real love?

I know you do

Don't you wish you had real love?

These broken thoughts in my mind

Can't let them get down in there

Can't let them get down in there

These broken thoughts in my mind

Can't let them get down in there

Can't let them get down in there

'Cause I need real love

I need real love

I'm guarding, guarding the gates

Oh, I'm guarding my gates

His Eye Is On The Sparrow lyrics - Lauryn Hill (feat. Tanya Blount)

(from "Sister Act 2: Back In The Habit" Soundtrack)

[Tanya Blount:]

Why should I feel discouraged

Why should the shadows come

Why should my heart feel lonely

And long for heaven and home

When Jesus is my portion

A constant friend is he

His eye is on the sparrow

And I know he watches over me

His eye is on the sparrow

And I know he watches me

[Lauryn Hill:]

I sing because I'm happy

I sing because I'm free

His eye is on the sparrow

And I know he watches me

[Tanya:] He watches me

[Lauryn:] His eye is on the sparrow

And I know he watches

[Tanya:] I know he watches

[Lauryn:] I know he watches me

[Lauryn and Tanya:]

I sing because I'm happy

I sing because I'm free

His eye is on the sparrow

[Lauryn:] And I know he watches me

[Tanya:] He watches me

[Lauryn and Tanya:] His eye is on the sparrow

[Tanya:] And I know he watches me

[Lauryn:] He watches me

[Tanya:] He watches me, I know

[Lauryn and Tanya:] He watches me

Joyful, Joyful lyrics - Lauryn Hill (feat. St. Francis Choir)

(from "Sister Act 2: Back In The Habit" Soundtrack)

Joyful, joyful

Lord we adore Thee

God of Glory, Lord of Love

Hearts unfold like flowers before Thee

Hail Thee as the sun above

Melt the clouds of sin and sadness

Drive the dark of doubt away

Giver of immortal gladness

Fill us with the light

Fill us with the light

Oh, fill us with the light of day

Joyful, joyful

Lord we adore Thee

God of Glory, Lord of Love

Hearts unfold like flowers before Thee

Clearly as the sun above

Melt the clouds of sin, sin and sadness

Drive the dark of doubt away

Drive it away

Giver of immortal gladness

Fill us

Fill us with the light of day

Light of day

Check the rhyme

What's up?

Joyful, joyful

Lord we adore Thee

And in my life I put none before Thee

Since I was a youngster I came to know

That you were the only way to go

So I had to grow and I come to an understanding

And I'm down with the King

So now I'm demanding

That you tell me "Who you down with?" see

All I know is that I'm down with G.O.D.

You down with G.O.D.?

Yeah, you know me

You down with G.O.D.?

Yeah, you know me

You down with G.O.D.?

Yeah, you know me

Who's down with G.O.D.?

Everybody

Come and join the chorus

The mighty, mighty chorus

Which the morning stars began

The Father of Love is reigning over us

By the way!

What have you done for Him lately

What have you done for Him lately

He watches over everything

So we sing!

Joyful, joyful

Lord we adore Thee

God of Glory, Lord of Love

Hearts unfold like flowers before Thee

Hail Thee as the sun above

Melt the clouds of sin and sadness

Drive the dark of doubt away

Giver of immortal gladness

Fill us with the light

Fill us with the light

Oh, fill us with the light of day

Fill us (Fill us with the light of day Lord, oh fill

Us)

Fill us (Oh we need you yes we do, ooh fill us)

Fill us

Fill us (With the light of day Lord)

Fill us (Fill us as we pray, Lord)

Fill us (With the light of day Lord)

Fill us (We need you, we need you to pray, we need

You, need you today)

Fill us (We need you I'm gonna say)

Fill us (Fill us, fill us, fill us, fill us!)

Fill us

Fill us with the light of day

Light of day!

Keep It Tight lyrics - Lauryn Hill

[(Lauryn "L-Boogie" Hill)]

Yo... (Can I see you?)

Lauryn Hill on the track... (In the morning)

New art got my back...

DJ Skribble just relax, haha! I'm a get you the joint! haha! (Can I see

you?)

Yeah...morning (In the morning!)

Uh Huh, Uh Huh, Uh Huh, Uh Huh, Uh Huh, Uh Huh!

[Lauryn]

As I span the cosmos (The cosmos)

Mahogany travel at the speed of sound (Sound)

Span the mainstream but still esteemed underground (Unh!)

My parameters, and wrap up contaminants

Travel twice Earth's diameter, intimidating amateurs (Intimidating...what?!)

At the Apollo, I played the shepherd sheep followed (Sheep followed)

Chicks try to model after me like I'm Tyra (Like I'm Tyra) [Pause] Banks

(Banks!)

Wanna thank me because my statements are prodigious (...digious)

Styles so prestigious, make a sinner act religious (Act religiouus)

Street academics, seen alot of girls mimic (Huh)

But when it's all over you can tell who's the gimmick (You can tell!)

L slang-bangs (Slang-bang!) like a dub plate (Bing!)

Jericho Sound System, mash up your club dates! (Mash up your...)

Sweeter than a cherry on a fruit cocktail

Whenever, Wherever, Whatever (Whenever, Wherever, Whatever! - Singing)

Like Maxwell (Unh)

My pentium, makes more chips than Intel (Intel)

I didn't mean to turn you on (I didn't mean to turn you on!)

Like Sherell! ( Uh Huh)

Kids move they body like they're tripping off of acid, Anthony

Not even fantasy can surpass it (Unh, unh!)

Once you blast it one starts to feel kinky

I think thee, goes by the name of Young Slinky

And just when you thought it was safe to relax (Safe to relax!)

L-Boogie spits with perfect syntax! ( Perfect syntax!)

Then, DJ Skribble make you dribble on the wax (What?)...

DJ Skribble make you dribble on the wax!

[Chorus: Lauryn Singing]

Can I hear you in the morning, (Can I see you?)

like I hear you late at night?

Chance to hear you (In the morning)

Amp the party

DJ Skribble Keep It Tight!

(Can I see you?)

Just a short time in the morning

Like I hear you late at night (In the morning!)

Chance to hear you

Amp the party

DJ Skribble Keep It Tight!

Can I hear you in the morning (Can I see you?)

Like I hear you late at night (In the morning!)

Chance to hear you

Amp the party

DJ Skribble, KEEP IT TIGHT!!! [Forte'] (L-Boogie!) [x3] (Keep It Tight!)

Keep It Tight! (Keep It Tight)

Keep It Tight [echo]

Lose Myself lyrics - Lauryn Hill

I Used To Do It For The Love A Long Time Ago

And All I Ever Wanted Was Love

I Used To Love Without Fear A Long Time Ago

And All I Ever Wanted Was Love

Then Somebody Came Around And Tried To Hurt Me

Tried To Make Me Feel Like I Was Unworthy

Took Pure Love And Tried To Make You Dirty

Truth Was, That He Never Did Deserve Me No

I Had To Lose Myself

So I Can Love You Better

I Had To Lose Myself

I Had To Lose Myself

So I Can Love You Better

I Had To Lose Myself

I Had To Lose Myself

So I Can Love You Better

Lose Myself In Love

And That's Just The Way It Is

You Couldn't Tell Me I Was Love When I Needed It

When All I Ever Wanted Was Love

Should've Told Me Just Because You Were The Receiving End

But All I Ever Wanted Was Love

There's Something … About The … It Takes To

Give Love And The Good That It Makes You

True Love Can Never Really Forsake You

But It Took A Little While Just For Me To See

I Had To Lose Myself

So I Can Love You Better

I Had To Lose Myself

I Had To Lose Myself

So I Can Love You Better

Lose Myself In Love

And That's Just The Way It Is

I Had A Paralogic Fear Of Facing Failure

And I Couldn't Love You Perfectly With Fear In My Head

So I Perilously Had To Face The Danger

So I Could Come Back And Love You Whole Instead

I Love You …

So I Can Love You Better

I Had To Lose Myself

I Had To Lose Myself

So I Can Love You Better

I Had To Lose Myself

I Had To Lose Myself

So I Can Make It Better

Lose Myself In Love

And That's Just The Way It Is

And So It Goes That I Never Meant To Hurt You

Couldn't Stay But I Never Meant To Desert You

Whole Lot Of Things That I Just Had To Work Through

Time To Heal And Restore Myself …

Confrontation Of My Fears And Anxiety

Cried A Whole Lot Of Years I Suffered Quietly

I Know It May Have Taken Years, I Can Finally

Tell You That You Were Always On My Mind

I Had To Lose Myself

So I Can Make It Better

I Had To Lose Myself

I Had To Lose Myself

So I Can Make It Better

I Had To Lose Myself

I Had To Lose Myself

So I Can Make It Better

Lose Myself In Love

And That Was Just The Way It Is

It Takes Strength To Absorb All The Abuse I Did

Greater Love To Absorb All Of The Abuse I Did

Hey Baby Its Not An Excuse I Did

And I'd Do It All Again Because For You I Live

It Takes Strength To Absorb All The Abuse I Did

Greater Love To Absorb All Of The Abuse I Did

Hey Baby Its Not An Excuse I Did

And I'd Do It All Again Because For You I Live

I Had To Lose Myself

So I Can Make It Better

I Had To Lose Myself

I Had To Lose Myself

So I Can Make It Better

I Had To Lose Myself

I Had To Lose Myself

So I Can Make It Better

I Had To Lose Myself

I Had To Lose Myself

So I Can Make It Better

Lose Myself In Love

And That Was Just The Way

And That Was Just The Way It Is

Repercussions lyrics - Lauryn Hill

I was born into this world

Little bitty baby girl

And when I look at why looking so glad

In a racist world

Now it’s a difficult process

The matter is of perception

When I look in the mirror what do I see

Is it my reflection?

[CHORUS:]

Seein' repercussions (talkin bout the things we do)

Ya need to know the repercussions (things can come right back to you)

Look at them repercussions (what goes around comes around)

Hey repercussions

See I was born into this

In another space in time

Time has moved on a death has grown closer

Surely has blown my mind (blown my mind)

Ain’t that a bitch...the way the world spins around (spins around spins around spins around)

Everything everything everything that I said and I did

Surely came back around

[CHORUS:]

See repercussions (talkin bout the things we do)

Repercussions (things sure can come back to you)

Yeah repercussions (what goes around comes around)

Yeah repercussions (they will get you down)

Repercussions (talkin bout the things we do)

Yeah Repercussions (things sure can come back to you)

Ya need to know that repercussions (what goes around comes around)

Repercussions (they will get you down)

Selah lyrics - Lauryn Hill

(from "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" Soundtrack)

Nothing can be done against the truth

no matter how we remain in denial, yeah

Wasting time, replacing time with each empty excuse

but that'll only work a little while

Coping with despair, knowing you're not there

ashamed to just admit I've been a fool

So I blame it on the son, run away from everyone

hoping to escape this ridicule

Trapped in misery, wrapped so miserably

and this deception, I wear it like a skin

Dying to maintain, oh I keep trying to explain

a heart that never loved me to begin

Oh I'm such a mess, I have no choice but to confess

that I've been desperately trying to belong

Lieing to myself and everybody else

refusing to admit my right was wrong, and then he came

And then he came

Selah, oh and it means

Praise and meditation, and then he came

Selah, oh and it means

Did you think about that, and then he came

Selah, oh and it means

Praise and meditation, and then he came

Selah, oh and it means

That it is seen

How beautiful is fruit still in denial of its roots

my guilty heart behaves so foolishly

This treason from within that reasons with my sin

won't be happy till it sees the death of me

Selfishly addicted to a life that I depicted

conflicted cause it's not reality

Oh what's left of me, I beg you desperately

cause me to agree with what I know is best for me

Please save me from myself, I need you, save me from myself

please save me from myself so I can heal

The chocies that I've made, oh have been nothing but mistakes

what a wasted use of space, should I die before I wake

In all of my religion, I've fortified this prison

obligated to obey the demands of bad decisions

Please save me from myself, I need you

save me from myself, please save me from myself so I can heal

And then he came

Selah, oh and it means

Praise and meditation, and then he came

Selah, oh and it means

Did you think about that, and then he came

Selah, oh and it means

Praise and meditation, and then he came

Selah, oh and it means

That it is seen

And then he came

And then he came, then he came, then he came

And then he

And then he came

The Sweetest Thing lyrics - Lauryn Hill

(from "Love Jones" Soundtrack)

The sweetest thing I've ever known

Was like the kiss on the collarbone

The soft caress of happiness

The way you walk, your style of dress

I wish I didn't get so weak

Oooh, baby, just to hear you speak

Makes me argue just to see

How much you're in love with me

See, like a queen, a queen upon her throne

It was the sweet, sweet, sweetest thing I know

It was the sweet, sweet, sweetest thing I know

I get mad when you walk away (don't walk away)

So I tell you leave, when I mean stay

Warm as the sun dipped in black

Fingertips on the small of my back

More valuable than all I own

Like your precious, precious, precious, precious, precious favorite dark skin tone

It was the sweet, sweet, sweetest thing I know

It was the...Ah

I tried to explain

Ah...but baby, it's in vain, o-o-oh

Speaking on my mother's phone

The touching makes me think I'm grown, (you ain't grown)

Sweet prince of the ghetto

Your kisses taste like amaretto

Intoxicating, oh, so intoxicating

How sad, how sad that all things come to an end

But then again, I'm, I'm not alone

It was the sweet, sweet, sweetest thing I know

It was the sweet, sweet, sweetest thing I know

Ahhh, sometimes, watch you in your sleep

Ahhh, excuse me if I get too deep, hey

It was the sweet, sweet, sweetest ....

Turn Your Lights Down Low lyrics - Lauryn Hill (feat. Bob Marley)

[from "The Best Man" Soundtrack]

[Bob Marley (Lauryn)]
(Uh) Turn your lights down low
And pull your window curtain
Oh let the moon come shining in
Into our life again
Saying ooh, it's been a long, long time
(Long, long time)
I got this message for you girl
But it seems I was never on time
Still I wanna get through to you girl on time, on time (word)

I want to give you some love
I want to give you some good, good loving
(Uh, uh, right, uh)
Oh I, oh I, oh I
Yeah, I want to give you some good, good loving (uh)

[Lauryn]
Turn your lights down low
(Word, word, uh, uh)
Never never try to resist, oh no
(Na, na, na, na)
Oh, let your love come shining in
(Na, na, na, na)
Into our lives again
(Na, na, na, na)
Saying ooh, I love you
(I love you, I love you)
And I want you to know right now
(Know right now)
Ooh I love you
(Uh-uh, yeah, uh)
And I want you to know right now (uh)
That I, that I
I wanna give you some love (uh, yeah)
I wanna give you some good, good loving
Oh I, oh I, oh I
I wanna give you some good, good loving (yeah, uh-uh)

[Lauryn]
Loving you is a like a song I replay
Every three minutes and thirty seconds of every day (uh, uh)
And every chorus was written for us to recite (right)
Every beautiful melody of devotion every night
It's potion like this ocean that might carry me
In a wave of emotion to ask you to marry me
And every word, every second, and every third
Expresses the happiness more clearly than ever heard (uh)
And when I play them, every chord is a poem
Telling the Lord how grateful I am cause I know him (what? word)
The harmonies possess a sensation similar to your caress (uh)
If you asking then I'm telling you it's yes
Stand in love, take my hand in love, Jah bless (right)

[Lauryn & Bob]
I want to give you some good, good loving
I want to give you some love
I want to give you some good, good loving
Oh I, oh I, oh I
I wanna give you some good, good loving

[Lauryn (Bob)]
Good, good, good loving
(I wanna give you some good loving)