The Girl Next Door - Earl Lewis

The moment I saw her smile I knew she was just my style My only regret Is we've never met For I dream of her all the while But she doesn't know I exist No matter how much I persist So its clear to see There's no hope for me Though I live at 5135 Kenningston Avenue And she lives at 5133 How can I ignore the Girl Next Door I love her more than I can say Doesn't try to please me Doesn't even tease me And she never sees me glance her way And though I'm heart-sore The Girl Next Door Affection for me Wont display I just adore her So I cant ignore her The Girl Next Door

Red eyes, stumbling 'cross the road She's still wearing the same clothes Sipping on a cherry coke And I'm wondering Whatever happened to the girl next door? She's all grown up, she don't come home anymore I hear them talking when she's not around The sun goes down, she don't wanna be found (wanna be found) I might be high or half-asleep Maybe I'm just imagining But it's strange how much she looks like me Whatever happened to the girl next door? She's all grown up, she don't come home anymore I look at her and I'm all that I see She's in the mirror, looking back at me Back at me Ooh-ah-ah Ooh-ah-ah Ooh-ah-ah (Back at me) Ooh-ah-ah Ooh-ah-ah Ooh-ah-ah The girl next door is me

When you took me home You knew who you were taking Not some Debbie Debutant Standing in an apron, fryin' up your bacon My house and my mouth And my mind get kinda trashy I've never been to jail But hell, I wouldn't put it past me So, if you want the girl next door Some Virgin Mary metaphor Your cardboard cut-out on the wall Your paper or your Barbie doll With perfect hair and perfect dress I'm really just the perfect mess And I ain't nothing less or nothing more So, baby if you want the girl next door Then go next door and go right now And don't look back, don't turn around And don't call me when you get bored Yeah, if you want the girl next door Then go next door Sorry I ain't sorry But I ain't your Marsha Brady If I ever met her I bet she'd probably hate me 'Cause you'd wanna date me My heart and my head And my bed can get real twisted And you wouldn't be the first To think you're gonna go and fix it So, if you want the girl next door Some Virgin Mary metaphor Your cardboard cut-out on the wall Your paper or your Barbie doll With perfect hair and perfect dress I'm really just the perfect mess And I ain't nothing less or nothing more So, baby if you want the girl next door Then go next door and go right now And don't look back, don't turn around And don't call me when you get bored Yeah, if you want the girl next door Then go next door The thing that turns you on Is what you'll wanna change But you have a better chance Of slowing down a train If you want the girl next door Some Virgin Mary metaphor Your cardboard cut-out on the wall Your paper or your Barbie doll With perfect hair and perfect dress I'm really just the perfect mess And I ain't nothing less or nothing more So, baby if you want the girl next door Then go next door and go right now And don't look back, don't turn around And don't call me when you get bored Yeah, if you want the girl next door Then go next door

Take 5 – Girl Next Door I'm Sorry, I'm Sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry Forgive me, Forgive me, Forgive me, Forgive me Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah [1st Verse] For so long I've been keeping this in I can't go on Just living this lie Cause wrong is wrong I'm sick and tired of being wrong And right is right I just wanna live right Yeah All my friends say don't tell your girl the truth But I had to My papa used to preach the truth shall set you free And I'm free at last now Cause there's something I gotta tell you [Chorus] There's something that you should know I've been creepin' with the girl next door I'm sorry, forgive me I apologize There's something that you should know I've been creepin' with the girl next door I'm sorry(I'm sorry), forgive me(forgive me) I apologize For creepin' next door Yeah, yeah, yeah [2nd Verse] Liar, liar That's what I was I broke the golden rule (the golden rule) And betrayed your trust Now that you know All that I've done Am I still your number one? (am I still your number one?) Cause my friends say (my friends say) dont tell your girl (friend) the truth But I had to My papa used to preach the truth shall set you free We'll I'm free at last now All I wanna do is be with my girl, my girl (Oh ho) [Chorus] There's something that you should know I've been creepin' with the girl next door I'm sorry, forgive me I apologize, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry There's something that you should know I've been creepin' with the girl next door I'm sorry, forgive me I apologize For creepin' next door [Bridge] I'm sorry I was creepin' girl Creepin' with the girl next door I'm sorry I was creepin' girl Creepin' with the girl next door I'm sorry I was creepin' girl Creepin' with the girl next door I promised to never let anyone or anything come between me and you I vowed that I would never keep a secret from you Girl, I'll tell the truth, yeah, yeah, yeah [Chorus] There's something that you should know I've been creepin' with the girl next door I'm sorry, forgive me For all that I've done, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry There's something that you should know I've been creepin' with the girl next door I'm sorry, forgive me I apologize For creepin' next door For creepin' next door For creepin' next door For creepin' next door

My name is Jerry Lee Lewis, come from Louisiana I'm gonna do you a little boogie on this here piano Doing mighty fine, I'm gonna make you shake it I'll make you do it and make you do it, until you break it It's called the Lewis boogie, in the Lewis way Lord, I do my little boogie woogie every day Well, down in New Orleans, the land of dreams The best doggone place, son, you have ever seen The cats go wild, do a boogie that's hot My boogie woogie makes you want to stop and do the bop It's called the Lewis boogie, in the Lewis way Lord, I do my little boogie woogie every day Aw, oh, boy Well, now let's cruise on down to old Memphis town That's where that Presley boy said, "You ain't nothing but a hound" But now you take my boogie, it keeps you in the groove Then your sacroiliac begins to shiver and a move It's called the Lewis boogie, in the Lewis way Lord, I do my little boogie woogie every day Oh, boogie woogie when your hips start rockin' honey And your knees start knockin', Lewis boogie, Lewis way Lord, I do my little boogie woogie every day

"Vipassana is a science of mind and matter How the mind is influencing the body And later, how the body is influencing the mind" Yesterday? Forget it Tomorrow is? Nada The present is right here, through the breath, watch it Atheist Jesus piece, hangin' on a cross We sit and discuss God on lawn chairs About how we got here What it is, what it isn't, shit Fate versus faith, scrimmaging with coincidence Leave out the marketing, hold up on the business end Focus on the genuine, and everything else, you can shed the skin I was a couple moves away from being dead In that ER overdosing, eyes bleeding red I fell in love, made an album, got a buzz Lost it all, sobered up, and guess what? Now we meet again And now I'm back, finally just laughin' Expectations are resentments waiting to happen Studying the dharma, karma, vipassana practice Bahá'u'lláh, Buddha, God, to the mountaintop and I'm traveling Learning, yes, reflecting on what matters People, impermanence, lack of attachments It's space and time, a couple of man-made distractions The measure of a spirit that no human can ever capture Church, this booth is my Vatican I don't control life, but I can control how I react to it Student of the breath, brick beats and balancin' Desire versus truth until I finally find happiness I was put here to do something before I'm lying in that casket I'd be lying on the beat if I said I didn't know what that is The world's a stage and we play a character, I found him It took me 20-something years and a bunch of shitty soundchecks I'm not gonna be content 'til I find gratitude Regardless of my sales or the record deals they're handing you If the next generation takes our legacy and samples you We'll have a bunch of mp3s and misled kids to pass 'em to I use my veins to create the color I paint from Delve into self 'til my heart becomes my paint brush I told my mama I'm not stoppin' 'til my name's up Thinking those comments on that blog is gonna save us Searchin' for everything but God to validate you Get insecure and then we start blaming the haters Used to look to women to fill a part of me that was vacant Truth, the only thing that I ever used in moderation So I stare into this paper instead of sitting at a cubicle Take all the ugly shit inside and try to make it beautiful Use the cement from rock bottom and make it musical So the people can relate to where I've been Where I'm going, what I've seen, what I've heard From the guts, fuck the glory Just a person on a porch putting it all into recording Many in my past and many that came before me I just keep walkin' my path and blessed to share my story

Oh girl, this boat is sinking There's no sea left for me And how the sky gets heavy When you are underneath it! Oh. I want to sail away from here. And god. He came down down down down down down down down And said (down down down down down down down down) Nothing (down down down down down down down down) He rolled up, asked him what he was sippin' on He said lean, You want to hit it, dawg? That's the same stuff Weezy's sippin' huh? And tons of other rappers that be spittin' hard, Yup yup five a bone When he passed him that Styrofoam the Easter pink, heard it in a rhyme before Finally got to see what all the hype was on And then he took a sip, sittin' in the Lincoln thinkin' he was pimpin' as he listen To the system Little did he know that it was just as addictive as bass Not the kind of hit from the kick drum Hot box, let the bass bump Take it to the face, gulp Months later the use went up Every blunt was accompanied by the pink stuff But Goddamn he loved that feelin' Purple rain coated in the throat Just so healin' Medicine alleviate the sickness Liquid affix and it comes with a cost Wake up, cold sweat, scratchin', itchin' Trying to escape the skin that barely fit him Gone, get another bottle just to get a couple swallows Headed towards the bottom couldn't get off it Didn't even think he had a problem Though he couldn't sleep without gettin' nauseous Room spinnin', Thinkin' he might've sipped just a little bit too much of that cough syrup His eyelids closed shut Sat back in the chair clutchin' that cup Girlfriend came and a couple hours later said his name shim but he never got up He never got up, he never got up We live on the cusp of death thinkin' that it won't be us It won't be us, it won't be us, it won't be us Nah, it won't be us Oh girl, this boat is sinking There's no sea left for me And how the sky gets heavy When you are underneath it! Oh. I want to sail away from here. And god. He came down down down down down down down down And said (down down down down down down down down) Nothing (down down down down down down down down) He just wanted to act like them He just wanted to rap like him Us as rappers underestimate the power and the effects that we have on these kids Blunt passed, ash in a tin, pack being pushed, harassed by the feds The fact of it is most people that rap like this Talkin' about some shit they haven't lived Surprise, you know the drill Trapped in a box, declined record sales Follow the formula violence, drugs, and, sex sells So we try to sound like someone else This is not Californication There's no way to glorify this pavement Syrup, Percocet, and an eighth a day will leave you Broke, depressed, and emotionally vacant Despite how Lil Wayne lives It's not conducive to being creative And I know 'cause he's my favorite And I know 'cause I was off that same mix Rationalize the shit that I'd try after I listen to dedication But he's an alien, I'd sip that shit, pass out or play Playstation Months later I'm in the same place No music made, feeling like a failure And trust me it's not dope to be 25 and move back to your parent's basement I've seen my people's dreams die I've seen what they can be denied And "weeds not a drug" - that's denial Groundhog Day life repeat each time I've seen Oxycontin take three lives I grew up with them, we used to chief dimes I've seen cocaine bring out the demons inside Cheatin' and lyin' Friendship cease, no peace in the mind Stealin' and takin' anything to fix the pieces inside Broken, hopeless, headed nowhere Only motivation for what the dealer's supplying That rush, that drug, that dope Those pills, that crumb, that roach Thinkin' I would never do that, not that drug And growing up nobody ever does Until you're stuck, lookin' in the mirror like I can't believe what I've become Swore I was gonna be someone And growing up everyone always does We sell our dreams and our potential To escape through that buzz Just keep me up, keep me up Hollywood here we come Oh girl this boat is sinking There's no sea left for me And how the sky gets heavy When you are underneath it Oh, I want to sail away from here And god. He came down down down down down down down And said Nothing