CAN’T IMAGINE LOVE WITHOUT YOU
By
Stevie Wonder
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Can you picture mother earth in the palm of your hand?
The entire universe as a tiny grain of sand
And it feels impossible to do
As I can’t imagine love without you
Think of drinking every sea with its salty waters dry
Sprinting ’round the world three times faster than a rocket flies
And the thought of it you can’t pursue
As I can’t imagine love without you
Some thoughts are just no brainers
Not worth an ounce of time
Yet others inconceivable
So they never cross your mind
Travel back though life inside one Atlantis summer’s night
Add up every single star
Since the day there first was light
How and where to start
You’ll have no clue
As I can’t imagine love without you
Yet others inconceivable
So they never cross your mind
Travel back though life inside one Atlantis summer’s night
Add up every single star
Since the day there first was light
How and where to start
You’ll have no clue
And the thought of it you can’t pursue
‘Cause it feels impossible to do
As I can’t imagine love without you
I can’t imagine love without you
IF YOUR LOVE CANNOT BE MOVED
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You can’t say we shall and not fight through hell
You can’t say we will and not dare to deal
You can’t shout out peace and then vanish in the crowd
You can’t ride the storm without some effect
You can’t steal the spoil and not pay the debt
You can’t wave a sign that spells “evil” and feel really proud
You can’t sing a song with no melody
You can’t say we’re one without unity
You can’t form a line if you’re sacred to stand alone
You can’t pray for grace and then smack her face
You can’t speak of hope and then crack a joke
You can say you’re there but time knows how much you’ve grown
Put a face to your somebody
Can you say your name?
Or would you rather stay unknown?
Can you show your face?
Or are you fearful of it shown?
Can you feel your heart?
Or does it beat for you alone?
Lift your glass up high
Say that your truth will never lie
If your love cannot be moved
You can’t look at me and not see yourself
You can’t say “for them” and not for who else
You can’t truly bless and not bless the good of all
You can’t serve the rich and desert the poor
You can’t hear their cries and just close the door
You can’t say you’re down and not take it to the wall
You can’t benefit from one’s detriment
You can’t find the serum and not cure the sick
You can’t free the slave to enslave them differently
You can’t see the right only from your sight
You can’t see the wrong and just go along
Or is that the way you would want your fate to read
Put a face to your somebody
Can you say your name?
Or would you rather stay unknown?
Can you show your face?
Or are you fearful of it shown?
Can you feel your heart?
Or does it beat for you alone?
Lift your glass up high
Say that your truth will never lie
If your love cannot be moved
You can’t make a pledge and then slip the script
You can’t say the words and not move your lips
You can’t be confused and still say you understand
You can’t be a friend but not through thin and thick
You can’t be a click but in danger split
You can’t evenly share and then grab the biggest hand
You can’t say you do but then show you don’t
You can’t say you will and make sure you won’t
You can’t want for change and not do what you need to do
You can’t give up all and then take back all you give
You can’t live to die but you can die to live
Or is that too much to ask of the you in you?
Put a face to your somebody
Can you say your name?
Or would you rather stay unknown?
Can you show your face?
Or are you fearful of it shown?
Can you feel your heart?
Or does it beat for you alone?
Lift your glass up high
Say that your truth will never lie
If your love cannot be moved
I WANNA TALK TO YOU
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M-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m
Lord, Lordy, Lordy
Standing here on my own side
Waitin’ Fo’ the floor
Your world’s movin’ fast
But still ends up a bore
Come on give me a little room na
Do you have to take it all
Yeah that’s the way it is I guess
Then you’re born with nothin’ at all
Uh- Uh- Uh- Uh- Uh- Uh- Uh
I wanna talk to you
I wanna talk to you
Hey boy don’t feel my world’s untrue
Yeah, I wanna talk to you
My world can be true
I wanna talk to you
Pick up my life at the table
Read about the way I could be
But I know I just ain’t able
So I read about the real me
Who can I blame
For the way I am
I ain’t never had one soul to help me
So I don’t give a…….
Uh- Uh- Uh- Uh- Uh- Uh- Uh
Watch that boy, watch that
I heard you thinkin’
I wanna talk to you
I wanna talk to you
Don’t feel my world’s untrue
Yeah, boy I wanna talk to you
My world can be true
But you gotta find out what to do
I wanna talk to you sonny beau
Gotta woman that lov’ me
Feed me beans ev’ry night
Twelve babies look up at me
Wid Big grey hungry eyes
Oh but I just can’t complain
You see ya, said I ain’t allowed
Oh but pretty soon will come a change
When I gain the biggest mouth
Uh- Uh- Uh- Uh- Uh- Uh- Uh
I wanna talk to you
I wanna talk to you
Don’t feel my world’s untrue
Yeah boy , I wanna talk to you
My world can be true
I’m a show you what to do
I wanna talk to you
Hey don’t wanna talk to you
What you mean by that boy
I don’t wanna talk to you
I recognize you as being a human being
I’ve been listening to you for 250 thousand years
I called you Steve when you were amongst my friends
Don’t wanna talk to you
I wanna talk to you
Too late
Naw boy
Too late I can’t wait
Naw
Don’t wanna talk to you
You can have dinner with me next week
and after that you can moe my lawn
Hey don’t wanna talk to you naw
Understand me
You can’t tell me nothin’ white man
Try to understand yourself
Oh I don’t wanna say a word to you
Do ya understand me
Naw I don’t hear ya – I wanna talk
Too late
Naw it ain’t
Can’t wait
Yes, ya can
Don’t wanna talk to you
Ah Stevie boy
Hey I don’t need you for nothin’
Come on Stevie let’s talk na
Don’t wanna talk to you
You know I’m ya friend
I’m gonna take my share
N-N- Naw Stevie you can’t do that
I-I-I give it toya
Don’t wanna talk to you
Un-Un-Understand me na
Yeah it’s too late
You-You’s my brother
Can’t wait
You my brother na
Don’t care about your sake
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah Stevie
I don’t wanna talk to you
I guess I can’t say N-N-Nothin’ to you
Lordy, Lordy, Lordy, Lordy, Lord
Naw, Naw, Naw, Naw, Naw
Naw, Naw, Naw, Naw, Naw
DO YOURSELF A FAVOUR
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Isolated junk yard
Letting out the garbage
Eating through the core of life
Sweet fragrance irritates
In a state room death awaits
Persecute your own self-pride
Suffocate the new high
Ride the thorny mule that cries
“Dig your grave and step right in”
Like a judas pay the price
30 pieces for a ride
Here’s the fire take a chew
Do yourself a favour
Educate your mind
Get yourself together
Hey there ain’t much time
Do yourself a favour
Educate your mind
Get yourself together
Hey there ain’t much time
Shredded know-how give away
Species of the human race
Those funky winds of ups and downs
Hall of grit is known too well
Heaven still is your hell
Poison slowly slowly drowns
Let the devil step right in
Lucifer’s your only friend
Ain’t a soul go’n pity you
Hurdly over time to death
With open arms it waits I bet
Don’t you wish you could reach ground?
Do yourself a favour
Educate your mind
Get yourself together
Hey there ain’t much time
Do yourself a favour
Educate your mind
Get yourself together
Hey there ain’t much time
I JUST CALLED TO SAY I LOVE YOU
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No New Year’s Day to celebrate
No chocolate covered candy hearts to give away
No first of spring
No song to sing
In fact here’s just another ordinary day
No April rain
No flowers bloom
No wedding Saturday within the month of June
But what it is, is something true
Made up of these three words that I must say to you
I just called to say I love you
I just called to say how much I care
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart
No summer’s high
No warm July
No harvest moon to light one tender August night
No autumn breeze
No falling leaves
Not even time for birds to fly to southern skies
No Libra sun
No Halloween
No giving thanks to all the Christmas joy you bring
But what it is, though old so new
To fill your heart like no three words could ever do
I just called to say I love you
I just called to say how much I care, I do
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart
I just called to say I love you
I just called to say how much I care, I do
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart, of my heart,
of my heart
I just called to say I love you
I just called to say how much I care, I do
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart, of my heart,
baby of my heart
PART-TIME LOVER
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Call up, ring once, hang up the phone
To let me know you made it home
Don’t want nothing to be wrong with part-time lover
If she isn’t with me I’ll blink the lights
To let you know tonight’s the night
For me and you my part-time lover
We are undercover passion on the run
Chasing love up against the sun
We are strangers by day, lovers by night
Knowing it’s so wrong, but feeling so right
If I’m with friends and we should meet
Just pass me by, don’t even speak
Know the word’s “discreet” with part-time lovers
But if there’s some emergency
Have a male friend to ask for me
So then she won’t peek its really you my part-time lover
We are undercover passion on the run
Chasing love up against the sun
We are strangers by day, lovers by night
Knowing it’s so wrong, but feeling so right
We are undercover passion on the run
Chasing love up against the sun
We are strangers by day, lovers by night
Knowing it’s so wrong, but feeling so right
I’ve got something that I must tell
Last night someone rang our doorbell
And it was not you my part-time lover
And then a man called our exchange
But didn’t want to leave his name
I guess that two can play the game
Of part-time lovers
You and me, part-time lovers
But, she and he, part-time lovers