....me, my music, & my mind: great music lyrics

me, my music, & my mind

As I took yet another road trip from Ohio to Alabama and reverse, Alabama to Ohio, my mind took me places I have not been able to go in my life. I was listening to music. I love so many genres of music. However, without a doubt, Prince Roger Nelson is my favorite artist of all-time. I was listening to his CDs and was like, “Wow, mahn, I tell you; this man has some lyrics that are just deep!”

Then I thought how music, like life, tells a story. As a poet, I know my lyrics are personal, heartfelt, anger….ME!

Let’s talk about love! Let’s talk about like! Let’s talk about how you do me wrong when I’m doing you right! Let’s talk about forgiveness. Let’s talk about pain. Let’s talk about how I’m always your sunshine even when it rains. Let’s talk about you and me! Let me tell you what I see. I see lies through your eyes and I’m tired! ~from lies through your eyes: you only love you! By Erin Adams-Phillips~

Al Green, "Love and happiness. Make you do right. Love'll make you do wrong!"

I thought about songs I love. This is a very short list, but I wanted to share some of me with my readers.  So here are some of my favorite song lyrics…lyrics that just hit home…touches the heart…so true you wanna break out and go to church on those lines! I mean really preach a sermon on those lines!! Let’s get started here:

PRINCE SINGS ABOUT COMMUNICATION IN A RELATIONSHIP:

“If I was your girlfriend would you remember, to tell me all of the things you forgot when I was your man? If I was your best friend, would you let me take care of you? Do all the things that only a best friend can? If I was your girlfriend, if I was your girlfriend. If I was your girlfriend, would you let me dress you? I mean help you pick out your clothes before we got out? Not that you're helpless but sometime—sometime those are the things that bein' in love's about”.

QUALITY TIME AND AFFECTION:

“U don't have 2 be beautiful, 2 turn me on. I just need your body baby. From dusk till dawn. U don't need experience 2 turn me out. U just leave it all up 2 me. I'm gonna show u what it's all about. U don't have 2 be rich 2 be my girl. U don't have 2 be cool 2 rule my world. Ain't no particular sign I'm more compatible with. I just want your extra time and your…..Kiss”

STOP PLAYING GAMES—DON’T DENY ME OF THAT:

“Come Closer. Feel what you been dying for.  Don't be afraid, baby. Touch it and explode. Understand, understand that I love you. Ah, but more than that - I want you. Everybody always told me good things come to those who wait. But I've got so much on the menu, I just can't, I just can't, I can't wait, baby I can't wait, baby”. ~Prince~

WANT VERSUS NEED; I DON’T NEED YOU I WANT YOU!:

“I may not know where I'm going (babe). I said I may not know what I need. One thing, one thing's 4 certain baby, I know what I want, yeah; and if it please u baby, please u, baby. I'm begging down on my knees! I want u!” ~Prince~

STILL, I GOT PRIDE, BABE!

 “Touch if you will my stomach; feel how it trembles inside, you’ve got the butterflies all tied up. Don’t make me chase you even DOVES have pride!” ~Prince~

Stop the madness! ~backing up on the one foot hop…eyes closed…arms crossing in front of my chest~  Whew!

REASSURANCE:

“Until the end of time, I‘ll be there for you! You own my heart and mind!”  ~Prince~

GIVE YOU TO ME…DON’T HOLD BACK:

“Here we are in this big old empty room, staring each other down. U want me just as much as I want u, lets stop fooling around. Take me baby... kiss me all over... play with my love. Bring out what's been in me for far too long. Baby, u know that's all I’ve been dreaming of!” ~Prince~

oh la la la la la la la la la la la la la Nobody, na na na na Ooh la la la la la la la la la la la la la Nobody, na na ~Jeffrey Osbourne~

BITTERSWEET MOMENTS…LIFETIME OF PAIN:

“Yes we've stolen this moment.  We forgot to face, one simple fact. We both belong~ to someone else. As we slept, the night away”. ~Shirley Murdock~

I JUST WANTED TO BE YOUR FRIEND; SEE YOU SMILE:

“I never meant to cause you any sorrow. I never meant to cause you any pain. I only wanted to one time see you laughing. I only wanted to see you laughing in the purple rain. ..Purple rain, Purple rain…I only wanted to see you bathing in the purple rain. I never wanted to be your weekend lover. I only wanted to be some kind of friend. Baby I could never steal you from another. It's such a shame our friendship had to end.” ~Prince~

Boy hush! Lawd!!!!  Help me! Oh oh oh oh oh…oh oh oh oh oh ~Lenny Williams~

APPRECIATE ME:

“She says yes, I look a mess, but I don’t love you any less. I thought you always thought enough me to always be impressed”. ~Lisa Stansfield~

FED UP:

“I'm standing here looking in the mirror. Saying "damn" to myself. I should have known the day would come. That she would find somebody else. And all the things I took her through. Shit, I shouldn't have lasted this long. Now I'm at this telephone booth calling Tyrone!” ~Mr. R Kelly~

FOOL IN LOVE:

“There´s something on my mind. Won´t somebody please please tell me what´s wrong? You´re just a fool you know you´re in love. You´ve got to face it to let it explode. You take the good along with the bad. Sometimes you´re happy and sometimes you´re sad. You know you love him you can´t understand. Why he treats you like he do when he´s such a good man.”

REALITY:

Oh...oh...oh...love, oh, love Stop making a fool of me ~Deniece Williams~

 

…YOU HURT HER…BROKE HER HEART:

“Good morning heartache. You old gloomy sight. Good morning heartache. Thought we said goodbye last night. I turned and tossed until it seems you have gone, but here you are with the dawn. Wish I forget you, but you’re here to stay. It seems I met you, when my love went away. Now every day I stop I’m saying to you, Good morning heartache what’s new” ~the one and only Billie Holiday~

I LOVE me some YOU:

“And it gets stronger, in every way…And it gets deeper, let me say…And it gets higher, day by day and do I love you my, oh my. Yeah river deep mountain high…If I lost you would I cry. Oh how I love you baby, baby, baby, baby” ~Tina Turner~

I will always love you IF:

 “I'll love you when your hair turns grey girl. I still want you if you gained a little weight, yeah. The way I feel for you will always be the same. Just as long as your love don't change (no)”. ~Musiq~

ALWAYS REMEMBER:

“Cause a real man knows a real woman when he sees her and a real woman knows a real man ain’t afraid to please her. And a real woman knows a real man always comes first; and a real man just can’t deny a woman’s worth!” ~Alicia Keys~

CONFLICTED, BUT I KNOW WHAT I WANT—what woman better to SANG that then the late GREAT Teena Marie:

“Tender was the kiss when you held me captive in your sweet embrace. My lips begin to burn and my heart beats faster than the normal pace.  I try hard to resist that familiar smile that melts me just like wax . But what’s the use, I’m yours and that means forever, there’s no turning back”

WHY DO I LOVE HIM?

Let me tell you why I love him. Cause he is the truth. Said he is so real…And I love the way that he makes me feel. And if I am a reflection of him then I must be fly, cause his light it shines so bright I wouldn't lie ~India Arie~

A-Phi train happy going on now….head bounce up and down….back it up YEAH! Whew! \0/

Time to listen to some music! Thanks for your support. I love yous!