Sure Wasn't Me - Tyrone Davis

I heard she sang a good song I heard she had a style And so I came to see her To listen for a while And there she was This young girl A stranger to my eyes [CHORUS:] Strumming my pain With her fingers She was singing My life with her words Killing me softly With her song Killing me softly With her song Telling my whole life With her words Killing me softly With her song I felt all flushed with fever Embarrassed by the crowd I felt she found my letters And read each one out loud I prayed that she would finish But she just kept right on [CHORUS] Hoo, ooh... She sang as if She knew me, yeah In all my dark despair And then she looked Right through me As if I wasn't there But she just kept On singing strong Singing clear and [CHORUS] Strumming my pain With her fingers She was singing My life with her words (She was, she was) Killing me softly With her song Killing me softly With her song Telling my whole life With her words Killing me softly With her song [Last two verses: x2]

Yeah Why can't you Why can't you receive my love? I'm sending it to To you from high above Am I saying something wrong Or am I not saying enough? So why can't you Why can't you receive my love, baby? You don't believe me When I say you're beautiful You just think I say it 'Cause you told me to What's it gonna take For me to get through? And if I can't love you your way Then our hearts are about to break Why can't you Why can't you receive my love? I'm sending it to To you from high above Am I saying something wrong Or am I not saying enough? So why can't you Why can't you receive my love, baby? You and I We've been hanging on By a thread I didn't know You never told me How you felt 'Til it was too late to Change myself I could have tried I'd try for you, girl

No li-li-li-li-li-li-lie Aye Rvssian Usually I'm indecisive But tonight, mi sure sure And babe, yuh know mi way past like it (know mi like it, yeah) Mi love ah likkle more more (Gimmi likkle more, gimmi likkle more, gimmi likkle more more) No li-li-li-li-li-li-lie Bend it up back way Doing it that way Pull in my driveway Gimmi dat side way Bend on my highway I lick it down, bite it Know that I like it (aye, yeah) I can get freaky No tell my secret Now can you keep it? Action, nuh freaky Drummer, keep beat it No mi nah easy Why yuh no wan' leave me? Usually I'm indecisive (indecisive) But tonight, mi sure sure (sure-ure-ure, mi sure-ure-ure, yeah) And babe, yuh know mi way past like it (know mi like it, yeah) Mi love ah likkle more more (Gimmi likkle more, gimmi likkle more, gimmi likkle more more) No li-li-li-li-li-li-lie Mi wan' yuh send it up Buss it up, later mi wi' bend it up Mi foot up, mi cock it up just like ah ten, it up Fuck sweet like money cyan get enough Cah mi pussy tight, tight And mi know ah dat yuh like Love eh when yuh stamina long like China flight Enter, mi open like ah door-or-or Babes, tonight mi sure Usually I'm indecisive (indecisive) But tonight, mi sure sure (sure-ure-ure, mi sure-ure-ure, yeah) And babe, yuh know mi way past like it (know mi like it, yeah) Mi love ah likkle more more (Gimmi likkle more, gimmi likkle more, gimmi likkle more more) No li-li-li-li-li-li-lie I'm never like this But it's something that's going wrong I'm excited It's too right, it can't be wrong Can't be wrong, can't be wrong, can't be wrong, no No li-li-li-li-li-li-lie No li-li-li-li-li-li-lie, yeah Usually I'm indecisive (indecisive) But tonight, mi sure sure (sure-ure-ure, mi sure-ure-ure, yeah) And babe, yuh know mi way past like it (know mi like it, yeah) Mi love ah likkle more more (Gimmi likkle more, gimmi likkle more, gimmi likkle more more) No li-li-li-li-li-li-lie

I didn't know him but I guess he had it coming I heard he liked to put his hands everywhere they don't belong and I guess it finally caught up, somebody lift him up I know who did it, bitch named karma, that girl had enough Of course I remember that particular night The only thing that I killed was my dress and my mic I can't help you, don't know who you're looking for All I know is that I wanna be a star So please don't try to put the blame on me I didn't do it Now that he's outta my life all that I know Is that I'm free (I didn't do it) I didn't do it, didn't do it, didn't do it (I couldn't do it) I didn't do it, didn't do it, didn't do it (I wouldn't do it) Didn't do it, didn't do it, didn't do it (I ain't doing it) (It wasn't me) It wasn't me, no Do you know what it's like to live from house to house Crying every night with different hands on your mouth Do you know what it feels like to get no love as a kid Five years and not knowing where love is I wasn't waiting on 18 just to go and get my sister You would've done the same if you were in my position If taking back your love is a crime, call me guilty Had to save her, don't you understand she needs me Of course I remember that particular night The only thing that I killed was my dress and my mic I can't help you, don't know who you're looking for All I know is that I'm gonna be a star So please don't try to put the blame on me I didn't do it (No) Now that he's outta my life all that I know Is that I'm free (I didn't do it) I didn't do it, didn't do it, didn't do it (I couldn't do it) I didn't do it, didn't do it, didn't do it (I wouldn't do it) Didn't do it, didn't do it, didn't do it (I ain't doing it) (It wasn't me) It wasn't me, no It wasn't me, no

Hang on, just hang on for a minute I've got something to say I'm not asking you to move on or forget it But these are better days To be wrong all along and admit it Is not amazing grace But to be loved like a song you remember Even when you've changed Tell me, did I go on a tangent? Did I lie through my teeth? Did I cause you to stumble on your feet? Did I bring shame on my family? Did it show when I was weak? Whatever you see, that wasn't me That wasn't me, oh-oh, that wasn't me When you're lost you will toss every lucky coin you'll ever trust And you'll hide from your God like he ever turned his back on us And you'll fall all the way to the bottom and land on your own knife And you'll learn who you are, even if it doesn't take your life Tell me, did I go on a tangent? Did I lie through my teeth? Did I cause you to stumble on your feet? Did I bring shame on my family? Did it show when I was weak? Whatever you see, that wasn't me That wasn't me, oh-oh, that wasn't me But I want you to know that you'll never be alone I wanna believe Do I make myself a blessing to everyone I meet? When you fall I will catch you on your feet Do I spend time with my family? Did it show when I was weak? When that's what you see, that will be me That will be me That will be me That will be me

Just another victim of the... victim of the ghetto Just Another victim, that's how it goes, ooh Heavy foot traffic jam the hallway all day Adolescence working for small pay World so little he could never leave his block His home bullet riddled so he always need his Glock He coast with his eye open, keep his metal smoking Young wasted minds fiending on dimes, coking Forgot kids quick to break rules and known to make fools Out of many, down the streets we more safe than school There's no diploma that can break you from the coma Of a bloody war in the country, the youth hungry On the corner hyenas amongst me Yapping about the stories they be hearing, always swearing Can't even spell the shit that he be wearing Caught up in the silk web of material Superficial stains ya brain tissue, that's the issue The young is lost at their own cost, dreaming Screaming how we never hold positions, that's the meaning Mothers of murder victims share the same grief The elderly shake their head in disbelief And no relief came till I aimed And blast one shot and left my name... the GZA Just another victim of the... victim of the ghetto Just Another victim, that's how it goes, ooh My residence is a city where army veterans smoke rocks On torn down blocks, drug spots set up their shops And cops watch innocent niggas roaming flocks Romanism in tops, papers and knots Churches and liquor stores on every corner plot To get money knots some funny niggas act like They could pop Glocks and those who can't cop Sisters giving up ass a lot, brothers giving up cash a lot Babies struggling to become someone because their parent's not Just another victim of the ghetto, where lost minds settle When the devils uncivil society and die free With double 'W' followed by J-D around the necks and wrists The God is now a dog, the Earth is called a bitch And all my people wish to get rich in this wilderness to push a Lexus Ice on everything from rings and bracelets to the necklaces Children molested within these pest infested buildings Seeds uneducated in these schools, paint on the ceilings Is peeling off, but all I see is lost black babies calling "Please somebody save me, please somebody save me" Just another victim of the... victim of the ghetto Just Another victim, that's how it goes, ooh Just another victim of the... victim of the ghetto Just Another victim, that's how it goes, ooh Just another... just another... victim of the ghetto

Waves crashing on her feet Standing in some rolled up jeans Making tracks in the sand It's like she's living in a photograph But disappearing silouhette Flip flop in her hands And every kiss is burnt and hot I can't let them go to waste Let's say the night is all that we've got And I'm ready for the chase We can be sun downers, edge of towners Waiting on a spark Silent sounders, come unwounders Tangled in the dark Like the moon is hanging lets keep this dream awake Let's go out into the AM But tonight let's be some sun downers (sun downers) Blue gives into the black Red lips just like a match That sets me on fire While the whole falls asleep Every look that you're giving me Is taking me higher And every kiss is burnt and hot I can't let them go to waste And once we start, we can't stop Like 80 with no brakes We can be sun downers, edge of towners Waiting on a spark Silent sounders, come unwounders Tangled in the dark Like the moon is hanging, lets keep this dream awake Let's go out into the AM But tonight let's be some sun downers (sun downers) We can be the only two up When they close down this town Lets just live it up til it comes back around We can be sundowners We can be come unwounders Sundowners, edge of towners Waiting on a spark Silent sounders, come unwounders Tangled in the dark Like the moon is hanging, lets keep this dream awake Let's go out until the AM But tonight let's be some sundowners Let's just be some come unwounders We can be some play it louders Gotta start sundowners (Yeah) Sundowners Sundowners Let's just be some sundowners

I'm a bad man James Dean, kinda Steve McQueen Straight out the bad lanes I rolled in and rained down Like a storm cloud or a heat wave Made you stay undercover where it's safe Don't give a damn about the plans you made We're staying in the bed all day Cause I'm selfish Restless like a river, can't help it I'm taking what you give me but I still want more I still want more Cause I'm selfish Yeah I'm selfish, I'm selfish for you Have you seen yourself in a full-length mirror Spinning around lately I'd lie, cheat, and steal Feel the sweet scent overtake me But the Lord sent an angel to save me So he can't blame me When my hands get a mind of their own Girl, if they get ahold of you, I ain't never letting go Cause I'm selfish Restless like a river, can't help it I'm taking what you give me but I still want more I still want more Cause I'm selfish Yeah I'm selfish, I'm selfish for you Oh, so selfish for you I still want more I still want more I still want more I still want more Cause I'm selfish Restless like a river, can't help it I'm taking what you give me but I still want more I still want more Cause I'm selfish Yeah I'm selfish, I'm selfish for you Still want more I still want more I still want more I still want more I'm selfish for you