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If'n I was God Well just for spite I wouldn't set the sun at night 'Til everyone was treated right By everyone else they see If'n I was God I'd fix it so without explaining Folks would know, they'd know What's going on inside Of everyone else like me Nobody hurt, nobody else Oh no, I wouldn't let it be Nobody have a need to pray Except for thanking me If'n I were God I'd make us wise So everyone could realize That everywhere beneath the sun Everyone needs, everyone And God, that ain't half I would do If'n I was you Oh yeah If'n I were God Love each other Reach out and touch somebody's hand Oh yeah
If'n I was God Well just for spite I wouldn't set the sun at night 'Til everyone was treated right By everyone else they see If'n I was God I'd fix it so without explaining Folks would know, they'd know What's going on inside Of everyone else like me Nobody hurt, nobody else Oh no, I wouldn't let it be Nobody have a need to pray Except for thanking me If'n I were God I'd make us wise So everyone could realize That everywhere beneath the sun Everyone needs, everyone And God, that ain't half I would do If'n I was you Oh yeah If'n I were God Love each other Reach out and touch somebody's hand Oh yeah
Get jazzy on 'em You know the words to my songs, no habla inglés (oh) Our conversations ain't long But you know what it is I know what the girl dem want, London to Taiwan I got lipstick stamps on my passport, I think I need a new one Been around the world, don't speak the language (uh-huh) But your booty don't need explaining (uh-huh) All I really need to understand is (uh-huh) When you, you talk dirty to me You talk dirty to me (what?)
Baby I got love for thee So deep inside of me I don't know where to start I love you more than anything But the words cant even touch what's in my heart When I try to explain it I be sounding insane The words don't ever come out right I get all tongue tied (and twisted) I can't explain what I'm feeling And I say baby, baby Baby (baby I) Oh baby, oh baby, my baby (baby I) Oh baby, baby I (baby I) All I'm tryna say is you're my everything baby But every time I try to say it words they only complicate it Baby, baby (ooh oh) Baby I'm so down for you No matter what you do (real talk) I'll be around Oh baby, see baby I been feelin' you Before I even knew what feelings were about Oh baby When I try to explain it I be sounding all crazy The words don't ever come out right I get all tongue tied (and twisted) I can't explain what I'm feeling And I say baby, baby Baby (baby I) Oh baby, oh baby, my baby (baby I) Oh baby, baby I (baby I) All I'm tryna say is you're my everything baby But every time I try to say it words they only complicate it Baby, baby Baby, baby Straight up, you got me All in, how could I not be I sure hope you know (I sure hope you know) If it's even possible, I love you more Than word love can say it It's better not explaining that's why I keep saying baby I Ooh baby, oh baby, my baby (Baby I) Oh baby, baby I (baby I) All I'm tryna say is you're my everything baby But every time I try to say it words they only complicated Baby, baby (baby) Baby, baby (baby I) Ooh baby oh baby oh baby (baby I) Oh baby (Baby I) All I'm tryna say is you're my everything baby But every time I try to say it words they only complicated Every time I try to say it words they only complicated Every time I try to say it words they only complicated Baby, baby Baby, baby
Can we pretend that airplanes In the night sky Is like shooting stars I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now) Can we pretend that airplanes In the night sky Are like shooting stars I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now) (Dreamin', of fallin, dreamin', of fallin') Let's pretend like its '98 Like I'm eating lunch off of Styrofoam trays Trying to be the next rapper coming out the A Hoping for a record deal, to re-know my pain Now let's pretend like I'm on the stage And when my beat drops everybody goes insane (ok) And everybody know my name (B.o.B) And everywhere I go people wanna hear me sang Oh yea and I just dropped my new album On the first week I did five hundred thousand Gold in the spring and diamond in the fall And then a world tour just to top it all off And let's pretend like they call me the greatest Selling out arenas with big ass stages And everybody loved me and no one ever hated Let's try to use imagination Can we pretend that airplanes In the night sky Is like shooting stars I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now) Can we pretend that airplanes In the night sky Are like shooting stars I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now) Okay, let's pretend like this never happened Like I never had dreams of being a rapper Like I didn't write raps in all of my classes Like I never used to runaway into the blackness Now let's pretend like it was all-good Like I didn't live starring in a notebook Like I did the things I probably knew I should But I didn't have neighbors that's why they call it hood Now let's pretend like I ain't got a name Before they ever called me B.o.B or a.k.a Bobby Ray I'm talking back before the mixtapes Before the videos and the deals and the fame Before they ever once compared me to Andre Before I ever got Myspace Before they ever noticed my face So let's just pretend and make wishes out of airplanes Can we pretend that airplanes In the night sky Is like shooting stars I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now) Can we pretend that airplanes In the night sky Are like shooting stars I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now) (And it seems like yesterday it was just a dream But those days are gone, they're just memories And it seems yesterday it was just a dream But those days are gone) Let's pretend Marshall Mathers never picked up a pen Let's pretend things would've been no different Pretend he procrastinated, had no motivation Pretend he just made excuses that Was so paper thin they could blow away wit the wind Marshall you never gone make it, Makes no sense to play the game it ain't no way that'll you win Pretend he just stand out side all day and play with his friends Pretend he even had a friend to say was his friend And it wasn't time to move in school no changing again He wasn't socially awkward and just strange as a kid He had a father and his mother wasn't crazy as shit And he never dreamed he can ripped stadiums he just lazy as shit Fuck a talent show in the gymnasium bitch You won't amount to shit quit day dreaming kid You need to get ya cranium check you thinking like an alien It just ain't realistic Now pretend they ain't just make him angry with this shit And there was no one he could even aim when he's pissed with And his alarm went off to wake him but he didn't make it to the rap Olympics He slept through his plane and he missed it He's gonna have a hard time explaining to Haley and Laney these food stamps and W-I-C shit 'Cause he never risked shit, he hoped and he wished it But it didn't fall in his lap so he ain't even hear it he pretends that Airplanes In the night sky Is like shooting stars I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now) Can we pretend that airplanes In the night sky Are like shooting stars I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)
Spending every moment in the studio I never said it'd be fair But when you're all alone I hope you truly know How bad I want to be there Come right in, set your bag down Took a night off for you Go ahead and turn the lights off But keep your heels on They're fittin' for what I'm about to do, oh Know you hate explaining how you want it done Just be quiet, I'll do fine without your help, girl Can you work without a second for some fun?
Slow down, grab the wall Wiggle like you trying to make yo ass fall off Hella thick I wanna smash 'em all Now speed up, gas pedal, gas pedal, gas pedal, gas pedal, gas pedal Now speed up, gas pedal, gas pedal, gas pedal I put my foot down yeah that's the way it is Suck it good now what you see is what you get Neighborhood's hella jealous when they see the wheels Pull up in the gun metal 'rari with a fresh fit Gas pedal, gas pedal Trying to keep up like adderall I ain't even stressing no a-at all So presidential I'm federal I'm trying to get there, so when I get there Imma make sure you won't forget babe Hold on, don't sweat it babe I saw the writing on your ass and yeah I read it babe So hold on, you won't forget it babe Yeah you know I'm ready if you ready baby Gotta take the short route, pedal to the floor watch me peel out Slow down, grab the wall Wiggle like you trying to make yo ass fall off Hella thick I wanna smash 'em all Now speed up, gas pedal, gas pedal, gas pedal, gas pedal, gas pedal Now speed up, gas pedal, gas pedal, gas pedal Non responsive, I'm killin' post de-activator Dry niggas, no sheen, no neutrons or activator It's going up, no explaining the escalator I'm trying to keep this here alive the Bay's respirator Let 'em see me shine, they call me one hit wonder now I'm that 3 times I'm seeing big things now they want me blind I made your girl fall ain't even check archives Kelly boy, HBK, I make songs like it's my last name I must be Trey Ballin' like Dave Chappelle, playin' Princeton, shoot the jay.
It's the same kind of story That seems to come down from long ago Two friends having coffee together When something flies by their window It might be out on that lawn Which is wide, at least half of a playing field Because there's no explaining what your imagination Can make you see and feel Seems like a dream They got me hypnotized Now it's not a meaningless question To ask if they've been and gone I remember a talk about North Carolina And a strange, strange pond You see the sides were like glass In the thick of a forest without a road And if any man's hand ever made that land Then I think it would've showed That's why it seems like a dream Got me hypnotized And I know that's right Seems like a dream They got me hypnotized They say there's a place down in Mexico Where a man can fly over mountains and hills And he don't need an airplane or some kind of engine And he never will Now you know it's a meaningless question To ask if those stories are right 'Cause what matters most is the feeling You get when you're hypnotized Seems like a dream They got me hypnotized Seems like a dream They got me hypnotized Seems like a dream They got me hypnotized Got me hypnotized
Slow down, grab the wall Wiggle like you trying to make yo ass fall off Hella thick I wanna smash 'em all Now speed up, gas pedal, gas pedal, gas pedal, gas pedal, gas pedal Now speed up, gas pedal, gas pedal, gas pedal I put my foot down yeah that's the way it is Suck it good now what you see is what you get Neighborhood's hella jealous when they see the wheels Pull up in the gun metal 'rari with a fresh fit Gas pedal, gas pedal Trying to keep up like adderall I ain't even stressing no a-at all So presidential I'm federal I'm trying to get there, so when I get there Imma make sure you won't forget babe Hold on, don't sweat it babe I saw the writing on your ass and yeah I read it babe So hold on, you won't forget it babe Yeah you know I'm ready if you ready baby Gotta take the short route, pedal to the floor watch me peel out Slow down, grab the wall Wiggle like you trying to make yo ass fall off Hella thick I wanna smash 'em all Now speed up, gas pedal, gas pedal, gas pedal, gas pedal, gas pedal Now speed up, gas pedal, gas pedal, gas pedal Non responsive, I'm killin' post de-activator Dry niggas, no sheen, no neutrons or activator It's going up, no explaining the escalator I'm trying to keep this here alive the Bay's respirator Let 'em see me shine, they call me one hit wonder now I'm that 3 times I'm seeing big things now they want me blind I made your girl fall ain't even check archives Kelly boy, HBK, I make songs like it's my last name I must be Trey Ballin' like Dave Chappelle, playin' Princeton, shoot the jay.
Just occasionally You get cheesed off with people writing rubbing about you, which you get often Yeah, I agree with that I've had a divorce and half a dozen kids Now, what do you, eh, well I mean, doesn't, isn't this a big sort of drag to go Around explaining to your wife that you're not divorced and all that sort of things? No, she knows I'm not divorced, 'cause I keep seeing her every day, you see Yes, a point, but what about the simpler things of life, like, eh" Like riding a bus?
It's the same kind of story That seems to come down from long ago Two friends having coffee together When something flies by their window It might be out on that lawn Which is wide, at least half of a playing field Because there's no explaining what your imagination Can make you see and feel Seems like a dream They got me hypnotized Now it's not a meaningless question To ask if they've been and gone I remember a talk about North Carolina And a strange, strange pond You see the sides were like glass In the thick of a forest without a road And if any man's hand ever made that land Then I think it would've showed That's why it seems like a dream Got me hypnotized And I know that's right Seems like a dream They got me hypnotized They say there's a place down in Mexico Where a man can fly over mountains and hills And he don't need an airplane or some kind of engine And he never will Now you know it's a meaningless question To ask if those stories are right 'Cause what matters most is the feeling You get when you're hypnotized Seems like a dream They got me hypnotized Seems like a dream They got me hypnotized Seems like a dream They got me hypnotized Got me hypnotized
Turn, turn, turn again Manslaughter in the highest of degrees Turn, turn to the rain and the wind I sat down and wrote the best words I could write Turn, turn, turn again Explaining to the judge I'd be there on Wednesday night Turn, turn to the rain and the wind Without a reply I left by the moon Turn, turn, turn again And was in his chambers by the next afternoon Turn, turn to the rain and the wind Could you tell me the facts, I said without fear Turn, turn, turn again That a friend of mine would get ninety-nine years Turn, turn to the rain and the wind A crash on the highway flew the car to a field Turn, turn, turn again There was four persons killed and he was at the wheel Turn, turn to the rain and the wind But I know him as good as I'm knowin' myself Turn, turn, turn again And he wouldn't harm a life that belonged to someone else Turn, turn to the rain and the wind The judge he spoke out of the side of his mouth Turn, turn, turn again Sayin',"The witness who saw he left no doubt" Turn, turn to the rain and the wind That may be true, he's got a sentence to serve Turn, turn, turn again But ninety-nine years, he just don't deserve Turn, turn to the rain and the wind Too late, too late for his case it is sealed Turn, turn, turn again His sentenced is passed and it cannot be repealed Turn, turn to the rain and the wind But he ain't no criminal and his crime it is none Turn, turn, turn again What happened to him could happen to anyone Turn, turn to the rain and the wind And at that the judge jerked forward and his face it did freeze Turn, turn, turn again Sayin',"Could you kindly leave my office now, please" Turn, turn to the rain and the wind The room was funny and I stood up so slow Turn, turn, turn again With no other choice except for to go Turn, turn to the rain and the wind I walked down the hallway and I heard his door slam Turn, turn, turn again I walked down the courthouse stairs and I did not understand Turn, turn to the rain and the wind And I played my guitar through the night to the day Turn, turn, turn again And the only tune my guitar could play Was, "Oh the cruel rain and the wind"
It's pouring in, you're laid on the floor again One knock at the door and then We both know how the story ends You can't win if your white flag's out when the war begins Aiming so high but swinging so low Trying to catch fire but feeling so cold Hold it inside and hope it won't show I'm saying it's not, but inside I know Today's gonna be the day you notice 'Cause I'm tired of explaining what the joke is This is what you asked for, heavy is the crown Fire in the sunrise, ashes rainin' down Try to hold it in but it keeps bleedin' out This is what you asked for, heavy is the Heavy is the crown Turned to run, now look what it's become Outnumbered ten to one Back then should've bit your tongue 'Cause there's no turning back this path once it's begun You're already on that list Say you don't want what you can't resist Waving that sword when the pen won't miss Watch it all fallin' apart like this This is what you asked for, heavy is the crown Fire in the sunrise, ashes rainin' down Try to hold it in but it keeps bleedin' out This is what you asked for, heavy is the Heavy is the crown Today's gonna be the day you notice 'Cause I'm tired of explaining what the joke is (This is what you asked for) This is what you asked for, heavy is the crown Fire in the sunrise, ashes rainin' down Try to hold it in but it keeps bleedin' out This is what you asked for, heavy is the Heavy is the crown Heavy is the crown Heavy is the Heavy is the crown
Where'd your love, baby? I ran into this girl, I said, "I'm tired of explaining" Man, this shit is draining But I'm not really allowed to be mad
I said, you been reading my mail He just smiled and said, let me see that guitar I got something you ought to hear And then he laid it on me If you waste your time a talking To the people who don't listen To the things that you are saying Who do you thinks gonna hear? And if you should die explaining how The things that they complain about Are things they could be changing Who do you thinks gonna care?
Get jazzy on 'em You know the words to my songs, no habla inglés (oh) Our conversations ain't long But you know what it is I know what the girl dem want, London to Taiwan I got lipstick stamps on my passport, I think I need a new one Been around the world, don't speak the language (uh-huh) But your booty don't need explaining (uh-huh) All I really need to understand is (uh-huh) When you, you talk dirty to me You talk dirty to me (what?)
Now I never seen a man that had no reason for complaining But he smiled at me explaining how he never walked alone When they called me to his death bed I remember How my daddy just looked up and smiles and said I'm going home.
We've known each other For a long long time But I never really noticed All the magic in your eyes I've been around you A thousand times before And you've always been a friend to me But now I'm wanting more I must have been so blind I never realized You're the one that's right for me All the while I couldn't see And now I feel so strange I'll never be the same Going 'round and 'round in circles And I don't know what to do 'Cause baby I've been thinking about you In the most peculiar way I've been thinking about you It's unbelievable to me But suddenly I think I'm falling in love with you There's no explaining how I feel inside I'm going thru a transformation That's so hard for me to hide I had a revelation that Finally opened up my eyes The one I spent a lifetime searching for Was right here all the time I was oblivious so very out of touch All the while I couldn't see You're the one that's right for me And now my world has changed I'll never be the same Going 'round and 'round in circles And it's all because of you Sweet baby I've been thinking about you In the most peculiar way I've been thinking about you It's unbelievable to me But suddenly I think I'm falling in love with you I've been thinking about you In the most peculiar way I've been thinking about you It's unbelievable to me But suddenly I think I'm falling in love with you Don't you know That you're blowing my mind What you do to me I can't describe Baby I can't hold back anymore I just can't conceal it You're the one I really adore I've been thinking about you In the most peculiar way I've been thinking about you In the most peculiar way I've been thinking about you In the most peculiar way I've been thinking about you It's unbelievable to me But suddenly I think I'm falling in love with you I've been thinking about you In the most peculiar way I've been thinking about you It's unbelievable to me But suddenly I think I'm falling In the most peculiar way I've been thinking about you It's unbelievable to me But suddenly I think I'm falling in love with you
And you still can hear me singin' to the people who don't listen, To the things that I am sayin', prayin' someone's gonna hear. And I guess I'll die explaining how the things that they complain about, Are things they could be changin', hopin' someone's gonna care.
Devastation, Obliteration Are all to the point of Exacerbation There's no explaining my situation now, Why does this shit keep happening to me? I've held on too long just to let it go now, Will my inner strength get me through it some how Defying the curse that has taken hold Never surrender, I'll never be overcome!
We've known each other For a long long time But I never really noticed All the magic in your eyes I've been around you A thousand times before And you've always been a friend to me But now I'm wanting more I must have been so blind I never realized You're the one that's right for me All the while I couldn't see And now I feel so strange I'll never be the same Going 'round and 'round in circles And I don't know what to do 'Cause baby I've been thinking about you In the most peculiar way I've been thinking about you It's unbelievable to me But suddenly I think I'm falling in love with you There's no explaining how I feel inside I'm going thru a transformation That's so hard for me to hide I had a revelation that Finally opened up my eyes The one I spent a lifetime searching for Was right here all the time I was oblivious so very out of touch All the while I couldn't see You're the one that's right for me And now my world has changed I'll never be the same Going 'round and 'round in circles And it's all because of you Sweet baby I've been thinking about you In the most peculiar way I've been thinking about you It's unbelievable to me But suddenly I think I'm falling in love with you I've been thinking about you In the most peculiar way I've been thinking about you It's unbelievable to me But suddenly I think I'm falling in love with you Don't you know That you're blowing my mind What you do to me I can't describe Baby I can't hold back anymore I just can't conceal it You're the one I really adore I've been thinking about you In the most peculiar way I've been thinking about you In the most peculiar way I've been thinking about you In the most peculiar way I've been thinking about you It's unbelievable to me But suddenly I think I'm falling in love with you I've been thinking about you In the most peculiar way I've been thinking about you It's unbelievable to me But suddenly I think I'm falling In the most peculiar way I've been thinking about you It's unbelievable to me But suddenly I think I'm falling in love with you
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 the love was gone And that I had to leave (Now you) talkin' bout a family (Now you) sayin' I complete your dream, ooh (Now you) sayin' 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', desirin' to come back to me (What goes around, comes around) (What goes up, must come down) Now who's cryin', desirin' to come back I remember when I was sittin' home alone Waiting for you 'til three o'clock in the morn' And when you came home You'd always have some sorry excuse Half explaining to me Like I'm just some kind of a fool I sacrificed 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, ayy (Now you) have so much to say to me, hey (Now you) wanna make time for me What you do to me, you're confusing 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', desirin' to come back to me (What goes around, comes around What goes up, must come down) Now who's cryin', desirin' to come back I remember when I was sittin' home alone Waiting for you 'til three o'clock in the morn' Night after night, knowing somethin' goin' on Wasn't long before I be g-g-gone Lord knows it wasn't easy, believe me Never thought you'd be the one that would deceive me And never do what you supposed to do No need to approach me boo, 'cause I'm over you (What goes around, comes around) (What goes up, must come down) Now who's cryin', desirin' to come back to me (What goes around, comes around What goes up, must come down) Gotta stop cryin', 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) around (What goes up, must come down) Now who's cryin', desirin' to come back to me
(This is how we do it) Love shouldn't be defined Love is one of a kind What we do is crazy, baby All the ways you make me feel The way you do me like that (the way you do me like that) The way you do me like that (oh) We just understand what nobody else can (oh) You know how to put it down How to pick me up and never cause me stress Every day's a rush You always cracking jokes that always make me blush I could stand the world if it was just us Every day you love me so Never let you go When I say it's on you'll never tell me no That's love, baby (that's love, baby) Oh, that's us, baby (that's us, baby) Ain't no point explaining, all this love we making They think that we're crazy but it's us (but it's us) (but it's us, but it's us) 'Cause this is how we do us, baby, baby This is how we do us, baby, baby Don't you hate it when they get to asking All them questions 'bout the way we rockin'?
It was winter time in Nashville down on Music City Row I was lookin' for a place to get myself out of the cold To warm the frozen feelin' that was eatin' at my soul And keep the chilly winds off my guitar My thirsty wanted whiskey and my hunger needed beans But I guess it'd been a month of payday since I heard that eagle scream So with a stomach full of empty and a pocket full of dreams I left my pride and stepped inside a bar Actually I guess you'd call it a tavern Cigarette smoke to the ceiling sawdust on the floor friendly shadows I saw that there was just an old man sittin' at the bar In the mirror I could see him checkin' me and my guitar He said come up here boy show us what you are I said I'm dry he bought me a beer He nodded at my guitar said it's a tough life ain't it I just looked at him And he said you ain't makin' any money are you I said you been readin' my mail He just smiled and said let me see that guitar I got somethin' you oughta hear then he laid it on me If you waste your time a talkin' to the people who don't listen To the things that you are sayin' who do you thinks gonna hear And if you should die explainin' how the thing they complain about Or the things they could be changing who do you thinks gonna care There were lots of other singers in the world turned deaf and blind Who were crucified for what they tried to show Now their voices have been scattered by the swirling winds of time And the truth remains that no one wants to know Well the old man was a stranger but I'd've heard his song before Back when failure had me locked out on the wrong side of the door No one stood behind me but my shadow on the floor And lonesome was more than a state of mind You see the devil haunts a hungry man And if you don't want to join him well he's gotta figure out someway to beat him And I ain't sayin' I beat the devil but I drink his beer for nothin' And then I stole his song You can still hear me singin' to the people who don't listen To the things that I am sayin' prayin' someone's gonna hear And I guess I'll die explaining how the things that they complain about Are things they could be changin' hopin' someone's gonna care I was born to be a singer and I'm bound to die the same But I've got to feed this hunger in my soul If I never have a nickel I won't even die in shame 'Cause I don't believe that no one wants to know
