℗ 2002
(Terence Trent d'Arby, Oliver)
Kissing like a bandit Stealing time Underneath a sycamore tree Cupid by the hour sends Valentines To my sweet lover and me Slowly But surely Your appetite is more than I knew Sweetly Softly I'm falling in love with you Wish me love a wishing well To kiss and tell A wishing well of butterfly tears Wish me love a wishing well To kiss and tell A wishing well of crocodile cheers Say Hugging like a monkey see Monkey do Right beside a riverboat gambler Erotic images float through my head So you wanna be My midnight rambler Quickly Quickly The blood races through my veins Quickly Loudly I wanna hear those sugar bells ring Wish me love a wishing well To kiss and tell A wishing well of butterfly tears Wish me love a wishing well To kiss and tell A wishing well of crocodile cheers
(Terence Trent d'Arby)
Spoken: Sweetheart listen, I know the last few pages Haven't been good for the both of us And I've caused you a lot of grief But put those bags down, o.k.? Before you make a decision like that, Please just listen to me 'Cos I don't want you to leave. I definately don't want you to leave Just hear me out. Honey, don't leave me now With my head on my shoulders wrong Have I done something wrong for you to leave? I know I've been careless, girl And I must apologize I'll try better next time, baby If you let me stay If you let me stay I'll say what I should've said If you let me stay I should have said that I love you It you let me stay And I should have said it from my heart If you let me stay How can I compensate For my indiscretions, dear Tell me it's not too late That I'd love to hear If you walk out on me You will see a grown man cry I didn't miss my water Till my well ran dry But if you let me stay If you let me stay I'll say what I should've said If you let me stay I should have said that I love you It you let me stay And I should have said it from my heart If you let me stay Your pretensions aim for gullible fools And now who needs you anyway? I'll get mine elsewhere I taught the school You will regret it someday If you let me stay I'll say what I should've said If you let me stay I should have said that I love you It you let me stay And I should have said it from my heart If you let me stay
(Terence Trent d'Arby)
Get up 'outta' your rockin' chair grandma! Or rather would you care to dance grandmother? Hey you! Give up to the ghost That's haunting you now Shout it out Don't let it stay inside And eat you alive Make up your mind Don't you want to stay This side of the line I can assure you When you're my age You'll learn From all you've left behind (You've got to) Dance little sister Don't give up today Hang on till tomorrow I don't wanna hear you're late Dance little sister Don't give up today Hang on till tomorrow Don't give up your stay Say now share the weight And lay your cross down And let the long reaching arm Of hope bring you around It ain't easy but giving up Is the easy thing to do Time is on your side Would you just watch the clock And let it tick for you (You've got to) Dance little sister Don't give up today Hang on till tomorrow I don't wanna hear you're late Dance little sister Don't give up today Hang on till tomorrow Don't give up your stay
(Terence Trent d'Arby)
fortunately you have got someone who relies on you we started out as friends but the thought of you just caves me in the symptoms are so deep it's so much too late to turn away we started out as friends sign your name across my heart I want you to be my baby sign your name across my heart I want you to be my lady time I'm sure will bring disappointments in so many things it seems to be the way when your gambling cards on love you play I'd rather be in hell with you baby then in cool heaven, it seems to be the way sign your name across my heart I want you to be my baby sign your name across my heart I want you to be my lady birds never look into the sun before the day is gone but oh the light shines bright on a peacefull day stranger blue leave us alone we don't want to deal with you we'll shed our stains showering in the room that makes the rain all alone with you, makes the butterflies in me arise slowly we make love, and the earth rotates to our dictates slowly we make love............... sign your name across my heart......
(O'Reilly)
Breaths by the Shore But the wind youre defying Deaths at your door And you're not even crying Be wherever your wrecked Chrysler Chrome You will find a much nicer home Maudie my dear Peddle no more An accuser said lying I settled the score Though a loser for trying Though I never knew most of her ways What I knew made most of my days Maudie my dear Crossbones & Roses Are good for the soul The poets of heaven You're soon to behold Cast cross the fountain To me while I'm grieving What is your reason for leaving? (Back to 1st verse)
(Terence Trent d'Arby)
We're on the negative side of love
I'm subject to all bizarre
whims she fancies
I'm running escape to find the handle
Of the door she locks me up in
She's on the laughing side of sin
What have I done in all my past lives
(To end up on) This side of Love?
We're on a permanent twist of fate
She has dominion over time and torture
I'm pinching myself to convince me that
I'm in a living nightmare
The killer attraction of a dare
What have I done, emasculation
(To end up on) This side of Love?
If I should stay
(Will the beat go on?)
I must be strong
(We tell you every day)
Will I return
(To normal lovers again?)
Please peel my skin
('Cause my soul is burning)
We're on a roundabout whirl of scorn
The demons are smiling and
the angels snoring
I feel like a stepchild Caeser that's been
Beaten and bruised to please her
Wearing a rusted ring of thorns
What have I done to piss the Gods off
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(To end up on) This side of Love?
If I should stay
(Will the beat go on?)
I must be strong
(We tell you every day)
Will I return
(To normal lovers again?)
Please peel my skin
('Cause my soul is burning)
We're on the negative side of love
I see my condition as a sign of service
I'll snuggle up close to her knowing
That I'm practising my religion
Warming the barrel of a gun
This will be the deed that
finds me next time
(On this side of)
(On this side of)
(On this side of) This side of Love(Terence Trent d'Arby)
(Spoken Intro) Under a temperamental sun On the dark hillside of your sorrow If there's pain in your heart Let it go Just reach inside and let it go Now dig To know someone deeply Is to know someone softly To know someone deeply Is to know someone softly Listen to me know In my love garden I wrestled with an angel Not in a dream Her eyes did seem Like the grapes of the vine Her lips were made like the gates of Heaven Not to be missed Made to be kissed But not to kiss goodbye The larger picture Will come with time But for tonight, dear Let's lullabye To know someone deeply Is to know someone softly To know someone deeply Is to know someone softly Listen to me know Once a flower opens It never closes Until it dies And the it lies Amongst the roses I wanted to play her like A black grand piano A clarinet A minuet Or lyric soprano In my arms there's A safety zone Where nothing can harm you Your heart or home To know someone deeply Is to know someone softly To know someone deeply Is to know someone softly Sing Dum Dum Dum Dum / Sha La La Da Da Dum / Sha La La La La To know someone deeply Is to know someone softly To know someone deeply Is to know someone softly
(Terence Trent d'Arby)
Billy was a young boy Who's fate did decree That he would like only other boys So being with a boy came to him naturally Billy was a green boy His thoughts so naive He wondered why he was so victimised And his fear brought him close to me suddenly But Billy my friend Don't fall in love with me I'm not that kind of guy But I'll stand by your side If you need me to be But Billy my friend Don't fall in love with me Though it can't be wrong to be To be what you are Billy was a sick boy His life fading to grey He tried to grab for straws of family But his loved ones turned young Billy away Billy died a young man His face to the wind And of the things I regret the most Was seeing how hate and fear killed a friend But Billy my friend Don't fall in love with me I'm not that kind of guy But I'll stand by your side If you need me to be But Billy my friend Don't fall in love with me Though it can't be wrong to be To be what you are
(Terence Trent d'Arby)
Now do you love me like you say you do baby? (Do you love me like you say you do?) Listen baby, until I find the river I won't be satisfied with who I am In my Monasteryo your love ran hot or cold Symphony or damn I wanna be careful not to lose by laughter What I've gained by tears So here's a question baby You answer I most need to hear Now do you love me like you say you do baby? (Do you love me like you say you do?) I give my best to the best of your breed Take my heart pretty baby I believe that I have all that I need I exist for you wholly in this hour As the leaves exist Surely for the sake of the flower Now do you love me like you say you do baby? (Do you love me like you say you do?) It seems that you have all these emotional dragons That you must slay I believe your daddy didn't treat you right So it seems now TTD must pay The troubles advance while the sorrows retreat Yet whichever road you travel baby I genuinely wish you godspeed But before you go answer my question Now do you love me like you say you do baby? (Do you love me like you say you do?)
(Terence Trent d'Arby)
Delicate Delicate like rain Delicate like snow Delicate like birds Delicate just so Delicate like air Delicate like breeze Delicate like you and me A delicate advance A delicate retreat Delicately planned Delicate like peace Delicate like a touch That's delicately brief Delicate like you and me Delicate like trinkets on her bracelet (Like trinkets on her bracelet) Delicate like a bracelet on your arm (Like a bracelet on your arm) Delicate like sweet arms around me (Your sweet arms around me) Delicate like me on top of you Delicate like words Delicate how time So delicately runs Then delicately dies Delicate how eyes So delicately breathe Delicate like you my dear Delicate like me my love Delicate like you and Delicate like me and Delicate like Delicate like you and me
(Terence Trent d'Arby)
She is negative as can be And she's weak emotionally But she kissed me And she put it there She's got a chip on her shoulderblade And her attitude makes me afraid But she kissed me And she put it there She kissed me there The way no other girl has kissed me there She kissed me there The way no other girl has kissed me there When I'm bare She kisses me there When she bets She'd never hedge She likes walking on the razor's edge But she kissed me And she put it there She likes rap and metal really loud And she makes her other home girls proud But she kissed me And she put it there She kissed me there The way no other girl has kissed me there She kissed me there The way no other girl has kissed me there When I'm bare She kisses me there She kissed me there The way no other girl has kissed me there She kissed me there The way no other girl has kissed me there When I'm bare She kisses me there She's as simple as a girl can be Yet she has a cool complexity But she kissed me And she put it there When she met me I was still a boy Now I'm an older woman's toy Because she kissed me And she put it there
(Terence Trent d'Arby)
You're top man on the scene You don't think life comes in between But hey, she's just seventeen She feels that she's a worldly girl But man you've been around the world She is just some worried daddy's girl Even though there's nothing I can say To cheat you and nature any way Let her down easy Her heart is on a dime Let her down easy And you'll grow up in time In her strawberry eyes The way she sees you signifies That she's susceptible to your velvet lies But if you must lay her down May a butterscotch glow be her dressing gown And please do not lead her on when you leave town Even though there's nothing I can say To cheat you and nature any way Let her down easy Her heart is on the line Let her down easy And you'll grow up in time She's a woman now With a daughter to make her proud In her crayon world of paper clouds She still remembers you The first boy that she gave it to And she laughs at how little then she knew Her daughter's five and her grandfather adores her (of course) Let her down easy Her heart is on the line Let her down easy And you'll grow up in time
(Terence Trent d'Arby, Harris)
Fellas, I want you to listen to me 'cause I know ya'll will know what I am talkin' bout here today... Now dig... Let me tell you about a girl I know Every time I let my feelings show I sing this same old song... OW! Listen to me people... How come every time I try to put my best foot forward All I wind up doing is putting it in my mouth Somebody's got to tell me... I keep trying to do the right thing, But I keep doing it the wrong way... Every time that I try to win her lovin' I keep doing it the wrong way... I send her flowers - she starts to sneeze I didn't know that she had allergies (oh, yeah, yeah, yeah) I told her I apologize...and I'll make it up to you Listen to me! 'Cause I was tryin' to do the right thing But I keep doing it the wrong way... Every time that I try to win her lovin' I keep doing it the wrong way A 4 course meal - she called it a snack I even took her to my crib, and she called my place a shack! (oh, yeah, yeah, yeah) I tried to please the kind of girl... whose tastes are particular Man, this girl's about to break my back! I keep trying to do the right thing, But I keep doing it the wrong way... Every time that I try to win her lovin' I keep doing it the wrong way I keep on trying to do the right thing, Yeah! Yeah! But I keep... But I keep... But I keep...doing it the wrong way... Every time that I try to win her lovin' I keep doing it the wrong way Looky here now, I'm trying to do the right thing... I keep trying to do the right thing... Don't you know that... I'm trying to do the right thing... Oooh! Looky here... Put your hands together... Listen to me people... The top was down on lover's lane How was I supposed to know it was gonna rain? So, I called her up to make amends... And she agreed to see me once again... But this time she brought her UGLY friend! Ha, ha...I guess that's how the story ends... YEAH! I keep trying to do the right thing, But I keep doing it the wrong way... Every time that I try to win her lovin' I keep doing it the wrong way I keep trying to do the right thing, But I keep doing it wrong, yeah... Every time that I try to win her lovin' I keep doing it the wrong way... YEAH! HIT IT! YEAH! (hey, hey, hey) Come on... I could do nothing right, seemed like... Everything I wanna do came out wrong... I know ya'll know what I'm talkin' about! HEY! Yeah, yeah, yeah... Try...try...try...yeah Got to do the right thing... Don't ya know it... Tryin' to do the right thing... Don't ya know... Trying' to do the right thing... Trying' to do the right thing...baby Don't ya know... Keep tryin' to put my best foot forward... Instead I put it in my mouth... When I try to want love, baby... You, you, you want something Can I try, try, try to do the right thing... Don't ya know... Tryin' to do the right thing... Don't ya know, girl... Tryin' to do the right thing... For ya baby... Tryin' to do the right thing... For ya baby... I keep coming off all wrong...wrong...wrong...wrong...wrong...wrong...wrong...yeah Keeps coming off wrong
(Terence Trent d'Arby)
I left the east side for a west coast beauty A girl who burned my thoughts like kisses She was down by street decree She swore she'd pull my best years out of me Fat painted lips on a live wire beauty A tangerine girl with tambourine eyes Her face was my favourite magazine Her body was my favourite book to read They say that all poets must have an unrequited love As all lovers must have thought provoking fears But holding on to you means letting go on pain Means letting go of tears Means letting go of rain Means letting go of what's not real Holding on to you I left the rough side for a seaside baby A chamomile smile that pouts on cue For every moment I breathe her sigh Her bosom contains my sweet alibi In an emotional mist she breathes in fog And breathes it out as garden flowers Why me of all the tough talking boys? I guess she heard my heartbeat through the noise They say that all poets must have an unrequited love As all lovers must have thought provoking fears But holding on to you means letting go of pain Means letting go of tears Means letting go of the rain Holding on to you Means letting sorrows heal Means letting go of what's not real Holding on to you They say that all poets must have an unrequited love As all lovers I'm sure must have thought provoking fears But holding on to you means letting sorrows heal Means letting go of what's not real Holding on to you I left the east coast for a west coast beauty A woman who burned my thoughts like kisses She was down by street decree She swore she'd pull my best years out of me Fat wet lips on a sea salt canvas Goodbye Picasso hello Dali The soil is fertile where her footsteps trod She's my new religion she's all I got They say that all poets must have an unrequited love As all lovers I'm sure must have thought provoking fears But holding on to you means letting go of pain Means letting go of tears Means letting go of rain Means letting sorrows heal It means letting go
(Terence Trent d'Arby)
Come and go with me children Beautiful soul don't keep it in Can you transform the pain you feel? The birds of prey have swallowed The breadcrumbs you left behind To find your way back from the soul mines But sooner or later Sooner or later you'll feel the spirit move you And it'll come down to this, vibrator It'll come down to this, vibrator It'll come down to Beautiful child of God and man There's a messiah inside of you At times you feel like your life don't mean a damn thing But beware of the reflections that sorrows bring But sooner or later Sooner or later you'll feel a groove It'll come down to this, vibrator It'll come down to this, vibrator It'll come down to ...... VIBRATE! Come and go with me Laughing children seldom weep Laughing angels never sleep When your candle is burning low Strike a match and curse the darkness Feel it shaking like a bowl of soup Let it go loop de loop Starts the shaking Like you can't stop it But sooner or later When you least expect it You will feel connected Way down deep in your soul It'll come down to lift you It'll come down to Come and go with me children Would you be my teacher? Would you be my electric preacher? Just know that I need you
(Cooke)
[Intro] You look good out there, baby I was born by the river in a little tent Oh, just like the river, I been running ever since It's been a long, a long time coming But I know a change is gonna come Oh, yes it will, look it here It's been too hard living and I'm afraid to die Look it here Cuz I don't know what's up there beyond the sky It's been a long I wish I could come out there where you are baby A long time coming but I know Look it here A change is gonna come, oh yes it will Look it here Let me say one more thing I go to the movie and I go downtown But I don't like it here Somebody keep telling me oh boy, don't hang around It's been a long, a long If anybody know what I'm talking about Lemme see you wave your hands I know a chance gonna come, oh yes it will But I gotta take, say this here Then I go to my brother, yes sir And I tell 'em, I say brother help me please But he winds up knockin' me He knocks me back down, back down on my Oh there's been times that I fall Somebody say yeah Life could pass me on, no no I know I'm able, I'm able, I'm able I'm able to carry on It's been a long, good God almighty A long time coming but I know, yeah A change is gonna come, oh yes it will Look it here, one more time Then I go to my brother Somebody take your hands back and forth like this Everybody, everybody You sittin' in the first balcony too All over the auditorium tonight But he winds up knocking me down, my Back down on, back down on my knee oh I've been down but I thought I could last Oh, I know I'm able, I'm able, I'm able I know, I know, I know a change gonna come And oh yes it will Somebody say yeah You all back here, lemme hear ya say yeah Somebody say oh yeah Somebody say oh yeah Somebody say yeah Whoa, right on