CRYIN’ THROUGH THE NIGHT
By
Stevie Wonder

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Yes I am cryin’
I got the blues and I don’t know why
Yes I am cryin’
I got the blues, I’m so dissatisfied
‘Cause I’ve been cryin’ through the night
Tears on my pillow
And I have been cryin through the night
Weeping like a weeping willow
From cryin’ through the night
Hear me cryin’ through the night

I am lonely, downhearted and sad
‘Cause I’ve lost the best woman that I ever had
To a friend of mine

Just can’t figure out how it could be
That somebody like him could take her away from me
And it’s on my mind
Nearly all the time

Yes I am cryin’
I got the blues and I don’t know why
Yes I am cryin’
I got the blues, I’m so dissatisfied
‘Cause I’ve been cryin’ through the night
Tears on my pillow
And I have been cryin through the night
Weeping like a weeping willow
From cryin’ through the night
Hear me cryin’ through the night
Now I know just how best friends can be
‘Cause he made sure you knew your best was with me
And it’s on my mind

Here’s a lesson much greater that wealth
Keep your business to you, yourself and no one else
And your smiling eyes
Won’t be cryin’ like mine
Yes I’m cryin’
I got the blues and I don’t know why
Yes I’m cryin’
I got the blues, I’m so dissatisfied
‘Cause I’ve been cryin’ through the night
Tears on my pillow
And I have been cryin’ through the night
Weeping like a weeping willow
From cryin’ through the night
Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh
I’m like a weeping willow
From cryin’ through the night
Oh, Oh, yeah
Hear me cryin’, cryin’, I’m cryin’, cryin’
I’m cryin’ baby, cryin’ baby yeah
Even a fool can tell
That so many tears sho’ enough done fell
And pretty soon before you know
I’ll have enough tears to fill a water well
Hear me cryin’ through the night
Oh yeah, cryin’ through the night

And it’s on my mind
Nearly all the time

Yes I’m cryin’
I got the blues and I don’t know why
Yes I’m cryin’
I got the blues, I’m so dissatisfied
‘Cause I’ve been cryin’ through the night
Tears on my pillow
And I have been cryin’ through the night
Weeping like a weeping willow
From cryin’ through the night
Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh
I’m weeping like a weeping willow
Oh, Oh, cryin’ tears, cryin’ tears
Through the night

PASSIONATE RAINDROPS

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The day’s been hot and sunny
Evening’s about to take control
The sky is painting pictures
Stirring up love bliss in our souls
The breeze carries the fragrance
Of the sweetest symphony as it blows through your hair
Better can be nowhere

Our voices turn to whispers
Blending with rhythms of the night
The nightingales sing a love song
Glancing down at us in their flight
The moisture brings forth magic
That permeates the midnight air
To kiss the love we share, are

Raindrops, passionate raindrops
The kind of rain that writes they’re
So in love on our skin
Raindrops, that we hope wont stop
Cooling the red hot love that we are making

Raindrops, passionate raindrops
That brings out all the fire that we have within
Raindrops cover every spot
Right to the last drop
We want all of you and then
Let each drop a rain be a lifetime that our love won’t end

Somewhere in our doing
Trying to make our bodies one
We fall prey to moon dreams
Till awaken by the morning sun
Still disorientated
I feel something warm on my face
Coupled by your embrace
We gaze in awe and wonder
As if we can’t believe it’s so
Just that taste of heaven
Has got us longing for much more
We lie there impatient
Anxiously waiting foe the sun to go in
And the clouds to burst again, to give us

Raindrops, passionate raindrops
The kind of rain that writes they’re
So in love on our skin
Raindrops, that we hope wont stop
Cooling the red hot love that we are making

Raindrops, passionate raindrops
That brings out all the fire that we have within
Raindrops cover every spot
Right to the last drop
We want all of you and then
Let each drop a rain be a lifetime that our love won’t end

MR. TAMBOURINE MAN

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Hey Mr. Tambourine Man play a song for me
I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going to
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man play a song for me
In a jingle-jangle morning I’ll come following you

Though I know that evening’s empire has returned into sand
Vanished from my hand left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping
My weariness amazes me I’m branded on my feet
I have no one to meet and the ancient empty street’s too dead for dreaming

Hey Mr. Tambourine Man play a song for me
I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going to
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man play a song for me
In a jingle-jangle morning I’ll come following you

Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin’ ship
My senses have been stripped my hands can’t feel to grip
My toes too numb to step wait only for my boot heels to be wanderin’
I’m ready to go anywhere I’m ready for to fade
Into my own parade cast your dancing spell my way I promise to go under it

Hey Mr. Tambourine Man play a song for me
I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going to
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man play a song for me
In a jingle-jangle morning I’ll come following you

Though you might hear laughin’ spinnin’ swingin’ madly across the sun
It’s not aimed at anyone it’s just escapin’ on the run
And but for the sky there are no fences facing

And if you hear vague traces of skippin’ reels of rhyme
To your tambourine in time it’s just a ragged clown behind
I wouldn’t pay it any mind it’s just a shadow you’re seein’ that he’s chasing

Hey Mr. Tambourine Man play a song for me
I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going to
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man play a song for me
In a jingle-jangle morning I’ll come following you

Then take me disappearin’ through the smoke rings of my mind
Down the foggy ruins of time far past the frozen leaves
The haunted frightened trees out to the windy beach
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow

Yes to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free
Silhouetted by the sea circled by the circus sands
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves
Let me forget about today until tomorrow

Hey Mr. Tambourine Man play a song for me
I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going to
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man play a song for me
In a jingle-jangle morning I’ll come following you

VISIONS

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People hand in hand
Have I lived to see the milk and honey land ?
Where hate’s a dream and love forever stands
Or is this a vision in my mind ?

The law was never passed
But somehow all men feel they’re truly free at last
Have we really gone this far through space and time
Or is this a vision in my mind ?

I’m not one who makes believe
I know that leaves are green
They only change to brown when autumn comes around
I know just what I say
Today’s not yesterday
And all things have an ending

But what I’d like to know
Is could a place like this exist so beautiful
Or do we have to find our wings and fly away
To the vision in our mind ?

I’m not one who makes believes
I know that leaves are green
They only change to brown when autumn comes around

I know just what I say
Today’s not yesterday
And all things have an ending

But what I’d like to know
Is could a place like this exist so beautiful
Or do we have to take our wings and fly away
To the vision in our minds ?

MASTER BLASTER

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Everyone’s feeling pretty
It’s hotter than July
Though the world’s full of problems
They couldn’t touch us even if they tried
From the park I hear rhythms
Marley’s hot on the box
Tonight there will be a party
On the corner at the end of the block

Didn’t know you
Would be jammin’ until the break of dawn
I bet nobody ever told you that you
would be jammin’ until the break of dawn
You would be jammin’ and jammin’ and jammin’, jam on

They want us to join their fighting
But our answer today
Is to let all our worries
Like the breeze through our fingers slip away
Peace has come to Zimbabwe
Third World’s right on the one
Now’s the time for celebration
‘Cause we’ve only just begun

Didn’t know that you
Would be jammin’ until the break of dawn
Bet you nobody ever told you that you
Would be jammin’ until the break of dawn
You would be jammin’ and jammin’ and jammin’, jam on
Bet you nobody ever told you that you
(We’re in the middle of the makin’s of the master blaster jammin’)
Would be jammin’ until the break of dawn
I know nobody told you that you
(We’re in the middle of the makin’s of the master blaster jammin’)
Would be jammin’ until the break of dawn
We’re jammin’, jammin’, jammin’, jam on

You ask me am I happy
Well as matter of fact
I can say that I’m ecstatic
‘Cause we all just made a pact
We’ve agreed to get together
Joined as children in Jah
When you’re moving in the positive
Your destination is the brightest star

You didn’t know that you
(We’re in the middle of the makin’s of the master blaster jammin’)
Would be jammin’ until the break of dawn
I bet you nobody ever told you that you
(We’re in the middle of the makin’s of the master blaster jammin’)
Would be jammin’ until the break of dawn
Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, you
(We’re in the middle of the makin’s of the master blaster jammin’)
Would be jammin’ until the break of dawn
Don’t you stop the music, oh no,
(We’re in the middle of the makin’s of the master blaster jammin’)
Na, na na…
(We’re in the middle of the makin’s of the master blaster jammin’)
Nobody told you Oh, Oh, Oh, you
(We’re in the middle of the makin’s of the master blaster jammin’)
Would be jammin’ until the break of dawn
I bet you if someone approached you
(We’re in the middle of the makin’s of the master blaster jammin’)
yesterday to tell you that you would be jammin’ you would not believe it because you never thought that you would be jammin’
Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh,
(We’re in the middle of the makin’s of the master blaster jammin’)
jammin’ ’til the break of dawn
Oh, Oh, Oh, You may as well believe what you are feeling
(We’re in the middle of the makin’s of the master blaster jammin’)
because you feel your body jammin’
(We’re in the middle of the makin’s of the master blaster jammin’)
Oh, Oh, you would be jammin’ until the break of dawn
(We’re in the middle of the makin’s of the master blaster jammin’)
(We’re in the middle of the makin’s of the master blaster jammin’)

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE

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Please please please please
(please please, oh oh)
Please, please, please
(please, please, oh oh)
Darlin please do oh
Oh yeah, I love you so
(please, please, oh oh)…

Please, please, please, please,
Please, please, please, please,
Please, please,
Darlin please
Oh oh
Oh yeah, I love you so.

I just wanna hear ya say:
I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I
Darlin’ please, doh ‘oh
Oh yeah, I love you so…