When you're around I don't know what to do I do not think that I can wait To go over and to talk to you I do not know what I should say And I walk out in silence That's when I start to realize What you bring to my life Damn this guy can make me cry It's so contagious I cannot get it out of my mind It's so outrageous You make me feel so high All the time They all say that you're no good for me But I'm too close to turn around I'll show them they don't know anything I think I've got you figured out So I walk out in silence That's when I start to realize What you bring to my life Damn this guy can make me smile It's so contagious I cannot get it out of my mind It's so outrageous You make me feel so high I'll give you everything I'll treat you right If you just give me a chance I can prove I'm right It's so contagious I cannot get it out of my mind It's so outrageous You make me feel so high It's so contagious I cannot get it out of my mind It's so outrageous You make me feel so high All the time

Contagious Spreadin' like a fire, baby Contagious I'm 'bout to lose control Contagious 'Cause you're my sweet desire, baby Contagious I just can't let you go When I see you Every time we meet I my knees I get weak I always lose control 'Cause you're so fine, baby, you're so cold Give me fever Temperature's rising, girl, what am I supposed to do Can't go to a doctor, baby 'Cause there is only one cure and it's you Your love's contagious Spreadin' like a fire, baby Contagious I'm 'bout to lose control Contagious 'Cause you're my sweet desire, baby Contagious I just can't let you go You're my prescription I need your lovin' every hour, 24 times a day Don't give me such a hard time, baby I'm so in love, I just can't stay away Every time we touch I feel somethin' new Hooked on your love and I don't know what to do Love has the power, you've got the upper hand I'll give you what you want and your wish is my command Contagious Spreadin' like a fire, baby Contagious I'm 'bout to lose control Contagious 'Cause you're my sweet desire, baby Contagious I just can't let you go Every time we touch I feel somethin' new Hooked on your love and I don't know what to do Love has the power, you've got the upper hand I'll give you what you want and your wish is my command Contagious Spreadin' like a fire, baby Contagious I'm 'bout to lose control Contagious 'Cause you're my sweet desire, baby Contagious I just can't let you go Contagious You've really got a hold on me Contagious Don't you ever let go Contagious 'Cause you're my sweet desire, baby Contagious Don't you ever let go Contagious Spreadin' like a fire, baby Contagious I'm 'bout to lose control Contagious 'Cause you're my sweet desire, baby Contagious I just can't let you go Contagious You've really got a hold on me Contagious Don't you ever let go

I search your profile For a translation I study the conversation Like a map 'Cause I know there is strength In the differences between us And I know there is comfort Where we overlap Come here Stand in front of the light Stand still So I can see your silhouette I hope That you have got all night 'Cause I'm not done looking, No, I'm not done looking yet Each one of us Wants a piece of the action You can hear it in what we say You can see it in what we do We negotiate with chaos For some sense of satisfaction If you won't give it to me At least give me a better view Come here Stand in front of the light Stand still So I can see your sillouette I hope That you have got all night 'Cause I'm not done looking No, I'm not done looking yet I build each one of my songs Out of glass So you can see me inside of them I suppose Or you could just leave the image of me In the background, I guess And watch your own reflection superimposed And I build each one of my days out of hope And I give that hope your name And I don't know you that well But it don't take much to tell Either you don't have the balls Or you don't feel the same Come here Stand in front of the light Stand still So I can see your silhouette I hope That you have got all night 'Cause I'm not done looking No, I'm not done looking yet I seach your profile for a translation I study the conversation like a map 'Cause I know there is strength In the differences between us And I know there is comfort Where we overlap

I live in two different worlds Simultaneously The one i seem to live in And the one that lives in me And one is full of violence Oppression and disrespect And one is full of longing To breathe and to connect Yeah, my inner world is fragile And the outer world is dumb And this whole thing is such a hassle Won't you wake me when it's done? I live in two different worlds Simultaneously The one where we are fractured And the one where we are free Freedom requires safety Freedom requires trust Freedom requires balance In the equation of us Yes, my inner world is fragile And the outer world is dumb And this whole thing is such a hassle Won't you wake me when it's done? When it's done... I live in two different worlds Simultaneously And between them is a chasm Unfolding unfathomably And in that chasm a shadow And in that shadow i stand Facing towards the light Nothing in my hands My inner world is fragile And the outer world is dumb And this whole thing is such a hassle Won't you wake me when it's done? When it's done...

Growing up it was just me and my mom against the world And all my sympathies were with her when i was a little girl And i've seen both my parents play out the hands that they were dealt As each year goes by i know more about how my father must have felt I just want you to understand that i know what all the fighting was for And i just want you to understand that i'm not angry anymore No i'm not angry anymore She taught me how to wage cold war with quiet charm But i just want to walk through my life unarmed To accept and just get by like my father learned to do But without all the acceptance and getting by that got my father through I just want you to understand that i know what all the fighting was for And i just want you to understand that i'm not angry anymore No i'm not angry anymore Night falls like people into love And we generate our own light to compensate For the lack of light from above And every time we fight a cold wind blows our way But we can learn like the trees how to bend How to sway and say I, i think i understand what all this fighting is for And baby i just want you to understand that i'm not angry anymore No i'm not angry anymore

I will tend my anger I will tend my grief I will achieve safety I will find relief I'll show myself mercy I'll show my self-respect I'll decide when i'm ready To forgive but not forget I will ask you questions I will try to understand And if you give me your story I will hold it in my hands Yes, i will bring the love The revolutionary love I will bring the love The revolutionary love I will bring the love The revolutionary love The revolutionary love And even if you hurt me I will not shut down No, you can't make me hate you And carry that hate around I will see no stranger Only parts of myself, I don't yet know I'll see right through evil To a wound, too scared to show I have the power to stay open I have the power to be The one that i've been waiting for The one who sets me free Yes, i can bring the love The revolutionary love I can bring the love The revolutionary love Yes, i will bring the love The revolutionary love The revolutionary love I will tend my anger I will tend my grief I will achieve safety I will find relief I'll show myself mercy I'll show myself respect I'll decide when i'm ready To forgive but not forget I will ask you questions I will try to understand And if you give me your story I will hold it in my hands I will bring the love The revolutionary love I will bring the love The revolutionary love I will bring the love The revolutionary love The revolutionary love

Are you weary as water In a faucet left dripping With an incessant sadness Like a sad record skipping And an ugly and ornery And shadowy dread Lurking like a troll under the bridge Between your heart and your head She came to and her Whole life was how she remembered it She had a mouth full of fur And she was laughing She parked her hearse across Three spaces posted "motorcycles only" And jumped out shouting What the cus could make a nice girl like us Feel so lonely? Are you weary as water In a faucet left dripping With an incessant sadness Like a sad record skipping And an ugly and ornery And shadowy dread Lurking like a troll under the bridge Between your heart and your head Please dumb blind kind sir Lend little miss listless just a little bit of christmas She's been a real good girl But now she's stuck here The world is so little and still Mysterious and ominious as ever before Like an unmarked bottle full of pills On the shelf right next to the thing You were reaching for Are you weary as water In a faucet left dripping With an incessant sadness Like a sad record skipping And an ugly and ornery And shadowy dread Lurking like a troll under the bridge Between your heart and your head Swing the groove 'round here Where i can reach it When i get my ass back on track I'm gonna need it Swing shift til i get the money To buy me and my baby a moon full of honey Then i'm gonna turn the nagging voices Inside my head That follw me to bed and fill my head with (you suck) Are you weary as water (what'd you do that for?) In a faucet left dripping With an incessant sadness Like a sad record skipping And an ugly and ornery And shadowy dread Lurking like a troll under the bridge Between your heart and your head (End of radio version rest is only on To the Teeth) If you diggin on the sound (break it down down) No walls up break it down (break it down down) Happiness spread it all around (break it down down) Racist stomp it in the ground (break it down down) So if you diggin on the sound (break it down down) No walls up break it down (break it down down) Ignorance stomp it in the ground (break it down down) Then happiness spread it all around (break it down down) Tcha who said funk and hip hop cant match Put us together on a stage and like a match KABOOM guess who stepped in the room Sweepin ya off ya feel like we had a broom With ani difranco and Maceo. Add a little freestyle flow and who knows Put a little scratchin into the mix and Its enough to get you high if you need a fixin If you diggin on the sound (break it down down) No walls up break it down (break it down down) Ignorance stomp it in the ground (break it down down) Happiness spread it all around (break it down down) If you diggin on the sound (break it down down) No walls up break it down (break it down down) Happiness spread it all around (break it down down) Racist stomp it in the ground (break it down down) Break it down down down down (fades out)

In the jukebox of her memory The list of names flips by and stops And she closes her eyes And smiles as the record drops Then she drinks herself up and out of her kitchen chair And she dances out of time As slow as she can sway As long as she can say This dance is mine This dance is mine Her hair bears silent witness To the passing of time Tattoos like mile markers Map the distance she has come Winning some, losing some But she says my sister still calls every sunday night After the rates go down And i still can never manage to say anything right And my whole life blew up And now it's all coming down She says, leave me alone Tonight i just wanna stay home She fills the pot with water And she drops in the bone She says, i've got a darkness that i have to feed I got a sadness that grows up around me like a weed And i'm not hurting anyone I'm just spiraling in And then she closes her eyes And hears the song begin again She appreciates the phone calls The consoling cards and such She appreciates all the people Who come by and try to pull her back in touch They try to hold the lid down tightly And they try to shake well But the oil and water They just wanna separate themselves She drinks herself up and out of her kitchen chair And she dances out of time As slow as she can sway As long as she can say This dance is mine This dance is mine This dance is mine