Harlem's Nocturne

Drop it
Yeah, yeah
Come in for a minute,
Welcome back
It's just me and you in this room right now
There's so many things that are on my mind
Ah yeah, ah
Sometimes it's hard to say
So I take all I've got
So I take all I have
And I put it into this
I put it right here in my diary
Can you feel it?
Uh, uh, uh
Take this journey with me

Wake Up

You used to be my closest alli
In this cold, cold world of deception and lies
We would defend and protect one another (one another)
Now I can't tell if we're enemies or lovers
So who's gonna rescue us from ourselves
When we gonna wake up (wake up)
Baby, (wake up) it's time for loving
When we gonna wake up (wake up)
My baby, (wake up) before it's too late

Oh baby
Where did we go wrong, baby
Did this cold, cold world turn us into stone
Well
Now all I battle
Is your ego and your pride
It's ticking like a time bomb
Ready to ignite
Hurt me to fight

So who's gonna rescue us from ourselves
When we gonna wake up (wake up)
Baby, (wake up) it's time for loving
When we gonna wake up (wake up)
My baby, (wake up) before it's too late
When we gonna wake up (wake up)
Baby, (wake up) it's time for loving
When we gonna wake up (wake up)
My baby, (wake up) before it's too late

When the smoke clears
What will be left for us but tears and pain
Why must we argue over the same things
Just to make up and go back again
It's never too late
Living to long
Can't get it right when no one thinks they're wrong
Gotta get out of bed
And take a look at what's going on

Oh when we gonna wake up (wake up)
Baby, (wake up) it's time for loving
When we gonna wake up (wake up)
My baby, (wake up) before it's too late
When we gonna wake up (wake up)
Baby, (wake up) it's time for loving
When we gonna wake up (wake up)
My baby, (wake up) before it's too late
When we gonna wake up (wake up)
Baby, (wake up)it's time for loving
When we gonna wake up (wake up)
My baby, before it's too late

Oh baby (wake up)
Oh darling (wake up)
When we gonna wake up (wake up)
When we gonna take a look and see (wake up)
What's going on (wake up)
Oh what's going on (wake up)
Cause we're wasting so much time (wake up)
And we're about to lose it all (wake up)
Oh baby baby baby (wake up)
Said I need you baby
Oh I need my baby home (wake up)
Bring my baby back to me (wake up)
Oh baby baby baby (wake up)
Oh oh (wake up)
Wake up

Karma

Weren't you the one that said that you don't want me anymore.
And how you need your space, and give the keys back to your door.
And how I cried and tried and tried to make you stay with me.
But still you said that love was gone, and that I had to leave.

Now you, talkin bout a family
Now you, saying I complete your dream
Now you, saying I'm your everything
You're confusing me
What you say to me
Don't play with me
Don't play with me.

Cause what goes around, comes around.
What goes up, must come down.
Now who's cryin, desiring to come back to me
What goes around, comes around.
What goes up, must come down.
Now who's cryin, desiring to come back

I remember when
I was sittin home alone
Waitin for you
Til three o'clock in the morn
And when you came home, you'd always have some sorry excuse.
And explaining to me, like I'm just some kinda fool
I sacrifice the things I want just to do things for you
But when it's time to do for me, you never come through

Now you, wanna be up under me (hey)
Now you, have so much to say to me (hey)
Now you, wanna make time for me
What you do to me.
You confusin me
Don't play with me
Don't play with me.

Cause what goes around, comes around.
What goes up, must come down.
Now who's cryin, desiring to come back to me
What goes around, comes around.
What goes up, must come down.
Now who's cryin, desiring to come back

I remember when
I was sittin home alone
Waitin for you
Til three o'clock in the morn
Night after night
Knowin something goin on
Wasn't long before I be going going gone
Lord knows it wasn't easy, believe me.
Never thought you'd be the one that would deceived me.
And never do wha you was supposed to do
No need to approach me boo, cause I'm over you

Cause what goes around, comes around.
What goes up, must come down.
Now who's cryin, desiring to come back to me
What goes around, comes around.
What goes up, must come down.
Gotta stop tryin, to come back to me
What goes around, comes around.
What goes up, must come down.
It's called Karma baby.
And it goes around.
What goes around, comes around,
What goes up, must comes down,
Now who's cryin, desiring to come back to me

So Simple

Yeah, yeah
It would be
It would be
It would be, so simple

What it is ain't what it was
What should it be, when it comes to you and
How it seems ain't how it is
There's been a change, when it comes to me and

Oh baby you,
Oh baby me,
Oh maybe we,
Can try another day another way

All in my mind,
I'm wonderin' why,
We cannot find,
What was left at the beginning
If I could

Meet you again
Kiss you again
Miss you again
(It would be, it would be so simple)

Cause I would
Love you again
Hold you again
Need you again
(It would be, it would be
Could it be, could it be so simple)

Now it's hardly simple
It's just simply hard
When it comes to you and
I find myself not being myself
Just to avoid
All this confrontation with

Oh baby you,
Oh baby me,
Oh maybe we,
Can put this armor down and settle down

Oh it's off track
That is a fact
Can we get it back
Get it back to the beginning
If I could

Meet you again
Kiss you again
Miss you again
(It would be, it would be so simple)

Cause I would
Love you again
Hold you again
Need you again
(It would be, it would be
Could it be, could it be so simple)

Don't you know that it would be
Don't you know that it would be
Don't you know that it would be
It would be
It would be
It it would be
It would be

Meet you again
Kiss you again
Miss you again
(It would be, it would be so simple)

Cause I would
Love you again
Hold you again
Need you again
(It would be, it would be
Could it be, could be so simple)
Yeah
La, la, la, la, la, la, la yeah
La, la, la, la, la, la, la

Heartburn

Uh, oh oh oh
Yeah, oh oh oh
Oh, oh, oh,
Come on, oh oh oh
Tempo, oh oh oh
A. Keys, oh oh oh
Let's go, oh oh oh
Lemme, (oh oh oh)
Lemme, lemme, lemme
Lemme tell you something
Tell ya how I feel
When he comes around
I gettin to feelin ill
It's a achy feelin
Inside my chest
It's like I'm going in to cardiac arrest, uh
Adrenaline rushin in my body,
All my power I just can't fight it.
No matter how,I keep on tryin
I can't deny

I've got this heartburn
Burnin in my soul (heartburn)
Call the fire department (ooh heartburn)
It's out of control (heartburn, oh)

You got me trippin, slippin
Gettin beside myself
I tried some medication
But don't nothin help
So I said, doctor doctor, tell me will I die
And he said count to five Alicia
And I'm gone be alright
Lets go, 1, 2, 3, 4

Adrenaline rushin in my body,
All my power I just can't fight it.
No matter how I keep on tryin
I can't deny I've got this heartburn
Burnin in my soul (heartburn)
Call the fire department (ooh heartburn)
It's out of control (heartburn) oh
Taste so good, I can't resist, (whoa)
Gettin harder to digest, (whoa)
Can't take no mo,
Gotta shake it off, woah
Now break it down, and take it to the ground with me now
Everybody say oh.
Oh, uh oh oh, oh
Uh oh oh, whoa
Uh oh oh, uh uh oh oh
Uh oh oh, uh oh oh
Uh oh oh, oh
Uh oh oh, howoh
U oh oh

Don't you know I got this (heartburn)
Burnin in my soul (heartburn)
Call the fire department (heartburn)
It's out of control (heartburn)
What you trynna do? (heartburn)
Burin in my soul (heartburn)
Call the fire department (heartburn) uh
It's out of control (heartburn) ooh
Shake it, shake it, shake it off (go head girl)
Shake it, shake it, shake it off (ooh)
Shake it, shake it, shake it off (go head girl)
Shake it, shake it, shake it off (ooh)
Go head girl
Ooh

When You Really Love Someone

I'm a woman
Lord knows it's hard
I need a real man to give me what I need
Sweet attention, love and tenderness
When it's real, it's unconditional
I'm telling ya'll
Cause a man just ain't a man if he ain't man enough

To love you when you're right
To love you when you're wrong
Love you when you're weak
Love you when you're strong
Take you higher when the world got you feeling low
He's giving you his last, cause he's thinking of you first
Giving comfort when he's thinking that you're hurt
That's what's done when you really really love someone
I'm telling ya'll, I'm telling ya'll

Cause you're a real man
And Lord knows it's hard
Sometimes you just need a woman's touch
Sweet affection, love and support
When it's real its unconditional
I'm telling ya'll, oh
Cause a woman ain't a woman if she ain't woman enough

To love you when you're right
To love you when you're wrong
Love you when you're weak
Love you when you're strong
Take you higher when the world got you feeling low
She's giving you her best, even when you're at your worst
Giving comfort when she's thinking that you're hurt
That's what's done when you really love someone
I'm telling ya'll, I'm telling ya'll
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

Sometimes you're gonna argue, sometimes you're gonna fight
Sometimes it's gonna feel like it'll never be right
But something so strong keeps you holding on
It don't make sense but it make a good song
Cause a man just ain't a man if he ain't man enough

To love you when you're right
To love you when you're wrong
Love you when you're weak
Love you when you're strong (Love when you when you're strong)
(Take you higher) when the world got you feeling low
He's giving you his last, cause he's thinking of you first
Giving comfort when he's thinking that you're hurt
Oh that's what's done when you really love someone
I'm telling ya'll, I'm telling ya'll
I'm telling ya'll that a woman ain't a woman if she ain't woman enough
(To love ya)
Love you when you're right
Love you when you're wrong
(To hold ya)
Love you when you're weak
Love you when you're strong
Take you higher and higher
when the world got you feeling low
She's giving you her best, even when you're at your worst
(Even when youre at your worst, baby)
Giving comfort when she's thinking that you're hurt
That's what's done when you really love someone
I'm telling ya'll, I'm telling ya'll

If I Was Your Woman/Walk On By

Ayo Mo Bee
Drop it on me
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah
Let's do it like this uh

If I was you woman
And you were my man
You'd have no other woman
You'd be weak as a lamb
If you had the strength
To walk out my door
My love would overrule my faith
And I'd call you back for more

If I was your woman
(If I was your woman)
If I was your woman
(If I was your woman)
And you were my man
Yeah

She tears you down darling
Says you're nothing at all
But I'll pick you up darling
When she lets you fall, cause
You're like a diamond
But she treats you like glass
Yet you beg her to love you
But me you won't ask

If I were your woman
(If I was your woman)
If I were your woman
(If I was your woman)
If I was your woman
Here's what I'd do
I'd never, never, no, no stop loving you
Yeah yeah

Life is so crazy
And love is unkind
Because she was first darling
Will she hang on your mind
You're a part of me
But you don't even know it
I'm what you need
But I'm too afraid to show it

If I were your woman
(If I was your woman)
If I were your woman
(If I was your woman)
If I were your woman
(If I was your woman)
Here's what I'd do
I'd never, never, no, no stop loving you
If I were your woman
Here's what I'd do
I'd never, never, never stop loving you

Yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

If I were your woman
If I were your woman
If I were your woman
If I were your woman
If I were your woman

Feeling U, Feeling Me (Interlude)

Do you ooh
Two hour long conversations on the phone,
Can't get you out of my mind
Baby are you feeling me feeling you?
Everything you say and everything you do,
Gets me lost in you days at a time,
Tell me are you feeling me feeling you?

You Don't Know My Name

Baby, baby, baby,
From the day I saw you,
I really, really wanted to catch your eye.
There's something special bout you.
I must really like you,
Cause not a lot of guys are worth my time, oh.
Ooh. baby, baby, baby,
It's gettin kinna crazy,
Cause you are takin over my mind.

And it feels like ooh
You don't know my name.
I swear...
It feels like ooh
You don't know my name.
('Round and 'round and 'round we go. Will you ever know?)
Oh

Baby, baby, baby
I see us on our first date.
You doin' everything that makes me smile.
And when we had our first kiss,
It happened on a Thursday,
And, ooh, it set my soul on fire.
Ooh, baby, baby, baby,
I can't wait for the first time.
My imagination's runnin' wild.

It feels like ooh
You don't know my name.
And I swear it, baby,
It feels like ooh
You don't know my name.
('Round and 'round and 'round we go. Will you ever know?)
Will you ever know?

I'm sayin'
He don't even know what he's doin' to me.
Got me feelin all crazy inside.
I'm I'm feelin like oh

I'm doin' more than I've ever done
For anyone's attention.
Take notice of what's in front of you
Cause did i mention (Oh)
You're 'bout to miss a good thing?
And you'll never know how good it feels to have
All of my affection.
And you'll never get a chance to experience
My lovin' (Oh)
Cause my lovin feels like ooh

You don't know my name.
('Round and 'round and 'round we go. Will you ever know?)
And I swear it feels like ooh
You don't know my name.
('Round and 'round and 'round we go.
Will you ever know?)

Will you ever know it?
No, no, no, no, no no, no
Will you ever know it?

Well I'm a have to just gon head and call this boy.
Hello?
Can I speak to, to Michael? Oh, hey how you doin'?
Uh, I feel kinna silly doin this but, uh,
This is the waitress from the coffee house on 39th from Lenox.
You know the one with the braids?
Yeah. Well I see you on Wednesdays all the time.
You come in every Wednesday on your lunch break, I think.
And you always order the special, with the hot chocolate.
My manager be trippin and stuff talkin 'bout we gotta use water, but
I always use some milk and cream for you, cause
I think you kinna sweet.
Anyway, you always got on some fly blue suit
And your cufflinks is shining all bright.
So what you do?
Oh word?
Yeah that's interesting
Look man, I mean, I don't wanna waste your time but
I know girls don't usually do this,
But I was wondering if maybe we could get together
Outside the restaurant one day?
You know cause I do look a lot different
Outside my work clothes and
I mean we could just go across the street to the park, right here
Wait, hold up, my, my cell phone's breakin' up, hold up
Can you hear me now?
Yeah. so what day did you say?
Oh yeah. Thursday's perfect,

And it feels like ooh
You don't know my name.
('Round and 'round and 'round we go. Will you ever know?)
Baby, baby I swear it's like ooh
But you don't know my name. No no no
('Round and 'round and 'round we go. Will you ever know?)

And it feels like ooh
But you don't know my name.
('Round and 'round and 'round we go. Will you ever know?)
And I swear on my mother and father, it feels like
Ooh, ooh, ooh
(But you don't know my name. 'Round and 'round and 'round we go.)
Will you ever know?

Slow Down

Ooh baby
There's something that I gotta tell ya
Pain that you should know
What's on my mind
Ooh baby
I'm feeling our situation
It's getting stronger
And we on it
I gotta take my time

See there's so much about you
That I want to explore
Phisical attraction,
We just can't ignore it
But before we go too far
Across the line
Gotta really make sure
That I'm sure

Slow down babe
Let's take our time
Slow down babe
If you don't mind (baby slow down)
Slow down babe
Before we make this move
Slow down babe (before we make this move)
Baby slow down
(I think it's really too soon)

Ooh baby
It's like I known you forever
My medulla oblongata
Is electrified
Ooh baby
Whenever we're alone together
I'm bout to explode
And it feels so right
But I gotta take my time

There's so much about you
That I want to explore
Phisical attraction,
We just can't ignore it
But before we go too far
Across the line
Gotta really make sure
That I'm sure oh

Slow down babe
Let's take our time (slow down baby)
Slow down babe (slow down baby)
If you don't mind (baby slow down)
Slow down babe
Before we make this move
Slow down babe (before we make this move)
Baby slow down
(Baby it's really too soon
Soon yeah)

See I know what is best
Cause I been here before
Gave myself to someone
For all the wrong reasons
But this time around
I don't wanna do that again
I just wanna make this the way
That I've dreamed of
So baby you got to

Slow down babe
Let's take our time (slow down baby)
Slow down babe (slow down baby)
If you don't mind (baby slow down)
Slow down babe
Before we make this move
Slow down babe (before we make this move)
Baby slow down
(I think it's really too soon yeah)

Slow down
You got to slow down
You got to slow down
Baby slow down
You got to slow down
You got to slow down
You've got to slow down

If I Ain't Got You

Some people live for the fortune
Some people live just for the fame
Some people live for the power yeah
Some people live just to play the game
Some people think that the physical things
Define what's within
And I've been there before
But that life's a bore
So full of the superficial

Some people want it all
But I don't want nothing at all
If it ain't you baby
If I ain't got you baby
Some people want diamond rings
Some just want everything
But everything means nothing
If I ain't got you yeah

Some people search for a fountain
The promises forever young you know
Some people need three dozen roses
And that's the only way to prove you love them

Hand me the world on a silver platter
And what good would it be?
With no one to share, with no one who truly cares for me

Some people want it all
But I don't want nothing at all
If it ain't you baby
If I ain't got you baby
Some people want diamond rings
Some just want everything
But everything means nothing
If I ain't got you, you, you

Some people want it all
But I don't want nothing at all
If it ain't you baby
If I ain't got you baby
Some people want diamond rings
Some just want everything
But everything means nothing
If I ain't got you yeah
If I ain't got you with me baby
Nothing in this whole wide world don't mean a thing
If I ain't got you with me baby

Samsonite Man

I don't wanna do this over and over yeah
He's a man so full of style and grace
Any woman be impressed
Takes a smile and paints it on your face
Makes you feel like you've been blessed
Promises things so special
Seems to come right from a song
Soon as you begin to feel secure yeah
Turn around and he is gone oh

Packing his bags, gotta go, gotta go
Packing his bags, gotta go
He's a Samsonite Man

Maybe he is just a rolling stone
Wandering from here to there (rolling)
Searching for a place to call his own
Wonder if he even cares
So many years of heartache and pain
That's all you seem to know him for
Is it you, or is it he to blame?
Whenever he walks out your door oh

Packing his bags, gotta go, gotta go
Packing his bags, gotta go
He's a Samsonite Man

Where you're always running to, away from me
If the wind blows you in my direction
You'd come through to rendezvous
Forget about your good attention
Leave me lonely and confused
Mr.Samsonite pack a bag
That is my suggestion
From here on out you will be leaving
My discretion yeah

So I know the game baby
And it will never be the same (no no no no no)
Cause now I got him
Packing his bags, gotta go, gotta go
Packing his bags, gotta go, gotta go
Packing his bags, gotta go, gotta go (Now you gotta go)
Packing his bags, gotta go (I can't take it no more)
Packing his bags, gotta go, gotta go (What do I love him for)
Packing his bags, gotta go
He's a Samsonite Man

Why don't you just go
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, woah woah yeah yeah
You can't hurt me no more baby
You can't touch me
You can't hurt me no more baby
Gotta go, gotta go
Pack your bag, pack it up
Gotta go, hit the road Jack
You ain't gotta go home, but you can get the hell outta here

Diary

Lay your head on my pillow
Here you can be yourself
No one has to know what you are feeling
No one but me and you

I won't tell your secrets
Your secrets are safe with me
I will keep your secrets
Just think of me as the pages in your diary

I feel such a connection
Even when you're far away
Ooh baby if there's anything that you fear (anything)
Call 4-8-9 46 0-8 and I'll be here

I won't tell your secrets
Your secrets are safe with me
I will keep your secrets
Just think of me as the pages in your diary

Only we know what is talked about baby boy
I don't know how you can be drivin me so crazy boy
Baby when your in town why don't you come around boy
I'll be the loyalty you need you can trust me boy
Oh oh

I won't tell your secrets
Your secrets are safe with me
I will keep your secrets
Just think of me as the pages in your diary

Everybody say
Whoa (whoa)
Let me hear you say
Whoa (whoa)
Everybody say
Whoa (whoa)
Now sing it
Whoa (whoa)
Lemme hear you say
I won't tell (I wont tell)
I won't tell (I wont tell)
I won't tell (I wont tell)
Your secrets, your secrets
Break it down oh

Nobody Not Really

Who really cares?
Who really cares?
When I talk?
What I feel?
What I say?
Nobody not really

Who wants to take
The time to understand
I would like someone to hear me with some empathy
But I can't find
Nobody not really

Maybe I'm invisible to the world
Does anyone in the world even think of me?
As more than just a hopeless cause
Maybe the world is not my block
My stoop
My life
My dreams
My anything, anything

Who wants to help?
Mama, but she's so tired
Papa, but you're not here
I'm alone in a big empty space with
Nobody not really

Dragon Days

Like a damsel in distress
I'm stressin you
My castle became a dungeon,
Cause I'm longin for you (longin for you babe)
Feeling strong for you
You're my knight in shining armour
See your face in a silver moon
Oh, over the lagoon

And it feels like, dragon days
And the fire's hot
Like the desert needs water
I need you a lot
Dragon days
I need to be saved
I'm missing you
(And the days drag on and on)

Desperate for you baby
Do you know what that means?
(It means I feel like)
I feel like an addict must feel
When he fiends
In an act of desperation
I get lost in my dreams
(Cause like a)
Lady in waiting, I'm waitin' for ya
(Like a) like a prisoner tied over alligator waters
(Waiting for my) prince of paradise to come and
Take me away
From these (tock tick)

Dragon days
And the fire's hot
Like the desert needs water
I need you a lot
Dragon days
I need to be saved
I'm missing you yeah
(And the days drag on and on)
Don't you wanna play?

D-R-A-G-O-N days
Got me D-R-A-G-G-I-N
Cause I want you babe
And I need you baby
Save me

Dragon days
And the fire's hot
Like the desert needs water
I need you a lot
(I need a lot, I need you so bad)
Dragon days
I need to be saved
I'm missing you
(And the days drag on and on)
Dragon days
And the fire's hot
Like the desert needs water
I need you a lot, I need you so bad
Dragon days
I need to be saved
I'm missing you
(And the days drag on and on)
Drag on, yeah oh