I’M NEW
By
Stevie Wonder
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Try to envision you as the oldest living someone
Being every night and day all alone
Going through ages and ages, places and spaces
With never finding that someone to call your own
Like a treasure chest of dreams long forgotten
Hidden for good in a stolen lost and found
But just when fate was calling quits
Love appeared in the midst of despair, came and turned your life around
I’m new, new like the first day of spring
New like a nightingale that’s just learned to sing
I’m new, new like the very start of dawn
Like a child that’s first born with your love, I’m new
You’re standing amongst a crowd of six billion people
Crying out for help, but no one understands
Cause much to your dismay, you’ve been taken far away
To a land where joy is pain and sorrow’s a happy man
Where an aching heart’s the sign of the mighty
And a love-filled heart looks down upon with fault and shame
But at the very instant all was through, lady lucks appears, says “love can do”
And changed you like a Christian who’s been born again
I’m new, new like the fresh morning dew
New like a work of art that’s finally through
I’m new, new like a first flight of a dove
So safe and secure with your love, I’m new
Love took a long time coming to me
But I’ve gotta say
I owe my thanks to him for sending you my way, hey
Cause I’m new, new like the first winter snow
Like the start of forever, with infinity to go
I’m new, new like the birth of the sun
Forever young I will be
Cause with your love, I’m new
New like from a restful night of sleep
New like a starving man that’s had food to eat
I’m new, nothing compares nor can compete
Sharing with you the sweetness of your love, I’m new
SEND ONE YOUR LOVE
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Send her your love
With a dozen roses
Make sure that she knows it
With a flower from your heart
Show him your love
Don’t hold back your feelings
You don’t need a reason
When it’s straight from the heart
I’ve heard so many say that the days of romance are no more
And people falling in love is so old fashioned
But waiting are they the day they once let slip away
Hiding need to fulfill their heart’s desire for love’s passion
Send her your love
With a dozen roses
Make sure that she knows it
With a flower from your heart
Show him your love
Don’t hold back your feelings
You don’t need a reason
When it’s straight from the heart
I know that people say two hearts beating as one is unreal
And can only happen in make believe stories
But so blind they all must be that they cannot believe what they see
For around us are miracles of love’s glory
Show him your love
Don’t hold back your feelings
You don’t need a reason
When it’s straight from the heart
I WISH
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Looking back on when I
Was a little nappy headed boy
Then my only worry
Was for Christmas what would be my toy
Even though we sometimes
Would not get a thing
We were happy with the
Joy the day would bring
Sneaking out the back door
To hang out with those hoodlum friends of mine
Greeted at the back door
With boy thought I told you not to go outside
Tryin’ your best to bring the
Water to your eyes
Thinkin’ it might stop her
From woopin’ your behind
I wish those days could come back once more
Why did those days ev-er have to go
I wish those days could come back once more
Why did those days ev-er have to go
Cause I love them so
Brother says he’s tellin’
‘Bout you playin’ doctor with that girl
Just don’t tell I’ll give you
Anything you want in this whole wide world
Mama gives you money for Sunday school
You trade yours for candy after church is through
Smokin’ cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall (you nasty boy)
Teacher sends you to the principal’s office down the hall
You grow up and learn that kinda thing ain’t right
But while you were doing it-it sure felt outta sight
I wish those days could come back once more
Why did those days ev-er have to go
I wish those days could come back once more
Why did those days ev-er have to go
DO LIKE YOU
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Show me how to do like you
If you say please
Please
Since age one Keita knew he had the answer
And it was that someday he’d be a dancer
And with help from his sis
Surely that boy would not miss
From being the baddest dancer in the whole neighborhood
Late at night when he was supposed to be sleeping
You could hear the pitter patter of feet creeping
To where music would play
To his sister he would say
Before his father said hey boy get right back in that bed
Show me how to do like you
Show me how to do it
Show me how to do like you
Show me how to do it
– Can you rock can you rock
Show me how to do like you
Can you rock around the clock, can you rock
Show me how to do it
– Can you rock can you rock
Show me how to do like you
Can you rock around the clock, can you rock
Once at school they put on a talent contest
To find out who could really boogy the best
But his mama said no
Keita’s much too young to go
But his sister said please let him go so the world can see
When they saw him they said he must be crazy
Look at him he ain’t nothing but a baby
But soon as he began
You knew the contest he would win
Because everyone in the audience began to cheer
Show me how to do like you
Show me how to do it
Show me how to do like you
Show me how to do it
– Can you rock can you rock
Show me how to do like you
Can you rock around the clock, can you rock
Show me how to do it
– Can you rock can you rock
Show me how to do like you
Can you rock around the clock, can you rock
Show me how to do it
– Can you rock can you rock
Show me how to do like you
Can you rock around the clock, can you rock
Show me how to do it
Ooh, you done broke Mama’s lamp
Uh, uh
Yes you did
No I didn’t
DON’T YOU KNOW
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Woooh, well, don’t you know, baby
Child, don’t you know baby
Oww, don’t you know baby
Little girl, little girl, don’t you know
Please listen to me baby
Girl, I’m in love with you so
Turn your lamp down low
I said turn your lamp down low
Wooo, turn it down
Please turn your lamp down low
Come on baby
Girl I’m in love with you so
Now I know I’ve been away
For such a long time
But now baby
I can’t get you off of my mind
So come on, please baby come on
Come on, come on
Love your daddy all night long
Now if you love me
Like I love you
We can do all the things that we
Used to do
So come on, Oww, baby come on
Please baby come on
Love your daddy all night long
Say, have you heard baby
Ray Charles is in town
Let’s mess around till the midnight hour
See what he’s puttin down
Come on
Please baby, come on, child
Oh lord, baby
Come on, all night long
Turn your lamp down low
Cause I love you so
Baby please come on
Love your daddy all night long
You hear me talkin, baby
Baby please come on
SUNSHINE IN THEIR EYES
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A lonesome fear
A hungry face
A barren pain
A dream unchased
Oh I can’t wait until the day there’s sunshine in their eyes
A prayer is heard
By one so small
Let love be in the
Hearts of all
Oh I can’t wait until there’s sunshine in their eyes
You and I may never see them cry
Or wonder why the world’s so cold
You feel that they’re too young
To take a look around
But in their faces I can see the trouble all around
Today we must turn into lies
The truth already in their minds
Oh I can’t wait until the day there’s sunshine in their eyes
He can’t wait until the day there’s sunshine in their eyes
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO sunshine
Oh I can’t wait until the day there’s sunshine in their eyes
Sunshine in our eyes
Oh my momma’s worried cause she feels the world is ending
She believes that everything is coming to an end
Papa’s stayin real careful cause his brother Sam was robbed
Trying to buy just a loaf of bread for baby John
See how the world escaped
All the streets turin bare
Most of the news is bad
Crime just feeds in the air
Sad is the song
Rolling along
Everything is happening
Wit is the tune
Are we all doomed?
Everything is happening
Cost of livin’s up, but the pay is low and down
Hate to see the babies starve cause momma cant be found
Sister lives alone, bolts and chains the door at night
Never ever walks an alley or a shorter way
See how the world escaped
All the streets turin bare
Most of the news is bad
Crime just feeds in the air
Sad is the song
Rolling along
Everything is happening
Wit is the tune
Are we all doomed?
Everything is happening
Father Bills gone fighting in a place where he’s a stranger
But could men die a stranger in every war
We all hide in shame bolding pointing to another
When the blame we know for sure is right in ourselves, in ourselves, in ourselves, in ourselves, in ourselves
Sad is the song
Rolling along
Everything is happening
Wit is the tune
Are we all doomed?
Everything is happening
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