Celebrate Today
Ahhhhh-ahhhh-mmmmh
Who gave me yesterday?
Who made it gone?
We can question the smart
Of one whom we’ve made known
Opinions follow tried lives
Because of let down and fear
So put behind you
What you don’t see nor hear
You have to celebrate now
For tomorrow does not exist
You want to believe it will be here
But all you can do is wish
We all have purposes
For our living
Our Speak and
Our color and our love yeah
I give thanks
Let’s celebrate today today
I give thanks
Let’s celebrate today today
Tomorrow’s non- existent
When we’ve lost yesterday
Celebrate the hour
Celebrate today
Celebrate today
Mmmooh-ahhhhh
Have you ever looked at the moon?
While the sky is black
Or wondered what would you do
If the sun never came back
Can you lift up a wave?
As it pushes you away
Or walk through fire
If it stood in your way
Ever ran behind the wind
After it carried off the leaves
Or studied the count of the stars
In the sky as they gleam
Creation of any takes the knowledge of will
And without wisdom the sky could not stand still
I give thanks
Let’s celebrate today today
I give thanks
Let’s celebrate today today
Tomorrow’s non- existent
When we’ve lost yesterday
Celebrate the hour
Celebrate today
Lord --- Celebrate today
Ahh Ooohh
Celebrate today Mm
So, I give thanks,
I give thanks
I give thanks
I give thanks Lord
For the reason I am,
I give thanks
And I got food on my table.
And he gives me water to drink
I give thanks let’s celebrate today today
I give thanks let’s celebrate today today
I give thanks let’s celebrate today today
I give thanks
Lord… I give thanks
Friday High
1st Verse
When I was a little girl in twirls
I used to wonder about some things
Life and our misery
While, working hard and
Never seeing change
I saw sadness soiled
On our days one through four
But once number five arrived
It always seemed like so much more
I inquire why?
Another week day has passed us by
They gave it a name and told me, close my eyes
Give this day a chance to mesmerize
2nd Verse
Next, I drew my own line
Figured I would intelligize (new word)
Set a goal claim a good day
And do my best strive to stay alive with Faith
Take the “A”
I made it through the day
Traffic on the way
Best thing to say
Is…
It’s Friday High X’s 2
The tight chain of mystery
Has passed me by
It’s Friday High
3rd Verse
Some have to work
Really hard to gain a payday
Age knows that
In the game of life, that’s how to play
I am learning from others, building my own
Surviving the life, burning the shame
Sharing my name, playing the game
Da, Da, Due, Dang!
It’s Friday High Oooooh
It’s Friday High
Bridge
Monday – Soft
Tuesday – Moderate
Wednesday – Loud
Thursday – Low
It’s Friday – High
It’s Friday High (1X)
Another weekday has passed us by
Kept our sanity while working on the line
Quietly called a slave
While working all of our days
Questioning the pay they call hourly wage
Not going to get mad today
We’ve been paid… with another day to relate
Simply Friday High
It’s Friday High
Mhmm mm mmm
Mhmmh mmm mm
Monday – Soft
Tuesday – Moderate
Wednesday – Loud
Thursday – Low
It’s Friday – High
Oooohh oooh
Monday – Soft
Tuesday – Moderate
Wednesday – Loud
Thursday – Low
It’s Friday – High
Hold On
Everyone ought
To sing this song with me
Come on, everyone…
Hold your heads up high…and
Reach them to the sky
And let the spirit…Take
Your mind
Everybody hold on…
To your dream…don’t
Let it go…
I say now, it’s being
Foretold…in your soul
That you will go where angels go
Mmmmm…mmmmh
Mmmm…mmmmh…mmh…
Don’t stop
Don’t stop
Don’t stop the ryt…hm, now
Don’t stop
Don’t stop
Don’t stop…(Hold 8-counts)
Oooh
Hold on (4X’s)
Hold on to your dream (4x’s)
Hold your head up
It’s going to be all right
You can make it
If you do it right
Don’t ask noone
How to live your life
Just hold on to faith
And everything will be all right
Why do babies cry?
Why do mothers sigh?
When the father’s trying
Hard to make it right
So no more babies crying
And if that mother’s sighing
Let that father keep trying
Hard to make it right
Hold on Hold on to your dream (4X’s)
Hold…. on…to your…… Dream --mmm
Living On Avalon
1st Verse
Met my good friend Gary At age 13
He lived on this road
It was fun & mean
We’d throw a Frisbee in the yard
While his mom fixed grub
And take a smoke break on the back of his daddy’s truck
It wasn’t after long
His folks moved out
From that point on
We started writing songs about
Pre-Chorus
Living on Avalon (1X)
2nd Verse
Drinking under age
At our inner-city farm
We had mutual combat with a 6-foot bong
Had a baby
Lost a love
Was given a better one
Through the stars above
Living the life
We were high on the hog
Had times we couldn’t pay rent
But plenty of logs to burn…While…
Chorus
Living on Avalon (4X’s)
Bridge
So much to talk about
When it comes to those times
Playing music loud
Those rhythms and rhymes
I won’t forget those days
Don’t want to go back
I Still love them the same
Though the fortunes we lacked…
While we were…
Chorus
Living on Avalon (4X’s)
Tell em’ bout it baby uh
3rd Verse
I had to stop talking to Cheryl
Because she didn’t want to talk about GOD
Almost every night
We’d party by the fire
Watch the trees singe in the backyard
We had to rob Uncle Peter
To pay Mr. Paul
But we learned a good lesson
To share with you all…
After living on…. Avalon
This is my story, after living on…Avalon
I tell you we were Living on it…Living on it
Living on Avalon…
I tell you we were Living on it…Living on it
Living on Avalon
Oh Yeah
We were Living ... We were living on
Living on Avalon
We were living on Avalon.
We were living on… Avalon…
Natural Born Sinner
1st Verse
I wore bare-boned attire to make my entrance known
Packaged extra small just to convenience the womb
Dirty with evil, cleaned with love so holding on
Surprisingly forgotten, as pure as a dove
Trialed in tribulation, honored with peace
Add ammonia to the fire, then breathe
Out of your soul, comes what’s real to feel
Turned from a thought, to a moment, then a seed
Chorus
I’m a Natural Born Sinner
Roaming the lands of the seas
I’m a Natural Born Sinner
Taking a moment, to own it, to recognize me eeh
2nd verse
I claim existence I wear the robe
A number out of order, into hope I drove
A poem with my reason, a psalm of my heart
A sequence now in order, here to do my… part
If I choose to stay this way, I will never change
When you blank the mind… you forget the name
A swift wind could change, what the day means
It’s up to you, to believe in you, and only do, what you are supposed to do
Chorus
I’m a Natural Born Sinner
Roaming the lands of the seas
I’m a Natural Born Sinner
Taking a moment, to own it, to recognize me eeh
Bridge
Oooooh
Natural born Sinner
Yes I am
I’m a natural
I’m a Natural
I’m a Natural
Born sinner
Roaming the lands of the seas
I’m a Natural Born Sinner
Taking a moment, to own it, to recognize me eeh
I’m a Natural Born Sinner
Yes I am
S.A.W. (Soldiers at War)
1st Verse
There comes a time when we must battle
We all will soon have to fight
For the enemies are starting to gang us
When we’re wrong, especially when we’re right
They put fear in our head
So far back in our mind
Applauding the roads
That set us back every time
We’ll take them all down
Come near or far
That’s how we became the Soldiers at War
Soldiers at War
Soldiers at War
I am, you are, we’re all
Soldiers at War
Soldiers at War
Soldiers at War
I am, you are, we’re all
Soldiers at War
Oahh
2nd Verse
There comes a time when we must battle
We all will soon have to fight
For the enemies are starting to gang us
When we’re wrong, especially when we’re right
They put fear in our head
So far back in our mind
Applauding the roads
That sets us back every time
We’ll take them all down
Come near or far
That’s how we became the Soldiers at War
Soldiers at War
Soldiers at War
I am, you are, we’re all
Say it again
Soldiers at War
Soldiers at War
I am, you are, we’re all
Ooohh
SAW
(Repeat 7x’s)
Bridge
Put your armor suit on
Soldiers at War
Put your armor suit on
Soldiers at War
Put your armor suit on
Soldiers at War
Put your armor suit on
Soldiers at War
Soldiers at War
Soldiers at War
I am, you are we’re all
Say it again
Soldiers at War
Soldiers at War
I am you are we’re all
Soldiers at War
Smile for Me
Intro
Mmm mm mm
Mmm mm mm
1st Verse
Lift up my head
And show me what‘s really you
Give me what I need now
And what you’ll have for me too
It doesn’t hurt them
And it doest hurt you
Give me what I need now
And then smile, smile for me
2nd Verse
Lift up my head yeah
My spirits are suddenly set free
Keep my spirits high, Lord yeah
And make my day complete
Keep my spirits high
All through… the night
Don’t know what it is now
But it feels -feels so right
Chorus-
Just smile for me…2 X’s
It doesn’t matter as long as it’s you
Keep my spirits high now
And then smile, smile for me
Bridge-Rap
Please keep my spirits high
Especially in the day, the
So when peace needs to be known
And a sense of freedom and love is shown
It doesn’t hurt them
It doesn’t hurt you
And now here’s your chance
So what chyou gonna do?
You smile for me
Cause I’ma Smile for you
Expressing love and joy
All the way through
I believe in you
You give me truth
I carry on and I got the tunes
So go out there
And greet a friend
Yeah, shake their hand
Just smile for them
Build-up
It doesn’t matter as long as it’s you, cause baby
Cause if you’re smiling’ you can’t be blue
Chorus-
Just smile for me…2 X’s
It doesn’t hurt them…No
And it doesn’t hurt you…No
Keep my spirits high now
And then smile, smile for me
Time to Heal
1st Verse
I’m writing this song about my promise land
And I’m leaving these feelings all behind
To help love embrace our troubled minds
Here’s to you and the roles that we play
Only wish, we could see the day…
(Chorus)
How far… did you fly?
How good… did we feel?
With some sympathy and confidence
We just may have a chance to heal
2nd Verse
Rednecks and Indians, crooked politics
The Civil War, M.L.K. Interracial Relationships
Everyone’s opinion is as good as the next
But when you find love, you’re truly blessed
Do unto others, as you would have done
Could be a way to live together and function as one?
How far… did you fly?
How good… did we feel?
With some sympathy and confidence
We just may have a chance to heal
Bridge
But it just takes time
It just takes time.
It takes more time than you…could ever know
It just takes time, It just takes time. It takes time…to heal
Time to heal (4X’s)
I need a little healing (6X’s during rap)
RB Rap
Our country tis of thee
Still claiming and making big History
Sough ting pure glory, sweet land of liberty
We now come to wonder
How good…did we feel
Yet and still
Taking time to shine
On the wounds, our past has left behind
Note this note
It’s gonna be said one time
Ecclesiastes Chapter 3, Verse 3. Believe!
If you can talk, you can read, there is
A time to chill
A time to live
A time to kill
A time to heal
Do you hear me people; it’s a time to heal
I need a little time…. to heal
Just a little time… to heal
Don’t call me white?
Til you differentiate
Between what is nationality or your home state
