Emancipation lyrics

Let's go down 2 the holy river
If we drown then we'll be delivered
U can still see the picture upon the wall
One eye staring at nothing at all
The other one trying 2 focus through all your tears
U can try and try but there's nothin' 2 hide
U can't run from yourself and what's inside
U got 2 find the answers 2 the questions that U most fear

So over and over U ask your soul

Desperate is the day that is 2morrow
4 those who do not know the time has come
2 whip the dogs that beg, steal or borrow
From the table God set 4 His Son
Wicked is the witch that stands 4 nothing
All the while watching 2 see U fall
Deeper than the ditch that bred your suffering
The one being dug right now by them all

Happy is the way 2 meet your burdens

Oh yeah, what'd U think was gonna happen?
Come on!
CHORUS:
We gets up, everybody get down
Make a sound, make a sound
We gets up when we come 2 your town
I said the lost is found

We gets up - ain't no need 2 trip
We're the one deserving of the championship
We gets up - so U feel the gift
All the competition, they got 2 quit

CHORUS

Yeah! How U think we comin'?

Big white mansion
Top of the road
Latest fashion
Happy, don't U know?
Here I am in New York, yeah
See the girl bold and fair ("Yo, Anita!") {Martin sample}
What's in your backpack 2day?
Will it take my blues away?
That's OK, "U gotta run..."
Huh, check it, I don't need U 2 have some fun
Comin' from the land of snow
I guess I'm kinda used 2 cold

Go
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! {x2}

Can U take me home
Where we can be alone?
Can U make me happy
Till my pain is gone?
Can U get me excited?
Excited enough 2 thank the God above 4 the human body

Yeah, yeah, yeah
4 the human body
Yeah, yeah, yeah

Can U get me excited
Till my love is long?
Can U let me ride it (Oh yeah)
Till the early morn'?
Can U freak me dirty?

{"Cuz that's my only mission" sample repeats in song}
Oh baby
(Right back here in my arms) {x2}
Right back here, yeah

Don't want U 2 write me no letters
Don't want U callin' my farm
I just want U, I just want U
I just want U right back here in my arms
Alright

I ain't checkin' 4 the sweet talk, baby (Right)
Talkin' 'bout how U're missin' my charms (Right)

CHORUS:
Everybody keeps tryin' 2 break my heart
Everybody except 4 me
I just want a chance 2 play the part
The part of someone truly free
Like candle slowly burning, I can feel my world unravel
Hemisphere upon hemisphere lie beneath my soul, soul
My enemies kept it turning, but now they pound the gavel
And judging me accordingly, I know, I know

CHORUS

Hey! {x3}
Oh

I can't wait no more, no
Let's have a baby
What are we livin' 4? Tell me
Let's make love, let's make love
So long have I gazed into your eyes
Wonderin' what they'd look like on a newborn child
I cannot lie when my hand is on your thighs
I'm thinking, isn't it a miracle that life comes from inside?
So long I have listened 2 your voice

Do it like she like, do it like she like it {x4}
CHORUS:
Do it like she like it
So your baby don't wanna sleep around
Give her what she want when she want
When it come 2 U, she down

Baby let me read her journal
Or should I say: she turned around and it was gone
The innuendo reads eternal
Or should I say: every other page I'm on
When she come 2 cook your dinner

{"Microphone check" sample repeated in song}
Turn off that weak jam, man
Come on, huh
Mr. Happy's here, huh, and we're buggin'

CHORUS:
I will take care of U
Whatever U want, I do it right
Oh, I will take care of U
Mr. Happy every day and night, oh

I got some money, I got some juice
But somethin's funny, I ain't got U
I comes 2 party (Yeah), don't wanna be alone

Loving U in silence, knowing that it's right
Under your gaze I ponder this love 2night
Unbothered by the chaos swirling 'round outside
In your arms is where I want 2 live and die
Someplace where your face is all that I see
Where the love we make intoxicates intensively
In a mirror where your sweet reflection used 2 be
There is hope, there is joy, my soul sanctuary
My soul sanctuary

New world {x4}
When the sharpest vibration
Saves U from obliteration
The intelligence of your bed reacts
Covering U head 2 toe with an air-filled sack

CHORUS:
When the lines blur every boy and girl
How we gonna make it in this brave new world?
Love 4 one another - New world
Love 4 one another - New world

When U wanna find some isolation

Come here, baby

Come and get your come on

Oh, I see this is what U wanted

One kiss at a time

(I got 2 be) I got 2 be up on it

If I want 2 make U mine

This is something every girl should know

Every part of U comes alive when U take it slow

Every nervous twitch that happens when my tongue is there

Your lips, up and down your back and every single hair

Saviour
How did I ever come this far without U, baby?
What was I thinkin', what was I tryin' 2 be?
Never did U ever give me reason 2 doubt U, baby
U are my destiny and this I truly see

I can see we're like 2 petals from the same flower, baby
We're like 2 branches from the same tree
Whenever I look in your eyes, I can see a paradise
U're my saviour, U're all I ever need (Saviour)

Ooh!
This is the joint I've been layin' 4 all night
This is the one that really gets me gone
The DJ's on point, I'm sayin' he's alright
We gonna fun baby, baby, it's on

Gotta new Puerto Rican score
And she doin' it on the floor
When the groove rubberbaby's hot
I'm givin' it all I got

CHORUS:
Ooh, everybody's here
This is the jam of the year
Ooh, everybody's here

Sex in the summer, gettin' it on
Gimme that number, we can party all night long
CHORUS:
Sex in the summer, gettin' it on
Gimme that number, we can party all night long
Checkin' 4 bikinis, layin' in the sand
Rub it like a genie, livin' while we can

Afternoon in the city, somewhere in July
Policemen actin'... yeah, U know, de-elevate a brotha's high

{B-side of Sign O' The Times}
I am a dog outside your door
I have been there since a quarter to four
You are a cat licking intense
I bite your leg in self-defense

Say it! Uurh, uurh, uurh, uurh
Say it! Uurh, uurh, uurh, uurh

Get out my tree, grinning at me
Licking your tail like its cream
Stroking your whiskers, causing a scene
That's not the way to be to me (That's not the way)

Somebody's somebody
Somewhere, someone
It's 2 o'clock in the morning and I just can't sleep
Outside the rain is pourin', I'm lonely as can be
Maybe 2night'll be different than the nights before
I need 2 feel someone beside me, I can't be alone no more

CHORUS:
2night I wanna be somebody's somebody
2night I wanna belong 2 someone (Someone)
2night I wanna be somebody's somebody

"Welcome, U've got mail" {AOL sample}
(Computer) {sample repeats in BG}
It was Sunday night, instead of doing what I usually do I..

CHORUS:
I scan my computer looking 4 a site
Somebody 2 talk 2, funny and bright
I scan my computer looking 4 a site
Make believe it's a better world, a better life

Nothing on TV I ain't seen before

(Style) Style, uh!
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Style, dig it
(Style) Style, come on
Uh, style
Style is not something that comes in a bottle
Style is more like Jackie O. when she was doin' Aristotle
Style is not a logo that sticks 2 the roof of one's ass
Style is like a second cousin 2 class

U got it! - Style, come on
U got it! - Style, say what?
U got it! - Style, come on

(We didn't write this song, but listen)
If God had a name, what would it be
And would we call it 2 His face
If we were faced with Him and all His glory?
What would U ask if U had just one question?

Yeah, yeah, God is great
Yeah, yeah, God is good
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!

CHORUS:
What if God was one of us?
Just a slave like one of us?
Just a stranger on the bus

Ever since I was a little baby
I had 2 have double everything
When they tell me that's enough
That's when I wanna fill my cup
2 the top, Johnny, hear me sing
CHORUS:
Emancipation - free 2 do what I wanna
Emancipation - see U in the purple rain
Emancipation - free 2 do what I wanna
Emancipation - break the chain, break the chain

Ever since that Eve did unto Adam, alright

{instrumental}

If U wanna we can kick it, baby, joint 2 joint
CHORUS:
(Sex me) - Uh, yeah (safe), joint 2 joint
(Sex me) - Uh, yeah (safe), kick it, baby, joint 2 joint
(Sex me) - Uh, yeah (safe), joint 2 joint
(Sex me) - Uh, yeah

Before I melt the wax 2 quizzical
Let me just say that U are physically
The most toned one I've ever seen
U're making me proud 2 be a human be-i-ng (Uh huh!)

It's courtin' time
I've been holdin' back a good deal longer than I shouldaoughta
I bet U got the notion that I couldn't make up my mind
But now I'm ready 2 tell your mama that I gots 2 get with her daughta
Put on your good dress, baby - it's courtin' time!

Every day I wait is just another day your baby's lonely
No matter what I'm talkin' about it always comes back 2 U (U)

In a room full of harlots and fantasy
Destiny beckoned us there
Curious child on the balcony
We took the dare

Careless I was 2 caress thee
Yet never regretting the touch
The joy that we shared, it was meant 2 be
And not a crime
No, it's not a crime

If memory serves us, we will allign
2 the truth that we most often share
Curious child, u are on my mind
Do u care?

Ooh aah ooh {x2}
The emale left so clearly upon a computer screen
Read like a threat that crept into her like a sex machine
Wanted: Any woman who's first name begins with a "Z"
From the sound of the keys, a pawn makes a move
Her reply brings on the groove

www.emale.com
The king takes the pawn
www.emale.com
It's on, it's on, it's on!

(Dead like Elvis) {sample repeated in song}
Check, check, 1 2, check
U know what he's sayin'?

Face down! {x2}

Somebody once told him that he wouldn't take Prince through the ringer
Let him go down as a washed up singer
Ain't that a bitch?
Thinkin' all along that he wanted 2 be rich
Never respected the root of all evil and he still don't 2 this day, huh

Get your groove on

I got some money cuz I just got paid

It's time 2 get my groove on

Been workin' hard, now it's time 2 play

I gots 2 get my groove on

Can't wait 2 see your face again

U keep me happy, yeah, U're my best friend

In The Park around a half past 9

Meet me, we'll have a real good time

CHORUS:

Come on, everybody get your groove on

Turn down the lights, turn down the bed
Turn down these voices inside my head
Lay down with me, tell me no lies
Just hold me close, don't patronize
Don't patronize me
Cuz I can't make U love me if U don't
I can't make your heart feel something it won't
Here in the dark, in these final hours
I will lay down my heart (my heart) and I'll feel the power
But U won't, no, U won't

There's a spark of magic in your eyes
Candyland appears each time U smile
Never thought that fairy tales came true
But they come true when I'm near U
U're a genie in disguise
Full of wonder and surprise and...

CHORUS:
Betcha by golly wow! (wow!) (wow!)
U're the one that I've been waiting 4 4ever
And ever will my love 4 U keep growing strong
Keep growing strong

Damned if I do
Tell me what's up with the teenage indecision
I'm mad in love but U won't give me permission
U said, "Be here at 9"
Then scream at me 4 not giving U more time, more time

Damned if I do, damned if I don't
U say U want me 2 love U
But when I try, U won't
Maybe, maybe we should say goodbye

Damned if I do

Tell me the truth, how many U do it 2?

If the wind blew every petal from your precious red rose
Would U be afraid of what U'd find inside?
When I'm alone in my room
I can't stop dreaming about U, dreaming about U
When I'm alone in my room
I can't stop dreaming about U, dreaming about U
And every time I do what I need 2 do
I can't stop dreaming about U, dreaming about U

Revolving around every word that is spoken

If I ever held a hand
It was only because I'd never held your hand
That was part of the plan
I had 2 get it right if I was 2 be your man
And if I ever kissed your lips
I needed time 2 cross the others off my list (off my list)
A higher high 2 the trip (trip)
I wanted U 2 go, that was my wish - yes it was

(Ooh my) Friend, lover, sister, mother/wife
Air, food, water, love of my life

Da, da, da, da
Da, da, da, da, da
(Yeah y'all, it's like that y'all, it's like "Bet Your Life")
{sample repeated in song}

Yeah
It's like rolling in a Bronco pumpin' them pumps
U know what I'm sayin'?
On Broadway or somethin', U know what I'm sayin'?
Yo yo, straight up
Yeah, yeah, yeah

Hey yo, call the paddywagon, I've seen a black boy cash stackin'