EBONY EYES
By
Stevie Wonder
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She’s a Miss Beautiful Supreme
A girl that other wish that they could be
If there’s seven wonders of the world
Then I know she’s gotta be number one
She’s a girl that can’t be beat
Born and raised on ghetto streets
She’s a devastating beauty
A pretty girl with ebony eyes
She’s the sunflower of nature’s seeds
A girl that some men only find in their dreams
When she smiles it seems the stars all know
Cause one by one they start to light up the sky
She’s a girl that can’t be beat
Born and raised on ghetto streets
She’s a devastating beauty
A pretty girl with ebony eyes
A girl that can’t be beat
Born and raised on ghetto streets
She’s a devastating beauty
A pretty girl with ebony eyes
When she starts talking soft and sweet
Like birds of spring her words all seem to sing
With a rhythm that is made of love
And the happiness that she only brings
She’s a girl that can’t be beat
Born and raised on ghetto streets
She’s a devastating beauty
A pretty girl with ebony eyes
A girl that can’t be beat
Born and raised on ghetto streets
She’s a devastating beauty
A pretty girl with ebony eyes
Yeah, yea, yea
…….yeah
Pretty black beauty
Yeah, yea yeah
Yea, yea, yeah, yea, yea, yeah
Yea, yea, yea, yea, yea, yea, yeah
She’s a girl that can’t be beat
Born and raised on ghetto streets
She’s a devastating beauty
A pretty girl with ebony ey—es
Ebony ey–es
Ebony ey–es
Ebony ey–es
Ebony eyes
LOVE LIGHT IN FLIGHT
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Make me feel like paradise
Give me what I’m missing
Send me to the highest heights
Take me up and away
I’ve tasted love so many times
With something always missing
But I know that you got the kind
To take me up and away
I know that our journey
Will be filled with passion, love and pleasure
Touching down where only
Satisfaction’s guaranteed
We won’t let our feelings
Auto pilot perfect navigation
Sending us to love bliss
Like no one ever knew could be
Make me feel like paradise
Fill me with your kisses
Make the moment feel just right
Take me up and away
‘Cause I have waited all my life / Flying high
For the one worth giving / Love sky high
And I don’t have to think twice / Flying high
Let’s go up and away
Love light in flight
Fuel injection passion
– Flying high, love sky high
We need just to feel it
To know that our loving has the power
Showing that these feelings
Emanate from you and me
With love high aviation
We will fly forever and one hour
Giving us the always
To live out all our fantasies
Make me feel like paradise
Give me what I’m missing
Send me to the highest heights
Take me up and away
I’ve tasted love so many times / Flying high
With something always missing / Love sky high
But I know that you got the kind / Flying high
To take me up and away
THE SHADOW OF YOUR SMILE
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The shadow of your smile when you are gone
Will color all my dreams and light the dawn
Look into my eyes, my love, and see
All the lovely things you are to me
Our wistful little star was far too high
A teardrop kissed your lips andd so did I
Now when I remember spring
All the joy that love can bring
I will be remembering
The Shadow of your smile
FRONT LINE
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I am a veteran of the war
I up and joined the army back in 1964
At sixteen I just had to be a man at any cost
I volunteered for Vietnam where I got my leg shot off
I recall a quote from a movie that said “who’s more a man
Than a man with a reason that’s worth dyin’ for”
They had me standing on the front line
They had me standing on the front line
They had me standing on the front line
But now I stand at the back of the line when it comes to gettin’ ahead
They gave me a uniform and a tiny salty pill
To stop the big urge I might have for the wrong kind of thrill
They put a gun in my hand and said, “shoot until he’s dead”
But it’s hard to kill when ‘please your friend’ echoes through your head
Brought up in church taught no man should take another’s life
But then put in a jungle where life has no price
They had me standing on the front line
They had me standing on the front line
They had me standing on the front line
But now I stand at the back of the line when it comes to gettin’ ahead
Back in the world the paper reads today
Another war is in the brewing
But what about the lives of yesterday
And the many happy families that have been ruined
My niece is a hooker and my nephew’s a junkie too
But they say I have no right to tell them how they should do
They laugh and say “quit bragging” ’bout the war you should never have been in
But my mind is so brain-washed I’d prob’bly go back and do it again
I walk the neighborhood parading my purple heart
With a fear of agent orange that no one will stop
They had me standing on the front line
They had me standing on the front line
They had me standing on the front line
But now I stand at the back of the line when it comes to gettin’ ahead
TELL YOUR HEART I LOVE YOU
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You lift me to the sky
When I’m flat on the ground
You put me on a high
When I’m all the way down
And when trouble comes around
Trying to blow up the spot
You look it in the eye and say “I think not”
Tell your heart I love you
I love you, yes I do
Tell your heart I need you
You need to know its true
Don’t nobody in the world love you like I do
You make me feel like a trillion bucks
When I don’t even have a dime
You put a smile on my face
In a time I could be crying
And when negative comes around
With nothing good to say
You give it a stare that makes it get the hell away
Tell your heart I love you
I love you, yes I do
Tell your heart I need you
You need to know its true
Don’t nobody in the world love you like I do
Long before my mind believed
My heart could not help but conceive
That I love you, yeah
And when my heart did suggest
My heart had already confessed
That I love you, love you, love you
Tell your heart I love you
I love you, yes I do
Tell your heart I need you
You need to know its true
Don’t nobody in the world love you like I do
MY BABY’S GONE
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Woke up this morning, my baby’s gone
Woke up this morning, my baby’s gone
I ain’t had no loving since my baby been gone
I ain’t got nobody to stay at home with me
I ain’t got nobody to stay at home with me
I wonder ’bout my baby, what’s gonna happen to me
My baby’s gone, gone away from me
My baby’s gone, gone away from me
My whole life is in misery
My baby’s gone, gone away from me
My baby’s gone, gone away from me
And now I’m worried taht you can see