MY LOVE IS WITH YOU
By
Stevie Wonder
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I was just walking down the street
Looking forward to seeing the friends I was to meet
Yet what happened so tragically
Really makes for no sense at all
Suddenly two guys confronted me
Saying I was in the wrong turf, angrily
They said their colors were black but I was wearing gray
I started to turn to go back
They up and blew me away
My love is with you where ever you are
My love is with, where ever you are –
Though my life they’ve taken
They can’t take what we’ve shared
Spread the love I’ve given
And I’ll be there
I was out playing with my friends
You know, doing silly things that kids do at ten
But the crossfire I was caught in
Should not have been in the first place
A dropped Monte Carlo came to a screech
Someone yelled “nobody gets away with dissent me”
Across the street a man pulled his nine
Everybody started to run
A shower of bullets rang out
Mistakenly my life was done, oh
My love is with you where ever you are
My love is with, where ever you are –
Though my life they’ve taken
They can’t take what we’ve shared
Spread the love I’ve given
I’ll be there
My love is with you where ever you are
My love is with, where ever you are –
When you’re joyful
When you’re lonely
When you’re happy
When tears are streaming right down your face
In the morning
In the noon time
In the evening
In the wee wee hours of the night time hour
In the summer
In the springtime
In the autumn
In the cold long winter, winter nights
My love is with you
My love is with you my best friend
My love is with you my brother
My love is with you my sister
My love is with you my mother
My love is with you my father
I’m with you –
Ban the hand gun – chant
PASTIME PARADISE
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They’ve been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They’ve been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They’ve been wasting most their lives
Glorifying days long gone behind
They’ve been wasting most their days
In remembrance of ignorance oldest praise
Tell me who of them will come to be
How many of them are you and me
Dissipation
Race Relations
Consolation
Segregation
Dispensation
Isolation
Exploitation
Mutilation
Mutations
Miscreation
Confirmation…….to the evils of the world
They’ve been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
They’ve been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
They’ve been looking in their minds
For the day that sorrow’s gone from time
They keep telling of the day
When the Savior of love will come to stay
Tell me who of them will come to be
How many of them are you and me
Proclamation of Race Relations
Consolation
Integration
Verification of Revelations
Acclamation
World Salvation
Vibrations
Simulation
Confirmation…….to the peace of the world
They’ve been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They’ve been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They’ve been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
They’ve been spending most their lives
Living in a future paradise
We’ve been spending too much of our lives
Living in a pastime paradise
Let’s start living our lives
Living for the future paradise
Praise to our lives
Living for the future paradise
Shame to anyones lives
Living in a pastime paradise
HIGHER GROUND
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People keep on learnin’
Soldiers keep on warrin’
World keep on turnin’
Cause it won’t be too long
Powers keep on lyin’
While your people keep on dyin’
World keep on turnin’
Cause it won’t be too long
I’m so darn glad he let me try it again
Cause my last time on earth I lived a whole world of sin
I’m so glad that I know more than I knew then
Gonna keep on tryin’
Till I reach my highest ground
Teachers keep on teachin’
Preachers keep on preachin’
World keep on turnin’
Cause it won’t be too long
Oh no
Lovers keep on lovin’
Believers keep on believin’
Sleepers just stop sleepin’
Cause it won’t be too long
Oh no
I’m so glad that he let me try it again
Cause my last time on earth I lived a whole world of sin
I’m so glad that I know more than I knew then
Gonna keep on tryin’
Till I reach my highest ground…Whew!
Till I reach my highest ground
No one’s gonna bring me down
Oh no
Till I reach my highest ground
Don’t let nobody bring you down (they’ll sho ’nuff try)
God is gonna show you higher ground
He’s the only friend you have around
I AIN’T GONNA STAND FOR IT
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Don’t wanna believe what they’re telling me
Somebody’s been pickin in my cherry tree
Don’t wanna mistrust nobody by mistake
But I hear tell someone’s been diggin round in my cake
And I ain’t gonna stand for it baby
And I ain’t gonna stand for it baby
And I ain’t gonna stand for it baby
nah-ah (nah-ah)
And I ain’t gonna stand for it baby
And I ain’t gonna stand for it baby
I ain’t gonna stand for it baby
nah-ah (nah-ah nah-ah) nah-ah (nah-ah nah-ah)
Don’t wanna believe what somebody said
But somebody said somebody’s shoes was under my bed
Don’t wanna cause nobody no bodily harm
But somebody’s been rubbin’ on my good luck charm
And I ain’t gonna stand for it baby
And I ain’t gonna stand for it baby
I ain’t gonna stand for it baby
nah-ah (nah-ah)
And I ain’t gonna stand for it baby
And I ain’t gonna stand for it baby
I ain’t gonna stand for it baby
nah-ah (nah-ah nah-ah) nah-ah (nah-ah nah-ah)
Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, my, my, my, my, my, my,
Oh, Oh, my, my, my, my, my, my,
Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, my, my, my, my, my, my,
Oh, Oh, my, my, my, my, my, my,
No, I ain’t gonna stand for it baby
And I ain’t gonna stand for it baby
And I ain’t gonna stand for it baby, nah-ah (nah-ah)
I ain’t gonna stand for it baby
And I ain’t gonna stand for it baby, no
And I ain’t gonna stand for it baby, oh, oh,
no, no, no, no, no (nah-ah)
I ain’t gonna stand for it baby
And I ain’t gonna stand for it baby
And I ain’t gonna stand for it baby, nah-ah (nah-ah) oh, oh, oh
(I ain’t gonna stand for it baby,
I ain’t gonna stand for it baby,
I ain’t gonna stand for it baby)
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
stand for it baby, nah-ah (nah-ah) baby, ah, ah
MOMENTS AREN’T MOMENTS
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Tender, warm and serene
Are the words that might come close to having
Remnants of the feelings that we can no longer hide
Mighty, shining and clear
Are but mere expressions that don’t come near
To the ever glowing eminence of light in our eyes tonight
‘Cause moments aren’t moments
Until they are moments like this magic moment of ours
And magic’s not magic
Until it is magic like magical love in our hearts
Feeling with tender love-bloom
Gentle, quiet, so soft
Are the wings of love that can send us off
To an ever splendor unknown to all in our time
Trusting in the unknown and giving in to what feelings have shown
Will take us to altered intimacies in our lives
Where we’ll find
That moments aren’t moments
Until they are moments like this magic moment of ours
And magic’s not magic
Until it is magic like magical love in our hearts
Feeling with tender love-bloom
‘Cause moments aren’t moments
Until they are moments like this magic moment of ours
And magic’s not magic
Until it is magic like magical love in our hearts
Feeling with tender love-bloom
POSITIVITY
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Some people ask me why always on the bright side
When there’s so much going on down the other side
It’s like I live in a bubble with no trouble
And problems don’t exist
I chuckle and tell them that ain’t the case at all
It goes way back to the time when I was very small
Not in mind but size and age my papa use to say
You can always look at the negative
But you should always live in the positive
So I try everyday to live that way
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Some people live in what was and what they could have been
As opposed to living in a what is and how much they can
And be the first to complain about nothing in life going their way
The attitude is “that I can’t do nothing ’bout”
And very happy with just breathing in and out
The ones that when you say “lets go make a difference”
They’ll say “naw that’s OK”
So I don’t waste time on the trip side
‘Cause I do know the real on the flipside
And I’m crystal clear everyday that’s why I say, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
When I see the morning
And the sun is smiling down upon me
I joy in the blessing
That still the ground is not above me
And for the people
That I can truly say do love me, I feel
Positivity, ’cause that’s what life’s meant to be
Positivity, ’cause this day did not have to be
Some ask me why I’m such an optimist
When it’s more fashionable be a pessimist
From what’s in seventy-five percent of what we read, hear and view
Well I use to have a friend named Minnie Riperton
Who use to always say when she was living
“Like fine wine I like seeing the glass of life as half full than half empty”
I’m saying sometimes life can’t be rough
But never to the point of me saying I’ve had enough
Long as my heart beats I ain’t giving up
That’s why I say everyday
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
When people ask me as an African American
What do I see for tomorrow in the human plan?
Is it possible for all the people of the world to co-exist?
I say unity is only as big as our vision
And if its narrow, try to expand beyond the horizon
But true leaders must guide us through the ills of society
That stands in our way
So if the road is to harmony, be with the call
But if its about discord, don’t take the ride at all
‘Cause the world vision I see is the one-we for everybody
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
When I see the morning
And the sun is smiling down upon me
Just joy in the blessing
That still the ground is not above me
And for the people
That you can truly say do love you, do feel
Positivity, ’cause that’s what life’s meant to be
Positivity, and that’s the energy the world needs
Positivity, ’cause that’s what life means to me
Positivity, ’cause this day did not have to be
Positivity, ’cause that’s what life’s meant to be
Positivity, ’cause that’s the energy the world needs
Positivity, ’cause that’s what life’s meant to be
Positivity, and this day did not have to be
Positivity, ’cause that’s what life means to me
Positivity, and that’s the energy the world needs
Positivity, ’cause that’s what life’s meant to be
Positivity, and that’s the energy the world needs