LOOK AROUND
By
Stevie Wonder
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We are idle strangers
Married to our dangers
Into space we go to change our ways
Flying to our heavens
We are all together
Into hell we chase the light of day
Look around and you’ll see
Ruins of the human history
Look around and you’ll see
Time is only floating in your mind
You will find
Searching for time
Empty is your mind
We are charmed by living
Dazzled into giving
All the waste we plan to ignore
Coldness is the virtue
Measured by the untrue
Love is used for something but what for?
Look around and you’ll see
Ruins of the human history
Look around and you’ll see
Time is only floating in your mind
You will find
Searching for time
Empty is your mind
Look around
SHELTER IN THE RAIN
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When the lights are down
And the stage is bare
And no more magic’s in the air
There’s not a friend in sight to care
Your tears no one will share
I’ll be your comfort through your pain
I’ll be your shelter in the rain
When your sad is bad and your bad is worst
And there’s no who to turn to first
When you’ve done everything you can
No one’s there to take your hand
I’ll be you comfort through your pain
I’ll be your shelter in the rain
When you’ve looked around
And haven’t seen me anywhere
Though when you were down
I lifted you up from there
There isn’t a thing you can ask of me
I won’t do
Just you put your trust in me
My love will see you through
When the final candle’s flickered out
“Why me” is all you can think about
When all your joy has disappeared
Your future isn’t clear
I’ll be you comfort through your pain
I’ll be your shelter in the rain
When all the odds say there’s no chance
Amidst the final dance
I’ll be you comfort through your pain
I’ll be your shelter in the rain
I’ll be you comfort through your pain
Yes, I’ll be your shelter in the rain, rain
I’ll be your shelter,
Be your shelter, be your shelter in the rain
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’)
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
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
SWEETEST SOMEBODY I KNOW
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There is something on my mind that’s in my heart written on my face
And it would behove me and my soul if I did state my case
And so as truth is real and real is truth this truly must be told
That you’ve got to be the sweetest somebody I Know
It’s your love for life, your love for God, your love for love and more
And you express your love in ways like I’ve never known before
If there’s a record kept on who’s the sweetest let the record show
That you’ve got to be the sweetest somebody I Know
You are the sweetest somebody I know
And that is why I can’t help but love you so
In a time when people are on with making sure that they’re okay
You pour out your love every second, every minute, every hour of the day
I’m not trying to blow your horn I’m only saying what is so
That you’ve got to be the sweetest somebody I Know
You are the sweetest somebody I know
And that is why I can’t help but love you so
When I feel like from giving up from seeing all life’s pain and strife
You rejuvenate me saying everything’s gonna be alright
If there’s a place called “heaven” bet my life someday you’re gonna go
Cause you’ve got to be the sweetest somebody I Know
You are the sweetest somebody I know
And that is why I can’t help but love you so