℗ 2006
(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)
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 Hugging like a monkey see Monkey do Right beside a riverboat gambler Erotic images float through my head So I wanna be Your 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)
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 is 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 Than 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 brighter On a peaceful 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 I want you to be my baby Sign your name Across my heart I want you to be my lady
(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)
Hold back your diamonds and pearls 'Cause the attraction's no good to me Hold back your California Girls Your prescriptions and your limousines Hold back your influential friends For they are really not my type 'Cause just as long as I've got my baby I'll be alright I'll be alright Despite all the finer things She'd have if she were monied Like a rich girl I'll be alright Despite all the candy coloured things The things that are so untrue Hold back your perfumes so rare 'Cause she smells like a rose untorn Hold back your designer underwear She's a beauty just the way she was born She may not move like Fred Astaire But her gingerly walk is out of sight 'Cause just as long as I've got my baby I'll be alright I'll be alright Despite all the finer things She'd have if she were monied Like a rich girl I'll be alright Despite all the candy coloured things The things that are so untrue I'll sing it for the last time y'all Hold back your critical reviews 'Cause my baby don't need the hype We're happy just to pay our little dues So get movin', get on your bike 'Cause just as long as I've got my baby If I can hold on and keep my baby If I can just hold on and keep my baby I'll be alright
(Terence Trent D'arby)
Your dangerous charm and your Glamorous arrogance thrilled me In the melancholy winter time (Uncle Bill please give me time) But this war of attrition To prove your world ambition Worries me And you're too concerned with the Weight you want to lose Well if you listen to confusion Long enough it starts to make sense Can you hear me talking to ya? Roly Poly Holy Holy Time is tight Get it right Aren't you lonely? Roly Poly Holy Holy Time is tight Get it right Aren't you lonely? Your fatalist's closet Where blood stained deposits hide deeply Underneath the cusp of Venus fly A terrible beauty You are my dear of Aphrodisiacs and diamonds But your lonely tears trail Your penis envy eyes And now stop worrying about your Weight it looks alright to me dear Can you hear me talking to ya? Roly Poly Holy Holy Time is tight Get it right Aren't you lonely? Roly Poly Holy Holy Time is tight Get it right Aren't you lonely? All your somethings Are turning into nothings As you reach for Something greed inspired And all the hopes that I once held as your Lover Are falling down as My manhood loses fire Your kinship with money A Queen Bee with honey Suits you As you now belong to the ever Changing guard A signpost for progress A fine token lioness Leaves me 'Cause as you say dear I'm just a Face without a card Well if you listen to confusion Long enough it starts to make sense Can you hear me talking to ya? Roly Poly Holy Holy Time is tight Get it right Aren't you lonely? Roly Poly Holy Holy Time is tight Get it right Aren't you lonely?
(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)
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)
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 lead a life inside of your mind That has nothing to do whatsoever with my time She stated very clear She made it very plain Your subplot world is so cavalier Yet you knew the tension inside the sweetness was so near She stated very clear She made it very plain In a way that needs no refrain Frankie and Johnny were lovers alright A man and a woman toughened by the weight of time But not quite as hard as they seem Because they both have hearts awaiting dreams Frankie, a tough gal when she needs to be Johnny, a city hard street man A softer side seen eventually But they'll both be ok even with a heartbreak yesterday Oh when a gentle breeze takes love liberties When a breath of air Blows your heart a pair Of kisses where You wait for her Frankie and Johnny were lovers alright And the tempered scale of experience Cannot forever indict Two hearts looking to belong in the heat Of the sun as opposed to night No, I wouldn't worry about them 'Cos people in love cannot condemn Those who are in love too Frankie and Johnny were lovers alright
(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
(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)
If you all get to Heaven Say a prayer for my mother Say a prayer for my father Say a prayer for my brother But most of all please say a prayer for me Words of a feather All flock together Going round and round A soul is astral travelling Watching human motion Wasting thy seed upon the ground Discreet intermissions Coroners petitions Their work goes into the sand Voices from the middle Are gaining very little It's getting all out of hand If you all get to Heaven Say a prayer -volace menteh- Say a prayer for food and plenty Say a prayer -sehr sensible- But most of all please say a prayer for me If you all get to Heaven Say a prayer for my camel As I ride through the desert Say a prayer for the rumours The rumours of war The last moody summer Was autumn in covers Bespeaks of dogs in the dark A perfect reunion Of bloody communion Where do we find Noah's ark? A thousand words or more Seep through the floor And then take root in the soil Growing trees of doubt Helpless people shout Until their blood starts to boil If you all get to Heaven Say a prayer for Asmodeus Say a prayer for Belial Say a prayer for his denial But most of all you gotta say a prayer for me If you all get to Heaven Say a prayer for St. Religion Say a prayer for blood baptism Say a prayer for it's division But most of all please say a prayer for me Old men's cigars puff up the wars To protect their fuck-ups again Young men must die! To keep the old ones alive And to prove they're studs once again It you all get to Heaven Say a prayer for the people Who will kill for cross and steeple Say a prayer for righteous bullets But most of all please say a prayer for me If you all get to Heaven Say a prayer for my mother Say a prayer for my father Say a prayer for my brother But most of all you gotta say a prayer for me
(Terence Trent D'arby)
I was born by the river in a little tent Oh just like that river I've been running ever since It's been a long time coming But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will It's been too hard living, but I'm afraid to die 'cause I don't know what's out there beyond the sky It's been a long, a long time coming But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will I go to the movie and I go downtown somebody keep telling me don't hang around It's been a long, a long time coming But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will Then I go to see my brother And I say him to help me please And he just winds up knockin' me Back down on my knees There been times when I thought I couldn't last for long But now I think I'm able to carry on It's been a long, been a long time coming But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will
(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