Lionel Richie

[fox69]

"To The Rhythm"

"To The Rhythm"


Think about it
I don't understand what's goin' on
I'm trying to figure out the world around me
It seems we make the same mistakes over again
An I can't understand why
Tell me about it

Why do we walk in the footsteps of our ancestors
In a monotonous fashion
Recreating the same failures and crimes of passion
Help me understand our fascination with bloodshed and violence
What happened to the notion of the evil days being behind us
Are we too lost to find salvation or could it be
We don't want salvation to find us
Are we content with the changes that bind us

[Chorus]
We go on and on
To the rhythm
On and on
To the rhythm
We go on and on
To the rhythm
On and on

There's something else on my mind

Ain't it strange when we make change
We end up with dollars and no sense
Progress is a false pretense
From and Cain & Abel to any ghetto
Tiannemen Square to Soweto, apartheid to Jim Crowe
Are these problems incurable
We can charge stars invisible to the eye
But we can't find the solution for oppression or learn
If we can't live together we're all gonna die

[Repeat Chorus]

Hatred, racism, war, killing for sport
Got to change the way we look at each other
Abuse, rape, murder, neglecting the poor
Look at the pain we're going through

Selling our souls just to make a profit
Respect yourselves my sisters and brothers
Using addictions to deal with our problems
It's up to you
When we gonna stop it

Generations come and generations go
Time is the rhythm to which we all flow
Help me to realize cause I don't understand
Why does every generation have to do
The same thing again and again

[Repeat Chorus]

We're not destined to lose: it's about the paths we choose
How long before we get it
The value of which you get is measured in how much you're
Willing to sacrifice
Life's too short we can't waste a minute
So how much is it worth to you to save your life
And the lives of your children
How much must we go through
We have to change the words to the song before
We can truly enjoy the rhythm
It's up to you, It's up to you

[Repeat Chorus]

Life beats
360 degrees in a cycle to the rhythm
Time beats
Repeating things in a circular fashion to the rhythm
Hearts beat
To the rhythm
Love beats
To the rhythm
What are we gonna do about it
What are we gonna do about it
To the rhythm

Time we got ourselves together
To the rhythm
Cause we can't let hate beat to the rhythm
To the rhythm
Can't let lies beat
To the rhythm
To the rhythm
Bloodshed no, no
To the rhythm
There's nothing new under the sun
Hold on to the good
To the rhythm
We're doin' the same things over and over and over
Hold on to the good
'and over and over'
Stop the madness
'and over and over again

 

[fox69]

"Tonight"

"Tonight"


Tonight, if you're ready it's time
Tonight, we can make it feel so good tonight

You say you're ready
to be mine
This could be the right time
Got this feeling deep inside
And what I'm feeling, I just can't hide
So tell me
Are you looking for the time of your life
Let me know if you're ready to go
There'll be no hesitation, what feels right is right
It's all up to you, what are you going to do

Tonight, if you're ready it's time
I can feel it in the air tonight
Tonight, we can make it feel so good tonight

Get lost in the magic, lose control
Free your body, let's go
Feel the fire, it's burning hot
Feel the fire, just can't stop

So tell me
Are you looking for the time of your life
Let me know if you're ready to go
Take my hand and follow me
There'll be no hesitation, what feels right is right
Everything will be fine, just put your hand in mine

Tonight, if you're ready it's time
I know what we can do girl
Tonight, we can make it feel so good tonight
Good all night girl
Tonight, stay with me
If you're ready it's time, if you're ready girl
Tonight we can make it feel so good tonight

The clock is ticking, girl decide
If you're ready, let's ride
If you follow, what's on my mind
A night of passion, is what you'll find

So tell me
Are you looking for the time of your life
Let me know if you're ready to go
I need to know
I need to know

There'll be no hesitation, what feels right is right
Girl, it's all up to you, what are you going to do
Tonight, if you're ready it's time
It's all right
It's all right

Tonight, we can make it feel so good tonight
I can make it feel so right
I can make it feel so right

[Repeat]

 

[fox69]

"Touch"

"Touch"


Making love the time is right
Let me take you on a journey
I want tonight to be the night
I spend with you girl

Just relax, close the door
Don't hold back your feelings
All I want to do is just explore
The night with you girl

Let me show you how love can feel
Show you that my love is really real

[Chorus]
Touch, let me touch you baby
(I wanna touch your sweet body)
Touch and touch
(Touch, touch your sweet soul)
Touch, let me hold you baby
(Touch I want your mind to surrender)
And touch and touch
(Touch make me whole)

Gentle whispers will fill the night
Words hardly spoken
I feel the passion, I see the light
With you girl

I want to live inside your fantasy
I want to feel your fire burning
I want to know just how free is free
With you girl, only with you

Do you feel what I feel inside
If you do then come on take this ride

[Chorus]

Do you feel what I feel inside
If you do then come on take this ride

[Chorus]

And touch, I want to touch
I want to touch your mind
I want to be your friend
I want to touch your heart
I want to touch in you

 

[fox69]

"Truly"

"Truly"


Girl, tell me only this
That I'll have your heart for always
And you want me by your side
Whispering the words I'll always love you

And forever I will be your lover
And I know if you really care
I will always be there

Now I need to tell you this
There's no other love like your love
And i,as long as I live,
I'll give you all the joy
My heart and soul can give

Let me hold you
I need to have you near me
And I feel with you in my arms
This love will last forever

Because I'm truly
Truly in love with you girl
I'm truly head over heels with your love
I need you, and with your love I'm free
And truly,you know you're alright with me

 

[fox69]

"Up All Night"

"Up All Night"


So I found me a little thing
Wanna keep me up all night
She told me don't be so uptight
She wanna keep up all night
Damn she might kill me

I found me a pretty little thing
Wanna keep me up all night
She says she gonna make things all right
She wanna keep me up all night
Damn she might kill me

I'm in Brazil where the scene so fire
Where the girls and trees can get hotter
Everything that I see talks to me
Can't believe how the girls be walking

I've been here about an hour
They keep saying come talk to me
I keep thinking there's one and they say us three
Standing there getting out of the shower
Turning around showing me the thing got power

Started to converse and I sense a problem
And I'm thinking girl I can always solve them
But she didn't want to hear it
She says she is all mine and I can make him feel it
All along I was thinking it was gonna be her plus two
Now they're looking like Lionel the joke's on you
Next thing I'm feeling is her up and down
While the girls are watching

So I found me a little thing
Wanna keep me up all night
She told me don't be so uptight
She wanna keep up all night
Damn she might kill me

I found me a pretty little thing
Wanna keep me up all night
She says she gonna make things all right
She wanna keep me up all night
Damn she might kill me

I thought there ain't a thing I ain't seen
Until she pulled out a banner for me
She said whatever you want
I know I needed a little vacation
But now I may never go home

So I found me a little thing
Wanna keep me up all night
She told me don't be so uptight
She wanna keep up all night
Damn she might kill me

I found me a pretty little thing
Wanna keep me up all night
She says she gonna make things all right
She wanna keep me up all night
Damn she might kill me

I thought there ain't a thing I ain't seen
Until she pulled out a banner for me
She said whatever you want
I know I needed a little vacation
But now I may never go home

I'm in Brazil where the scene so fire
Where the girls and trees can get hotter
Everything that I see talks to me
Can't believe how the girls be walking

I've been here about an hour
They keep saying come talk to me
I keep thinking there's one and they say us three
Standing there getting out of the shower
Turning around showing me the thing got power

 

[fox69]

"Wandering Stranger"

"Wandering Stranger"


I'm a wandering stranger
Lost all alone
I'm a million miles away
I kno you're waiting for
To come home again
But I'm searching for an answer
Please try to understand

And I love you
And you love me
Someday we can make it together
Just you and me, oh just you and me

Sometimes I'm lonely
But I can not own myself
I must keep moving till I find me
Oh I'm hurting you
But I don't want to stay
My piece of mince is all my master
Help me if you can

And I love you
And you love me
Someday we can make it together
Just you and me, oh just you and me

Oh my love I do love you
In my heart I do feel you

I'm a wandering stranger
Can you help me make it through
Try to remember
Woman I love you

 

[fox69]

"Wasted Time"

"Wasted Time"


I Used to think that we've come too far to give up now
Now I see that you're really not the one for me
I constantly try to show my love,do everything
But now I think if I voice my love how wrong could it be

I never knew it before, I always thought I'd be sure
I plan to be with only you forever
But how can we just go on
Now that I know it's so wrong
We can't spend another day together

You should go, I no longer feel like wasting time
With you, goodbye, cause I don't need you with me
It's time you know, that all the things we had that felt so good
Were wasted time, and it's all because of you

I was blind, couldn't see the writing on the wall
In my mind, you were the only one to be with me
I can't believe, that it took so long to figure out
The games you play, now the truth is clear I have no doubt

I never knew it before, I always thought I was sure
I plan to be with only you forever
But how can we just go on
Now that I know it's so wrong
We can't spend another night together

You should go, I no longer feel like wasting time
With you, goodbye cause I don't need you in my life
It's time you know, that all the things we had that felt so good
Were wasted time, and I won't waste my time with you no more
You should go, I don't wanna feel like wasting time
With you, goodbye, you can leave, you can leave
It's time you know, that all the things we had that felt so good
Were wasted time, and I never knew

I never knew it before, I always thought I was sure
I plan to be with only you forever
But how can we just go on
Not when I know it's so wrong
We can't spend another night together

You should go, I no longer feel like wasting time
With you, goodbye
It's time you know, that all the things we had that felt so good
Were wasted time
Everything I tried to do, but it did not work
You should go, I no longer feel like wasting time
With you, goodbye
It's time you know, that all the things we had that felt so good
Were wasted time

 

[fox69]

"What You Are"

"What You Are"


It's four in the morning and I'm sitting here at night
I'm writing you this song to say what's on my mind
I'm leaving in an hour and you won't be up in time to say goodbye (so whoa)
I'm putting this on tape (baby you're wonderful)
I really mean it babe (more than you will ever know)
I wish that I could stay (but I gotta go)
I'll be back in the meantime
Keep in mind that

You are
Is something to big for words
And it's my pleasure to love you for better or worse
Cause what you are
A beautiful mother to your kids
Sometimes it slips my mind so in case I forget
Girl you are better than (anything)
I ever had
You are the perfect love
Never give you up
Because you are my heart and soul my breath
Take it all till nothings left
Cause baby you are

Now no man has ever loved his woman
LIke I love you girl you know it's true
And no man can ever say he does a woman better than I do you
Cause that ain't true (here's what I do)
Send you fresh-cut roses every day of the week
Take you shopping whenever
But more importantly
Wrap my loving arms around you
To reassure everything I felt that first night
I feel it more

 

[fox69]

"Why"

"Why"


It's been this many years
It's been that many years
And still have to ask the same question
Why?

Why don't it feel like it felt on the first night
When you and me would kiss at night
Remember what we tripped like
Why don't it feel like felt on the first night
Now it's so hard to find two words to say

Funny me, funny you
Don't have nothing lft in common
You wanted me to have your heart
Now you want it back
What about the promise you made to me
That you wouldn't trade the key in for no damn reason
And suddenly we're flying high
Now it's Mayday we're falling fast
You're trying to get lost
I'm trying to pull up
And damn I can't say
You said you didn't need me
I really didn't think that you would leave me

Why don't it feel like it felt on the first night
When you and me would kiss at night
Remember what we tripped like
Why don't it feel like felt on the first night
Now it's so hard to find two words to say

Why don't it feel like it felt on the first night
When we were saying things like where have you been all my life
Why don't it feel like felt on the first night
Now it's so hard to find two words to say

Now the kids are looking at me like I'm to blame
No longer got their respect for me
Don't want to hear what I'm saying
I know how it feels to be ashamed
Cause when I was young I felt that pain too
And I can't say nothing that would cause you to make a change
And that's the reason that we're going our separate ways
Then who am I fooling
What am I doing thinking you love me

Why don't it feel like it felt on the first night
When you and me would kiss at night
Remember what we tripped like
Why don't it feel like felt on the first night
Now it's so hard to find two words to say

Why don't it feel like it felt on the first night
When we were saying things like where have you been all my life
Why don't it feel like felt on the first night
Now it's so hard to find two words to say

You would think by this time I would get it right
Know the schemes and the things that make it be right
When you said you could stay no longer
I thought I had just a little more daylight
LIke when we use to turn a fight into a good night
I know the things I use to do to make you feel right
I would give anything the fortune I made
To bring back the days that the feeling was so right

Why don't it feel like it felt on the first night
When you and me would kiss at night
Remember what we tripped like
Why don't it feel like felt on the first night
Now it's so hard to find two words to say

Why don't it feel like it felt on the first night
When we were saying things like where have you been all my life
Why don't it feel like felt on the first night
Now it's so hard to find two words to say

Why don't it feel like it felt on the first night
When you and me would kiss at night
Remember what we tripped like
Why don't it feel like felt on the first night
Now it's so hard to find two words to say

Why don't it feel like it felt on the first night
When we were saying things like where have you been all my life
Why don't it feel like felt on the first night
Now it's so hard to find two words to say

Why the dreams we had we threw them all away
Why the dreams we had we let them slip away

 

[fox69]

"Will Be Alright"

"Will Be Alright"


Little darling
Where you've been so long
I've been out here thinking about ya
And the feeling's real strong
Well the time has come to celebrate
You and me girl so sounds great
Cause tonight will be alright
Oh baby

Little darling, come on
Let's take a ride
To a midnight honey town and set it on fire
We don't want to be mad
But we have to be cool
You and me girl
Let's break all the rules
Cause tonight will be alright
Oh my baby, I'm gonna say it again
I can see us moving on
Down the highway
I can see us loving
Till our hearts desire
Anything you wanna do girl
You just tell me
Cause it's alright, cause it's alright

Little darling, telling you no use
Keep me thinking about you honey
My soul's on fire
Well if you want me girl
And the games I play
Anything's alright, anything you say
Cause tonight will be alright
Alright, baby I'll say it again, alright
Alright, alright, alright, baby
We gonna make it alright
You and me baby, alright