DON’T YOU WORRY ‘BOUT A THING
By
Stevie Wonder
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Everybody’s got a thing
But some don’t know how to handle it
Always reachin’ out in vain
Accepting the things not worth having but
Don’t you worry ’bout a thing
Don’t you worry ’bout a thing, mama
Cause I’ll be standing on the side
When you check it out
They say your style of life’s a drag
And that you must go other places
But just don’t you feel too bad
When you get fooled by smiling faces but
Don’t you worry ’bout a thing
Don’t you worry ’bout a thing, mama
Cause I’ll be standing on the side
When you check it out…Yeah
When you get it off…your trip
Don’t you worry ’bout a thing…Yeah
Don’t you worry ’bout a thing…Yeah
Don’t you worry ’bout a thing
Don’t you worry ’bout a thing, mama
Cause I’ll be standing on the side
When you check it out…
When you get it off…your trip
Everybody needs a change
A chance to check out the new
But you’re the only one to see
The changes you take yourself through
Don’t you worry ’bout a thing
Don’t you worry ’bout a thing, pretty mama
Cause I’ll be standing in the wings
When you check it out
Don’t you worry ’bout a thing
WEAKNESS
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Everytime I think our love is drifting apart
Something always throws it back together
And everytime I think I’ve found someone new for my heart
After one kiss my heart tells me never
Oh everyone has got a weakness in life
Girl, you just happen to be mine
Oh everyone has got a certain weakness in life
Your love just happens to be mine
Everytime I think your love has no more to give
You do something more to take me higher
And everytime I think that for someone else I could live
I’d be living love out as a liar
Oh everyone has got a weakness in life
Girl, you just happen to be mine
Oh everyone has got a certain weakness in life
Your love just happens to be mine
We keep thinking that our love won’t last beyond tomorrow
But our hearts say we’re gonna stay in love this way
Oh everyone has got a weakness in life
Girl, you just happen to be mine
Oh everyone has got a certain weakness in life
Your love just happens to be mine
LATELY
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Lately, I have had the strangest feeling
With no vivid reason here to find
Yet the thought of losing you’s been hanging
’round my mind
Far more frequently you’re wearing perfume
With you say no special place to go
But when I ask will you be coming back soon
You don’t know, never know
Well, I’m a man of many wishes
Hope my premonition misses
But what I really feel my eyes won’t let me hide
‘Cause they always start to cry
‘Cause this time could mean goodbye
Lately I’ve been staring in the mirror
Very slowly picking me apart
Trying to tell myself I have no reason
with your heart
Just the other night while you were sleeping
I vaguely heard you whisper someone’s name
But when I ask you of the thoughts your keeping
You just say nothing’s changed
Well, I’m a man of many wishes
I hope my premonition misses
But what I really feel my eyes won’t let me hide
‘Cause they always start to cry
‘Cause this time could mean goodbye, goodbye
Oh, I’m a man of many wishes
I hope my premonition misses
But what I really feel my eyes won’t let me hide
‘Cause they always start to cry
‘Cause this time could mean goodbye
DON’T DRIVE DRUNK
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He and his wife have had problems
That he’s played off like nothing’s wrong
‘Til he comes home from work early
Just to find the girl is gone
Oh but he gets into the cupboard
Picks out that bottle of gin
Drinks like there’s no tomorrow
And decides to take a spin
No don’t drive drunk
Don’t drive drunk, no
Don’t drive drunk
Mothers Against Drunk Drivers are mad
Teenager at a live party
Says, “give me one for the road”
But he’s already so inebriated
If you lit a smoke he’d explode
But bartender says, “I don’t think so”
Young one says, “I can deal”
Staggering out he says, “check you all later”
But I really don’t think he will
No don’t drive drunk
Don’t drive drunk, no
Don’t drive drunk
Mothers Against Drunk Drivers are mad
Don’t drive drunk
d-d-d don’t drive drunk
Don’t drive drunk
Hicup
Boy out with girl on their first date
Gets pulled over by the law
Officer says, “hey can’t you drive straight
Or have you been drinking alcohol?”
Boy says, “man are you crazy?”
Cop says, “hey then walk this line”
But results from the breathalizer
Proves he’s charged with D.U.I.
No don’t drive drunk
Don’t drive drunk, no
Don’t drive drunk
Mothers Against Drunk Drivers are mad
Don’t drive drunk
d-d-d don’t drive drunk
Don’t drive drunk
Hicup
TRUE LOVE
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True love
Why’d you take so long
Every time I thought I found you
I was oh so wrong
True love
Were you playing with my heart
Or me not trying to feel that
They weren’t it from the start
I’d say yes I found you
And think maybe so
I’d say here’s my love true
And feel are you sure
But love is that feeling
Sharing no room with doubt
For I knew you were the key to my heart
Oh sweet love
Never go away
Let our love have us forever
To prove why we can’t stay
True love
Are you saying touché
Let is live as perfect lovers
With a promise for always
Let us live as perfect lovers
With a promise for always
SO WHAT THE FUSS
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If I’m caught at a dance party without my dancin shoes
And everybody dances on my bare feet
Shame on me
If I’m mindin my business just doin the right thing
And you try to front me off in the street
Shame on you
If a family’s waiting for that special blessing to
come their way
But they ain’t tryin to get on their knees and pray
Shame on them
And if we live in a time where every nation’s fightin
’round the world
Yet we can’t all agree that peace is the way
Shame on us
Shame on me, Shame on you, Shame on them, Shame on us
So what the fuss
If I gotta get up early in the morning for a job
interview
And I forget to set the stupid alarm
Shame on me
If my children are playin outside like little children do
And you come ’round there tryin to bring them some harm
Shame on you
Should I be drivin thru a klantown, find a restaurant
to get me some food
And someone says “hey boy, we don’t serve your kind”
Shame on them
And if we live in a democracy and you don’t use your
power to vote
Knowin some would like to turn back the hands of time
Shame on us
Shame on me, Shame on you, Shame on them, Shame on us
So what the fuss
If I’m hooked on a habit knowin damn well it could
cost me my life
Yet I keep doin what I should do without
Shame on me
If you’re locked in a marriage and your other half
just gives you abuse
Yet you’ve convinced yourself that there’s no way out
Shame on you
If we’re jammin the music and somebody’s got the
audacity
To say that they can jam it better than us
Shame on them
And should there be just a handful that believe that
we are totally free
And there’s no need to fight for equality
Shame on us
Shame on me, Shame on you, Shame on them, Shame on us
So what the fuss