Keeping The Light On - Joy Oladokun

Hey, did you happen to see my sweet baby? He was walkin on down the road Tell him for me that if you see him tonight Everything is alright 'Cause I know how he gets when he's low Oh, he's a beautiful man Kinda hard to understand but He's the only good man that I know Won't you tell him for me I'm keepin a light shinin in the window Just in case he decides to come home Shining in the window just in case he decides to come home (He's a beautiful man, kinda hard to understand) But he's the only good man that I know Won't you tell him for me? (tell him, tell him, tell him, tell him) I'm keeping a light (tell him, Tell him, tell him, tell him) shining in the window Just in case he decides to come home (ooh, ah) Shining in the window Just in case he decides to come home Oh, we had quite a spat and that was all that but We both said things that we didn't mean Won't you tell him for me (tell him, tell him, tell him, tell him) I'm keeping a light (tell him, Tell him, tell him, tell him) shining in the window Just in case he decides to come home (ooh, ah) Shining in the window In case he decides to come home I'm keepin (ooh, ah) a light, baby Just in case he decides to come home Can't (ooh, ah) you see the light? Can't (ooh, ah) you see the light? Keepin (ooh, ah) a light, baby Just in case he decides to come home Oh, (tell him, tell him, tell him, tell him) just in case, just in case I'm keeping a light, baby (tell him, tell him, tell him, tell him) Just in case, just in case Oh say can you see (tell him, tell him, tell him, tell him) My light, shinin,' shining, (just in case) shining I wonder can you see my light shinin, (Tell him, tell him, tell him, Tell him, just in case) burnin, shinin, burnin, shinin, burnin

Sometimes I wake up and I'm falling asleep I think that maybe the curtains are closing on me But I wake up Yes, I wake up smiling Sometimes I feel, oh, the charge is surprising Surprisingly good to be moving around So I wake up Yes, I wake up smiling So what? I feel fine I'm okay I've seen the lighter side of life But I'm alright I feel good So I'll go I'll try and stop moving Sometimes I wake up and I'm falling asleep But I've got to get going so much that I'm wanting to do But I wake up smiling And this could be my last chance Of saving my innocence And this could be my last chance No more keeping my feet on the ground Sometimes I feel, oh, the charge is surprising Surprisingly good to be moving around And I move I wake up smiling So what? I feel fine I feel okay I've seen the lighter side of life I'm alright, I feel good So I'll go Well, it's time to stop moving And this could be my last chance Of saving my innocence And this could be my last chance So no more keeping my feet on the ground I'm not gonna keep on I'm not gonna keep on I'm not gonna keep on I'm not gonna keep on, oooh

If it seems like I've been lost in let's remember If you think I'm feeling older and missing my younger days Oh, then you should have known me much better 'Cause my past is something that never got in my way Oh, no Still I would not be here now if I never had the hunger And I'm not ashamed to say the wild boys were my friends Oh, 'cause I never felt the desire To let music set me on fire And then I was saved, yeah That's why I'm keeping the faith Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Keeping the faith We wore matador boots Only Flagg Brothers had them with the Cuban heel Iridescent socks with the same color shirt And a tight pair of chinos Oh, I put on my shark skin jacket You know the kind with the velvet collar And ditty bop shades Oh, yeah I took a fresh pack of Luckies And a mint called Sen-Sen My old man's Trojans and his Old Spice after shave Oh, combed my hair in a pompadour Like the rest of the Romeos wore A permanent wave, yeah We were keeping the faith Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Keeping the faith You can get just so much from a good thing You can linger too long in your dreams Say goodbye to the oldies but goodies 'Cause the good ole days weren't always good And tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems Learned stickball as a formal education Lost a lot of fights but it taught me how to lose ok Oh, I heard about sex but not enough I found you could dance and still look tough anyway Oh, yes I did I found out a man ain't just being macho Ate an awful lot of late night drive-in food Drank a lot of take home pay I thought I was the Duke of Earl When I made it with a red haired girl In the Chevrolet, oh yeah We were keeping the faith Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Keeping the faith You know the good ole days weren't always good And tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems I told you my reasons for the whole revival Now I'm going outside to have an ice cold beer in the shade Oh, I'm going to listen to my 45's Ain't it wonderful to be alive when the rock n' roll plays, yeah When the memory stays, yeah I'm keeping the faith Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I'm keeping the faith I'm keeping the faith Yes I am You know I'm keeping the faith, oh yes I am You know I'm keeping the faith Oh, you know I am I'm keeping the faith, oh yeah

In my younger days, I was a fighter In my younger days, I felt the fire Things didn't go my way I'd strike a match and turn my back You'd be surprised by how many bridges I've burned In my younger days, I'd love and then leave 'em Because I was afraid I wouldn't know how to keep 'em I'd trade my freedom for a steady hand now But I wouldn't trade the lessons I learned No, I wouldn't change a thing about my younger days Looking back I'm glad to see I didn't get my way In my younger days What's a legacy? And how do I leave one? For the children I might never have What's a purpose? Tell me why do I need one? Taking life as it comes ain't working out too bad No, I wouldn't change a thing about my younger days Looking back I'm glad to see I didn't get my way In my younger days No, I wouldn't change a thing about my younger days Looking back I'm glad to see I didn't get my way In my younger days The agony and ecstasy The joy and the pain Who I was would be proud to see The person I became In my younger days

What was your name? I can't place it I'm still wasted away in the taste of your skin As we face the day Your thoughts are racing And I see you hesitating to let me in But you don't have to say you love me, oh, just stay I'm not saying we were heaven made But our liquor gave me the wisdom To know you got what I've been missing We've all got an itch That we need to satisfy And you satisfied mine Like bread and wine We've all gotta live According to our desire And yours goes so well with mine We're classic, like black and white Say we're not to blame Say our parents gave us reason To believe the bars were meant to break Nothing gold can stay And I'll say that pain Is just a mask you wear To distract from the fact That your hands were holding onto this possibility But you don't have to say you love me, oh, just stay I'm not saying we were heaven made But our liquor gave me the wisdom To know you've what I've been missing We've all got an itch That we need to satisfy And you satisfied mine Like bread and wine We've all gotta live According to our desire And yours goes so well with mine We're classic, like black and white Raise a glass to mask the feeling of coming disaster Try to act as if all you've given doesn't matter The past is past, but I have to ask Is it really worth the way you feel Walking home alone the morning after? We've all got an itch That we need to satisfy And you satisfied mine Like bread and wine We've all gotta live According to our desire And yours goes so well with mine We're classic, like black and white

They drowned me in the Jordan Then they tried to wash me clean They got the stains out But now it's too damn hard to breathe They told me he's a good Lord As they tied the shackles to my feet They drowned me in the Jordan And then they walked away from me I washed up on the shores alone In a tattered wedding gown Disillusioned and hardened Everything I'd known had let me down, down, down That is where you found me Grace and whisky on your breath You pulled me back on my feet And taught me how to dance again Now we're building our own promised land On this new ground we stand God bless the work of our hands And make good on our plans 'Cause now I've found love There's no turning back Oh-oh-oh-oh I don't feel so young now Gave the best years of my life away I tried to build an institution Instead of tryna keep the faith If you'd been the one You loved me though I was not lovely or deserving You kissed the curse from my lips And taught them to rejoice again Now we're building our own promised land On this new ground we stand God bless the work of our hands And make good on our plans 'Cause now I've found love There's no turning back Now I've found love There's no turning back