India.Arie Album

I'm grateful that you created me from the same grains from the same things
I'm grateful that you never cease to amaze me the way you love me

OH Oooh oh ooOH OH, yeaah yeah yeaah Yeaaah hey.
OH Oooh oh ooOH OH, yeaah yeah yeaah
Oh oh oh oh oh oh (I-I-I-I need your therapy)
Oh oh oh oh oh oh (I-I-I-I need you to come and lay hands on me)
Oh oh oh oh oh oh (I-I-I-I need your therapy-therapy-therapy)
Oh oh oh oh oh ...
(heeey)
He lays me on the couch and says
"How has your day been?
Tell me your problems;
I'll help you solve them.
Come on let's talk about it"
He sits next to me and smiles.
Listens to all of my words,
Relaxes all of my nerves.

Like breathe in (breathe in)
Let it go (shout it out)
Take deeps breathes and real slow, calm down.
Close my eyes (soft spoke)
Ease my mind (take control)
From my body please
Work your Psychology

You're taking good care of me
Always been there for me
Boy I can't bear to leave
Cause I need your therapy

You've given me everything
So much I ever could need
Without you I'm so weak in the knees
I need your therapy

Oh oh oh oh oh oh (I-I-I-I need your therapy)
Oh oh oh oh oh oh (I-I-I-I need you to come and lay hands on me)
Oh oh oh oh oh oh (I-I-I-I need your therapy-therapy-therapy)
Oh oh oh oh oh ...
(hey)

He puts his hand on my lower back
His face in my neck and
Says something to make me laugh
Makes me forget I was mad
His touch feels so right
It's like he's reading my mind
I need him all the time

Like breathe in (breathe in)
Let it go (shout it out)
Take deeps breathes and real slow, calm down.
Close my eyes (soft spoke?)
Ease my mind (take control)
From my body please (?)
Work your Psychology

You're taking good care of me
Always been there for me
Boy I can't bear to leave
Cause I need your therapy

You've given me everything
So much I ever could need
Without you I'm so weak in the knees
I need your therapy

Oh oh oh oh oh oh (I-I-I-I need your therapy)
Oh oh oh oh oh oh (I-I-I-I need you to come and lay hands on me)
Oh oh oh oh oh oh (I-I-I-I need your therapy-therapy-therapy)
Oh oh oh oh oh ...
Yeaah yeaah

When it feels like I'm losing power
When I feels like a wilting flower
The way you touch me says I'm there for you
It heals me just to hear you say "I Love You"

You're taking good care of me
Always been there for me
Boy I can't bear to leave
Cause I need your therapy

You've given me everything
So much I ever could need
Without you I'm so weak in the knees
I need your therapy

You're taking good care of me
Always been there for me
Boy I can't bear to leave
Cause I need your therapy

You've given me everything
So much I ever could need
Without you I'm so weak in the knees
I need your therapy

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh ....

There are places in Havannah,
That remind me of Savannah.
Parts of West Virgina,
That might as well be Kenya.
Parts of New York City,
Parts of Mississippi.
Parts of Tennessee,
Look like another world to me.

Chorus
Oh, oh oh, Ghetto-o-o-o,
Might as well be another country.
Barrio-o-o-o,
Might as well be another country.
When you look around,
You live in another country too (too).

To be hungry in L.A.
Is just like starving in Bombay.
Homeless in Moracco,
Is a shelter in Chicago.
Right around the corner,
Just down the road.
Right before your eyes,
Right under your nose.

Chorus
Hey, the ghetto-o-o-o
Might as well be another country.
Barrio-o-o-o,
Might as well be another country.
When you look around,
You live in another country too (too).

Now the dictionary says,
That the ghetto is a place
Of minority, and poverty, and over population.
We live on this earth together,
Ain't no separation.
When you're looking down,
From outer space.
We're just a human race and the world is a

Chorus
Ghetto-o-o-o,
Listen every place and every country.
Barrio-o-o-o,
It's in every place and every country.
When you look around,
Do you see your brother when you
Look around?
It's a small world after all.
Look around,
You live in another country too.

(ghetto) Jamaica is a ghetto
(ghetto) Japan is a ghetto
(ghetto) America's a ghetto
(ghetto) Slovakia's a ghetto
(ghetto) South Africa's a ghetto
(ghetto) Brazil is a ghetto
(ghetto) Israel is a gheto

(feat. Musiq Soulchild)

Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Ooh ooh
If we make each other happy, then we just can't lose

[India Arie]
I don't mean to be decadent
I might sound like a hedonist
But the simplest way I can put it
You become a habit
The more I consume, the more I gotta have it
Ain't no such thing as too much
If you gave me everything it'd never be enough yeah
My black coffee with sugar no cream in the morning
You're my super double caffeine dream yeah

[Musiq Soulchild]
Your precious darkness got me so
Strung out and lovin' the way that you
Got me so wide open, my baby doll
Jonesin' and fienin' under my skin
My nerves are screamin' when you're not here
See baby I need ya sugar
You're so delicious

[Chorus]
There is somethin' about your love
That makes me just want to open up
Your flavor is the sweetest thing in life
I'm addicted to your chocolate high
Cause I want you, and I know that you want me
So let's stay close like we supposed to be
And just get high off our own supply
I'm addicted to your chocolate high

[Musiq Soulchild]
I be trippin' in so many ways if I
Go a single day without a taste of your love
The finest cuisine of today's world
Five stars, oh you're so gourmet girl

[India Arie]
I crave you, I want you
Every cell in my body needs you
Tasty like hershey's and nestle
You're rich like godiva boy you just so sexy

[Chorus]
There is somethin' about your love
That makes me just want to open up
Your flavor is the sweetest thing in life
I'm addicted to your chocolate high
Cause I want you, and I know that you want me
So let's stay close like we supposed to be
And just get high off our own supply
I'm addicted to your chocolate high

Your flavor is
The sweetest thing in life
And I don't ever want to come down
I'm addicted to your chocolate high
Oh yeah

[Chorus]
There is somethin' about your love
That makes me just want to open up
Your flavor is the sweetest thing in life
I'm addicted to your chocolate high
Cause I want you, and I know that you want me
So let's stay close like we supposed to be
And just get high off our own supply
I'm addicted to your chocolate high
[Repeat]

He heals me
Told him my biggest secret
And he told me four.
He smiled at me and said that makes me love more
And then he made me laugh
And I knew it was a sign
That he was a man,
That I wanted in my life

And with every passing day
I feel more and more of that way

He heals me
He knows the real me
And he accepts me, he never hurts me
He heals me
He knows the real me
And he accepts me, he never hurts me
He heals me,
He heals me

I can play him songs, all through the night,
And he will listen to every line,
And even when I'm wrong, he is still kind
He chooses his words wisely when he tells me I'm not right.

And yes he is a beautiful man,
But he is also a beautiful friend

He heals me
He knows the real me
And he accepts me, he never hurts me
He heals me
He knows the real me
And he accepts me, he never hurts me
He heals me

The moment that we met, he made me smile.
He has so much compassion in his eyes
I have no idea, how long he'll be here
A season or a lifetime, forever or a year
But for the first time in my life I'm not worried about the future
Because we have such a wonderful time when we're together
However things turn out, it's all right
Cause he's already changed my life.

He heals me
He knows the real me
And he accepts me, he never hurts me
He heals me
He knows the real me
And he accepts me, he never hurts me
He heals me..........

I am grateful that you never cease to amaze me the way you love me
From the flicker of an eyelash to the furthest star
From the pyramids to the beat of my heart
From a woman in Somalia to a child in Harlem
We're created from the same things
I'm grateful that you created me from the same grains from the same things
I‘m grateful that you never cease to amaze me the way you loved me

There is a woman in Somalia
Scraping for pearls by the roadside
There is a force stronger than nature
Keeps her will alive

That is how she lives her life
She is dying to survive
I don't know what she's made of
But I would like to be that brain

She cries to the heavens above
There's a stone in my heart
She lives a life she didn't choose
And it hurts like brand new shoes
Yes, it hurts like brand new shoes
And it hurts like brand new shoes

There is a woman in Rwanda
The sun shows her no mercy
The same sky we lay under
It burns her to the bone

Long is afternoon shadows
It's gonna take her to get home
Each gray carefully wrapped up
Pearls for her little girl

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

She cries to the heavens above
There's a stone in my heart
She lives a life she didn't choose
And it hurts like brand new shoes
Yes, it hurts like brand new shoes
And it hurts like brand new shoes

There was a womanin Somalia
There was a woman in Rwanda
There was a woman in Tibet
There is a woman in a Congo
And she hurts like brand new shoes

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Ohhh
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
[African words sung]
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

There was always
A power I could feel
It was guidance to tell me the way to go

But nowadays I feel like can't hear that voice
I've been flying blind
I need you to come and be my eyes. (be my eyes)

River Rise
Carry me back home
(I cannot remember the way)
River rise
Carry me back home
(I surrender today)

I was always
A charmed flower child
I would sit for hours
And listen to the sky

But nowadays I feel like I don't have that choice
I've been looking down in desperation
I need you to be my inspiration yeah
(My inspiration)

River rise
Carry me back home
(I cannot remember the way)
River rise
Carry me back home
(I surrender today)

I bow down
And I humble myself
I can't do this
Lord I need your help
All the material things
They feel like chains
If you're not here beside me
You're the reason I see

(Help me to remember the way)
I surrender

Help me to remember
Only you can show me
(Only you can show me the way)
I surrender
(I surrender today)
You are the only way
Lord, I need you.

Everytime I hear you say hello
All I see is yellow
Like daisies in the meadow
And I just thought you should know
That everytime you go away, my yellow turns to gray
What im trying to say is it shouldnt be this way
And I need you to stay

[Chorus]
Stay with me in the yellow [x3]
Ohh I need you to stay, stay with me in the yellow [x3]

When you're away from me
I get green with envy
Wondering where you could be
And this aint how it should be
But you know im a georgia peach
I need your sunshine on me
You know how I can't be I get blue and lonely
And I need you to stay

[Chorus]

There times you make me see red
And then you shine your white
I get all pink inside
You know your the love of my life
Together me and you are purple
Becuase we are so wild
And whenever we are this close
I never want to let go
I need yoouu to staaayyy

Stay with me in the, stay with me in the

[Chorus]

Yeah,yeah
Oooooooh Ooooh
Let my people go

Oooooooh Oooh oh oh
Let my people go

In the swamps of New Orleans
The rain came pouring down
So heavy was the water
That the walls came crashing down
Now I know a survivor
But how the hell you justify
Leaving 100,000 people in water that high
Just struggling for their lives

[chorus]
I know there's got to be a
Better way
I know there's got to be a
Better way
I know there's got to be a
Better way
And we've got to find it
(Stand up) we've got to find it
(Or fall down) we've got to find it

Politicians are screaming
They say we've got a reason for war
So many people are dying
And we ain't even sure what for
Is it because he's a Muslim?
Tell me is it democracy or is it the oath
It's on the news every day
One paycheck away
And the President's on the golf course

[chorus]
I know there's got to be a
Better way
I know there's got to be a
Better way
I know there's got to be a
Better way
And we've got to find it
(You got to stand together) we've got to find it
(Or we coud fall apart) we've got to find it

Sweet buttered craw dad
Delta bread
Hot pepper soul that's been sold out
Lives that were taken before they found out
What life was all about
He's a genius with the lyrics
Started young sipping syrup
And it hurts me to my soul
The way he drinks away the pain
The world's going to lose him
Another young superhero

We've got to find it x8

I see the children on TV
It's become a sign of the times
Glorifying their bodies
Something just don't feel right
Still we keep pretending
That boys and girls are men and women
We watch it and we call it entertainment
And everything is okay as long as somebody's getting paid

[chorus]
I know there's got to be a
Better way
I know there's got to be a
Better way
There's got to be a
Better way
And we've got to find it
We've got to find it
We've got to find it

I am grateful that you never cease to amaze me the way you love me
From the flicker of an eyelash to the furthest star
From the pyramids to the beat of my heart
From a woman in Somalia to a child in Harlem
We're created from the same things
I'm grateful that you created me from the same grains from the same things
I‘m grateful that you never cease to amaze me the way you loved me

Mmhmmmm.....

I say I love you
You say that's kind
You don't wanna get too close
You loved me crazy
I lost my mind

Listen...

You're everything I never wanted
And all the things I didn't need
This ain't who I wanna be
You don't have to stay forever
I'll take passion over pride
Full moon, high tide
Let's make it a long goodbye
Tomorrow we'll pick up the pieces
Try to mend our broken lives
Soft kiss, sweet lies
Let's make it a long goodbye

Yeah...
I cried in silence
I lived through you
I've given everything away
And maybe I can learn to fall
For someone who can give me all
The things I"m not afraid to lose

Whenever you see lonely faces
That's where I'll be
Don't cry for me, no no no no
Don't cry for me, don't cry for me yeah yeahhhh

Hey, don't cry for me, no no no
I'm gonna be okay

I've Seen: Money come between my best friend and me
I've Seen: Old friend become new enemies
I've Been: Through a couple of litigations
I've Been: Through character assassination.

They Try To Put This Stick In Between My Wheels
But They Can't Stop My Motivation (Nothing Will…)

Though I walk through the Valley where the shadow of death is… I fear no evil cause I'm protected.

NO WEAPON FORMED AGAINST ME SHALL PROSPER
CAUSE I'M WALKING WITH THE HEAVENLY FATHER
AND I DO BELIEVE I'M GOING TO PROSPER
CAUSE I'M WALKING WITH THE PRAYERS OF MY MOTHER.

You won't get the best of me even though you broke my heart….I'm gone pick up the pieces. ( 2X)

I Was Thinking: Maybe this isn't the life for me.
I Was Thinking: Maybe I should leave the music industry
I've Been: Betrayed by the people I trusted
I've Been: Oh…seriously disgusted.

They Try To Put This Stick In Between My Wheels
But They Can't Stop My Motivation (Nothing Will…)

Though I walk through the Valley where the shadow of death is… I fear no evil cause I'm protected.

NO WEAPON FORMED AGAINST ME SHALL PROSPER,
CAUSE I'M WALKING WITH THE HEAVENLY FATHER~
AND I DO BELIEVE I'M GOING TO PROSPER
CAUSE I'M WALKING WITH THE PRAYERS OF MY MOTHER.

You won't get the best of me even though you got my money ….I'm gone pick up the pieces. (2X)

MC Lyte Mix:

You Can't Get The Best Of Me… Cause Of My Destiny
Not To Be Less Than Me …But To Be More.
So, Don't Question Me..
I Came And I Conquered, I Soared
To New Heights And Still I Explored
In My Fight To Survive,
Lyte Is Too Right…
Keep My Eyes On New Sights
I Continue To Plight
So, When Try To Hurting Me
Even Deserting Me…
Know That I Am Designed To Overcome Adversity~
Want To Bring Out The Worst In Me …IT WON'T HAPPEN!
Because I Take Responsibility For My Actions.
My Tenacity…Well It Has To Be Everlasting…
Cause Even When Comes To Backstabbers…I'M LAUGHING!

You won't get the best of me even though broke my heart ….I'm gone pick up the pieces.
You won't get the best of me even though you got my money ….I'm gone pick up the pieces. (2X)

You won't get the best of me because by the grace of GOD ….I'm gone pick up the pieces. (4X)

There's a girl who was raised to believe that love is suffering
She grows up and the man like a father gives her a wedding ring
Now she walks around up constant companion, our resentment, fear and sadness
The lack of laughter turns to cancer, this song is dedicated to her

The worst disease in the world
It's not cancer, it's not aids
The cure will not be found
By any physicist or scientist
Cause any cure living every single one of us
The worst disease in the world is hate
And the cure for hate is love
Oh love, oh love, oh love

Picture this:
There's a boy who was abused when he was 12 years old
Now guilt lives in the pit of his stomach and even though he's grown
He believes he deserves to be punished, now he lives his life past and reckless
Searching for love, helpless, this song is dedicated to him

The worst disease in the world
It's not cancer, it's not aids
The cure will not be found
By any physicist or scientist
Cause any cure living every single one of us
The worst disease in the world is hate
And the cure for hate is love
Oh love, oh love, oh love

It may seem
When I'm looking at the world through those kind of glasses
I believe that it's so simple but sometimes it looks complicated
God's love is like sunshine not be recognized
The most powerful energy in the universe
And all we have to do is use it

You may think
That there's nothing in the world that you can do but that ain't the truth
The fact of the matter is the battle world begins with you
Be the best person you can be
Pass those values to your family
And when you pray for those you love
Say a prayer for humanity

I'm grateful that now I can see
that I am a part of everything
and everything is a part of me
you've amazed me

Life is a journey,
Not a destination,
There are no mistakes,
Just chances we've taken
Lay down your regrets cause all we have is now

Wake up in the morning
And get out of bed
Start making a mental list in my head
Of all of the things that I am grateful for

Early in the morning
It's the dawn of a new day
New hopes new dreams new ways
I open up my eyes and
I open up my mind and
I wonder how life will surprise me today
Early in the morning
It's the dawn of a new day
New hopes new dreams new ways
I open up my heart and
I'm gon' do my part and
Make this a positively beautiful day

La la la la la la la la la (x3)
It's a Beautiful Day (x3)

Life is a challenge not a competition
You can still smell the roses and be on a mission
Just take a moment to get in touch with your heart
Sometimes you feel like you've got something to prove
Remind yourself that there's only one you
Just take a moment to give thanks of who you are
Early in the morning
It's the dawn of a new day
New hopes, new dreams, new ways
I open up my eyes and
I open up my mind and
I wonder how life will surprise me today

Early in the morning
It's the dawn of a new day
New hopes, new dreams, new ways
I open up my heart and
I'm gon' do my part and
Make this a positively beautiful day

La la la la la la la la la (x3)
It's a Beautiful Day (x2)

Let's make this a wonderful
Let's make this a powerful
Let's make this a Beautiful Day
It's a Beautiful Day

Life is a journey,
Not a destination,
There are no mistakes,
Just chances we've taken
Lay down your regrets cause all we have is now

Hmmm
This is a song for every girl who's ever been through something she thought she couldn't make it through, yeah
I sing these words because I was that that girl too
Wanting something better than this but who do I turn to?
Now we're moving from the darkness into the light
This is the defining moment of our lives, mmmmmhh

Cause you're beautiful like a flower
More valuable than a diamond
You are powerful like a fire
You can heal the world with your mind
And there is nothing in the world that you cannot do
When you believe in you
Who are beautiful
Yeah you, who are brilliant
Yeah you, who are powerful
Yeah you, who are resilient

This is a song for every girl who feels that she is not special
Cause she don't look like a supermodel, Coke bottle
The next time the radio tells you to shake your money maker
Shake your head and tell them, tell 'em you're a leader
Now we're moving from the darkness into the light
This is the defining moment of our lives, Yeah

Cause you're beautiful like a flower
More valuable than a diamond
You are powerful like a fire
You can heal the world with your mind
And there is nothing in the world that you cannot do
When you believe in you
Who are beautiful
Yeah you, who are brilliant
Yeah you, who are powerful
Yeah you, who are resilient
Yeah you, who are beautiful
Yeah you, who are brilliant
Yeah you, who are powerful
Yeah you, who are resilient
Yeah you, this song is for you
Yeah you, this song is for you
Yeah you, this song is for you
Yeah you
Yeah you, you are brilliant