Please Don't Turn Out The Light


Ev’rytime I need reality, in jeopardy of losing all of meI just am not stronger, life don’t last so long , so baby, If your turned out the light, if you turned out the light,Please don’t turn out the light, please don’t turn out the lightTurn out the lights Baby, […]


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Patient Hope In New Snow


The heat comes in distant shiftsTo fill up my roomIt spills out of these ancient ventsTo meet the new coldAnd I lay in my twisted sheetsAnd stare out at the snowThinking of the next few monthsmy cold and lifeless eyesNo, I’ve never felt so separateThen there’s youBut that’s so obviousSo […]


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Give A Little


Give a little, take a little, pray a littleGive a little, you know you’ve got toTake a little, just one more timePray a little, to make it happen And I’d swear, I’d cross the roadBut you’d avoid mePlease tell me, why?It ain’t fair, I’d call you upBut you won’t answerJust […]


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My Poor Friend Me


i know a manwho doesnt have many friendsi know a place he liveswhere trouble never endsi know its hard for himto read ‘tween the linesand his days are getting so much shorterhe simply turns awayinstead of bearing downhis ship is crumblinghis crew is one of clownshe doesnt careas long as […]


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Survival


(Ow, ow-ow-ow-ow!Ow, ow-ow-ow-ow!)Yeah, yeah, yeah!How can you be sitting thereTelling me that you care –That you care?When every time I look around,The people suffer in the sufferingIn everyway, in everywhere. Say: na-na-na-na-na (na-na, na-na!):We’re the survivors, yes: the Black survivors!I tell you what: some people got everything;Some people got nothing;Some […]


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Make You Feel My Love


When the rain is blowin’ in your faceAnd the whole world is on your caseI could offer you a warm embraceTo make you feel my love. When the evening shadows and the stars appearAnd there is no one there to dry your tearsI could hold you for a million yearsTo […]


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Love vs. Hate


[Grand Puba]Uhh.. Now it’s love, vs. hateTime for my people to eliminatethat hate, let’s loveBecause it’s our people that we’re thinking of Now they say we playa hatin cause we hate the black on blackAnd the fact we can’t stand when we act like thatSelf-hate killin us more than the […]


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Everytime I Look for You


I never found out why you left himBut this answer begs that questionToo blind to see tomorrowToo broke to beg or borrowYoung and stupidLeft wide openHearts are wastedLives are broken One more point of contentionI need some interventionApproached with vague intentionsBetray my short attentionSpan the distanceBridge the borderBeg forgivenessRound the […]


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Lookin' In


suddenly, it came to mea potent dosage of realityi saw myself in the broad daylightand it made me thinkabout lifeim not the kinda guywho nods his headwith closed eyesi scoff at labelsi defy censusesand despise group mentalityall along i throughthat this was only humanbut i know now thati’m in the […]


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Roots, Rock, Reggae


Play I some music, this a reggae music [repeat]Roots rock reggae, this a reggae music [repeat] Hey Mister Music, sure sounds good to meI can’t refuse it, what to be got to beFeel like dancing, dance cause we are freeFeel like dancing, come dance with me Roots rock reggae, this […]


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Give A Hand , Take A Hand


I wish the world was run by all the little childrenWe could be happy once againWe won’t hurt when we’re like little childrenAnd we won’t ever feel the pain Now when my fight for life on earth is overAnd I leave ’cause I can’t stayAll my love belongs to you […]


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Sowing The Seeds Of Utopia


We all know politicians only goJust half-way thereJust half-way thereThe innocence of youth needs protection not abuseBut no one seems to careYet no one seems to careAnd you sit there adn watch the world go around>From your pseudo-benevolent vantage pointWhile we who’ve been left to pick up after youTry our […]


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Saw A New Morning


All of a sudden I saw a new morningI’m locked up I want to be freeOut in the courtyard and over the wall thenMy friends are waiting for me Sixteen people are waiting to get meHoping to take me outsideI hear the sound of the snubnose behind meI went along […]


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Revolution


Revelation reveals the truth – revelation.(revolution, revolution, revolution – oooo-doo-doo-doo-doo)(revolution – oooo-doo-doo-doo-doo) It takes a revolution (revolution) to make a solution;(doo-doo-doo-doo)Too much confusion (aaa-aaah), so much frustration, eh!I don’t wanna live in the park (live in the park);Can’t trust no shadows after dark (shadows after dark), yeah-eh!So, my friend, I […]


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If I Was Your Mother


If I was your motherWould you let me hold your handWould you say you were my babyWould you always be my friend If I was your motherCould I teach you what’s rightCould I tell you storiesMaybe tuck you inAnd kiss you sweet goodnight Tell me what I got to doTo […]


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