can you hear me
came back only yesterday
i'm moving further away
want you near me

chorus
all i needed was the love you gave
all i needed for another day
and all i ever knew
only you

sometimes when i think of her name when it's only a game
and i need you
listen to the words that you say it's getting harder to stay
when i see you

chorus

this is going to take a long time and i wonder what's mine
can't take no more
wonder if you'll understand it's just the touch of your hand
behind a closed door

chorus

I tried to be perfect
But nothing was worth it
I don’t believe it makes me real
I thought it’d be easy
But no one believes me
I meant all the things I said

If you believe it’s in my soul
I’d say all the words that I know
Just to see if it would show
That I’m trying to let you know
That I’m better off on my own

This place is so empty
My thoughts are so tempting
I don’t know how it got so bad
Sometimes it’s so crazy
That nothing can save me
But it’s the only thing that I have

If you believe it’s in my soul
I’d say all the words that I know
Just to see if it would show
That I’m trying to let you know
That I’m better off on my own

On my own

I tried to be perfect
It just wasn’t worth it
Nothing could ever be so wrong
It’s hard to believe me
It never gets easy
I guess I knew that all along

If you believe it’s in my soul
I’d say all the words that I know
Just to see if it would show
That I’m trying to let you know
That I’m better off on my own

What you gonna do when your love is gone
Who you gonna play when the game has ended
Where you gonna go when the bird has flown
How you gonna play when you're all alone

Chorus:

Keep the fighting spirit of love
Keep the fighting spirit of love

What you gonna do when you're on your own
What you gonna have when you got no place to call your own
What you gonna try when your cover's blown
How you gonna fly when your wings are broken

(chorus)

Keep the fighting spirit of love

Don't let it get you down
Keep the fighting spirit and turn your head around
Don't let it take you in
Keep the fighting spirit and you'll begin again

Do you mean this horny creep
Set upon weary feet
Who looks in need of sleep
That doesn't come

This twisted, tortured mess
This bed of sinfulness
Who's longing for some rest
And feeling numb

What do you expect of me
What is it you want
Whatever you've planned for me
I'm not the one

A vicious appetite
Visits me each night
And won't be satisfied
Won't be denied

An unbearable pain
A beating in my brain
That leaves the mark of Cain
Right here inside

What am I supposed to do
When everything that I've done
Is leading me to conclude
I'm not the one

Whatever I've done
I've been staring down the barrel of a gun

Is there something you need from me
Are you having your fun
I never agreed to be
Your holy one

Whatever I've done
I've been staring down the barrel of a gun

The good life, one day that's what I'll be livin'
Fantasy never hurt nobody, whatever chills the illin'
When the every day gets on your last one
Give it up and go
2 the place in everyone's future
The good life - one day we'll know (Good life)

Everyday after school, U know where 2 find this brother
Uptown at every movie show, outta my life 2 another
That was the only thing that I wanted 2 do, that was my drug of choice
Left all the funny smellin' cigarettes 2 the American boys

"La Dolce Vita" was the knob that turned me on
Marcello Mastroianni Italian Mac comin' on strong
He had all the honies, the kind from the magazines
Small waist, big - right!... biggest ones U've ever seen

The good life (good life), one day that's what I'll be livin'
Fantasy never hurt nobody, whatever chills the illin'
When the every day gets on your last one
Give it up and go
2 the place in everyone's future
The good life - one day we'll know, one day we'll know

(Good life) {x2}

Mama worked all night, went 2 school by day
Wanted 2 get her Master Degree so she could make a better way
Set examples 4 her babies that we'll never forget
That's where I guess my spirit comes from, eternally never met

Oh, the good life (good life), one day that's what I'll be livin'
Fantasy never hurt nobody, whatever chills the illin' (Ooh, good life)
When the every day gets on your last one
Give it up and go
2 the place in everyone's future (The good life)
The good life - one day we'll know

(Good life)
Good life {x2}
Good life (Good life)

Hey, hey, hey!
Peace 2 the mother that knows
That the babies are the key 2 the world, key 2 the world
The battles of the future will be won
By those who teach those baby boys and girls
This is our plea 2 the brothers
Who are tired of the barely gettin' by, instead U should try
2 see your future map out your steps
And make sure no one dies

The good life (good), one day that's what I'll be livin'
Fantasy never hurt nobody, whatever chills the illin'
(One drop of blood ain't worth forsaking your dreams)
When the everyday gets on your last one, give it up and go
(Music, sports, fashion, whatever)
2 the place in everyone's future, the good life - one day we'll know
(Consolidate, think ahead, and cream, cream)

The good life (good life), one day that's what I'll be livin'
Fantasy never hurt nobody, whatever chills the illin' (Hey yeah, good life)
When the every day gets on your last one
Give it up and go (Good life, oh)
2 the place in everyone's future
The good life - one day we'll know

New Power Generation (Good life)
Tryin' 2 lead the Good Life (One day we'll know)
Oh yeah, oh Lord
Good life (Good life)
The good life
Good life (Good life)
The good life (Good life)

Good life (good life), one day that's what I'll be livin'
Fantasy never hurt nobody, whatever chills the illin'
When the every day gets on your last one
Give it up and go
2 the place in everyone's future
The good life - one day we'll know

Good life {repeated}

Good life (Good life)
The good life (Good life) {x3}
One day we'll know!

Testicles 1-2
The good life - (Microphone check) Checkin' the mic 1-2
The good life - (Microphone check) Checkin' the mic 1-2
The good life - (Bought a house next 2 Prince) I'll be checkin' the mic 1-2
The good life - (Microphone check) N.P.G. on the mic 1-2

The good life one day I'll be livin'
Sick of the bullshit this life be givin'
Every single day harder than the last one
Keep my dollars, fuckin' hope they have a son
Then I'll be another million ahead of the game
Spoon full of sugar and a glass of fame
Checkin' young lions callin' me outta my name
Even Shaq know it anything but tame
We be, and there ain't no hooks (mind 2 mind) until we say so
Everybody's a slave until U say no
And take control of every 'hood (Got my ass in Minnesota)
And U'll be livin' the life and it'll be all good

The good life - (Microphone check) Checkin' the mic 1-2
The good life - (Microphone check) We be checkin' the mic 1-2
(Bought a house next 2 Prince)
The good life - Mmm, checkin' the mic 1-2
The good life - (Microphone check) N.P.G. on the mic 1-2

The good gig, yeah, U know
We don't need 2 boast about the fact we put the "O" in show
Stadium here, there, we just got back from Glasgow
100,000 nightly, still we ain't happy, oh no
Don't ask me why though
Open up that can of worms and several gonna cry, yo
But Nicey B. got my back now
But 'til she tell me otherwise, we kickin' down doors
Stupid motherfuckers need 2 know
This little nigga gotta flow
Slippier than a baby just out da ho'
Here we go, here we go, here we go

The good life - (Microphone check) Checkin' the mic 1-2
The good life - (Microphone check) Checkin' the mic 1-2
(Bought a house next 2 Prince)
The good life - We be checkin' the mic 1-2
The good life - (Microphone check) N.P.G. on the mic 1-2

Go on brothers, do shit
(Bought a house next 2 Prince)
(Bought a house next 2 Prince)
(Bought a house, bought a house)

Sexophones and violins
Crack house bass be funkier than
20 cans of wet magic shave
I know U know we know how 2 rave
Cuz we be checkin' 4 the 5 and 6
A loop don't matter if the sample don't fit {x2}
A loop don't, loop don't, loop don't matter if the sample don't fit
Tell me now, what is hip?
(Example A A skinny black nigga on the bass?
(Example B Or somebody hoppin' around like they gettin' their ass whipped?
Here come the judge like Ito
And just like Aretha with a sack of Fritos
We funkin' till the kingdom come
Tito got your tissue son
Before this motherfucker's done
Somebody goin' down and it won't be this one (Not I)
Because we're here 2 have fun
It ain't about the money or the gun
We just wanna be free as the sun
Then we'll be all nice livin' that...

Good life - (Microphone check)
The good life - (Microphone check) Checkin' the mic 1-2
The good life - (Bought a house next 2 Prince)
The good life - (Microphone check) Get wild y'all

The good life {x3}
(Bought a house next 2 Prince)
The good life

(Bought a house next 2 Prince)
(Bought a house, bought a house)
Good life {x2}
(Microphone check)

Count the days

Here's a church, here's a steeple
Here's a muthafucka that I gotta blow away
Here's my chance 2 cure the ills of the people
But not until I make this muthafucka pay
And oh, baby I count the days

(Yeah yes)
I count the days

Here's the interview, here's the time
If I keep your secrets, will U keep mine?
If we hurry, we can catch the train
If it was left up 2 U, I would die in pain
(That's why) I count the days

(Oh yeah)
Whoa, I'm counting (Oh)
Hear me (Hear me)
(Days) (Days) Days
Counting the days

Great day in the morning
My choir sing a pretty song
Every day I'm with your ass is another day wasted
I swear is a day 2 long

Counting
Like Frankie Beverly without Maze
I'm counting
Muthafucka, I count the days

Can I count on? (Hey)
Count on? (Counting)
Count on? (Hey yeah)
I count the days (Days)

Count the days {repeat til fade}

Too many shadows in my room
Too many hours in this midnight
Too many corners in my mind
So much to do to set my heart right
it's taking so long i could be wrong, i could be ready
but if i take my heart's advice
I should assume it's still unsteady
I am in repair

Bed's too big without you
Cold wind blows right thru' my open door
I can't sleep with your memory
Dreaming dreams of what used to be

When she left I was cold inside
That look on my face was just pride
No regrets no love no tears
Living on my own was the least of my fears

Bed's too big without you
The bed's too big without you
The bed's too big
Without you

Since that day when you'd gone
Just had to carry on
I get thru' day but late at night
Made love to my pillow but it didn't feel right

Every day, just the same
Old rules for the same old game
All I gained was heartache
All I made was one mistake

Now the bed's too big without you
The bed's too big without you
The bed's too big
Without you