Lauryn Hill Lyrics

Intro lyrics - Lauryn Hill

[*School bell rings*]

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Lost Ones lyrics - Lauryn Hill

It's funny how money change a situation

Miscommunication leads to complication

My emancipation don't fit your equation

I was on the humble, you - on every station

Some wan' play young Lauryn like she dumb

But remember not a game new under the sun

Everything you did has already been done

I know all the tricks from Bricks to Kingston

My ting done made your kingdom wan' run

Now understand L. Boogie's non violent

But if a thing test me, run for mi gun

Can't take a threat to mi newborn son

L's been this way since creation

A groupie call, you fall from temptation

Now you wanna ball over separation

Tarnish my image in your conversation

Who you gon' scrimmage, like you the champion

You might win some but you just lost one

Now, now how come your talk turn cold

Gained the whole world for the price of your soul

Tryin' to grab hold of what you can't control

Now you're all floss, what a sight to behold

Wisdom is better than silver and gold

I was hopeless now I'm on Hope road

Every man want to act like he's exempt

When him need to get down on his knees and repent

Can't slick talk on the day of judgement

Your movement's similar to a serpent

Tried to play straight, how your whole style bent?

Consequence is no coincidence

Hypocrites always want to play innocent

Always want to take it to the full out extent

Always want to make it seem like good intent

Never want to face it when it's time for punishment

I know that you don't wanna hear my opinion

But there come many paths and you must choose one

And if you don't change then the rain soon come

See you might win some but you just lost one

You might win some but you just lost one

You might win some but you really lost one

You just lost one, it's so silly how come

When it's all done did you really gain from

What you done done, it's so silly how come

You just lost one

Now don't you understand man universal law

What you throw out comes back to you, star

Never underestimate those who you scar

Cause karma, karma, karma comes back to you hard

You can't hold God's people back that long

The chain of Shatan wasn't made that strong

Trying to pretend like your word is your bond

But until you do right, all you do will go wrong

Now some might mistake this for just a simple song

And some don't know what they have 'til it's gone

Now even when you're gone you can still be reborn

And, from the night can arrive the sweet dawn

Now, some might listen and some might shun

And some may think that they've reached perfection

If you look closely you'll see what you've become

Cause you might win some but you just lost one

You might win some but you just lost one

You might win some but you really lost one

You just lost one, it's so silly how come

When it's all done did you really gain from

What you done done, it so silly how come

[repeat to end]

Ex-Factor lyrics - Lauryn Hill

It could all be so simple

But you'd rather make it hard

Loving you is like a battle

And we both end up with scars

Tell me, who I have to be?

To get some reciprocity

See, 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?

(I know we gotta do)

To get some reciprocity

(You know, you know)

See, no one loves you more than me

And no one ever will

No matter how I think we grow

You always seem to let me know

It ain't workin'

And when I try to walk away

You'd hurt yourself to make me stay

This is crazy

I keep letting you back in

How can I explain myself

(I don't understand why)

As painful as this thing has been

I just can't be with no one else

See, I know what we've got to do

You let go and I'll let go too

'Cause no one's hurt me more than you

And no one ever will

No matter how I think we grow

You always seem to let me know

It ain't workin'

And when I try to walk away

You'd hurt yourself to make me stay

This is crazy

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

Why won't you live for 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?

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?

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

Give to me, give to me

Why won't you live for me?

Cry for me, cry for me

You said you'd die for me

Care, there, cry, give

Where were you

When I needed you?

Care, there, cry, give

Where were you

When I needed you?

To Zion lyrics - Lauryn Hill

[Talking]

One day you'll understand

Zion!

Unsure of what the balance held

I touched my belly overwhelmed

By what I had been chosen to perform

But then an angel came one day

Told me to kneel down and pray

For unto me a man child would be born

Woe this crazy circumstance

I knew his life deserved a chance

But everybody told me to be smart

Look at your career they said,

"Lauryn, baby, use your head."

But instead I chose to use my heart

Now the joy of my world is in Zion

How beautiful if nothing more

Than to wait at Zion's door

I've never been in love like this before

Now let me pray to keep you from

The perils that will surely come

See life for you my prince has just begun

And I thank you for choosing me

To come through unto life to be

A beautiful reflection of his grace

See I know that a gift so great

Is only one God could create

And I'm reminded every time I see your face

That the joy of my world is in Zion

Now the joy of my world is in Zion

Marching, marching, marching to Zion

Marching, marching

Marching, marching, marching to Zion

Beautiful, beautiful Zion

[repeat to end of song]

Doo Wop (That Thing) lyrics - Lauryn Hill

Yo, remember back on the boogie when cats used to harmonize like, you know?

Yo, my men and my women don't forget about the deen

Sirat Al-Mustaqim

Yo, it's about a thing

If you feel real good, wave your hands in the air

And lick two shots in the atmosphere

It's been three weeks since you were looking for your friend

The one you let hit it and never called you again

'Member when he told you he was 'bout the Benjamins

You act like you ain't hear him then gave him a little trim

To begin, how you think you're really gon' pretend

Like you wasn't down and you called him again

Plus when you give it up so easy you ain't even fooling him

If you did it then, then you'd probably fuck again

Talking out your neck sayin' you're a Christian

A Muslim sleeping with the gin

Now that was the sin that did Jezebel in

Who you gon' tell when the repercussions spin?

Showing off your ass 'cause you're thinking it's a trend

Girlfriend, let me break it down for you again

You know I only say it 'cause I'm truly genuine

Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem

Baby girl, respect is just a minimum

Niggas fucked up and you still defending them

Now Lauryn is only human

Don't think I haven't been through the same predicament

Let it sit inside your head like a million women in Philly, Penn.

It's silly when girls sell their souls because it's in

Look at where you be in hair weaves like Europeans

Fake nails done by Koreans

Come again, come again, come again, come again, come again

Guys you know you better watch out

Some girls, some girls are only about

That thing, that thing, that thing

The second verse is dedicated to the men

More concerned with his rims and his Timbs than his women

Him and his men come in the club like hooligans

Don't care who they offend popping yang like you got yen

Let's stop pretend, the ones that pack pistols by they waist men

Cristal by the case men, still in they mother's basement

The pretty face, men claiming that they did a bid men

Need to take care of their three or four kids

And they face a court case when the child support late

Money taking, heart breaking now you wonder why women hate men

The sneaky silent men the punk domestic violence men

The quick to shoot the semen stop acting like boys and be men

How you gon' win when you ain't right within?

Come again, come again, come again, come again, come again

Watch out watch out, look out look out [4x]

Girls you know you better watch out

Some guys, some guys are only about

That thing, that thing, that thing [2x]

Guys you know you better watch out

Some girls, some girls are only all about

That thing, that thing,that thing [2x]

Superstar lyrics - Lauryn Hill

Come on baby, light my fire

Everything you drop is so tired

Music is supposed to inspire

How come we ain't getting no higher?

Now tell me your philosophy

On exactly what an artist should be

Should they be someone with prosperity

And no concept of reality?

Now, who you know without any flaws

That lives above the spiritual laws

And does anything they feel just because

There's always someone there who'll applaud

Come on baby, light my fire

Everything you drop is so tired

Music is supposed to inspire

How come we ain't getting no higher?

I know you think that you've got it all

And by making other people feel small

Makes you think you're unable to fall

And when you do, who you gonna call?

See, what you give is just what you get

I know it hasn't hit you yet

Now I don't mean to get you upset

But every cause has an effect

Come on baby, light my fire

Everything you drop is so tired

Music is supposed to inspire

So, how come we're not getting no higher?

I cross sands in distant lands, made plans with the sheiks

Why you beef with freaks as my album sales peak?

All I wanted was to sell like 500

And be a ghetto superstar since my first album, Blunted

I used to work at Foot Locker, they fired me and fronted

Or I quitted, now I spit it - however do you want it?

Now you get it!

Writing rhymes my range with the frames slightly tinted

Then send it to your block and have my full name cemented

And if your rhymes sound like mine, I'm taking a percentage

Unprecedented and still respected when it vintage

I'm serious, I'm taking over areas in Aquarius

Running red lights with my 10,000 chariots

Just as Christ was a superstar, you stupid star

They'll hail you then they'll nail you, no matter who you are

They'll make you now then take you down

And make you face it, if you slit the bag open

and put your pinky in it, then taste it

Come on baby, light my fire

Everything you drop is so tired

Music is supposed to inspire

So, how come we ain't getting no higher

[repeat to end]

Final Hour lyrics - Lauryn Hill

I treat this like my thesis

Well written topic

Broken down into pieces

I introduce then produce

Words so profuse

It's abuse how I juice up this beat

Like I'm deuce

Two people both equal

Like I'm Gemini

Rather simeon

If I Jimmy on this lock I could pop it

You can't stop it

Drop it

Your whole crew's microscopic

Like particles while I make international articles

And on the cover

Don't discuss the baby mother business

I been in this third LP you can't tell me, I witness

First handed I'm candid

You can't stand it

Respect demanded

And get flown around the planet

Rock Hard like granite or steel

People feel Lauryn Hill from New-Ark to Israel

And this is real

So I keep makin' the street's ballads

While you lookin' for dressin' to go with your tossed salad

You could get the money

You could get the power

But keep your eyes on the final hour

Now I be breakin' bread sippin Manichevitz wine

Pay no mind party like it's 1999

But when it comes down to ground beef like Palestine

Say your rhymes, let's see if that get you out your bend

Now I'm a get the mozzarella like a Rockerfeller

Still be in the church of Lalibela

Singing hymns a cappella

Whether posed in Maribella in Couture

Or collectin' residuals from off the Score

I'm makin' sure

I'm with the 144

I've been here before this ain't a battle this is war

Word to Boonie

I makes a lot like a Sunni

Get diplomatic immunity in every ghetto community

Had opportunity went from

Hoodshock to Hood-chic

But it ain't what you cop

It's about what you keep

And even if there are leaks

you can't capsize this ship

Cause I baptize my lips every time I take a sip

You could get the money

You could get the power

But keep your eyes on the final hour

I'm about to change the focus

From the richest to the brokest

I wrote this opus

To reverse the hypnosis

Whoever's closest

To the line's gonna win it

You gonna fall tryin to ball

While my team win the pennant

I'm about to be in it

For a minute

Then run for senate

Make a slum lord be the tenant

Give his money to kids to spend it

And then amend it

Every law that ever prevented

Our survival since our arrival

Documented in the bible

Like Moses and Aaron

Things gon change, it's apparent

And all the transparent gonna

Be seen through

Let God redeem you

Keep your deen true

Watch out what you cling to

You can get the green too

Observe how a queen do

And I remain calm readin' the 73 Psalm

Cause wit all this on I got the world in palm

You could get the money

You could get the power

But keep your eyes on the final hour

When It Hurts So Bad lyrics - Lauryn Hill

When it hurts so bad, when it hurts so bad

Why's it feel so good?

When it hurts so bad, when it hurts so bad

Why's it feel so good?

I loved real, real hard once

But the love wasn't returned

Found out the man I'd die for

He wasn't even concerned

I tried, and I tried, and I tried

To keep him in my life

I cried, and I cried, and I cried

But I couldn't make it right

But I, I loved the young man

And if you've ever been in love,

Then you'd understand

What you want might make you cry

What you need might pass you by

If you don't catch it,

And what you need ironically

Will turn out what you want to be

If you just let it,

If you just let it

See, I thought this feeling

It was all that I had

But how could this be love

And make me feel so bad?

Gave up my power,

I existed for you

But whoever knew the voodoo you'd do?

But I, I loved the young man

And if you've ever been in love you'd understand

What you want might make you cry

What you need might pass you by

If you don't catch it

And what you need ironically

Will turn out what you want to be

If you just let it,

What you want might make you cry

What you need might pass you by

If you don't catch it

And what you need ironically

Will turn out what you want to be

If you just let it,

If you just let it

When it hurts so bad, when it hurts so bad

Why's it feel so good?

When it hurts so bad, when it hurts so bad

Why's it feel so good?

When it hurts so bad, when it hurts so bad

I Used To Love Him lyrics - Lauryn Hill

As I look at what I've done

The type of life that I've lived

How many things I pray the father will forgive

One situation involved a young man

He was the ocean and I was the sand

He stole my heart like a thief in the night

Dulled my senses blurred my sight

I used to love him but now I don't

I chose a road of passion and pain

Sacrificed too much and waited in vain

Gave up my power ceased being queen

Addicted to love like the drug of a fiend

Torn and confused wasted and used

Reached the crossroad which path would I choose

Stuck and frustrated I waited, debated

For something to happen that just wasn't fated

Thought what I wanted was something I needed

When momma said no I just should have heeded

Misled I bled till the poison was gone

And out of the darkness arrived the sweet dawn

I used to love him but now I don't

Father you saved me and showed me that life

Was much more than being some foolish man's wife

Showed me that love was respect and devotion

Greater than planets deeper than oceans

My soul was weary but now it's replenished

Content because that part of my life is finished

I see him sometimes and the look in his eye

Is one of a man who's lost treasures untold

But my heart is gold I took back my soul

And totally let my creator control

The life which was his to begin with

I used to love him but now I don't

[Repeat to end]

Forgive Them Father lyrics - Lauryn Hill

Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those that trespass against us

Although them again we will never, never, never trust

Dem noh know weh dem do, dig out yuh yei while dem sticking like glue,

Fling, skin, grin while dem plotting fah you,

True, Ah Who???

Forgive them father for they know not what they do

Beware the false motives of others

Be careful of those who pretend to be brothers

And you never suppose it's those who are closest to you, to you

They say all the right things to gain their position

Then use your kindness as their ammunition

To shoot you down in the name of ambition, they do

Forgive them father for they know not what they do

Why every Indian wanna be the chief?

Feed a man 'til he's full and he still want beef

Give me grief, try to tief off my piece

Why for you to increase, I must decrease?

If I treat you kindly does it mean that I'm weak?

You hear me speak and think I won't take it to the streets

I know enough cats that don't turn the other cheek

But I try to keep it civilized like Menelik

And other African czars observing stars with war scars

Get yours in this capitalistic system

So many caught or got bought you can't list them

How you gonna idolize the missing?

To survive is to stay alive in the face of opposition

Even when they comin' gunnin'

I stand position

L's known the mission since conception

Let's free the people from deception

If you looking for the answers

Then you gotta ask the questions

And when I let go, my voice echoes through the ghetto

Sick of men trying to pull strings like Geppetto

Why black people always be the ones to settle

March through these streets like Soweto

Like Cain and Abel, Caesar and Brutus, Jesus and Judas,

Backstabbers do this

Forgive them father for they know not what they do

It took me a little while to discover

Wolves in sheep coats who pretend to be lovers

Men who lack conscience will even lie to themselves, to themselves

A friend once said, and I found to be true

That everyday people, they lie to God too

So what makes you think, that they won't lie to you

Forgive them father for they know not what they do

Forgive them, forgive them

Forgive them father for they know not what they do

Forgive them, forgive them

Gwan like dem love while dem rip yuh to shreds,

Trample pon yuh heart and lef yuh fi dead,

Dem a yuh fren who yuh depen pon from way back when,

But if yuh gi dem yuh back den yuh mus meet yuh end,

Dem noh know wey dem do,

Dem no know, dem no know, dem no know,

Dem no know, dem no know wey dem do

Every Ghetto, Every City lyrics - Lauryn Hill

I was just a little girl

Skinny legs, a press and curl

My mother always thought I'd be a star

But way before my record deal,

The streets that nurtured Lauryn Hill

Made sure that I'd never go too far

Every ghetto, every city and suburban place I've been

Make me recall my days in the New Jerusalem

Story starts at Hootaville grew up next to Ivy Hill

When kids were stealing quartervilles for fun

"Kill the guy" in Carter park

Rode a Mongoose 'til it's dark

Watching kids show off the stolen ones

Every ghetto, every city and suburban place I've been

Make me recall my days in New Jerusalem

You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got

Looking back,

Looking back, looking back, looking back

You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got

Looking back

Thinking back, thinking back, thinking back

A bag of Bontons, twenty cents and a nickel

Springfield Ave. had the best popsicles

Saturday morning cartoons and Kung-Fu

Main street roots tonic with the dreds

A beef patty and some coco bread

Move the patch from my Lees to the tongue of my shoe

'Member Frelng-Huysen used to have the bomb leather

Back when Doug Fresh and Slick Rick were together

Looking at the crew, we thought we'd all live forever

You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got

Looking back

Thinking back, thinking back, thinking back

You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got

Looking back

Thinking back, thinking back, thinking back

Drill teams on Munn street

Remember when Hawthorne and Chancellor had beef

Moving Records was on Central Ave.

I was there at dancing school

South Orange Ave. at Borlin pool

Unaware of what we didn't have

Writing your friends' names on your jeans with a marker

July 4th races off of Parker

Fireworks at Martin stadium

The Untouchable P.S.P., where all them crazy niggers be

And car thieves got away through Irvington

Hillside brings beef with the cops

Self-Destruction record drops

And everybody's name was Muslim

Sensations and '88 attracted kids from out-of-state

And everybody used to do the wop

Jack, Jack, Jack ya body

Nah, the Biz Mark used to amp up the party

I wish those days, they didn't stop

Every ghetto, every city and suburban place I've been

Make me recall my days in New Jerusalem

You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got

Looking back

Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back

You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got

Looking back

Thinking back, thinking back, thinking back

[To end]

Nothing Even Matters lyrics - Lauryn Hill

Now the skies could fall

Not even if my boss should call

The world it seems so very small

'Cause nothing even matters at all

Nothing even matters

Nothing even matters at all

Nothing even matters

Nothing even matters at all

See I don't need no alcohol

Your love makes me feel ten feet tall

Without it I'd go through withdrawal

'Cause nothing even matters at all

Nothing even matters

Nothing even matters at all

Nothing even matters

Nothing even matters at all

These buildings could drift out to sea

Some natural catastrophe

Still there's no place I'd rather be

'Cause nothing even matters to me

Nothing even matters

Nothing even matters to me

Nothing even matters

Nothing even matters to me

You're part of my identity

I sometimes have the tendency

To look at you religiously

'Cause nothing even matters to me

Nothing even matters

Nothing even matters to me

Nothing even matters

Nothing even matters to me

Now you won't find me at no store

I have no time for manicures

With you it's never either or

'Cause nothing even matters no more

Nothing even matters

Nothing even matters no more

Nothing even matters

Nothing even matters no more

Now my team could score

And make it to the Final Four

Just repossess my 4x4

'Cause nothing even matters no more

Nothing even matters

Nothing even matters no more

Nothing even matters

Nothing even matters no more

Everything Is Everything lyrics - Lauryn Hill

Everything is everything

What is meant to be, will be

After winter, must come spring

Change, it comes eventually

[2x]

I wrote these words for everyone

Who struggles in their youth

Who won't accept deception

Instead of what is truth

It seems we lose the game,

Before we even start to play

Who made these rules? We're so confused

Easily led astray

Let me tell ya that

Everything is everything

After winter, must come spring

Everything is everything

I philosophy

Possibly speak tongues

Beat drum, Abyssinian, street Baptist

Rap this in fine linen

From the beginning

My practice extending across the atlas

I begat this

Flippin' in the ghetto on a dirty mattress

You can't match this rapper / actress

More powerful than two Cleopatras

Bomb graffiti on the tomb of Nefertiti

MCs ain't ready to take it to the Serengeti

My rhymes is heavy like the mind of Sister Betty

L. Boogie spars with stars and constellations

Then came down for a little conversation

Adjacent to the king, fear no human being

Roll with cherubims to Nassau Coliseum

Now hear this mixture

Where hip hop meets scripture

Develop a negative into a positive picture

Now, everything is everything

What is meant to be, will be

After winter, must come spring

Change, it comes eventually

Sometimes it seems

We'll touch that dream

But things come slow or not at all

And the ones on top, won't make it stop

So convinced that they might fall

Let's love ourselves then we can't fail

To make a better situation

Tomorrow, our seeds will grow

All we need is dedication

Let me tell ya that,

Everything is everything

After winter, must come spring

Everything is everything

What is meant to be, will be

After winter, must come spring

Change, it comes eventually

The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill lyrics - Lauryn Hill

My world it moves so fast today

The past it seems so far away

And life squeezes so tight that I can't breathe

And every time I've tried to be

What someone else thought of me

So caught up, I wasn't able to achieve

But deep in my heart

The answer it was in me

And I made up my mind

To define my own destiny

I look at my environment

And wonder where the fire went

What happened to everything we used to be

I hear so many cry for help

Searching outside of themselves

Now I know that His strength is within me

And deep in my heart

the answer it was in me

And I made up my mind

to define my own destiny

And deep in my heart

the answer it was in me

And I made up my mind

to define my own destiny

Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You lyrics - Lauryn Hill

(originally by Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons)

You're just too good to be true

Can't take my eyes off of you

You'd be like heaven to touch

I wanna hold you so much

At long last love has arrived

And I thank God I'm alive

You're just too good to be true

Can't take my eyes off of you

(I want you, I want you)

Pardon the way that I stare

There's nothing else to compare

The sight of you leaves me weak

There are no words left to speak

But if you feel like I feel

Please let me know that it's real

You're just too good to be true

Can't take my eyes off of you

(I want you, I want you)

I need you baby, if it's quite alright

I need you baby to warm a lonely night

I love you baby

Trust in me when I say, "OK." (It's OK)

Oh, pretty baby, "Don't let me down," I pray

Oh, pretty baby, now that I found you, stay

And let me love you, oh, baby, let me love you, oh, baby

You're just too good to be true

Can't take my eyes off of you

You'd be like heaven to touch

I wanna hold you so much

At long last love has arrived

And I thank God I'm alive

You're just too good to be true

Can't take my eyes off of you

(I want you, I want you)

I need you baby, and if it's quite alright

I need you baby to warm a lonely night

I love you baby

Trust in me when I say, "It's OK."

Oh, pretty baby, "Don't let me down," I pray

Oh, pretty baby, now that I found you, stay

And let me love you, oh, baby, let me love you, oh, baby

I need you baby, if it's quite alright

I love you baby, you warm a lonely night

I need you baby

Trust in me when I say, "It's OK."

Oh, oh, pretty baby, "Don't let me down," I pray

Oh, pretty baby, now that I found you, stay

And let me love you, oh, baby, let me love you, oh, baby

Tell Him lyrics - Lauryn Hill

Yo heh heh tell him it's like uhh you know uhh

Sweet sweet tell him

Let me be patient let me be kind

Make me unselfish without being blind

Though I may suffer I'll envy it not

And endure what comes

Cause he's all that I got and

Tell him...

Tell him I need him (yeah)

Tell him I love him (tell him)

And it'll be alright

[Background singing] Tell him be alright be alright

Tell him tell him I need him

Tell him I love him

It'll be alright

Now I may have faith to make mountains fall

But if I lack love then I am nothin' at all

I can give away everything I possess

But left without love then I have no happiness

I know I'm imperfect (I know I'm imperfect)

And not without sin (and not without sin)

But now that I'm older all childish things end

And tell him...

Tell him I need him (yeah)

Tell him I love him (tell him)

And it'll be alright

[Background singing] Tell him be alright be alright

Tell him tell him I need him

Tell him I love him

It'll be alright

[Bridge]

I'll never be jealous

And I won't be too proud

Cause love is not boastful

Oooh and love is not loud

Tell him I need him

Tell him I love him

Everything's gonna be alright [w/ ad libs]

Oooh oooh yeah yeah aww yeah

Now I may have wisdom and knowledge on Earth

But if I speak wrong then what is it worth?

See what we now know is nothing compared

To the love that was shown when our lives were spared

And tell him...

Tell him I need him (yeah)

Tell him I love him (tell him)

And it'll be alright

[Background singing] Tell him be alright be alright

Tell him tell him I need him

Tell him I love him

It'll be alright

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

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-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..

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

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

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

These broken thoughts in my mind

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

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

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

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

So I Can Love You Better

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

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

So I Can Love You Better

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

So I Can Make It Better

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

So I Can Make It Better

I Had To Lose Myself

So I Can Make It Better

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

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

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)

Lauryn Hill Lyrics

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Lost Ones lyrics - Lauryn Hill

Ex-Factor lyrics - Lauryn Hill

To Zion lyrics - Lauryn Hill

Doo Wop (That Thing) lyrics - Lauryn Hill

Superstar lyrics - Lauryn Hill

Final Hour lyrics - Lauryn Hill

When It Hurts So Bad lyrics - Lauryn Hill

I Used To Love Him lyrics - Lauryn Hill

Forgive Them Father lyrics - Lauryn Hill

Every Ghetto, Every City lyrics - Lauryn Hill

Nothing Even Matters lyrics - Lauryn Hill

Everything Is Everything lyrics - Lauryn Hill

The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill lyrics - Lauryn Hill

Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You lyrics - Lauryn Hill

Tell Him lyrics - Lauryn Hill

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

Black Rage lyrics - Lauryn Hill

Black Woman lyrics - Fatoumata Diawara & Lauryn Hill

Coming Home lyrics - Pusha T & Ms. Lauryn Hill

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

Feeling Good lyrics - Lauryn Hill

Guarding The Gates lyrics - Lauryn Hill

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

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

Keep It Tight lyrics - Lauryn Hill

Lose Myself lyrics - Lauryn Hill

Repercussions lyrics - Lauryn Hill

Selah lyrics - Lauryn Hill

The Sweetest Thing lyrics - Lauryn Hill

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

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