Angie Stone Album

Lord knows I gotta be, true to myself to see. God's been too good to me to take things lightly. We all know that we've had better days, even when our world is grey. Trouble don't last always, that's why I'm leaning on my faith.

Sometimes we've gotta stop and take everything in. Make room for my new dreams, look back on the new scenes. It's time for me to stop, you gave me a reason, to walk into my season, I've only just begun.

So busy worrying about the little thing, when someone else is doing worst than me. Somebody out there got a child in need, another soldier died for you and me. Ever if we breathe, it ain't even healthy, cause in the forests there ain't no trees. Don't tell me that don't make you stop and think.

Sometimes we've gotta stop and take everything in. Make room for my new dreams, look back on the new scenes. It's time for me to stop, you gave me a reason, to walk into my season, I've only just begun.

I'm so grateful, said I'm grateful. I'm where I wanna be. I'm where I want to be. Every destiny, means more than life to me, more than life to me.

Sometimes we've gotta stop and take everything in. Make room for my new dreams, look back on the new scenes. It's time for me to stop, cause you gave me a reason, to walk into my season, I've only just begun.


Can't let life get to you. I'm just to cool to be stressed out in the middle of the day. I can't

(feat. Betty Wright)

Baby, Slow Down
Baby, slow down
Seems you're moving too fast for me
Baby, slow down
Seems you're moving too fast for me
Seem to be movin' a little too fast for me

Baby, slow down
I'm not gonna hurt you
I understand you never been here before
Someone has used you, making you so scared
Allow me to make it better, oh

Baby, slow down
Seems you're moving too fast for me
Baby, slow down
Seems you're moving too fast for me
Seem to be movin' a little too fast for me

Baby stop runnin'
Please let me catch you
You're goin' through too many changes
But don't be scared to trust a stranger
I will assure you, there is no danger

Baby, slow down
Seems you're moving too fast for me
Baby, slow down
Seems you're moving too fast for me
Seem to be movin' a little too fast for me

Baby, slow down
Seems you're moving too fast for me
Baby, slow down
Seems you're moving too fast for me
Seem to be movin' a little too fast for me

What your friends say is fine
It don't mean a thing
When your heart beats next to mine
Take your time, baby slow it down
Cuz we got forever

Baby, slow down
Seems you're moving too fast for me
Baby, slow down
Seems you're moving too fast for me
Seem to be movin' a little too fast for me

Baby, slow down
Seems you're moving too fast for me
Baby, slow down
Seems you're moving too fast for me
Seem to be movin' a little too fast for me

Break it down, break it down
Uh uh

Baby
Seems you're moving too fast
(Seems you're moving too fast)
Seems you're movin' too fast baby
Seems you're movin'
Seem to be movin a little to fast for me

Seems you're movin' (Slow down)
Too fast for me
Seems you're movin'
Seem to be movin' a little too fast for me

[Repeat above until fade]

Now we've been traveling this road there too far
So with love my best regards
I'm giving you the time and the space
Yes, you need just a little more faith

If you gonna grow then you need to know
When it's time to just let go
As life is too short to pretend
We're in the beginning when it's the end

Uh, oh, here we go again, trying to make it right
When it don't make sense, no, it don't
Uh, oh, here we go again, trying to make it right
When it don't make sense, no

Now we both know what the problem is
Instead of letting go, tryin' to make it fit
Makin' a fool out of love
Ending up in the same predicament

We gonna grow then we need to know
When it's time to just let go
Life is too short to pretend
We're in the beginning when it's the end

Uh, oh, here we go again, trying to make it right
When it don't make sense, no, it don't make no sense
Uh, oh, here we go again, trying to make it right
When it don't make sense, no

I trusted you with everything
Gave you, gave you my heart to make you say
You took but never understood my pain
Now I gotta leave you, love 'em on my will

Uh, oh, here we go again, trying to make it right
When it don't make sense, no, it don't
Uh, oh, here we go again, trying to make it right
When it don't make sense, no

Uh, oh, here we go again, trying to make it right
When it don't make sense, no, it don't
Uh, oh, here we go again, trying to make it right
When it don't make sense, no

Said we had so much fun with each other
Can't forget you, oh, no, oh, no, I can't
Wishing you joy, happiness, love and tenderness

Doo doo, doo doo, doo doo, doo doo
Doo doo, doo doo, doo doo, doo doo
Doo doo, doo doo, doo doo, doo doo

You've got your mother in a whirl
She's not sure if you're a boy or a girl
Hey babe, your hair's alright
Hey babe, let's go out tonight

You like me and I like it all
We like dancing and we look divine
You love bands when they're playing hard
You want more and you want it fast
They put you down, they say I'm wrong
You tacky thing, you put them on

Rebel, rebel, you've torn your dress
Rebel, rebel, your face is a mess
Rebel, rebel, how could they know?
Hot tramp, I love you so, don't ya?

Doo doo, doo doo, doo doo, doo doo

You've got your mother in a whirl
'Cause she's not sure if you're a boy or a girl
Hey babe, your hair's alright
Hey babe, let's stay out tonight

You like me and I like it all
We like dancing and we look divine
You love bands when they're playing hard
You want more and you want it fast
They put you down, they say I'm wrong
You tacky thing, you put them on

Rebel, rebel, you've torn your dress
Rebel, rebel, your face is a mess
Rebel, rebel, how could they know?
Hot tramp, I love you so, don't ya, oh?

Doo doo, doo doo, doo doo, doo doo
Doo doo, doo doo, doo doo, doo doo

Rebel, rebel, you've torn your dress
Rebel, rebel, your face is a mess
Rebel, rebel, how could they know?
Hot tramp, I love you so

You've torn your dress, your face is a mess
You can't get enough, but enough ain't the test
You've got your transmission and your live wire
You got your cue line and a handful of ludes
You wanna be there when they count up the dudes

And I love your dress
You're a juvenile success because your face is a mess
"So how could they know?"
I said, "How could they know?"
So what you wanna know
Calamity's child, chi-chile, chi-chile
Where'd you wanna go?

What can I do for you? Looks like you've been there too
'Cause you've torn your dress and your face is a mess
Ooh, your face is a mess
Ooh, ooh, so how could they know?
Eh, eh, how could they know?
Eh, eh

You're keeping in step in the line
Got your chin held high and you feel just fine
Because you do what you're told
But inside your heart it is black
And it's hollow and it's cold

Just how deep do you believe?
Will you bite the hand that feeds?
Will you chew until it bleeds?
Can you get up off your knees?
Are you brave enough to see?
Do you want to change it?

What if this whole crusade's a charade
And behind it all there's a price to be paid
For the blood on which we dine
Justified in the name of the holy and the divine

Just how deep do you believe?
Will you bite the hand that feeds?
Will you chew until it bleeds?
Can you get up off your knees?
Are you brave enough to see?
Do you want to change it?

So naive to keep holding on to
What I want to believe I can see
But I keep holding on and on and on and on
Will you bite the hand that feeds you?
Will you stay down on your knees?

Go on back to your life
The way it used to be before you met me
Stop holding on, baby, let it go
'Cause it ain't gonna be different
'Cause we don't want to

And you, you've got so much goin' on
And I don't want to stop you from comin' in to your own
It's been so good, so good, so good, too good

Beautiful you are, I can't take that from you
But I'm beautiful too
The sooner we get through this thing
We can be free

Go on back to your life
The way it used to be before you loved me

They do

How do I explain myself?
Could it be written in a book, is it visual?
'Cause everything I'm doing, girl
It just don't seem to be enough

So what am I supposed to do?
How am I to show my love for you?
Everything I do, girl, it's all for you

Girl, give me half a chance
I'll give you what you've been missin' in a man
Girl, give me half a chance
I'll give you what you've been missin' in a man

You got your own set of rules
And I'm tired of learning from you
So excuse me while I get away
I'll be better off in my own space

Ain't it funny how, now that leaving
You wanna give me everything
But that's not how it's supposed to be

Maybe I'll give a chance
Takin' me all that I need in a man
What makes you think you can?
I need a reason

I'm already out the door
Ain't no need to say no more
'Cause I'm not whatcha lookin' for
And made that very clear
Oh the night you left me here
It was so obvious you didn't care

Baby, I don't know if you can trust
I'll do my best to make it up
Baby, please listen, don't fuss
I'll do whatever it will take
To make up for my mistake
I think it's time for us, babe

I know it seems like I'm beggin'
But I don't want you to slip away

Now ain't it funny when you learn
I should've been the one concernin'
All you wanna do now is conversate
When we already know it's too late

Girl, give me half a chance
I'll give you what you've been missin' in a man
What made you think you can
I need a reason to give you one more chance

If you don't make it back alright
I want to make you feel alright
If you don't make it back alright
I want to make you feel alright
If you don't make it back alright
I want to make you feel alright

Just like a seed that wouldn't grow
Not 'til it had the right home
You were like that for me
You nurtured me, you cared for me

You never would let go
Not 'til you could breathe new life to me
Don't you see what you mean to me? Everything
Where would I be without you?

So many times you could have walked
But you stood by me through it all
Got me through the hurt, baby, you served
Through every broken thing to put me back together

Now all is good with me
I'm more happy than most could be
I'm so gone and that's okay with me
Oh, boy, you make me breathe free

You make the sunshine, you make the rain fall
These are the reasons I love you
Just like the wind blows or how the Nile flows
Baby, I love you, I love you

High as the moon, boy, you've got me flying
And though the seasons they change
You stay the same boy, these are the reasons
Baby, I love you, I love you

Got on my knees real low
Wanna let God know, that I'm so thankful for you
Now and forever, I'll adore you, yeah
I'm crying tears of joy, I'm so in love with you, boy
Praisin' His name for blessings and favor, yeah, yeah

I want you to know that you have changed my whole life
And now I'm trusting like I never did before
Smiling like I never did before
Loving like I never did before and it's all because of you

You make the sunshine, you make the rain fall
These are the reasons I love you
Just like the wind blows or how the Nile flows
Baby, I love you, I love you

High as the moon, boy, you've got me flying
And though the seasons they change
You stay the same boy, these are the reasons
Baby, I love you, I love you, you

Just can't get enough of you
Boy, I'm so in love, tell me what did you do
Got me all messed up, had a scope of belong to you
Why you put it down? [Incomprehensible]

You make the sunshine, you make the rain fall
These are the reasons I love you
Just like the wind blows or how the Nile flows
Baby, I love you, I love you

High as the moon, boy, you've got me flying
And though the seasons they change
You stay the same boy, these are the reasons
Baby, I love you, I love you

You make the sunshine, you make the rain fall
These are the reasons I love you
Just like the wind blows or how the Nile flows
Baby, I love you, I love you

High as the moon, boy, you've got me flying
And though the seasons they change
You stay the same boy, these are the reasons
Baby, I love you, I love you

You make the sunshine, you make the rain fall
These are the reasons I love you
Just like the wind blows or how the Nile flows
Baby, I love you, I love you

High as the moon, boy, you've got me flying
And though the seasons they change
You stay the same boy, these are the reasons
Baby, I love you, I love you

Just like a seed that wouldn't grow
Not 'til it had the right home
You were like that for me
You nurtured me, you cared for me

You never would let go
You never would let go
Go

My people!
Yeah!
My people!
Yeah!

The foundation of the United States
Rests on the sweat of my people
Every enemy of the USA
Has had to face my people on the front lines

People, my people are dyin'
And we see it all the time
Don't know where our future would be
If he's not here, how do we stay strong?

Only we can save us from us
Bring about change we will show our people love

My people, hold your head up
My people, don't get fed up
My people rise, my people fight
My people do alright

My people walk with pride and
We're marchin' side by side and
My people laugh, my people cry
My people ride and die

People, my people, keep striving
There's a greater master plan
We need to know our history
We were kings and queens of the greatest dynasty

Only we can save us from us
Bring about change we will show our people love

My people, hold your head up
My people, don't get fed up
My people rise, my people fight
My people do alright

My people walk with pride and
We're marchin' side by side and
My people laugh, my people cry
My people ride and die

My people, hold your head up
My people, don't get fed up
My people rise, my people fight
My people do alright

My people walk with pride and
We're marchin' side by side and
My people laugh, my people cry
My people ride and die

Who are my people? Dr. Vernon Johns
Dr. Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks
Nelson Mandela, Malcolm X
Bishop Desmond Tutu, Mohammad Ali
Sydney Poitier, Quincy Jones

Colin Powell, Oprah Winfrey
Barrack Obama, Spike Lee
Michael Jordan, Venus and Serena Williams
Tiger Woods, The Rutgers Women's Basketball Team
We are my people, we are the future

My people, hold your head up
My people, don't get fed up
My people rise, my people fight
My people do alright

My people walk with pride and
We're marchin' side by side and
My people laugh, my people cry
My people ride and die

My people, hold your head up
My people, don't get fed up
My people rise, my people fight
My people do alright

My people walk with pride and
We're marchin' side by side and
My people laugh, my people cry
My people ride and die

Harriet Tubman, Shirley Caesar
Miss Jane Pittman, Juanita Bynum
Maya Angelou, Bishop T.D. Jakes
Madam C.J. Walker, Bishop Noel Jones

Moms Mabley, Reverend Blake Scott
Aretha Franklin, Reverend Jamal Bryant
Dorothy Dandridge, Richard Pryor
Lena Horn, Samuel Jackson
Nancy Wilson, Magic Johnson
Mahalia Jackson, Smokey Robinson

Sugar Ray Robinson, Nikki Giovanni
Adam Clayton Powell, Afeni Shakur
The Funk Brothers, Miles Davis
Mr. James Brown, 2Pac
Bob Marley, Biggie Smalls

Billie Holiday, Cathy Hughes
Charlie Parker, Betty Shabazz
Denzel Washington, Coretta Scott King
Morgan Freeman, Angela Davis
James Earl Jones, Nat King Cole

Curtis Mayfield, Bob Johnson
Marvin Gaye, Johnnie Cochran
Berry Gordy, Nat Turner
Michael Jackson, Bill Cosby
Cuba Gooding Jr., Dick Gregory
Chris Tucker, Langston Hughes

Reverend Al Sharpton, Katherine Dandrige
Jesse Jackson, Debbie Allen
Woo! Gregory Hines
Benjamin Zephaniah, Robert Pelé
Kofi Annan, Luther Vandross

Tyler Perry, Wynton Marsalis
Zadie Smith, Charles White
Pele, Romare Bearden
Robert Mugambi, Gordon Parks
Omar, John McLean

Mariam Makeba, Susan Taylor
Soul II Soul, Tom Bail
Antwan Fuqua, Damien Marley
Trevor McDonald, The Black Stars
Angie Stone, Count Basie
Duke Ellington, Jackie Robinson

Bill Clinton, that's right I said it
Y'all know that was the first black man in the White House

Sit down, let me talk to you
Maybe we can get down if you want, now or later
If you're with it, I'm here to make sure it happens
In the best way for you

Sit down, let me talk to you
Maybe we can get down if you want, now or later
If you're with it, I'm here to make sure it happens
In the best way for you

Sunny days, purple haze
We chillin' in the shade, oh
I can feel myself gettin' a rush
Oh, I'm so high

Apple martinis and buffalo wings
Baby, listen to the jay bird sing
La la la la la
La la la la

Baby, sit down let me talk to you
Maybe we can get down if you want, now or later
If you're with it, I'm here to make sure it happens
In the best way for you

Baby, sit down let me talk to you
Maybe we can get down if you want, now or later
If you're with it, I'm here to make sure it happens
In the best way for you

Cruisin' on in Chi town
I'm here to tell you we just don't stop
Makin' our way with Marvin Gaye
Watchin' sunsets on the bay

Baby, let me rub your body
With some oil
Can we take it there
I dare you boo

Baby, sit down let me talk to you
Maybe we can get down if you want, now or later
If you're with it, I'm here to make sure it happens
In the best way for you

Baby, sit down let me talk to you
Maybe we can get down if you want, now or later
If you're with it, I'm here to make sure it happens
In the best way for you

Baby, oh baby, I said
I'm lovin' the way that you're lovin' me
I'll admit, I'm caught up in my fantasy
And I won't change this feeling for nothin'

Sit down let me talk to you
Maybe we can get down if you want, now or later
If you're with it, I'm here to make sure it happens
In the best way for you

Sit down c'mon
Let's have a conversation
I want to be good to you
(I love you boy)

Come over here baby sit down
Let me talk to ya bout what's goin down sugar
I just wanna let you know that I'm feelin' you
Crazy, crazy about you

And I'm lovin the very ground you walk on
Baby, listen to this song
You know you make me feel
Like a real woman

Play with it
Might get it
You don't want to mess with me

You don't wanna play with it
Cause you just might get it (Player)
You don't want to mess with me

I had to take a walk back down to Murray Lane
And let ya know I still got game
Turn up the heat a little
and watch your brain sizzle
and bring about a change

If you ain't ready for this grease I'm slingin
Then get your ass up out that frying pan
Cause it ain't nothin but the heats I'm bringin
I'm Angie Stone and I'm here to stand

You don't wanna play with it
Cause you just might get it (Player)
You don't want to mess with me

I got a chip on my shoulder
Ain't too heavy to hold ya
But don't ever hold me back
In unleashes my animal instinct
and everything in my way
will get attacked

Now ya know all I got is love for y'all
all my sisters and all my brothers,
I'm aggressive when it's time to get the message
to the ones who fell asleep

You don't wanna play with it
Cause you just might get it (Player)
You don't want to mess with me

If you ain't ready for this grease I'm slingin
Then get your ass up out that frying pan
Cause it ain't nothin but the heats I'm bringin
I'm Angie Stone and I'm here to stand

You don't wanna play with it
Cause you just might get it (Player)
You don't want to mess with me

Pop pop pop that bottle top, let your body rock
'Cause the beat don't stop stop stop
Pop pop pop that bottle top, let your body rock
'Cause the beat don't stop stop stop

We're chillin' again I wanna be more than a friend
'Cause you're takin' me to places I never been before
Feelin' like I'm yearing for a little more

And I wanna begin to build with you, let it do what it do
'Cause we been talkin' and kissin' and touchin' like every night
If that's wrong I don't wanna be right

Pop pop pop that bottle top, let your body rock
'Cause the beat don't stop stop stop
Pop pop pop that bottle top, let your body rock
'Cause the beat don't stop stop stop

Look what you done, makin' me run straight to your arms
Boy you know you only get the best from me
Flowin' like a book full of poetry

I'm thankin' your mother for makin' ya brother
Tell her I love her
Baby you know you're everything that I need
You're the missing link to me

Pop pop pop that bottle top, let your body rock
'Cause the beat don't stop stop stop
Pop pop pop that bottle top, let your body rock
'Cause the beat don't stop stop stop

Mind, heart and soul all belongs to you
There's nothing in this world I wouldn't do

It gets no better than this 'cause
Your kiss is somethin' I just don't wanna miss
It gets no better than this 'cause
Your kiss is somethin' I just don't wanna miss

Boy you know we gon' do this
Yes, we gon' do this
Boy you know we gon' do this
Yes, we gon' do this

Boy you know we gon' do this
Yes, we gon' do this
Boy you know you gon' do this
Yes, we gon' do this

Pop pop pop that bottle top, let your body rock
'Cause the beat don't stop stop stop
Pop pop pop that bottle top, let your body rock
'Cause the beat don't stop stop stop

Wait for Me
I need to get up out of here.
Baby just wait for me. (Said I'm coming.)
It won't be long. (Said I'm already packed, ready to go, waiting to get out of here.)
Baby just wait for me. (I'm coming.)
It won't be long. (I said I'm on my way, ready to stay; did I make it crystal clear?)

Since you came into my life.
Strong, sweet, and positive.
Things are so right.
So far away, I'm counting down the days.
Baby I anticipate loving you a billion ways.

Baby just wait for me. (Said I'm coming.)
It won't be long. (Said I'm already packed, ready to go, waiting to get out of here.)
Baby just wait for me. (I'm coming)
It won't be long. (I said I'm on my way, ready to stay; did I make it crystal clear?)

Baby can you feel it?
That this thing that we've got is real
Though we're miles apart, you've still got my heart
I'm about to leave today and be on my way
Baby just be still.

Stop don't worry.
You already got me, right where you want me.
I promise it won't take long.
I'm on my way home!

A thousand kisses for you
Is never too much (Never too much, never too much, never too much)

Greyhound, or Amtrax
Whatever it takes I'm coming back
Mercedes Benz, or airplane
Through the clouds and the rain
Days, hours, minutes, seconds
I can't wait another day.
With all this distance it's tearing me away, yeah!

Baby just wait for me. (Said I'm coming.)
It won't be long. (Said I'm already packed, ready to go, waiting to get out of here.)
Baby just wait for me. (I'm coming.)
It won't be long. (Said I'm already packed, ready to go, waiting to get out of here.)
Baby just wait for me. (Said I'm coming.)
It won't be long. (Said I'm already packed, ready to go, waiting to get out of here.)

Stop don't worry.
You already got me, right where you want me.
I promise it won't take long.
I'm on my way home!

I said I'm already packed, ready to go, got to get out of here.
I said I'm ready to go, already packed, got to get out of here.

Baby, I'm thanking you

Looking back on when I started
Had a lot of sun and a lot of rain
I've had some joy and broken heartache
But now that doesn't mean a thing

I'm living for the joy and laughter
Longing for my befores and afters
All in all, it's been cool
And there's nothing I wouldn't do

I'm so happy being me
So happy being me, I'm regretting nothing 'bout me
Too busy living life, living love freely
So happy being me

Stop reaching back for your beginnings
All those broken dreams that went down stream
As we grow, live and know
Somethings were never meant to be

Just like people, they come and go
Some will live forever and some will never know
That's why God gives us memories
To lead us to our victories, I'm so happy loving me

So happy being me
I'm regretting nothing 'bout me
Too busy living life, living love freely
So happy being me

All though hidden treasures
Feel little a pleasure
We could never replace this love
We can't no, we can't no

The sunlight leads us to a place
And the moonlight keeps us in his grace
I'm so happy, happy being me

So happy being me, I'm regretting nothing 'bout me
Too busy living life, living love freely
So happy being me

So happy being me, I'm regretting nothing 'bout me
Too busy living life, living love freely
So happy being me

So happy being me, I'm regretting nothing 'bout me
Too busy living life, living love freely
So happy being me