NINA In this album, there's a picture Of the ladies at Daniela's You can tell it's from the 80s by the volume of their hair There's Usnavi, just a baby '87, Halloween If it happened on this block Abuela was there Every afternoon I came She'd make sure I did my homework She could barely write her name But even so She would stare at the paper and tell me, "Bueno, Let's review. Why don't you tell me everything you know?" In this album there's a picture Of Abuela in Havana She is holding a rag doll Unsmililng, black and white I wonder what she's thinking Does she know that she'll be leaving For the city on a cold dark night? And on the day they ran Did she dream of endless summer? Did her mother have a plan? Or did they just go? Did somebody sit her down and say, "Claudia, get ready, To leave behind everything you know." Everything I know What do I know? In this folder there's a picture Of my high school graduation With a program, mint condition And a star beside my name Here's a picture of my parents As I left for California She saved everything we gave her Every little scrap of paper And our lives are in these boxes While the woman who held us is gone But we go on, we grow So Hold tight, Abuela, if you're up there I'll make you proud of everything I know Thank you, for everything I know

I talked to the man in the moon I said, "Sir, is she comin' back soon?" He smiled and he stated, "Son, I'm overrated I've had too much credit in those old love tunes" 'Cause I don't know a thing about love I just kinda hang out here above I just watch from the sky, will love grow? Will it die? No, I don't know a thing about love Then I asked him, "Where is she tonight? You must see all things with your light" He said, "Son, I could tell you some things that might kill you But I don't get involved with what's wrong or what's right" 'Cause I don't know a thing about love I just kinda hang out here above I just watch from the sky, will love grow? Will it die? No, I don't know a thing about love He said, "Son I can move the oceans when I take the notion Or make mountains tremble and the rivers run dry But in all matters, human, remember that there's someone In charge of all the things way above you and I" Now I don't know a thing about love I just kinda hang out here above I just watch from the sky, will love grow? Will it die? No, I don't know a thing about love I don't know a thing about love I don't know a thing about love No, I don't know a thing about love

It's about finding a new experience With someone you never thought you'd meet Who totally turns your life around, completely Helping you get a job and keeping you off the streets Church on sunday morning Eventually I'm saving money Sending my life in a new direction Now I'm friends with my old man again Standing here wearing this wedding band I have to say I know love because of you, say I know love I know what love is all about I know what love's all about I used to think that love was just a weekend thing The way you make me feel Sharing a moment of emptiness Got to see that wasn't nothing 'Cause the moment she left I forgot about her Until you came in and you showed me What it really felt to be loved, and kissed And held, and grateful, and wanted And nurtured and guided, and oh to be understood I know what love is all about I know what love's all about 'Cause you showed me baby See I don't have to worry about finding out 'Cause I know real love I know I can sit here and I can talk about it 'Cause i've experienced it, and I'm feelin it I'm livin it right here right now I got somebody who loves me for me I got somebody who loves me for me I know that sometimes I have to realize that It's about compromise and You can't always have it your way You can't always have it your way, 'cause Love is about realizing and Love is about redirecting your decisions Wether to go out all night long Or go home to the ones you love It's about taking care of your family And taking care of your kids And holding your wife at night And letting her know that the bills will be paid on time And that you sit back and you listen to her 'Cause its about love, say love, say love It's about love

The walk was long and The dark was harder Than I thought And I wish that we could Turn it back But now, it's sad You need much more Than I can bring You can't feel my love But it's all that I've got It's everything I know I know it's not a lot You tell me you need more But it's all that I've got It's everything I know I know it's not a lot You tell me you need more It's hard to reach my heart, Justify a way Tell me will we make it? We can't work it out (Can't work it out) 'Cause I'm dying to Wave goodbye to it Then you get your hopes up And push your luck too far But it's all that I've got (It's all that I've got) It's everything I know (It's everything I know) I know it's not a lot (I know it's not a lot, no) You tell me you need more (You tell me you need more) But it's all that I've got (It's all that I've got) It's everything I know (It's everything I know) I know it's not a lot (I know it's not a lot, no) You tell me you need more Where would I be without your love? (Your love) I know I didn't start it right I didn't get it right away (Couldn't work it out) But now I'm at the heart of it So can I get a free pass? No I guess not, I guess not But it's all that I've got (It's all that I've got) It's everything I know (It's everything I know) I know it's not a lot (I know it's not a lot, no) You tell me you need more (You tell me you need more) But it's all that I've got (It's all that I've got) It's everything I know (It's everything I know) I know it's not a lot (I know it's not a lot, no) You tell me you need more Just give me a sign please Is there a chance of Us working it out? I am willing to do the work, The work, the work, the work Don't you mind me It's all just for now Can we ride it out, Ride it out, ride it out? Yeah You tell me you need More, more Can't work it out Can't work it out Can't work it out

Should have figured that you'd go back to New York Don't consider me when you run back to her You don't have to hide it, I know why you wait Said you needed space, I know better than that Mm-mm Could have fought for you, but I just let you leave Hurt too much to consider you didn't love me The mountains of Valais will weep through the night Driving down sunset's a terrible sight Mm-mm Left me and the ocean for your old flame Holding back my tears, I couldn't make you stay Can't quit this So damn wicked To leave California and me I imagine you holding her in your arms Laughing 'bout how I thought that you were the one I get so anxious and maybe I'm young The first sign of trouble and I bite my tongue Mm-mm Left me and the ocean for your old flame Holding back my tears, I couldn't make you stay Can't quit this So damn wicked To leave California and me

Will you let me come closer to you? I know that you're older, but what can I do? I leave in the morning, I'll forget that I am surely falling (ah-ah) Grew up in a case of fragile glass But hammer away, it's time to crash And as it shatters, let me shatter into you The soft candle glow The music so slow Your skin on my skin The room is spinning Nerve on my bone I'm shaking, oh, no I'm talking though, I shouldn't be I've lost all sensibility Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh I've never been so fragile Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ha-ah-ah It's been a year and 40 days Since you picked me up and swept me away I wanted to run with you into the midnight sun with you Now I sit around and rust in rain Turn into dust as I just wait For someone to hold me like you did that night, I still remember The soft candle glow The music so slow Your skin on my skin The room kept spinning 'Round, I'm alone New town, on my own I'm missing you, I shouldn't be I've lost all sensibility Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh I've never been so fragile Fragile

I made a promise To distance myself Took a flight, through aurora skies Honestly, I didn't think about How we didn't say goodbye Just, "See you very soon" It hurts to be something It's worse to be nothing With you So I didn't call you For 16 long days And I should get a cigarette For so much restraint No matter how long I resist temptation I will always lose It hurts to be something It's worse to be nothing With you I've done the math, there's no solution We'll never last Why can't I let go of this? So I broke my promise I called you last night I shouldn't have, I wouldn't have If it weren't for the sight of a boy Who looked just like you Standing out on Melrose Avenue It hurts to be something It's worse to be nothing With you It hurts to be something It's worse to be nothing With you

One more kiss, wine stained lips I don't want to go to sleep yet Pale moonlight, misty eyes I'll allow myself to have him just tonight I hold on to every ounce of sin I know he don't love me quite like I love him I swear to myself as he leaves at dawn This will end 'til he haunts me again, mm... Rose perfume, low-lit room I'll pretend you'll stay forever Lay me down, ghostly sounds Haunt the hallways as he wraps me around And I hold on to every ounce of sin I know he don't love me quite like I love him I swear to myself as he leaves at dawn This will end, 'til he haunts me again

I won't pretend, I've been desolate I won't pretend, I've been blue It happened so quickly, one second it hit me I've fallen quite hard over you I won't pretend, I've been anxious Just like I've always been This time, it's sticking And time just stops ticking When I have my arms around you Four-leaf clovers and lucky dimes Coincidences and cosmic signs Have proved that I am quite naïve I'm falling fast, failing gravity And all that I see is serendipity Ran into you on the corner Of Ninety and Central Park West Oh, how it thrilled me, I thank the big city And, this, I will rarely confess In years when we're losing our memory The world's taken leaps over time I hope that you'll look at me like I'm still twenty-three Hope that you still be mine Four-leaf clovers and lucky dimes Coincidences and cosmic signs Have proved that I am quite naïve I'm falling fast, failing gravity I swear that, this time, it's serendipity Serendipity Serendipity

It always goes like this Could've predicted it I'm so naive to think you loved me for me Kissed as I ran off-stage Too old to play this game Guess you're still growing up at 30 Oh-oh Were you surprised by me when you took me home? When the glamour wore off Reduced to skin and bone I can't even tell who you want to know I'm a goddess on stage Human when we're alone You took a star to bed Woke up with me instead You must have felt so damn deceived When you made up a version of me that you thought you'd love But I am not your Aphrodite Oh-oh Were you surprised by me when you took me home? When the glamour wore off Reduced to skin and bone I can't even tell who you want to know I'm a goddess on stage Human when we're alone You took me for a fool You stole my youth You wanted this so much You watched me rise then killed my light And now you know I'm not your fucking goddess Ooh, oh I'm no goddess when I'm alone