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Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic
(© 1999 NPG Records)
(© 1999 Arista Records)

Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic
Undisputed
The Greatest Romance Ever Sold
Segue I
Hot Wit U
Tangerine
So Far, So Pleased
The Sun, The Moon And Stars
Everyday Is A Winding Road
Segue II
Man 'O' War
Baby Knows
I Love U, But I Don't Trust U Anymore
Silly Game
Strange But True
Wherever U Go, Whatever U Do
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Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic

Rave un2 the joy fantastic - Rave! {x2}
([...])
(Come on sugar) (Ooh)

World full of lovers, city full of good time - Rave!
Don't go undercover, I can get U out of yo mind, come on - Rave!
All U need is a good walk and a brand new position
Then we can spread the real soul, doin' it like a mission - Rave! (Rave)
Ooh

Rave un2 the joy fantastic - Rave!
Everybody rave un2 the joy fantastic - Rave!

Arrividerci cock poppy, that was hip yesterday - Rave! (Come on)
New thang hittin' where it feel good, what do U say? - Rave!
Tell me y'all, ain't that the bomb?
Mack daddy ain't got no gun - Rave!
Everybody got a new thang, new fun - scandalous - Rave!

Aah, U've gotta rave un2 the joy fantastic - Rave!
Everybody rave un2 the joy fantastic - Rave!
Oww yeah, hmm
Come on, sugar - Rave!

Take a look inside your mind
Sista got a sizzler on (Know she 2 hot)
Ooh, U know she 2 hot - Rave! (Rave!)
Brutha playin' an apache scarf
Gaultier - stop! (Well well) Aww!
If I had a dollar every time they smiled (Rave)
I'd sho'nuff jump and holla cuz I sho'nuff be rich awhile (Rave)
Everybody rave

Rave un2 the joy fantastic - Rave! (Oh rave!)
Rave un2 the joy fantastic - Rave!
Oww!

©1999 Emancipated Music - ASCAP

Undisputed

Get free, yeah!
NPG get rowdy, get rowdy now {x2}
(Come on and get rowdy now)

Once again I don't follow trends
They just follow me just like the Israelites through the Red Sea
It might take U some time but U will learn 2 see
The undisputed truth and get free

CHORUS:
NPG get rowdy, get rowdy now {x4}
(Hear me, feel me, love me) {x3}
(Come on) {x2} (Good God)
(Once again, back, it's the incredible)

At the very core of thinking I originate
That's why U'll never know my thinking or my fate
Invisible - unless of course U are my mate
If not, U think U see me I disintegrate
I disintegrate my thoughts from yours
U can feel me comin' outta every one of your pores
Reintegrating where I am understood and adored
"U're just my subject - that's why U're outta touch"
Say what's this claim - out of what?
My dear I am the touch!

(Ooh hear me, feel me) {x2}
(Come on and feel it)
(Come on)
(NPG get funky)
(Love me, now)
(NPG get rowdy, get rowdy now)

I can give U power (Power) or I can take it away
I can make U dance cuz this guitar I play

Heavy rotation never made my world go round (Come on {x2})
Commercialization, commercialization of the music (Huh) is what brought it down
(Oh hell) (2 the bridge)

My level is now what U must learn 2 rise above
Talk 2 D'Angelo or better yet ?uestlove
It might take (y'all) U some time, but U will learn 2 see
The undisputed truth and get free

CHORUS {x2}

(The freak)
(Bass)
(Where that girl at?)
(Ooh)

Funky, NPG New Power (Chuck) Generation (D.) free nation, free nation (Funky, funky, funky)
Check it (Undisputed)
Come one, come all 2 the download ball, uh
There's no curfew 2 hurt U, no substitution
School's now in session
Put down the Smith & Wessons
Real renegades don't invite grenades 2 make the grade
This is a brain raid - who rise above the lies
Raised above the daze
New ways disguised in a craze
Uh, gotcha back against that status they be throwin' up at us
Back against the wall again high trees catchin' a lotta wind, ohhh
Last band standin'
Gotta knack for overstandin' (Come on and get rowdy now)
Accordin' 2 plan and look up in the sky
No cable wire, whoa (NPG, get rowdy)
God bless the child {x2}
So funky
(Bass)
Ha ha ha...

So whatdya know, U and me
Finally face 2 face
Checkin' each other up and down
In all of the obvious places
Was there ever a reason
4 us 2 be apart
The air that fills up this room says "not hardly"
So this is where U end
And U and I begin (This is where U and I, U and I begin)

CHORUS:
The greatest romance that's ever been sold
The greatest romance that's ever been sold

Baby, baby
Now your mind is open
2 poetry seldom heard
Your heart has never been broken
Until U've heard these words:
"Your body was designed 2 respond 2 mine
In spite of your desire 2 mold me"
And in the middle of it all
We kiss and like rain we fall into (Like rain, we fall)

CHORUS
(Oh baby, baby, baby)

Oh, I know U feel me, I know that U can dance (Help)
But what do U know about the greatest romance?
Not what U think, but what U believe (Tell me)
What was the real reason that Adam never left Eve
And if the truth sounds like a memory
Then U know it was meant 2 be, meant 2 be
Leave your inhibitions behind
Come on, come on, let's see (What? Why)

So this is where U end (This is where U end)
And U and I begin (U...)

CHORUS
(Uh huh uh huh)

I know U can feel me, I know U can dance (I know)
But what do U know about the greatest romance? (The greatest romance that's ever been sold)
Not what U think, but what U believe
Can U tell me the real reason that Adam never left Eve
(The greatest romance that's ever been sold) (Greatest romance)
Listen 2 me, uh, U brought me the grapes from the vine, oh, yes U did
(The greatest romance that's ever been sold)

Can I talk 2 U? (Talk 2 U)
Listen, if U help me 2 remember the secrets of time
And U, U, U, U offer me your love, your love, your love so divine
And in return girl and in return I will surrender
Aw yeah, I will surrender, oh yes I will

The greatest romance that's ever been sold

CHORUS:
I wanna get hot wit U
Get U underneath the cream and ooh
Get U doin' things U thought U'd never do
Make U suck your tongue and say, "Ooh!"
I wanna get hot wit U
Take U upstairs 2 the 14th room
Multicolored lights and an ocean view
Ooh, I wanna get hot wit U

I wanna get hot wit U, I wanna get hot wit U {x2}
I want 2 get hot with U
I wanna get U underneath the cream and do the marshmallow
Ooh I wanna get hot with U
I wanna get U 2 do something
U thought U'd never do
Like dance in front of my headlights
On a hot summer night - nude
I wanna get hot with U

CHORUS

I want 2 get hot with U
I wanna make U climb this chain around my waist so I can prove
That I'm the only one that brings out the freak in U
I want 2 get hot with U

I wanna get hot wit U, I wanna get hot wit U {x2}
Know the body bangin', got U singin'
No shouts from the neighbors, telephone ringin'
Put me in positions thought I'd never do proper
Created a machine, now U know U can't stop her
Tryin' 2 turn me out, it never happen, so stop this
I'm suppose 2 tremble cuz they call U "The Artist"?
Let's wild out - can U handle ruff ridin'?
Treat U like the freak of the week and had U hidin' from me
I'd do whatever U like if U could take it
If I could be your girlfriend, U could catch me naked
Can't front sexually, I'd like a sample
But I don't think that I'm ready 4 U 2 make me an example
I mean - come on - why front on
I'd never place time - queen of your life
I'm there, whenever
The things that U're feeling 4 me - mutual
But I'm ready 2 call U daddy, even get hot wit U

Meet me early morning (Meet me in the morning, baby)
In a 4th dimension plane (In a 4th dimension plane)
Astral travelin' hottie, (Hottie hottie) I know U know my game
Underneath the cream I'll meet U (I'll U meet down there)
And then we'll rearrange (Turn the child 'round)
Everything U know of love (Everything)
I'll give U reason 2 change

Hot wit U, I wanna get hot wit U (Wanna wanna)
I wanna get hot wit U (I wanna get)

I want 2 get hot with U
I wanna steal a kiss in the middle of an overcrowded room
Yeah, that's what I wanna do
I, I wanna get hot with U
Hot with U, boo

CHORUS

(Hot wit U) repeated

So we could drive 2 the ocean
And drown U in a wave of 100,000 compliments, boo
I want your everyday 2 be cool
And the only way 2 do that is every night - get hot, get hot with U
Yeah, baby

CHORUS
(Never never)
(Oh, baby)
(Can't U see it?)

Hot wit U (Yeah) I wanna get hot wit U
I wanna get hot wit U
Get U underneath the cream and ooh
Get ya doing things U thought U'd never do
Make U suck your tongue and say "ooh"
Ooh, I wanna get hot wit U

Wanna get hot wit U

©1999 Emancipated Music - ASCAP

Tangerine

Some days I feel tangerine
Some days I feel blue
Some days I just wanna black out everything I felt 4 U
Even though I take your picture everywhere I go
I use it 4 a coaster and drink the overflow

Some days I make a lot of money and give it all away
2 take my mind off the tangerine color of your negligee'
Beggars can't be choosy if they don't know how 2 serve
U got a different phone number and a lot of nerve

Some days I feel tangerine
Some days I miss U, 2

©1999 Emancipated Music - ASCAP

So Far, So Pleased

So far, so pleased
I like the way U touch me
I like the way U tease
No car, no keys
I had 2 get us stranded if U know what I mean
Big scar on the knee
Beggin' 4 a kiss is such a dull routine
Still I'm so far, so far, so far, so pleased

So far, so fine
I find another beauty mark with every glass of red wine
So fast the time
Every time I have 2 go, I go and lose my mind
It's hard, okay
That's what happens when a boy and girl don't get 2 play
So far, so far, so far, so pleased

Yeah
Come on, come on

So far, so pleased
I like the way U touch me
I like the way U tease
No car, no keys
I could spend the night and leave at 10:15
So far, so far, so far, so pleased

Ooh yeah
So far, so pleased

©1999 Emancipated Music - ASCAP

The Sun, The Moon And Stars

It's late and I'm runnin' out of clever things 2 say

The kind that will bring a girl like U 2 tears
But there's only one more glass of this rosé
Let's throw it on the fire with our past
And dance the night away until...

CHORUS:
The sun, the moon and stars
Don't seem as far as they did yesterday
The sun, the moon and stars
In love we are - 4ever, always

It's late and I think it's 'bout time 4 U and me 2 get closer
2 get closer than we ever did before, ooh
Whenever there's a tide U can let it ride inside your interior
Lay back, relax upon my shore, ooh hoo
Ooh, baby, I wanna make love 2 U (Right here)
One inside the other one - no fear, we're here until...

CHORUS

Blow out this candle sunlight
And come lay down next 2 me
And paint another rainbow, ooh wee
Eclipse this light with ecstasy

Do U like I do
Puck, puck, puck, puck, come on, come on
It's late and I'm walkin' outta what 2 say
The kind of lucky rhyme make a chippy want 2 say
Whisper in the belly 2 me rock and rosé
Do U like I do come on and dance the night away
It's late but before they get 2 close the door
U and me we got 2 get out on the floor
Come on let the tide ride in and out the shore
I want 2 love U once again-a, then some more
Lay your head back I got my hand behind your head (Please, please, please)
Like U do the limbo 'cept it's on the bouncy bed (Okay, bounce, bounce)
Bouncing on the summer spring and when U start 2 fall
U'll come like the cold winter do in Montreal (Come on baby, the sun, the moon and stars)

Hey yeah {x3} (Let the tide ride, come on, let the tide ride)

CHORUS {x2}

©1999 Emancipated Music - ASCAP

Everyday Is A Winding Road

Everyday's a winding road, is a winding road, is a winding road, ho
(It's a winding road, baby)

I hitched a ride with a Crazyhorse showgirl (Ah)
She say she been down this road more than twice (3 times)
She wanted 2 know if I could tell the future (Future, future)
I said I've never been there, but the brochure looks nice (Yeah)

Jump in, let's go (Let's go, baby)
Lay back, enjoy the show
Everybody gets high, everybody gets low (High, low)
These are the days when anything goes

CHORUS:
Everyday is a winding road
I get a little bit closer
Everyday is a faded sign
I get a little bit closer 2 feelin' fine

(G'on)

Listen now
She got a daughter she calls Easter (Alright)
She was born on a Tuesday night (She was?)
I was just wonderin' why people feel so all alone (All alone)
Feeling like a stranger in their own life (I don't know)

Jump in, let's go (Let's go, baby)
Lay back, enjoy the show (Yeah)
Everybody gets high, everybody gets low (High, low)
These are the days (Tell me, now) when anything goes

CHORUS
(Oh yeah)

(G'on)
(Life is a winding road)
Everyday's a winding road, is a winding road (Jump in, and the road is nice)

I've been swimming in a sea of anarchy
I've been livin' on compliments and herbal tea
I've been wonderin' if all the things I've ever seen
Were ever real (Ever real...) were ever really happening (Ever really happening)

Jump in, let's go (It's time 2 go, let's go, baby)
Lay back, enjoy the show
Everybody gets high, everybody gets low (High, low)
These are the days when anything goes

CHORUS
(C'mon, c'mon, yeah)
(Get closer, baby)

Everyday is a winding road (Everyday's a winding road, is a winding road)
Everyday is a faded sign
(Feeling fine)

(Everyday, everyday)
Right on (Everyday, everyday)
Oh yeah (Everyday, everyday)
Winding road, yeah (Everyday, everyday)
Do U love yo' brotha? (Everyday, everyday)
Do U love yo' sister? (Everyday, everyday)
Do U love us? (Everyday, everyday)
Do U love God? (Everyday, everyday)

CHORUS
(Ooh yeah)

Everyday is a winding road
(Winding road)
We g'on make it, we got New Power Soul, oh

(Dance) {repeat}
Get something funky {x2}
Everyday is a winding road

Why U screamin'?
U know I'm not a man of war
Break a gold chain that I gave U
Throw it down on the floor
Instead of this 7 page letter
I wish I had peace of mind
My friends tell me, "U should go get her"
But lovin' U, lovin' U, lovin' U is a waste of time
Oh, yes it is, it's a waste of time, ooh

I need 2 get out of this city
I need 2 get U outta my head
I need 2 get away from the words that U said 2 me

(Why U screamin'?) Oh, baby
(U know I'm not a man of war)
How could U have think that I could put something inside of someone
That I put inside U, inside U?
Even if I tried 2, if I tried 2 (Tried 2, tried 2)
I couldn't cuz I still smell like that last time when we
I.. but lovin' U, lovin' U, lovin' U's a waste of time (Is a waste of time)
Oh, yes it is
But lovin' U is a waste of time, baby

Ooh
I need 2 feel wanted again
I need 2 feel love is alive, yeah
I need 2 hear U say that U ain't lookin' 4 another reason 2 make me cry

Why U screamin'? (Ooh uh)
U know I'm not a man of war
I've been tryin' 2 make U happy, baby, ever since we were sophomores
But lovin' U, lovin' U, lovin' U's a waste of time
Oh, yes it is (Is a waste of time)
Ooh, it's a waste of time, waste of time, waste of time

If there is no future
Then there is no past
And all we've got is right now
Let us make it last, make it last, make it last, ooh

Why U screamin'?
U know I'm not a man of war
Break the gold chain that I gave U
Throw it down on the floor (Oh, throw it down)
Instead of this 7 page letter
I wish I had peace of mind
My friends tell me, they tell me, "U should go get her"
But lovin' U, lovin' U, lovin' U's a waste of time
Oh, a waste of time, yeah

I need 2 get out of this city
I need 2 get U outta my head
I need 2, I need 2 get away from the words that U said 2 me
I need 2, hey, I need 2 feel wanted again, oh
I need 2, huh, feel no sin
Hear me

(But lovin' U, lovin' U, lovin' U...)

Why U screamin'?
U know I'm not a man of war
Break the gold chain that I gave U
Throw it down on the floor (Oh baby)
Instead of this 7 page letter
I wish I had peace of mind
But my friends tell me, "U should go get her"
But lovin' U, lovin' U, lovin' U is a waste of time
U know I'm not a man'o'war

This funky joint in the city
Where the freaks come out 2 play
Venezuelan, black and pretty
The kind that make U wanna pay - hey!

She got the long dark legs
She got the butt that go 'round
This kind of poochie make u beg
And turn a dog into a hound

She tell me what I wanna hear, huh
She stroke me up and never down
Whispers sexiness in my ear
I'm just a junkie 4 the sound

She make U call your boys in a powwow
2 scope a plan how 2 ditch her man in a trunk of a Lexus
A perplexin' hex this witch has flexed

CHORUS:
She got the long dark legs
She got the butt that go 'round
This kind of poochie make u beg
Turn a dog into a hound

Baby, baby (Baby, baby)

She knows how 2 make U feel like your stuff ain't brown 2nite
And her perfume, it smell like the weekend

This funky joint way down in the city
Where the girls sing along 2 the Hip-Hop all night long
White girls, Black girls, Latinas - oh so pretty
Don't make me give U this ring baby
Ooh ooh ooh

CHORUS

Ow, girl (Baby, baby)
Baby knows
Hey, hey (Ba-ba-baby knows)
She got the long dark legs (Mmmm hmm!)
She got the butt that go 'round (The butt - goes round and round)
This kind of poochie make U beg (Yeah yeah yeah)
(Give me your number and I'll call U)
I know U just didn't turn me down!

I could tell from the moment U walked in the room
That it wasn't your dress U had on
That wasn't your perfume
And what happened 2 the ring that I gave U?
What am I 2 assume?
I love U, but I don't trust U anymore

U could tell from the moment U looked in my eyes
That I could see right through U
U must apologize
I've always given U the best in life
Even in the wrong, it was right
I know U trust me, but U don't love me anymore, no no

I remember meeting U here in the good ol' days
I would never pick the flower of my favorite protégé
Maybe if I would have
Then U would not treat me this way
U tricked me, but U will not anymore, no no
I love U, but I don't trust U anymore

©1999 Emancipated Music - ASCAP

Silly Game

I never thought U would be the one that I'd wanna run 2 (Run 2)
I never thought U would be the one that would make me care (Make me care)
And even though U done me wrong
4 some strange reason I can't explain
I get happy knowin' U phoned
Cuz your voice could cure my every pain
Why do we play this silly game?

I never thought U would be the one that I'd wanna give 2 (Give 2)
A diamond ring, anything that U asked me 2
But there U were, braggin' 2 your friends
Makin' up a story that's so lame
That I was down 2 be your sugar daddy
One way ticket 2 ghetto fame
Why do we play this silly game?

Every other night U weren't at home
Out in the streets, just acting grown
Never with a bodyguard or chaperone
Then I hear a rumor that breaks my heart
Instead of takin' care of yourself, U're tearin' yourself apart
Now why U wanna, why U wanna, why U wanna
Now why U wanna go and do that, love?
Why do we play this silly game?

I never thought U would be the one that I'd wanna run 2
I never thought U'd be the one that would make me care
No matter how far I'd run, I'll never be the same (I'll never be the same)
In the end, in the end, there's only us 2 blame

Why do we play this
Why do we play this silly
Why do we play this silly game?

Oh ahh, hmmm
Tell me why, oh why, oh why, oh why, why, why, why
Why do we play this silly game?
Game

©1999 Emancipated Music - ASCAP

Strange But True

Okay, let me say this quick - before I start 2 cry
U're the only one that I gave it 2, the one I fantasized 4
And time away from U has taught me
What I should have known
This hole I'm trying 2 fill with another - yeah, it's grown
And I got your package
But when I tried 2 write U back I bailed
See, tryin' 2 express the future, sometimes language fails
And over this time I've learned
My life force is increased by knowing U
Every door that closes, another one opens
Strange but true {x2}

But no regrets because I forget the unfamiliar faces
Those petty lies and alibis, just golddiggers chasin'
Dreams of sovereignty, they tried 2 come between U and me
A curse therein set forth a chain of events
That only freed me when I remembered
Where I was and who I am:
The only Prince that will ever rule this holy land
All understand and all stand under this affirmation now:
By the power invested in me by God
All negativity bows

Strange but true, let's see what U can do

U may have lost me, uh, but I found myself
The ones who love me without condition - this is my wealth
And with these words I will win
Repeat them over and over again:
All understand and all stand under this affirmation now
By the power invested in me by God
All negativity bows {x3}
Strange but true, let's see what U can do {x2}
All negativity bows

Strange but true {x3}
All negativity bows

Strange but true, let's see what U can do
All negativity bows {x2}

Strange but true {x5}

©1999 Emancipated Music - ASCAP

Wherever U Go, Whatever U Do

Wherever U go, whatever U do
Oh, please remember that I'll always be there 4 U
U don't have 2 call, U don't have 2 say
Just think about me and I'll be on my way
I don't have 2 worry, I'm sure U'll be fine
Cuz if U stay happy, then what's yours is mine
Wherever U go, whatever U do
Remember that I'll always be there 4 U (Oh yeah)

Wherever U are, think of your dreams
Ooh, please remember life ain't always what it seems
4 each rainy day (rainy day) that come your way
The sun will come shinin' and U'll be okay
Keep on smilin' - every girl and boy
Remember when U were children U had toys
Wherever U are, think of your dreams
Remember that dreams become the life U lead

Whatever U play, it's okay 2 lose sometimes (Oh, sometimes)
As long as U learn from every game U choose
If one thing is sure, U'll always endure
If U try your best at everything U do
Say what U mean and mean what U say
The price 4 a broken heart's 2 much 2 pay
And nothing is worth it if U don't have 2 try
The higher the stakes, the higher the sky

Wherever U go, whatever U do
Please remember, remember that I'll always be there 4 U

©1999 Emancipated Music - ASCAP

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Hey now, what's up?
Aw, U know how 2 come over here starin' at a brother so hard
Huh, say U what?

CHORUS:
If U wanna be my baby, got 2 tell me so
Over competant lady, better act like U know
If U wanna be my baby, come on take my hand
Tell me that U wanna get with Prettyman

See me up here dancin', dancin' on the flo'
Got 2 think about doin' just a little mo'
The way I wear my knickers around this booty tight
Make a sister wanna call me up every night - hey!

CHORUS

Everywhere I go, people stop and stare
They just wanna see me swing this pretty hair
If there ever comes a time when it just won't grow
I'll keep it like my brother and buy some mo' - hey!

CHORUS
(Tell me)
(Looka here)
(Do ya know)
(Take my hand)
(Say it!)

Ooh, uh
If U wanna be my baby, got (Prettyman)
Ooh, Prettyman
(Prettyman) {repeats}

Looka here now
In the early morning when I'm feeling nice
I walk by the mirror and kiss it twice
When it comes 2 perfume, i-it's on the shelf
I get it down, if ain't nobody around
I, I, I smell myself
Hey, uh, Prettyman, looka here
I ain't through
Say I don't, uh, wait a minute
Come on, band, break down

I don't care about money, I buy gold by the ounce
Y2K, not today, I write a check and the bank bounce
"Superball" used 2 be my nickname if U ask about love
No money back guarantee when I'm above
Pretty man

If U wanna be my baby, got 2 tell me so
Over competant lady, gotta act like U know
If U wanna be my baby, come on take my hand
Tell me that U wanna get with the Prettyman, huh

Maceo, brother, can U blow?
Uh, pretty
From Harlem, uh, ay, off 2 Tokyo
Wait, stop, ah, go
Maceo can ya, Maceo, can U blow?
Hey, Prettyman
Oh yeah
Can I scream now? Hey, hey!
Can I scream now? Hey {x6}, ohhh no!
Hey, hey, hey!
Hello?
Who is it?
Yes, this is a Prettyman
Princey!
He he he...