Thursday, July 01, 2010

ALICIA KEYS: PRELUDE TO A KISS AND 11 MORE



Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American recording artist, musician and actress. She was raised by a single mother in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan in New York City. At age seven, Keys began to play classical music on the piano. She attended Professional Performing Arts School and graduated at 16 as valedictorian. She later attended Columbia University before dropping out to pursue her music career. Keys released her debut album with J Records, having had previous record deals first with Columbia and then Arista Records.

Birth name Alicia Augello Cook
Also known as Lellow
Born January 25, 1981 (1981-01-25) (age 29)
Origin New York City, New York, United States
Genres R&B, soul, pop
Occupations Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, record producer, actress, music video director, author, poet
Instruments Vocals, piano, keyboards, cello, synthesizer, vocoder, guitar, bass guitar
Years active 1997–present
Labels Columbia, Arista, J



1. NO ONE


[Songwriters: Augello-Cook, Alicia J; Harry, George; Brothers, Jr., Kerry;]

I just want you close
Where you can stay forever
You could be sure
That it will only get better

You and me together
Through the days and nights
I don't worry 'cause
Everything's gonna be alright

People keep talking
They could say what they like
But all I know is
Everything's gonna be alright

And no one, no one, no one
Can get in the way of what I'm feeling
No one, no one, no one
Can get in the way of what I feel
For you, you, you
Can get in the way of what I feel for you

When the rain is pouring down
And my heart is hurting
You will always be around
This I know for certain

You and me together
Through the days and nights
I don't worry 'cause
Everything's gonna be alright

People keep talking
They could say what they like
But all I know is
Everything's gonna be alright

No one, no one, no one
Can get in the way of what I'm feeling
No one, no one, no one
Can get in the way of what I feel
For you, you, you
Can get in the way of what I feel

I know some people search the world
To find something like what we have
I know people will try
Try to divide something so real
So 'til the end of time
I'm telling you there is

No one, no one, no one
Can get in the way of what I'm feeling
No one, no one, no one
Can get in the way of what I feel for you

VIDEO



2. LIKE YOU WILL NEVER SEE ME AGAIN

If I had no more time
No more time left to be here
Would you cherish what we had?
Was it everything that you were looking for?
If I couldn't feel your touch
And no longer were you with me
I'd be wishing you were here
To be everything that I'd be looking for
I don't wanna forget the present is a gift
And I don't wanna take for granted
the time you may have here with me
'Cause Lord only knows another day
is not really guaranteed

So every time you hold me
Hold me like this is the last time
Every time you kiss me
Kiss me like you'll never see me again
Every time you touch me
Touch me like this is the last time
Promise that you'll love me
Love me like you'll never see me again

Oh Oh Oh

How many really know what love is?
Millions never will
Do you know until you lose it
That it's everything that we are looking for
When I wake up in the morning
You're beside me
I'm so thankful that I found
Everything that I been looking for

I don't wanna forget
the present is a gift
And I don't wanna take for granted
the time you may have here with me
'Cause Lord only knows another day
is not really guaranteed

So every time you hold me
Hold me like this is the last time
Every time you kiss me
Kiss me like you'll never see me again
(can you do that for me baby)
Every time you touch me
(see we don't really know)
Touch me like this is the last time
(see everyday we never know)
Promise that you'll love me
(I want you to promise me)
Love me like you'll never see me again
(like you'll never see me again)

Oh oh oh oh oh

VIDEO



3. A WOMAN IS WORTH



You can buy me diamonds, you can buy me pearls
Take me on a cruise around the world
Cuz baby you know I'm worth it
Dinner lit by candles, run my bubble bath
Make love tenderly to last and last
Cuz baby you know I'm worth it

Wanna please wanna keep
wanna treat your woman right right
Not just dough but to show that
you know she is worth your time time
You will lose if you chose to
refuse to put her first
She will and she can find
a man who knows her worth

Oooohhh
Cuz a real man knows a real women
when he sees her
And a real women knows a real man
aint afraid to please her
And a real woman knows a real man
always comes first
And a real man just can't deny a womans worth
If you treat me fairly
I'll give you all my goods
Treat you like a real woman should
Cuz baby I know you're worth it

If you never play me
Promise not to bluff I'll hold you
down when shit gets rough
Cause baby I know you're worth it
She walks the mile makes you smile
all the while being true
Don't take for granted the pleasures
that she has for you
You will lose if you choose to
refuse to put her first
She will and she can find
a man who knows her worth

Oh
To all my real women throw your hands up
All my real men wave your hands
If you feel me then clap your hands
If your worth it worth it

Cuz a real man knows a real women when he sees her
And a real women knows a real man aint afraid to please her
And a real women knows a real man always comes first
And a real man just can't deny a womans worth

Uh huh uh huh uh huh uh huh

No need to read between the lines
spelled out for you (spelled out for you)
Just hear this only song and
you can't go wrong with your values (values)
A woman's (woman's)
Woman's (woman's)
WORTH!

Cuz a real man knows a real woman when he sees her
And a real woman knows a real man aint afraid to please her
And a real woman knows a real man always comes first
And a real man just can't deny a woman's worth

Ooooo yeah

VIDEO


4. SUPER WOMAN

[Songwriters: Augello-Cook, Alicia J; Moysten, S; Perry, Linda;]

Everywhere I'm turning
Nothing seems complete
I stand up and I'm searching
For the better part of me

I hang my head from sorrow
State of humanity
I wear it on my shoulders
Gotta find the strength in me

'Cause I am a Superwoman
Yes I am, yes she is
Still when I'm a mess, I still put on a vest
With an S on my chest
Oh yes, I'm a Superwoman

This is for all the mothers fighting
For better days to come
And all my women
All my women sitting here trying
To come home before the sun

And all my sisters coming together
Say yes I will, yes I can

'Cause I am a Superwoman
Yes I am, yes she is
Still when I'm a mess, I still put on a vest
With an S on my chest
Oh yes, I'm a Superwoman

When I'm breaking down and I can't be found
As I start to get weak
'Cause no one knows me underneath these clothes
But I can fly, we can fly, oh

'Cause I am a Superwoman
Yes I am, yes she is
Even when I'm a mess, I still put on a vest
With an S on my chest
Oh yes, I'm a Superwoman, yes she is

Let me tell you, I am a Superwoman
Yes I am, yes she is
See, even when I'm a mess, I still put on a vest
With an S on my chest
Oh yes, I'm a Superwoman
Yes I am, said I'm a Superwoman, yes you are

Oh yeah, I'm tellin' you
I'm super, so super
I'm super, so super
Yes I am, yes we are
Yes I am, yes you are

VIDEO


5. EMPIRE STATE OF MIND


[Jay-Z:]
Yeah,
Yeah, I'm ma up at Brooklyn,
Now I'm down in Tribe ca,
Right next to De Niro,
But I’ll be hood forever,
I’m the new Sinatra,
And since I made it here,
I can make it anywhere,
Yeah they love me everywhere,
I used to cop in Harlem,
All of my Dominicans
Right there up on Broadway,
Brought me back to that McDonald's,

Took it to my stash spot,
5-60 State street,
Catch me in the kitchen like
a Simmons whipping Pastry,
Cruising down 8th street,
Off white Lexus,
Driving so slow but BK is from Texas,
Me I’m up at Bed Study,
Home of that boy Biggie,
Now I live on billboard,
And I brought my boys with me,
Say what up to Ty Ty, still sipping Mai-tai
Sitting court side Knicks and Nets give me high fives,
N-gga I be Spiked out, I can trip a referee,
Tell by my attitude that I most definitely from…

[Alicia Keys:]
In New York,
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of,
There's nothing you can’t do,
Now you’re in New York,
These streets will make you feel brand new,
The lights will inspire you,
Let's hear it for New York, New York, New York

[Jay-Z:]
I made you hot nigga,
Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game,
Shit I made the Yankee hat more famous than a yankee can,
You should know I bleed Blue, but I ain't a crip tho,
But I got a gang of niggas walking with my clique though,
Welcome to the melting pot,
Corners where we selling rocks,
Afrika bambaataa shit,
Home of the hip hop,
Yellow cap, gypsy cap, dollar cab, holla back,
For foreigners it aint fitted they forgot how to act,
8 million stories out there and their naked,

Cities is a pity half of y’all won’t make it,
Me I gotta plug Special Ed and I got it made,
If Jeezy’s paying LeBron, I’m paying Dwayne Wade,
3 dice cee-lo
3 card Monte,
Labor day parade, rest in peace Bob Marley,
Statue of Liberty, long live the World trade,
Long live the king yo,
I’m from the empire state that's…

[Repeat Chorus:]

Welcome to the bright light..

[Jay-Z:]
Lights is blinding,
Girls need blinders
So they can step out of bounds quick,
The side lines is blind with casualties,
Who sipping life casually, then gradually become worse,
Don’t bite the apple Eve,
Caught up in the in crowd,
Now your in-style,
And in the winter gets cold en vogue with your skin out,
The city of sin is a pity on a whim,
Good girls gone bad, the cities filled with them,
Mami took a bus trip and now she got her bust out,
Everybody ride her, just like a bus route,
Hail Mary to the city your a Virgin,
And Jesus can’t save you life starts when the church ends,

Came here for school, graduated to the high life,
Ball players, rap stars, addicted to the limelight,
MDMA got you feeling like a champion,
The city never sleeps better slip you a Ambient

[Repeat Chorus:]

[Alicia Keys:]
One hand in the air for the big city,
Street lights, big dreams all looking pretty,
No place in the World that can compare,
Put your lighters in the air, everybody say yeah
Come on, come,
Yeah,

[Repeat Chorus:]


VIDEO



6. I GOT A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR YOU

Hmm, mmm, yeah, yeah
Let me tell y'all

See, now yesterday I was feeling down
When I came to Seattle
And y'all turned me around

I said, oh, Seattle, do you know what you do?
Hey, yeah, ever all that you've done for me
I got a little something for you

If you want to hear
What I gotta say, say, yeah
(Yeah)
Yeah, say yeah
(Yeah)
One more time, say yeah
(Yeah)

Oh, it's for all that you done for me
I got a little something for you
Yeah, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Ahh ha


VIDEO



7. TRY SLEEPING WITH A BROKEN HEART

Let's do it baby x3

Verse 1: Even if you were a million miles away,
I can still feel you in my bed near me,
touch me, feel meand even at the bottom
of the sea i can still her it inside
my head tellin me ,touch me,
feel me, and all the time you were tellin me lies,

Chorus: so tonight im gonna find a way
to make it without you tonight
I 'm gonna find a way to make it
without you, im gonna hold on to
the times that we had,tonight
I'm gonna find a way to make it without you,

Verse 2; have you ever tried sleepin
with a broken heart? well you can try
slepin in my bed lonley, on me,
nobody ever shut it down like youoo,
you wore the crown you made my body
feel without a doubt, why don't you hold me,
need me, i thought you told me youd
never leave me, lookin in the sky
I can see your face then
I know right where i fit in take me,
make me, you know that ill always be
in love with you right till the end

Chorus:so tonight im gonna find
a way to make it without you,
tonight im gonna find a way to make it
without you, im gonna hold on to
the times that we had,tonight
im gonna find a way to make it without you,

Bridge: Anybody coulda told you right
from the start it's bout ta fall apart,
or just hold on to love, and they can find
a way to make it, don't hold on to tight
i'll make it without you tonight
repeat chorus


VIDEO


8. PRELUDE TO A KISS



[Little Intro played by Alicia]
Mhmmmm... yeah yea yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Mhmhmh [x3]

Sometimes I feel..... L
Like I don't belong anywhere.
And it's gonna take....
so long for me to get to somewhere.........

Sometimes I feel so heavy hearted..,
but I can't explain cuz I'm so guarded.
But that's a lonely road to travel,
and a heavy load to... bear.

And it's a long, long way to heaven
but I gotta get there.....
Can you send an angel.....?
Can you send me an angel...... to guide me.


VIDEO


9. THE THING ABOUT LOVE

Love
Love will come find you
Just to remind you
Of who you are

Oh love
It will forsake you
Threaten to break you
Take what you got

Everybody laughs
Everybody cries
Sure it could hurt you baby
But give it a little try
See that's the thing about love

Friends
Sometimes will blind you
Sneak up behind you
You cant give enough

Then life
It will embrace you
Totally amaze you
So you don't give up

Everybody laughs
Everybody cries
Sure it could hurt you baby

But give it a little try
See that's the thing about love

Don't tell me that I'm not the only that's going through it all
Oh sometimes I feel like I'm the only that's going through it all
But its time
Oh its time
For me to shine
Hey
Its my time
Oh its time
For me to shine

Its my time
Said its my time
For me to shine
Its my time
Its bout time
For me to shine

Everybody laughs
Everybody cries
Sure it could hurt u baby
But give it a little try
That's the thing about love
That's the thing about love
That's the thing about
That's the thing about love


VIDEO











10. FEELING YOU. FEELING ME

Do you ooooooo, ooooo
2 hour long conversations
On the phone
Can't get you outta my mind
Baby are you feelin me,
Feelin you
Everything you say and
Everything you do
Gets me lost in you days at a time
Tell me are you feelin me,
Feeling you

VIDEO


11. DAH DEE DAH [SEXY THING]


Dah dee dah, dah dah dah dee dah.

Sexy thing, I can do anything,
cuz constantly (Constantly)
I'm think of how to get you
next to me (Next to me)
Maybe it's their playing
your mentality (Ohh) Ooh...

Dah dee dah, dah dah dah dee dah.
I can't explain, why I feel this way,
I don't know, loving you

Sexy thing
You can't hide the feelings
that are deep inside (Deep inside)
I can see it pouring through
them pretty eyes (Pretty eyes)
How much longer can you hide it,
this disguise (Not much)

You givin' this feelin', (this feelin')
You're gonna be yearnin', (gonna be yearnin')
I hope you know I'm what you need
(I'm what you need. I'm what you need)
Just lemme tell ya, (Lemme tell ya)
There's no one for ya

There's no one for ya but me
No, no

Dah dee dah, dah dah dah dee dah.
Make me sing mmm I can't explain,
oh, why I feel this way
When I'm loving you

If ya want to go please say why
You can walk away from here
I got this feelin' baby
If ya want to go please say why
You can walk away from here
We can go
What, what, what.

Dah dee dah, dah dah dah dee dah.
Too high, too high, yes I am
Too high, too high
Too high, too high yes I am

Dah dee dah, dah dah dah dee dah.
Cuz you make me wanna sing baby
Make me wanna sing
Somethin' like, somethin' like
Somethin' like, somethin' like

Let it ride, let it ride
Let it ride, let it ride
Hit, hit me off againSEXY THING]

VIDEO



12. LOVE IS MY DISEASE



When you're gone it feels like,
my whole world's gone with you
I thought love would be my cure
but now it's my disease
i try to act mature
but I'm a baby when you leave
how can i ever get used to being without you?

(yeah)

baby, baby, baby, baby
am i addicted
when i need you here all the time?
and I'm not sure if this is healthy
is it a sickness?
'cuz i feel like I'm losing my mind

and i know that there's no medicine
nothing i can take, no remedy
baby please stay

(ohohoohh)
When you're gone it feels like,
my whole world's gone with you
I thought love would be my cure
but now it's my disease (my disease)
i try to act mature
but I'm a baby when you leave
how can i ever get used to being without you?

oh oh oh baby, baby, baby
i get a fever
just the thought of you leaving my side
ohohhhh
and i'm not the same 'til you're back holding me
that's all i need


(oh yeah)
When you're gone it feels like (when you're gone baby)
my whole worlds gone with you (gone with you)
I thought love would be my cure
but now its my disease (my disease)
i try to act mature
but I'm a baby when you leave
how can i ever get used to being without you

woah woah
here's what I'm going through when your gone
some serious symptoms of withdrawal
(ohohoh)
so sick of turning in my bed
waking up drenched in a cold sweat
(ohohoh)
lying here lonely for you
what am i supposed to do
when i'm stuck and i cant get enough of your lovvvee

Ohohoh woahhh Baby

When you're gone it feels like (when your gone baby)
my whole world's gone with you (gone with you)
I thought love would be my cure
but now it's my disease (my disease)
i try to act mature
but I'm a baby when you leave
how can i ever get used to being without you?


VIDEO





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