Well, she was an American girl
Raised on promises
She couldn’t help thinkin’ that there
Was a little more to life
Somewhere else
After all it was a great big world
With lots of places to run to
Yeah, and if she had to die tryin’
She had one little promise
She was gonna keep
I don’t care what you do at night
Oh, and I don’t care how you get your delights
I will leave you alone, I will just let it be
I don’t love you and you don’t love me
I got a problem. Can you relate?
I got a woman calling love hate
We made a vow we’d always be friends
How could we know that promises end?
People talkin all around 'bout the way you left me flat
I don’t care what the people say, I know where their jive is at
One thing I do have on my mind if you can clarify, please do
It’s the way you call me another guy’s name
When I try to make love to you, yeah
Do you remember, mama, when I knocked upon your door?
I said you had the nerve to tell me
You didn’t want me no more, yeah
I open my front door, I hear my back door slam
You know, I must have one of them newfangled
Newfangled back-door men
Yeah
Uptown girl
She’s been living in her uptown world
I bet she never had a backstreet guy
I bet her momma never told her why
One soft infested summer, me and Terry became friends
Trying in vain to breathe the fire we was born in
Catching rides to the outskirts, tying faith between our teeth
Sleeping in that old abandoned beach house, getting wasted in the heat
And hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets
With a love so hard and filled with defeat
Running for our lives at night on them backstreets
Summertime in Virginia was a oven
All the kids eating ice cream with their cousins
I was studyin’ while you was playing the dozens
Don’t act like you was there when you wasn’t
Runnin’ from the man runnin’ from the badge
Don’t act like you was there when you wasn’t
Runnin’ toward our plans and the judges hands
Don’t act like you was there when you wasn’t
Children behave"
That’s what they say when we’re together
“And watch how you play”
They don’t understand
And so we’re
Running just as fast as we can
Holdin’ on to one another’s hand
Tryin’ to get away into the night
And then you put your arms around me
And we tumble to the ground
And then you say
It feels so right now, hold me tight
Tell me I’m the only one
And then I might
Never be the lonely one
So hold me tight, tonight, tonight,
It’s you, you you you oooo oooo
Tonight, tonight, it all began tonight
I saw you and the world went away
Tonight, tonight, there’s only you tonight
What you are, what you do, what you say
I’m going down, going down like a monkey
Ooh, but it’s alright
Try to pick yourself up
Carry that weight that you can’t see
Don’t you know it’s alright?
It’s like a helter skelter
Going down and down, 'round and 'round
But just get it away from me, oh
Because tonight, tonight, tonight, oh
We’re gonna make it right
Tonight, tonight, tonight, oh
Tonight I’m gonna have myself a real good time
I feel alive
And the world, I’ll turn it inside out, yeah
I’m floating around in ecstasy
So don’t stop me now
Don’t stop me
'Cause I’m having a good time
Having a good time
Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow
Don’t stop, it’ll soon be here
It’ll be better than before
Yesterday’s gone, yesterday’s gone
Stop! In the name of love
Before you break my heart
Stop! In the name of love
Before you break my heart
Think it over
Think it over
You better think (think)
Think about what you’re tryin’ to do to me, think (think-think)
Let your mind go, let yourself be free
Free your mind and your ass will follow
The kingdom of heaven is within
Open up your funky mind and you can fly
Free your mind and your ass will follow
The kingdom of heaven is within
I’m not numbed that anymore
Not longer feel the hate and pain
No longer drenched in shame
I’m not numbed that anymore
Now I am the key to the door
The kingdom of heaven lies inside
Makes a circle with the turning tide
Now the circle is complete
And the heart and mind they need
The kingdom of heaven lies inside
I love visions of you endlessly
I love visions of you endless
We stand at the doorways
To the higher worlds
But they won’t open
'til we open ourselves
And strip away our thinking minds
To unlock the love that’s deep inside
And destroy all these clumsy words
To feel the energy they hide
Think about it, there must be higher love
Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above
Without it, life is wasted time
Look inside your heart, I’ll look inside mine
Things look so bad everywhere
In this whole world, what is fair?
We walk blind and we try to see
Falling behind in what could be
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes
They call me on and on across the universe
Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letterbox they
They tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe