Prince - Graffiti Bridge
© 1990 Paisley Park Records

•Can't Stop This Feeling I Got
•New Power Generation
•Release It
•The Question Of U
•Elephants & Flowers
•Round And Round
•We Can Funk
•Joy In Repetition
•Love Machine
•Tick, Tick, Bang
•Shake!
•Thieves In The Temple
•The Latest Fashion
•Melody Cool
•Still Would Stand All Time
•Graffiti Bridge

New Power Generation (Pt. II)
"New Power Generation" is backed by the NPG and Rosie Gaines
with Morris Day on drums.
"Release It", "Love Machine", & "Shake!" are by The Time.
" Round And Round" is by Tevin Campbell.
" Melody Cool" is by Mavis Staples.
" We Can Funk" is a duet with George Clinton.
"The Latest Fashion" is a duet with The Time.
"Graffiti Bridge" features Sheila E., Boni Boyer, Tevin Campbell and Mavis Staples.
"New Power Generation (Pt II)" features T.C. Ellis,
Mavis Staples, Robin Power and Tevin Campbell.

Can't Stop This Feeling I Got

Dear Dad
Things didn't turn out quite like I wanted them 2
Sometimes I feel like I'm gonna explode
Everybody wanna see U down 4 the count
But that ain't what being a real man's about
The brave and the bold hang around 4 the kill
So the bigger the hole, the bigger we fill it (Fill it!)
They can hit us with all they got (Yeah, brother)
But cha know what? (What?)
I can't stop this feeling I got
I feel it right down 2 my toes
I can't stop this feeling I got
My body want it, don't U know?
I can't stop this feeling I got
Write a letter 2 the whole world
I can't stop this feeling I got
Every man, woman, boy and girl
Can't stop this feeling I got
I can't stop this feeling I got {x3}
I can't stop this feeling I got
U know I can't sleep at night
I can't stop, U know I love it a lot
I'm talking about an everlasting light
I can't stop this feeling I got
I get 2 shakin' all in my shoes
I can't stop feeling I got
The doctor say there's nothing that he can do
I can't stop this feeling I got {x2}
I can't stop, oh no (I can't stop this feeling I got)
(I can't stop this feeling I got)
Keep on singing now
(Can't stop)
Try 2 tell me how 2 paint my palace
That ain't where it's at
That's like tryin' 2 tell Columbus that the world is flat
If the song we're singing truly is the best
That, my brothers, is the ultimate test
All in favor say, "Aye"
(We can change anything at all)
I, I, I can't stop (No!) (Can't stop) Woo!
I'm in a butt kicking mood 2night, y'all!
(Can't stop) {x2}
(Can't stop this feeling I got)
Can't stop this feeling I got
I can't stop this feeling I got {x2}
(Can't stop this feeling I got)
(I can't stop this feeling I got) {x2}
(Go! Go! Go! Go! Go!)
Feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling, hey!
Hey, pardon me 4 living (Pardon me 4 living)
But this is my world (This is my world)
U can't make me change (U can't make me change)
Maybe we all got to rearrange (Rearrange)
Our brains (Our brains)
Yeah
Only we can change the world {x3}
1 2, 1 2 3
I can't stop this feeling I got {x3}
Feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling, yeah!
Yeah
(I can't stop) feeling I got {repeat to fade}
© 1990 Controversy Music - ASCAP

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New Power Generation

Lay down your funky weapon (Whoo!)
Yeah y'all, here we go
Pumpin' the big noise in the 90s
Pardon me 4 livin' but this is my world 2
I can't help if what's cool 2 us might be strange 2 U
Pardon me 4 breathin', can we borrow some of your air?
The problem with U and your kind is U don't know love is there
CHORUS:
Lay down your funky weapon, come join us on the floor
Makin' love and music's the only things worth fighting 4
We are the New Power Generation - we wanna change the world
The only thing that's in our way is U, ooh
Your old fashioned music, your old ideas
We're sick and tired of U telling us what 2 do, ooh
Pardon me 4 thinkin' but there's something under my hair
I bet (maybe) U thought the lights were on but no one's livin' there
U think that if U tell enough lies they will see the truth
I hope they bury your old ideas the same time they bury U
CHORUS
(Oh yeah)
(Oh)
(U, U)
We are the new (huh!)
We are the new {x2}
Makin' love and music
New Power, (huh!) we stand
Pardon us 4 caring, we didn't know it was against the rules (Shout it out)
If we only wanna love one another then tell me now, who's the fool? (Tell me, tell me)
No father, no mother, no sister, no brother, nobody can make me stop
So if U didn't come 2 party child, I think U better get up offa my block!
CHORUS {x2}
(Hey yeah, yeah)
(Yeah)
(U, U, U, U)
(Your old ideas)
(Why don't U just be happy, baby?)
(Go'n on and get up offa my block)
(Get up offa my block, cuz love is there)
(If U'd just open up 2 it)
(If U'd just believe, your whole world would change, yes it will)
New Power Generation
(Oh-oh-oh) {x3} {repeat}
U got 2 rearrange (We've got 2 rearrange)
We are the New Power Generation
U gotta give up all the fightin'
We gotta try 2 love one another, yeah
We are the New Power Generation {x3} {fade out}
© 1990 Controversy Music - ASCAP

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Release It

Yo Stella, if U think I'm afraid of U
Grace, if U so much as think I can't do the do
Girl, if U dream I came 2 jerk around
U'd better wake up and release it!
(1,2)
Party people in the crib get hyped
Let's get this party funkin' right!
Come on! {x2}
(yeah) {repeat throughout song}
(Release it)
Listen 2 me now, release it
Come, come, come on, release it!
Whose crib is this?
My crib!
Whose wine U drinkin'?
Mine!
Who asked your ugly ass what time it was?
Nobody!
We doing fine!
Take it all off!
Bass - I need the funk in my face
I can't stand tight asses in my place
Let's get hype, y'all - Release it!
(Release it)
What time it is?
Band!
(Time 2 get sleazy up in here)
Mary Sweet Mother Jesus! Mmm! {sample from "The Walk"}
(Talk that talk, Morris)
Oh Stella, I know U came alone
Cuz ain't just any man qualified 2 take U home
Me?
No I'm not a man, Jerome!
He's an adventure
Oh - somebody slap me!
I don't know
Party people in the crib get hyped {x2}
Release it - yes!
(Release it)
Jerome! (Yo?) When this solo's through
Jerome! (Morris?) Find me a Stella to rap 2 (Yes!)
Whose beat is this?
My beat!
Whose horns are these blowing?
Mine!
Aw, who asked your dumb ass how to catch a groove?
Nobody!
We doing the do
Jerome! (Yes?)
Whose Stella is this? (My Stella) {x2}
Then what's she doing over here with me? (Uhh, uhh)
What's she doing over here with me?
Who told U that women like men with no money? (Pfft... right!)
Release it, boy!
Go'n Stella, dance!
Say man, back up, give me some room!
Dance!
Shake it like a peckerwood!
(Release it!)
Over and over and over and over and over
Your girlfriends told ya that I'm the rover
But I'm here 2 scold ya
That if U live alone
Then we can bone!
Gimme a number 2 phone - U grown!
And I am so
If U say no, instead of cryin', I'll keep tryin' (Cryin', tryin')
Until U're dyin' 2 have me 4 your own (Dyin')
So peep Stella, peep Stella
If U think that I'm afraid of U (Do it, MD!)
If U think that I'm afraid of U (Rap 2 her!)
If U think that I can't do the do (Yeah, papa!)
If U think that I can't do the do (Wooo!)
If U think I came 2 jerk around (Go'n say it!)
U better wake up, Stella (Wake up!)
This is my town!
(Release it)
Man, let them drums kick
Let's get the hell out of here! (Let's do it, yo)
(Release it)
Motherfucker, get yo ass out of my way - hahahaha!
(Release it) {x3}
© 1990 Controversy Music - ASCAP

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The Question Of U

So what is the answer 2 the question of U?
What do I look 4? What shall I do?
Which way do I turn when I'm feeling lost?
If I sell my soul, now what will it cost?
Must I become naked - no image at all?
Shall I remain upright or get down and crawl?
All of the questions in my life will be answered
When I decide which road 2 choose
What is the answer 2 the question of U?
U
Hey!
U
© 1990 Controversy Music - ASCAP

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Elephants & Flowers

Boy is lonely on a burnin' hot summer night
He's looking 4 some action, he's looking 4 a fight
He's looking 4 a savior in a city full of fools
Maybe he just needs a good talker 2 give him a good talkin' 2
Can we talk, baby?
Strip down, strip down
I think I'm gonna fall in love 2night
Elephants and flowers
Hot sweaty light paints a picture red and gold
On a crowd of naked bodies stripped down 2 their very souls (New Power)
How can he find a shy angel in a city so bold? (Super bold)
He can't even find a place 2 dance
Huh, this is rock 'n' roll
Strip down, strip down (Elephants and flowers)
Is everybody ready? Here we go!
CHORUS:
Love the One who is Love (Love)
One who gives us the power (Power)
One who made everything (What?)
Elephants and flowers (What will He do?)
One who will listen when all others will not
There will be peace 4 those who love God a lot
Elephants and flowers
Strip down
I think I'm gonna fall in love 2night
And when I do, there won't be no more (Confusion)
There won't be no more tears (No tears)
There won't be no more enemies so that eliminates all the fear
There won't be no sorrow (Sorrow)
There won't be no pain (No pain)
There won't be no ball and no chain
Strip down, strip down
Elephants and flowers
Boy is lonely on a burnin' hot summer night
He's looking 4 an angel 2 hold him till the morning light
Here we go Love the One who is Love (Well)
One who gives us the power (Power)
One who made everything (Everything)
Elephants and flowers (Oh yeah)
One who will listen when all others will not
There will be peace 4 those who love God a lot
Here we go
CHORUS
© 1990 Controversy Music - ASCAP

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Round And Round

Ah yeah yeah yeah!
Round and round and round
Round, r-round
Hey yeah yeah, ooh yeah
Can U tell me where we goin' 2?
Can U tell me what it is we really wanna find?
Is the truth really there or is it right under our hair?
4 all we know it's been there all the time
I say nothin' comes from dreamers but dreams
I say sittin' idle in our boat while everyone else is down the stream
Nothin' comes from talkers but sound, yeah
We can talk all we want 2 but the world still goes around and round
Round and round
Ooh, we go round and round and round
And what we're lookin' 4 still isn't found
Can U tell me when we gonna get 2 it?
I'm tired of foolin' around, said I want 2 do it, ooh (Go 4 it) (Get 2 it)
I learned my lesson young, said if U wanna have fun - go 4 it
And when U win, say "I knew it" (Go 4 it) (Get 2 it)
Nothin' comes from dreamers but dreams
I say sittin' idle in our boat while everyone else is down the stream
Nothin' comes from talkers but sound
Ooh, we can talk all we want 2 but the world still goes around and round...
Round and round (G-g-g-g-get 2 it) (Go 4 it) (Get 2 it)
We go round and round and round
And what we're lookin' 4 still isn't found
One day I'll make it in the big city
And I'll be lookin' 4 a girl who's pretty
One day I'll make a play, and she will say, "Okay"
Cuz I plan 2 be a cool kitty
Round and round (Ah yeah yeah yeah {x2})
I say nothin' comes from dreamers but dreams (Ooh, I say)
Sittin' idle in our boat while everyone else is down the stream
Nothin' comes from talkers but sound
Ooh, we can talk all we want 2 but the world still goes around and round
Round and round
Ooh, we go round and round and round
And what we're lookin' 4 still isn't found
Round and round we go {x2}
Round and round and round and round and round and round we go
(Ah yeah yeah yeah) {x3}
Round and round, round and round
Round and round we go {x2}
Round and round
© 1990 Controversy Music - ASCAP

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We Can Funk

Jump 'em and funk 'em
Pump 'em and funk 'em
(We can funk)
CHORUS:
I'm testin' positive 4 the funk
I'll gladly pee in anybody's cup
And when your cup overflow
I'm testin' positive and I'll pee some mo'
I could tell U stories till U get tired
I could play with your mind
But U'd prob'ly say that I was a liar
So I won't waste your time
I'm scared cuz though we just met
There's this energy between us
Let's just go somewhere
We can funk (Oh)
CHORUS
(We can funk) {x2}
Pump 'em and funk 'em
Jump 'em and funk 'em
Pump 'em and funk 'em {x2}
Every time I could
I would compliment U on the things, the things that U be
Honey doll, we should make the real noise
Just U and me
I could tell U things 2 get U excited
Things U never heard
U know the Kama Sutra?
I could rewrite it with half as many words
But I'm scared cuz if I don't kiss ya
I'm gonna go mad, baby
Take off my clothes
We can funk (Oh)
I'm testin' positive 4 the funk
I'll gladly pee in anybody's cup
And when your cup overflow
(I'm testin' positive and I'll pee some mo')
(Oh, yeah, yeah)
(We can funk) {x2}
(Uh-oh, uh-oh) {repeat in BG}
Wait a minute
Let me turn on some lights (We can funk)
Yeah, come here
U can blow the candle off, baby
U can turn the candle on
Which ever one U choose is alright
Cuz we're gonna do it all night long (Sex)
Sex between 2 people is alright
If all the love in the world is what they got
As long as they're not tryin' 2 hurt nobody
Just as long as it's hot
Good Lord, baby
I wanna make love 2 U
2 times, maybe 3
Yeah, and if U want 2 go 4 or 5
Baby, that's alright with me
Let me tell U now
Said I will be your little baby, yeah
I can be your big strong man
I can be your girl or boy, I can be your toy
Alright, let's dance! It's up 2 U!
Can funk me, baby
I'll funk U
We can funk one another
Whatever U want 2 do!
U got an electric ass, baby!
U got electric thighs, baby!
I can't wait no longer, child!
It's gettin' stronger, baby!
Open up your eyes!
See this gold chain around my waist?
Huh, I wanna give it 2 U, yeah
People tell me I got no taste
Then blow the candle out
Let's see if it's true
We be funkin' over here and over there ain't shit {x2}
© 1990 Controversy Music - ASCAP

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Joy In Repetition

{"Alphabet St." segue}
He liked 2 frequent this club down up on 36th
Pimps and thangs like 2 hang outside and cuss 4 kicks (Did U see that?)
Talking 2 no one in particular, they say - "The baddest I am 2night"
4 letter words are seldom heard with such dignity and bite
All the poets and the part-time singers always hang inside
Live music from a band plays a song called "Soul Psychodelicide"
The song's a year long and had been playing 4 months
When he walked into the place
No one seemed 2 care
An introverted, "This is it," look on most of their faces
Up on the mic repeating 2 words over and over again
Was this woman he had never noticed before
He lost himself in the articulated manner in which she said them
These 2 words - a little bit behind the beat
I mean just enough 2 turn U on
4 every time she said the words
Another one of his doubts were gone
Should he try 2 rap 2 her?
Should he stand and stare?
No one else was watching her
She didn't seem 2 care
So over and over she said the words
Till he could take no more (No more)
He dragged her from the stage
And 2gether they ran through the back door
In the alley over by the curb he said - "Tell me, what's your name?"
She only said the words again and it started 2 rain (Rain, rain, rain)
2 words falling between the drops and the moans of his condition
Holding someone is truly believing that there's joy in repetition
There's joy in repetition {x4}
She said - "Love me, love me"
What she say? She said - "Love me, love me"
Joy in repetition {repeat till end}
Why don't U love me, baby?
Why can't U love me, baby?
Come on and love me, baby
Alright {x3}
All my wishes add up 2 one
Love me {repeat}
I wanna say it again
I think I wanna say it again
I'd like 2 go way up high and say - "Love me"
Ha ha, I'll say - "Love me"
"Love me"
There's joy in repetition
© 1990 Controversy Music - ASCAP

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Love Machine

(He he he)
Love Machine, yeah
Hey yeah!
CHORUS:
I've got the toys 2 turn your body out
I got the noise 2 make U scream and shout
The Love Machine'll take your body higher
Cuz if it don't then I know U're a liar
Don't lie, U want some love that'll make U cry
17 tongues licking from the neck down
Moving in quick speed circular motion, round and round
I said it, round and round
Like U like it, uh
Lick it like U like it (Ah)
CHORUS
(Higher)
(Love Machine)
Don't bathe - the Love Machine cleanses with a little faith
Like a car wash spittin' out soap and oil
There ain't never been a cleaner girl in the whole wide world
Tunin' into your body's psyche
Dial a perfume that U like (Love Machine)
The Love Machine will put it on U right (Oh oh)
CHORUS
(U think I don't)
(Higher)
Hey yeah!
What time it is? (Love Machine)
(Love Machine)
What time it is? (Love Machine)
Fast or slow like a Leslie goes
If U want I can give U complete control
Over your climax and over mine
The harder U come, the longer the time
The longer the time (Higher)
The longer the time {x3} (Oh)
The longer the time it takes
(Ha ha ha..) {repeated}
(Love Machine)
The Love Machine (Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey yeah!)
Shall we say we're in Paris? (I don't know)
Shall we say we're in Rome? (We could)
Shall we imagine a menage-a-trois? (I'm 2 young)
Shall we imagine we're alone? (What can I say 2 that?)
Shall we dream of each other naked? (Shit!)
Shall we get undressed right here? (I dunno) (Love Machine)
Shall we do this thing by the books? (What are U doing 2 me?)
Shall we give in 2 our biggest fears? (The Love Machine) (Are U afraid?)
Are U gonna dance with me? (Higher) (Yes) (Love Machine)
Are U gonna let me spin U around? (I might)
Are U gonna kiss me quiet? (Can't U hear me?)
Are U gonna make love with sound? (Isn't that the way it's done?) (The Love Machine)
Are U playin' the part of a shy one? (I am not) (Aw yeah, the Love Machine)
Or are your inhibitions gone? (They are)
Are U afraid of the Love Machine? (Hell no) (The Love Machine)
Or will U let it drink U 'til dawn, drink U 'til dawn?
I've got the toys 2 turn your body out
I got the noise 2 make U scream and shout
(The Love Machine)
(Love Machine)
© 1990 Controversy Music - ASCAP

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Tick, Tick, Bang

Ooh, I can't hold it
Ow! (Bang, b-b-bang, bang)
Bang
Ooh
Yeah, yeah, uh
U're such a big tease
U get me all excited, all excited
And then U go home
U're like ice cream
Knew I got 2 eat cha, got 2 eat cha
Before U're all gone
U're such a bombshell
And if I ever get cha, ever get cha, ever get cha
There's no tellin' how long I'd last
Before I tick, tick, tick, bang all over U
Tick, tick, tick, bang, bang all over U
Tick, tick, tick, bang, bang, bang, tick, bang, bang
U ain't no cheap thrill
Every time U tick, I'd rather U bang
But U leave me in a fire sweat (Leave me in a fire sweat)
U're like a good pill
All I need is 2 and I'm so into U
U're the best stuff that I could get
U're such a bombshell
If I ever get cha, ever get cha, ever get cha
There's no tellin' how long I'd last
Before I tick, tick, tick, bang all over U
All over U {x2}
Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang
Ooh, I can't hold it
Ooh, it's gettin' all over me
Ooh, I can't hold it
Ooh, it's gettin' all over me
U're such a queen bee
Let me taste your honey, taste your honey
Taste your honey 'fore I go mad
U're so slippery, ooh
Like this chain around my hip
I want a 24K relationship
So baby, don't spit me out
Tick, tick, bang
All over U
Tick, tick, tick, bang, ow!
Ooh, I can't hold it
Ooh, it's getting' all over me
U're such a bombshell
And if I ever get cha, ever get cha, ever get cha
There's no tellin' how long I'd last
Before I tick, tick, tick, bang
Tick, bang, bang all over U, all over U
Bang all over U, all over U
Tick, tick, bang all over U, all over U
Tick, tick, bang, all over U, bang all over, bang all over
Tick, bang!
© 1990 Controversy Music - ASCAP

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Shake!

Shake!
Hey hey people, what U come here 4?
Come on everybody, let's get out on the floor
All the pretty girls shakin' what they got (Shake {x4})
The boys swear 2 God that they all 2 hot
CHORUS:
Everybody - Shake!
U got 2 shake something (My Lawd)
Shake!
U got 2 shake something
Come on pretty baby now don't be shy
New liberated girl ask a guy
We can go dancing baby, every night (Shake {x5})
But U gotta shake that body 'til the early, early light
CHORUS
(Shake shake shake)
([Shake them ah!])
(Sing with me, now)
(Oh ho, oh ho, oh ho)
Ruby standin' there with the bought hair on (Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do)
Don't shake it 2 hard or that hair'll be gone (Oops) (Da-da!)
Brother so worried about his 2 left feet
When he need 2 be worried 'bout keepin' on the beat
That don't matter y'all, c'mon
Shake! (Shake shake shake)
U got 2 shake something (Oh Lawd)
Everybody shake! (Shake shake shake)
U got 2 shake something (Yeah yeah yeah)
Shake! (Shake shake shake) (Come on, y'all)
U got 2 shake something
Shake (Shake shake shake)
Every... everybody, hey hey people what U come here 4?
(We wanna shake something) (Shake)
Come on everybody let's get out on the floor
(U got 2 shake something)
We can shake it 2 the north (Shake)
We can shake it 2 the south
(U got 2 shake something) (Somebody help me) (Shake)
If U come 2 party now, open up your mouth, c'mon
(U got 2 shake something)
C'mon yeah yeah (Shake)
Thank U
U got 2 shake something
Aw don't stop, oh
Shake - (Shake shake shake)
Shake - (Shake it baby, 4 me)
Shake
U're hired, let's go
Shake, shake, U got 2 shake something {fade out}
© 1990 Controversy Music - ASCAP

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Thieves In The Temple

CHORUS:
Love - come quick
Love - come in a hurry
There are thieves in the temple 2night
They don't care where they kick
Just as long as they hurt U
There are thieves in the temple 2night
Love - if U're there come save me
From all this cold despair
I can hang when U're around
But I'll surely die if U're not there
CHORUS
I feel like they're looking 4 my soul (Soul)
Like a poor man looking for gold (Gold)
There are thieves in the temple 2night
Voices from the sky say rely on your best friend 2 pull U through
But even if I wanted 2 I couldn't really truly cuz my only friend is U
Come on
There are thieves in the temple 2night
Kicking me in my heart
Tearing me all apart (Tearing me, tearing me, tearing me all apart)
Cuz me and U could have been a work of art
Thieves in the temple
Baby, don't U know I'm holding on the best that I can
Love - please help me be the better man
Better than the thieves in the temple, in the temple 2night
Oh, thieves in the temple (2night) 2night
Hurt me
CHORUS (Thieves in the temple) {x4}
U said U loved me!
U said I was your baby!
U was supposed 2 take care of me! (Love - come quick)
U lied! (Love - come in a hurry)
Lied! Lied!
Thieves in the temple 2night
Lied!
© 1990 Controversy Music - ASCAP

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The Latest Fashion

Fellas? (Yeah!)
Hit Me!
Are we ready? (I do believe we are ready)
What time is it? (Yount!) (It's killing time, Mo'iss!)
I know that's right cuz I am the latest fashion
Ha ha ha... {sampled throughout song}
(Go Morris) {repeated}
(Ooh wee!)
(Yount!)
I know I said I loved U
I know I said I needed U
I know I said that I'd be here always
But I what I didn't tell U is that...
CHORUS:
This year the latest fashion is 2 lie in the heat of passion
This year the latest fashion is 2 lie in the heat of passion
People, tell us what we want 2 hear
(Time) This time the tables have turned (Y-y-yeah)
This time we're the ones that's building fires (Time)
Instead of getting burned (Yount!)
CHORUS
(Go Morris) {repeated}
Jellybean, don't be so mean, uh! {sample from "The Walk"}
Cowboys, ow!
Heh heh, U're fired!
(Jam Jimmy Jam Jimmy...) {repeated}
People tell me what I want 2 hear
This time the tables have turned
Jerome, "Body Language"
(Go Morris) {repeated}
Now do "The Horse" (Yeah)
"Oak Tree!" (Look out)
I like that, "Oak Tree!"
Get ready, "Chili Sauce!"
This year the latest fashion is 2 lie in the heat of passion
Fellas? (Yeah!) (Go {repeated})
Hit me and don'tcha lag
Tell me what dance 2 do - it start with an M ("Murph Drag")
Good God!
I ain't through yet, band!
Wawk! Hallelujah! Whoa! {sample from "The Bird"}
Listen, everybody wanna tell me how 2 play the game
When I run it better than a Madame runs dames
Tryin' 2 beat me is like playing pool with a rope
My funk will leave ya dead cuz it's good and plenty dope
All in all, I'm still the king and all y'all's the court
If [your birth control is] foolin' me U better get abortions, yes!
It's jacked, cuz I'm back, and I'm harder than a heart attack
Said I'm the cure for any disease cuz ain't nobody funky like me!
(Go Morris) {repeated}
Don't be a fool
This year the latest fashion is 2 lie in the heat of passion
The latest fashion {x4}
© 1990 Controversy Music - ASCAP

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Melody Cool

I've seen a many bridges in my time
And crossed every one of 'em with no trouble at all (yeah {x7})
I had trials and tribulations
Heartaches and pains (Well, that's alright!) (A lot of adversity)
Survived 'em all baby (Uh huh, say it, say it, girl)
Hmph, I'm still Melody, and I'm still cool
(Melody Cool) (Yeah, yeah, ha ha ha...)
Ow!
(Melody) (Oh!) {repeated in background}
They call me Melody Cool
I was here long before U
If U're good I will love ya but I'm nobody's fool
I'm Melody Cool
When I was born there were tidal waves
Whole town went under, nobody saved
At every funeral it rained
Every time I sang - Melody Cool
La da da da da da da da da{x2}
I have been here much longer, longer than U (Longer than U)
I'm Melody Cool (Cool)
Well now, everybody runnin' 'round talkin' 'bout saving souls
When they know good and plenty well
They got enough trouble trying 2 save their own (Well, that's alright!)
(Uh huh, say it, say it, girl)
Don't want it, don't want it
Every woman and every man
One day they just got 2 understand
That if we play in the same key everything would be Melody Cool
(What's your name?)
New Power wave your hand
Everybody sing all across the land
Say hey hey hey (Hey hey hey) {x2}
Everybody say hey hey hey (Hey hey hey)
They call me Melody Cool
Ow! (Hark, Melody!)
Looka here, young'un
Let me give U a piece of good advice
And I do get paid for counseling, huh
It ain't no big I's and little U's in my life
So that's why U see they call me Melody Cool (Melody Cool)
I was here long before U (Long before U)
If U're good I will love U but I'm nobody's fool (What?)
I'm Melody Cool
Ow!
(Melody Cool) {repeated} {fade out}
(Long before U)
© 1990 Controversy Music - ASCAP

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Still Would Stand All Time

It's just around the corner
It's just around the block
This love that I've been waiting 4
A love solid as rock
A love that reaffirms that we are not alone
A love so bright inside U, it glows
And night and day would run 2gether
And all things would be fine
Still would stand all hate around us
Still would stand all time
Still would stand all time
It's not a thousand years away
It's not that far my brother
When men will fight injustice instead of one another
It's not that far if we all say yes and only try
Then heaven on earth we will find
(All time)
(Still, still would stand all time)
No one man will be ruler, therefore Love must rule us all
Dishonesty, anger, fear, jealousy and greed will fall
But Love can save us all (Oh Love)
Love - oh Love, if U would just please give us a sign
Still would stand all time
Heaven (Heaven on earth)
Oh! (We all want 2 find)
We all wanna find it
Still would stand all time
We are not alone people (We're not alone)
Tell me, can U see the light? (Can U see the light?)
If U just open your eyes (Still would stand all time)
So much U will know
So much U will show
Love, Love, Love.
(It's not that far away if we all say yes and give it a try)
Gotta give it, huh, a try - yes! (Still would stand all time)
I, I say still
(So many times)
So many times I thought I could not make it
(Still would stand all time)
Life was closing in, I just knew, I just knew I couldn't take it
That's when Love opened its arms
And if U don't go inside
Still would stand all time (Still would stand all time)
U better run 2 the light
Leave your past behind (All things will be fine)
And still would stand all time
© 1990 Controversy Music - ASCAP

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Graffiti Bridge

CHORUS:
Everybody wants 2 find Graffiti Bridge
Something 2 believe in
A reason 2 believe that there's a heaven above
Everybody wants 2 find Graffiti Bridge
Everybody's looking 4, everybody's looking 4
Everybody's looking 4 love
Everybody wants 2 find the perfect one
Someone that makes U happy
Someone that makes U laugh when U want 2 cry
Everybody wants 2 find the perfect one
Everybody's looking 4, everybody's looking 4
Everybody's looking 4 love
The love of a boy, the love of a girl
The love that comes from a warm heart in a cold, cold world
CHORUS
Everybody wants 2 find Graffiti Bridge
(People throw away your arms of fire)
A bridge of many colors
A bridge that leads them 2 a love they know is real
(Let democracy take U higher)
Everybody wants 2 find Graffiti Bridge
(Open your mind, open your heart, open your mind)
Everybody's looking 4, everybody's looking 4 (If U believe)
Everybody's looking 4 love (Wave your hands 4 the power of love)
(Love is shinin')
(Everybody wants 2 find Graffiti Bridge)
There is a future (sho' U right)
A future worth fighting 4
I'm a living witness
(Everybody wants 2 find Graffiti Bridge)
Ooh, everything's gonna be alright, alright, alright
(Everybody's looking 4,everybody's looking 4)
(Everybody's looking 4 love)
There is a future (A future worth fighting 4)
Worth fighting 4 (U knows it is, sho'nuff it is, baby) (Praise Him)
I know it is, I know it is
(Yes it is, yes it is, oh, it is, it is, it is!)
Everything will be alright
Everybody wants 2 find Graffiti Bridge
© 1990 Controversy Music - ASCAP

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New Power Generation (Pt. II)
(We are the New Power Generation) {x4} {fade in}
(Oh-oh-oh) {x3} {repeat}
Don't pick my apples, don't pick my peaches {sample from "My Tree"}
Leave my tree alone, leave it alone, leave it alone
(Well, yeah yeah yeah...)
(Don't U look at me)
If U're sad and U know it and U think U wanna blow it
Look up in the sky, Love is there!
Oobey shoo doo loo be doo, loo fly me shoo koo doo ooh {x3}
{Sample from "Oobey Doop"}
Kid! (Yo?)
Kid, I got 2 do this
I got the noise, I got 2 do this, man
Then pump the big noise, c'mon in the house...
This here rap's about the true confession
If ya listen close U 'bout 2 learn a lesson
U must know failure before success
Now this is the failure I must confess (Well)
I was hanging onto life trying deal with this
Playing the games, almost got dismissed
Cocaine was the thing that I took on
And nowhere was the place that I was goin' (Preach brother, c'mon)
I must tell the truth, I cannot lie
I was headed 4 the kill, steal, destroy, and die
Top 2 the bottom 2 bottom 2 top
Success is where I'm headed, there ain't no doubt
Success is something that we all want
But the truth is what we need 2 reach that point
I had 2 give this message the so-called truth
I hope there's somthin' in it that's there 4 U
Like I said before, I'ma tell U again ({"Loveleft, Loveright" CHORUS x2})
Success is something that's deep within
So remember the truth - U can't go wrong
The flesh is weak but the spirit is strong
I know I can do this rap, and I know it's right
Cuz I did it in the name of Jesus Christ
C'mon somebody, let's party 2night!
U want me 2 what?? (Shake!) {sample from "Positive Place"}
Yo, what? (Shake! Shake!)
Alright!
The New Power Generation has just taken control
© 1990 Controversy Music - ASCAP

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