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Promise Me
03:43
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Promise Me
Could you promise me a little more time
To turn the clock back in my mind
‘Til the spring collapses and you are mine
And the world disappears/and everything’s fine
The pretty flowers sing to me
They grow inside me carefully
You put them there so I could see
Everything you promised me
CHORUS:
Until your voice stops ringing/in my head
Until I stop feeling close to you/for what’s unsaid
Until there’s no more reasons/to remember somethning you’d say
Until there’s no more yesterdays/That’s when you’ll go away
BRIDGE:
Until/Until
Until I see you again
Until/Until
Until that great getting up morning again
Could you promise me another way
To see you again without delay
I fall asleep to get to you right away
But could you promise me another way
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2. |
Shine
03:19
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Shine
All I want to do is shine for You
And live my life underneath Your sun
You know that my heart is true
But there are moments when I come undone
I tend to fall down under the weight
When they ride on my mistakes
They can say what they will
They can do what they may
CHORUS:
But I'm gonna shine/shine
Shine all the time
I shine because You are mine
Sometimes I don't know what I'm gonna do
And I don't know what I'm gonna say
But You love me and I love You, too
So it doesn't matter anyway
When I fall down in Your arms
I don't care who's right or wrong
When I'm with You I know that's where I belong
BRIDGE:
Since I don't know when
It's always been You and me
I guess that means that we're just meant to be
Just You and me
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3. |
Talkin' Fishbowl Blues
03:34
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Talkin’ Fishbowl Blues
I left my fishbowl in the hands of so-called friends
And when I returned, I found all of my goldfish drowned
New York City stress level don’t turn me into what I hate the most
I been running around I been chasing the sky
Ducking the clouds trying to stay dry
I been laughing at fate trying to stay awake
Trying to get some sleep on a sleepless street
Oh, my loveless landlord says that all my neighbors complain
And the walls of ears have been hearing it all for years
New York City mind your business
Next time I will smash your stereo
I’m a blooming weed from an ugly seed
Sprung out of the mouth of a careless freak
I’m the sensitive kind, need my peace of mind
And my real estate is blown sky high
After forty hours you can barely keep your wit
It’s a party town but the wake up times ain’t it
New York City money magnet
Send your sacred cash cow to the slaughterhouse
I been out in the world I been up in the sky
I was riding on clouds just to keep alive
And you’re laughing at me trying to stay awake
Do you get some sleep on a sleepless street?
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4. |
Taster's Choice
04:13
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Taster’s Choice
We used to turn on a dime
And then you’d turn on
And then you’d fall into me
I used to hold you in my arms
And wish that we were meant to be
You used to dance with me slow
in the kitchen with your wake-up
When you knew I had to go
You had to turn on turn on turn on/to live
Do you remember when we’d sleep the time away
We’d talk all night and then you’d say
We could sit and talk forever/and never see the light of day
I used to wonder if you would ever find a way
CHORUS:
Not to turn on turn on turn on
Turn on turn on turn on
Turn on turn on turn on/to live
We were going nowhere
and we were happy when we got there
Because we both really wanted to stay
But when I finally wanted to get somewhere
and you could not be moved
I knew I’d have to be the one to walk away
You looked so happy to see me
I could hardly tell
You’d been gone so long
and been through so much hell
And you said you could feel things
you never thought you’d say
But there are moments when
you turn and taste again
CHORUS:
You have to turn on turn on turn on
Turn on turn on turn on
Turn on turn on turn on/to live
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5. |
Love
03:58
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LOVE
Love’s a funny thing/that can make you feel so high
Love’s an awakening/that can make you live or die
Love can make you sing the saddest goodbye
Why I’ll never know but I know you know it’s so
Love, love me do/but don’t make me wait too long
You might miss the moment that could last our whole life long
Love disappears/and you don’t know what’s wrong
Why, you never say does it have to be this way
CHORUS
Oh, love goes and love comes again
Love finds a way/you never know when
When love passes by/Say hey love
Love, love, love
Love will live between us/until our dying day
Real love never dies/no matter what we say
No matter what you think/your heart wants you to stay
Why does what I say make you want to run away?
Love can really break you until you start to bend
When it finally shakes you/you never really mend
Shows you what you’re made of/until you depend
On love to make you over until the very end
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6. |
So Real
04:27
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So Real
I’m gonna get a gun to kill my pride
Tell my feass to step aside
Let my anger take a backseat to what I really feel
Because my love is you is so real
I’m gonna sink the past into a sea of regret
Watch it drown in the waves of a revierie
I’m gonna hold on to all the good things I remember best
Because my love for you is so real
CHORUS:
It’s real/So real
My love for you is so real
Some day later on/when all the hurt is all gone
You’ll know my love for you is so real
Tomorrow is another day
That’s always on it’s way
Back to you/Back to me/Back to love
I know someday you’ll try to say
All the things you can’t conceal
They’ll be buried alive in the blues you’ll sing
Because my love for you is so real
CHORUS/OUT
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7. |
New York City
03:27
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New York City
I danced with a day-job demon/so pleased to see me
Then I jumped through hoops and rings/Just trying to do the right thing
I couldn’t see it for the hell it was/when I got here and that’s because
My heart was open and my eyes were closed/to the stench coming down the road
Sleep-walking sister slinging
salutations in a blue hue singing
Wha’cha gonna do/if it’s
CHORUS:
Too wrong to be all bad for you
Too right to be good all the way through
Too soon to be what you thought you knew
Wha’cha gonna do
Maybe the deal went down/the day before yesterday
Maybe it’ll all fall over/no matter what I do or say
Maybe if I last a little longer/there’ll be hell to pay
Maybe if this don’t break me/I need to be on my way
Sweet swinging sounds of suffering
And I’m suffocating as I’m slipping and sliding
Wha’cha gonna do/if it’s
CHORUS:
Too wrong to be all bad for you
Too right to be good all the way through
Too soon to be what you thought you knew
Wha’cha gonna do
SOLO
Sleep-walking sister slinging
salutations in a blue hue singing
Wha’cha gonna do/if it’s
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8. |
Leave Me Alone
04:12
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Leave Me Alone
You say you wanna stay/wait and see what happens
Countin' on fate to fix all our problems
Whatever's wrong will disappear like magic
In a pink cloud of happiness
But I won't live in a fantasyland
Where everything is fine 'cause you ain't got a plan
You should have done way more than try to understand
CHORUS
Leave me alone/leave me alone/why you messin' with me?
Leave me alone/leave me alone/go on, I’m setting you free
Leave me alone/leave me alone/we weren't meant to be
Leave me alone
I ain't got the time to sacrifice myself
To your heap of problems and your nonsense
Whatever's right disappeared like magic
In a black cloud of funkiness
What we had could only stop and start
'Cause when things went wrong it wasn’t ever your fault
You couldn’t recognize and do way more than talk and grandstand
BRIDGE:
Understand/my love life is not a rinse cycle
This back and forth has caused a big wrinkle I can't ignore
I need a man like a fish needs a bicycle
Put a flounder on a tricycle and watch her go
Go ‘head and leave me alone
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9. |
Get It Right This Time
04:04
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Get It Right This Time
I thought about what we were
And all of what we thought we had
I thought about the things we did
The way we hung on ‘til it all went bad
I thought about the ties that bind us
How they tried to rip right through us
Nothing was enough to kill
This feeling in my heart/breaking
I think about the friends we lost
And found and lost again
I think I’m glad I never
Gave way and fell off the deep end
I think I’m happy knowing
Time ain’t showing on me
But what I got to give
Lives in me forever
And keeps me free
CHORUS:
Time won’t hold up for you
Better try to keep up before you get left behind
Time won’t slow up for you
Better not wait and see
Do what you gotta do to get it right this time
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10. |
The Way of the World
04:01
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That’s the Way of the World
It’s the longest line that runs between what was and what could be
It’s the longest road that takes me back to things I couldn’t see
It’s the longest time to wait ‘til I’m the one who won’t believe
That the happiness I left behind is right in front of me
CHORUS:
That’s the way of the world
It’s the shortest way to get to where I once belonged and knew
That the shortest time would pass me by ‘til all my dreaming grew
Seems the whole world changed and so did I/had nothing left to lose
Feel the ground that’s shaking as the wheels are turning
I’m swinging and singing the blues
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11. |
Help Me
03:20
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Help Me
I know how to swim but I’m drowning
Can’t seem to help what I’m feeling
Everyone sees me free-falling
Watches me crash through the ceiling
Up through the ground I am soaring
Everything in me is roaring
Twisting into me so sweetly
Breaking my heart so completely
CHORUS:
Help me to say no
Help me not to want more
Help me to let go
Help me to walk out that door
Day break and night time is falling
Comes to me without any warning
Punch-drunk enough to contain me
My hopes can never sustain me
Feeling the weight of confusion
Happiness is an illusion
Smiling to keep on romancing
The danger I keep second-chancing
I’m too numb to care for you
I’m too cold to feel what you do
It’s too late to face the truth between us
What we had won’t see us through
CHORUS
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12. |
Stand By Your Man
03:01
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Stand By Your Man
Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman
Giving all your love to just one man
You’ll have bad times/and he’ll have good times
Doing things that you don’t understand
But if you love him you’ll forgive him
Even though he’s hard to understand
Oh, say you love him/and be proud of him
‘Cause after all, he’s just a man
CHORUS:
Stand by your man
Give him two arms to cling to
And something warm to come to
When nights are cold and lonely
Stand by your man
And show the world you love him
Keep giving all the love you can
Stand by your man
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Queen Esther New York, New York
Queen Esther is a performance artist, solo performer, actor, songwriter, lyricist, topliner, vocalist, producer, musician and storyteller.
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