The Temptations

[fox69]

"Beauty Is Only Skin Deep"

"Beauty Is Only Skin Deep"


So in love, sad as could be
'Cause a pretty face got the best of me.
Suddenly, you came into my life
And gave it meaning and pure delight.
Now, good looks, I've learned to do without.
'Cause now I know it's love that really counts.

'Cause I know that...
(Beauty's only skin deep, yeah, yeah, yeah.)
I know that...
Beauty's only skin deep, yes indeed.

Now you speak your words warm and sincere.
And let's me know that your love is near.
A pretty face you may not possess
But what I like about you is your tenderness.
A pretty face maybe some guys taste
But I'll take lovin' in it's place.

'Cause I know that...
(Beauty's only skin deep, yeah, yeah, yeah.)
And you know that...
Beauty's only skin deep, oh baby, oh yeah.
(Oh yeah, Oh yeah)

(Beauty's only skin deep, yeah, yeah, yeah.)
Ooo
(Beauty's only skin deep, oh yeah.)
Yes it is.

My friends ask, what do I see in you
But it goes deeper than the eye can view.
You have a pleasin' personality
And that's an ever lovin' rare quality.
Now show me a girl, a girl that's fine
And I'll choose the one with true lovin' every time.

I know that...
(Beauty's only skin deep, yeah, yeah, yeah)
And I believe that...
Beau- know that beauty's only skin deep.

So if you're lookin' for a lover. (Oh yeah)
Don't judge a book by it's cover. (Oh yeah)
She may be fine on the outside (Oh yeah)
But so untrue on the inside. (Oh yeah)
Ooo

 

[fox69]

"Born To Love You"

"Born To Love You"


[Eddie:]
Girl, as you walk by... I breathe a sigh.
And deep inside I knew it had to be.
This little girl is mine.
And for a little while I heard a strange rhapsody.
Hmmm

So lovely and so fair. (Fair)
I knew right then and there. (There)
That you were made for me.
And it wasn't hard to see.
I guess I was born to love you. (Born to love you)
Born to love you. (Born to love you)
Hmmm (Born to love you)

(Honey I, I was born to love you. Give my love to no one but you.)

[David:]
Here stands a man, with his future in your hands.
Don't let go. (Don't let go)
Don't let go. (Don't let go)
Baby, don't let her go. (Don't let go)
Please (Don't let go)

[Eddie:]
You better come on and take my hand.
'Cause I don't understand, this crazy feeling in my soul.
But I know that I would rather die, then let this feeling go.

Now girl can't you see (See)
That this was meant to be. (Be)
It's funny but it's true.
I guess I was just born to love you. (Born to love you)

[David:]
Darling... (Born to love you)
Darling I... (Born to love you)
I was born... (Born to love you)
Born to love only you. (Born to love you)

Why don't you believe... (Born to love you)
Believe what I tell you, baby (Born to love you)
I was born to love only you. (Born to love you)
(Born to love you)

[Eddie:]
Darling... (Born to love you)
I... (Born to love you)
Oh, our love is true. (Born to love you)

 

[fox69]

"Build Me Up Buttercup"

"Build Me Up Buttercup"


Why do you build me up (Build me up) buttercup, baby
Just to let me down (Let me down)and mess me around
And then worst of all (Worst of all) you never call, baby
When you say you will (Say you will) but I love you still
I need you (I need you) more than anyone, darlin'
You know that I have from the start
So build me up (Build me up) buttercup, don't break my heart

"I'll be over at ten", you told me time and again
But you're late, I wait around and then (Bah-dah-dah)
I run to the door, I can't take any more
It's not you, you let me down again

(Hey, hey, hey!) Baby, baby, try to find
(Hey, hey, hey!) A little time, and I'll make you happy
(Hey, hey, hey!) I'll be home
I'll be beside the phone waiting for you
Ooo-oo-ooo, ooo-oo-ooo

Why do you build me up (Build me up) buttercup, baby
Just to let me down (Let me down) and mess me around
And then worst of all (Worst of all) you never call, baby
When you say you will (Say you will) but I love you still
I need you (I need you) more than anyone, darling
You know that I have from the start
So build me up (Build me up) buttercup, don't break my heart

To you I'm a toy but I could be the boy you adore
If you'd just let me know (Bah-dah-dah)
Although you're untrue, I'm attracted to you all the more
Why do I need you so

(Hey, hey, hey!) Baby, baby, try to find
(Hey, hey, hey!) A little time and I'll make you happy
(Hey, hey, hey!) I'll be home
I'll be beside the phone waiting for you
Ooo-oo-ooo, ooo-oo-ooo

Why do you build me up (Build me up) buttercup, baby
Just to let me down (Let me down) and mess me around
And then worst of all (Worst of all) you never call, baby
When you say you will (Say you will) but I love you still
I need you (I need you) more than anyone, darling
You know that I have from the start
So build me up (Build me up) buttercup, don't break my heart

I need you (I need you) more than anyone, baby
You know that I have from the start
So build me up (Build me up) Buttercup, don't break my heart
[fade]

 

[fox69]

"Camouflage"

"Camouflage"


Yes, I'm smiling.
Everytime you pass me by.
I know you wonder, why I never cry.

But let me tell you, happiness. (Happiness)
My happiness (Happiness)
Is just a camouflage. (Camouflage)

They call me the joker. (I'm a joker)
'Cause I... I always play.
But I'm just a clown. (I'm a clown)
'Cause I'm really not that way.

'Cause all my happiness, (Happiness)
My happiness (Happiness)
Oh, is just a camouflage.

(Open your eyes and see I'm crying)
(Open your eyes and see I'm dying)
(Open your eyes and see I'm crying)
Wee-Ooo (Hey, hey, hey)

[Instrumental]

They call me the joker. (The joker)
'Cause I... I always play.
But I'm just a clown. (I'm just a clown)
'Cause I'm really not that way.

'Cause all my happiness, (Happiness)
My happiness (Happiness)
Oh, is just a camouflage.

(Open your eyes and see I'm crying) I love you.
(Open your eyes and see I'm dying) Oh, yes I do.

(Open your eyes and see I'm crying) Ooo, baby.
(Open your eyes and see I'm dying) Ooo, baby.

(Open your eyes and see I'm crying) I gotta broken heart.
(Open your eyes and see I'm dying) I've got a broken heart.

(Open your eyes and see I'm dying) Just a care of love.
(Open your eyes and see I'm dying) Just a care of love.

(Open your eyes and see I'm dying) I gotta broken heart.
(Open your eyes and see I'm dying) I've got a broken heart.

(Open your eyes and see I'm crying) Just a care of love.
(Open your eyes and see I'm dying) Ooo

 

[fox69]

"Can We Come And Share In Love"

"Can We Come And Share In Love"


I'm an Aries
And you're a Libra
We should be so incompatible (incompatible)
But each time you touch me I know that we're
An exception to the rule

You're folks and mine, oh they both agree
That you don't belong with me
But they can't live our lives for us
Only you and I can decide

Our future; our fate
Fate

Can we come and share in love
I just want to know girl, come on
Love, love, love, love, let's share in love

Odds are we will stay in love
Stay in love
Let us stay in love

Now I'm a man and you're a woman
That is all love needs to make it bloom
(Needs to make bloom)
So if we can deal with each other
I don't care what people may say
I don't care what they may say, no, no, no
Since the beginning of the history of man
Love and romance has always been
The important part of the master plan
Only you and I can decide
Our future; our fate
Fate

Can we come and share in love
People say that our love won't last
But the strong of the heart take the greater task
Love, love, love, love, let's share in love
I just want to love you

Odds are we will stay in love
Yes we will; we're going to stay in love
Stay in love

Can we come and share in love
Can we share, can we share my baby
Love,love,love,love,let's share in love
Can't you hear me baby pleading

Odds are we will stay in love
Ooh, we're going to stay in love
Stay in love

Oh, come on baby
Let me talk to you just a moment
Just want to squeeze you
Because I know that it will please you

Love, love, love, love, let's share in love
Stay in love with you because you mean so much to me
Love, love, love, love, let's share in love
Going to share my love with you girl
Because you mean so much to me
Love, love, love, love, let's share in love

 

[fox69]

"Check Yourself"

"Check Yourself"


[Otis (& then Melvin - spoken)]
By and by, you knew that you make me cry. (By and by, knew you'd make me cry)
And my love for you will never die. (My love will never, never die)
But I had to find out on my own.

(Check yourself, check yourself)

[Paul:]
Aww, that's what they told me. (Check yourself, check yourself)
I paid no mind. (Check yourself, check yourself)
I kept on breaking hearts, (Check yourself, check yourself)
All down the line. (Check yourself, check yourself)

Sometimes you just got to lose.
That's when you pay your dues.
I guess I was a fool, I guess I was a fool,
To think that... you'd stayed so true.

Aww, I really played in the game. (Check yourself, check yourself)
I'd always win. (Check yourself, check yourself)
Now the tables turn. (Check yourself, check yourself)
And I'm on the losing end. (Check yourself, check yourself)

Oh don't, feel sorry.
I had it coming, it's true.
'Cause I'm losing, yes, I'm losing, I'm losing you.

Before I go, I'd like for you to know.
You've had my heart from the very start.
But there's one more thing, before we part.
And that's I'm sorry, sorry, sorry to my heart.

Aww, I'm on my sad way. (Check yourself, check yourself)
Because I know I'd lost your love. (Check yourself, check yourself)
I'll kick it, like a pass. (Check yourself, check yourself)

But I'll be thinking of....
The good times. (The good times)
The bad times. (The bad times)
But good or bad, happy or sad,
Of memories. (Memories)
Sweet, sweet memories. (Memories)
Aww, memories... are all I have.

Aww, that's what they told me. (Check yourself, check yourself)
That's what they told me. (Check yourself, check yourself)
That's what they... what they told me. (Check yourself, check yourself)
Hmmm...

 

[fox69]

"Christmas Everyday"

"Christmas Everyday"


Now that it Christmas time
And if you say you would be mine,
It would be Christmas every day.
And baby I'm in love in you,
And if you say you love me too,
It would be Christmas everyday.

What a lovely Christmas!
Christmas in the winter time
When the snow falls on the ground.
I said Christmas, Christmas in the summer time
If I had you around.
Christmas in the spring time
And baby that ain't all:
If I had you to say you love me too
It would be Christmas even in the fall.

I wrote and told Santa Claus

I needed you because it would Christmas everyday
And I would have the Christmas spirit all though the year
It would be Christmas everyday.

Christmas everyday!
Everyday would be Christmas
Christmas everyday!
Lady if I had you.
Christmas everyday!
A Christmas everyday
Christmas everyday!

I wrote and told Santa Claus
I needed you because it would Christmas everyday.
And I would have that Christmas spirit all though the year;
It would be Christmas everyday.

Christmas, Christmas in the winter time,
When the snow falls on the ground.
What a lovely Christmas,
Christmas in the summer time
A when it's hot we'll still have fun
A lovely Christmas
Christmas in the spring time!
When the little birdies sing
You got me walking got me talking 'bout Christmas
Christmas in the fall time!
I got that Christmas spirit.
Everyday, everyday!
Christmas everyday!
Everyday!
Christmas everyday!
Everyday, everyday!
Christmas everyday!

 

[fox69]

"Christmas Song"

"Christmas Song"


Chestnuts roasting on an open fire,
Jack Frost nipping at your nose,
Yuletide songs being sung by a choir,
And folks dressed up like Eskimos.

Everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe
Help to make the season bright.
Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow
Will find it hard to sleep tonight.
They know that Santa's on his way,
He's loaded lots of toys and goodies on his sleigh.
And every mother's child will want to spy
To see if reindeer really know how to fly.

And so I'm offering this simple phrase
For kids from one to ninety-two,
Although it's been said many times, many ways,
Merry Christmas to you.
They know that Santa's on his way

 

[fox69]

"Cindy"

"Cindy"


All my hopes and dreams are forgotten now
All the apples in my barrel are rotten now
Standing on a mountain of misery
Loneliness is my only company
Oh, when are gonna come cindy
When will you be homeward bound
I'm in need of you and the love of you Cindy

I thought we were birds of a feather now
And we would always be together now
And where ever i would go you would follow me
A life of love with you was my destiny
Oh, when you gonna come come home cindy
When will you be homeward bound
there's an empty space
since you left this place

Cindy, my cindy
Come back cindy comeback
Cindy you have made a great mistake
But mistakes were sometimes made to save
Cindy love is made of give and take
Let a move be made for love's sake
Come on home Cant you see
I was made for you,
you were made for me!

People tell me I'm not the same now
I only half respond to my name now
But no one knows it better than me myself baby
Without your love I can never be myself
Ohhhhhh, when you gonna come home cindy
Cindy, my cindy

 

[fox69]

"Cloud Nine"

"Cloud Nine"


A-who, who, awho, who...

[Dennis:]
The childhood part of my life wasn't very pretty.
You see, I was born and raised in the slums of the city.
It was a one room shack we slept in, other children beside me.
We hardly had enough food or room to sleep.
It was a hard times, needed something to ease my troubled mind.

[Paul:]
Ooo, listen.
My father didn't know the meaning of work.
He disrespected Mama and treated us like dirt.
I left home seekin' a job that I never did find.
Depressed and down-hearted, I took to Cloud 9.
I'm doing...(fine)
Up here. (On cloud nine)
Listen one more time.
I'm doing...(fine)
Up here. (On cloud nine)

[Dennis:]
Folks now they tell me.
They say, give yourself a chance and don't let life pass you by.
But the world around you is a rat race.
Where only the strong survive.
It's a dog-eat-dog world and that ain't no lie. (Ain't no lie)
Listen, it ain't even safe no more, to walk the streets at night.

[Eddie:] I'm doing fine on Cloud 9.
[Dennis:] Let me tell you about Cloud 9.

(Cloud 9) [Paul:] You can be what you wanna be.
(Cloud 9) [Dennis:] You ain't got no responsibility.
(Cloud 9) [Eddie:] Every man, every man is free.
(Cloud 9) [Dennis:] You're a million miles from reality.

(Reality) I'm gonna sail (up, up) higher (up, up... up, up and away) Cloud 9.

[Eddie:]
I wanna say I love the life I live.
And I'm gonna live the life I love.
Up here on Cloud 9.
Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, I'm riding high on Cloud 9.

[Dennis:] You're as free as a bird in flight.
(Cloud 9) [Melvin:] There's no diff'rence between day and night.
(Cloud 9) [Eddie:] It's a world of love and harmony.
(Cloud 9) [Dennis:] You're a million miles from reality.

(Reality) I'm gonna sail (up, up) higher (up, up... up, up and away) Cloud 9.

[Paul:] You can be what you wanna be.
(Cloud 9) [Dennis:] You ain't got no responsibility.
(Cloud 9) [Eddie:] Every man in his mind is free.
(Cloud 9) [Dennis:] You're a million miles from reality.
(Cloud 9) [Paul:] You can be what you wanna be.

Boom-boom-boom-boom-boom...
[Eddie:] I'm feeling fine on Cloud 9.