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Favorite Teena Marie Lyrics She has so many wonderful, deep lyrics. Personally, I love the lyrics to "Irons In The Fire", "Wild Horses" and "Naked To The World", "Baby, I'm Your Fiend" just to name a few. What are yours? If it breaks when it bends, U better not put it in! | |
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One of my favorite songs is "Black Rain":
What Michelle say? I sit alone My body's well Because I can't stand the rain Make no mistakes The beautiful ones always smash the picture Because I can't stand the rain It's a thin line between love and hate baby Black Rain Sweet black rain My heart is stained Lord I love Black Rain Black Rain My sweet Black Rain I sit alone My body's well "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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I love that one too..but I've always thought the lyric was "...my body's wound, on cigarettes and coffee grounds..." If it breaks when it bends, U better not put it in! | |
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Most favorite Teena lyrics.
All of Portuguese Love
All of Lover Girl
I need your lovin
M.O.N.E.Y. never did a thing for L.O.V.I.N.
Lips To Find You.
So you say you're leaving for the Southern tip of Spain, Soak up local color and forget my name. To leave me for the major not the minor chord. And forget HOW WE MADE LOVE IN A 57 FORD! Cassanova Brown He's had more girls, than Howard Hughes has money...and that's a lot of women. She sang that last part live.
Standing room only, the concert's so loud. Everyone's there for the party, the hush turns to a shout. Everyone's got a piece of the pie of you and I. But nobody knows when the lights went down that the tears flowed harder than the whole damn crowd.
Throw it down my love. It's just about all I can do. Wasn't I the one who said, I'd have my cake and eat it too? Just couldn't wait any longer...you pushed until I was through.
I loved you so...but I had to. Le.he.hey.eyet. Le.he.hey.eyet. you gooooo.... Did you hear me crying? Baby? It sounded a little bit liiiiiiiiike thiiiiis. Sho be do be do. (and the rest of her scatting) until she hit's that shoo be do be do, hey hey hey, heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey, lol. That was a long note! I love it.
I love all of "If I were a Bell" but I really like these lyrics. Early morning whispers to me The day had promised true love
As the flicker turns to flame and passion rises hot (Ooh...)
I raise my glass and toast your love to ecstasy, ecstasy, ecstasy
De Ja Vu
I Am Young And I Am Old
I Used To Be A Queen You Know My Soul Feels Like the Universe
Work It It's not the way that you're right by my side
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"How can U resist it now that U kissed it" will ALWAYS think of like a "ACT OF GOD"! N another realm. mean of all people who might of been aliens or angels.if found out that wasn't of this earth, would not have been that surprised. R.I.P. | |
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"Maybe that will express what I've been going through!"
On every early album she included this lyric once. | |
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"My baby must be a magician, cause he sure got the magic touch" I'M NOT SHOUTING, JEEZ! | |
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Yes! That song does a slow simmer, until it doesn't and then we end up with "My baby must be..." (I still love the "Teena went to Wonderland / the plot is getting thick ..." breakdown.) | |
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"Out On A Limb" Tender was the kiss when you held me captive in your sweet embrace Baby, baby, baby, it's a mystery I'm out on a limb Sweeter than the taste of a midnight rendezvous, so sensual Baby, baby, baby, it's a mystery I'm out on a limb Hold me Oh...oh...oh...oh... I'm out on a limb Baby, I'm Baby, I'm out on a limb for you Ooh...ooh...ooh...ooh... | |
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Nice thread. She was such an under-recognized lyricist (among so many other things, of course).
I'll go with DejaVu right now, but there's a million. I'll have to come back to this thread with some. Definitely some stuff from Passion Play.
Oh and the line I want to be the thorn that's closest to the rose...Oh-Mah-Gah!
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I love the lyrics to "Since Day One" too.. Contrary to popular opinion I'm extremely shy
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And I can't forget another classic..."Where's California?" After I left you
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And from her classic (or soon to be) "Passion Play" cd..."Wild Horses"
Gee whiz but you look so good to me
[Edited 1/25/11 18:33pm] If it breaks when it bends, U better not put it in! | |
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Aladdin's Lamp by Teena MarieWe were rich and we were poor Two children playing grown-up games The Prince and the princess
You loved me hard just like a rock I threw away your building blocks And left you with silence and who said the silence was gone
Now I'd trade one day of wealth and fame For just one model airplane Where is the love that you made me
If I had Aladdin's lamp Here is what I'd do I'd rub Aladdin's lamp until Aladdin's lamp turned into you
You used to write me poetry And emerald city love songs The jest and the jester
And somewhere in your nursery rhymes I found and lost my innocence And what could be better
And now we live in separate worlds But here inside I'm still your little girl Where is the love that you made me
If I had Aladdin's lamp Here is what I'd do I'd rub Aladdin's lamp until Aladdin's lamp turned into you
If I had Aladdin's lamp Here is what I'd do I'd rub that magic lamp until Aladdin's lamp turned into you
If I had Aladdin's lamp Here is what I'd do I'd rub that lamp Aladdin bring him back And ooh wherever you are this one's for you baby
Maybe that will express What I'm going through Aladdin Aladdin I'm gonna rub all over you rub me
I need some magic words while I'm alone I'm feeling like a saxaphone
I need some magic words while I'm alone I'm feeling like a saxaphone
Where is the love you made me Where is the love you made me Here I have nothing yeah here I have nothing
I need some magic words while I'm alone I'm feeling like a saxaphone [Edited 1/25/11 18:34pm] will ALWAYS think of like a "ACT OF GOD"! N another realm. mean of all people who might of been aliens or angels.if found out that wasn't of this earth, would not have been that surprised. R.I.P. | |
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good stuff there....Teena is on high rotation at the moment!! | |
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Batucada Suite: "Mary's into new things, got a bag Superficial living's made her life a drag. World stereotypes as she coins the phrase Living for the hot wax and the printed page. She no longer wants to boss the bull around, Contrary to popular belief. All she wants to do is get inside your head And play that funky rhythym from the street ...
Tribal drums of the African, The reggae of the Rastaman, Don Ragas of the Indian, Rock and Roll music of my homeland.
The Salsa of Spanish descent Tender lutes of the Orient Jesus music is heaven sent To remind us of what went.
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As I taste life bittersweet, I know I am not complete Until the message in my songs are yours. If you feel a pain unfair, crosses too heavy to bear, Preservation comes from peace not war..."
Surrealistic Pillow: "You know I'm the brown sugar covered with snow and magnetism's animal ya know..whoa, whoa."
Jammin: "The square root of a positive groove times a happening melody equals a jam."
365: "I got a head rush, hush. You're heaven's dial, a crush. I prayed forever and then he sent you last November, finally."
"And with you comes the passion, like springtime I fathom grand. I cherish every blessing I get when you kiss and hold my hand."
Revolution: "We need a moral constution, cause any old revolution won't do, the situation's gotten too far out of hand. We need a moral contribution, cause any old revolution won't do, we got to make a stand, stand up and throw up your hands...ow." You So Heavy: "You make me feel like drifting through my golden years, thoughts of you go to my head, you turn me on, ooh you so heavy. You tailor make me and I'm trusting secret fears, throughts of you go to my head you turn me on, ooh you so heavy."
Starchild: "Since I was a child I yearned to wear the ring around Saturn...my finger burned."
Dyes Got the Answers 2 Ur ?s
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This was always my favorite song from Teena. After she passed away, I was floored to listen to a recent interview where she stated it was her favorite song, too!
"Yes Indeed"
You are the seed and the grain of every harvest planted in love by a being far beyond this What can it be? Such a sweet yet painful feeling, came over me? Knowing this can never be, do I love you? Yes indeed. I am the bird which cannot be caged completely, even though I long to spread my wings so bittersweetly. What will I do ? Shall I hold my love in silence? Wonder if you feel it too. Knowing this can never be, does it hurt me? Yes indeed. I've heard it said that all is fair in love and war, but tell it like it is, does the distance hide the scar? Living our lives all alone, changing, never really knowing what games we're playing (oh baby), Laughing when we should have both been praying (living, I'm living a lie) You are the rush and the flow of every river, soft as the touch of love when you want to be the giver. How do I know? I guess I just imagined painfully so Knowing this can never be, do I love you? Yes indeed You Broke my spirit. You Broke My spirit. All those nights I cried, tears I tried to hide. You Broke my spirit. You Broke My Spirt. Do I love you? Do I love you? Yes indeed. Knowing this can never be. Do I love you? Yes indeed. "It's not nice to fuck with K.B.! All you haters will see!" - Kitbradley
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