VILLAGE GHETTO LAND
By
Stevie Wonder
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Would you like to go with me
Down my dead end street
Would you like to come with me
To Village Ghetto Land
See the people lock their doors
While robbers laugh and steal
Beggars watch and eat their meal -from garbage cans
Broken glass is everywhere
It’s a bloody scene
Killing plagues the citizens
Unless they own police
Children play with rusted cars
Sores cover their hands
Politicians laugh and drink-drunk to all demands
Families buying dog food now
Starvation roams the streets
Babies die before they’re born
Infected by the grief
Now some folks say that we should be
Glad for what we have
Tell me would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land
Village Ghetto Land
MY LOVE IS WITH YOU
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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
MARY ANN
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Well now, oh Mary Ann
Well you sure look fine
Well, oh oh now
I could love you all the time
Well, now oh Mary Ann
I said baby, don’t ya know
Well now, oh oh baby
Don’t ya know
Don’t ya know baby
That I love you so
Oh yeah, Mary Ann
Gonna take you home tonight
Oh baby, yeah, yeah
Gonna take you home tonight
If you let me baby
I said I’ll make everything all right
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
la la la la la, la la la la la la la la, la la la la la la la la, la la la la la
yeah yeah yeah
la la la la la, la la la la la la la la, la la la la la la la la, la la la la la
everybody say it now
la la la la la, la la la la la la la la, la la la la la la la la, la la la la la
ahhh
la la la la la, la la la la la la la la, la la la la la la la la, la la la la la
yeaoow
la la la la la, la la la la la la la la, la la la la la la la la, la la la la la
ohhh noo
la la la la la, la la la la la la la la, la la la la la la la la, la la la la la
ohhhh oh baby
la la la la la, la la la la la la la la, la la la la la la la la, la la la la la
ohh baby
la la la la la, la la la la la la la la, la la la la la la la la, la la la la la
WITH EACH BEAT OF MY HEART
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Honey, sweet
I’ve got something to say to you in privacy
Something I’d like for you to hear
And only your ears alone
Secretly, I’ve been admiring you intensely
So much so I’d like to settle down with you
And make a home
You are my first breath
My first smile
And my morning cup of tea
Yours is the love
That I pray for
Before I go to sleep
From the time I saw your face
I knew no other could erase
My loving you with each beat of my heart
Until the day I heard you speak
I didn’t know that sound was sweet
Me hearing you in each beat of my heart
There’s a time when playing ends
And the serious begins
Like the love that I felt from the start
With each beat of my heart
Honey, sweet
I soared into a heaven’s galaxy
So hypnotized was I
From seeing all the magic in your eyes
So I bring
To you what’s been a lifetime fantasy
Of being with the only one who can
Create my paradise
You are my first breath
My first smile
And my morning cup of tea
Yours is the love
That I pray for
Before I go to sleep
From the time I saw your face
I knew no other could erase
My loving you with each beat of my heart
Until the day I heard you speak
I didn’t know that sound was sweet
Me hearing you in each beat of my heart
There’s a time when playing ends
And the serious begins
Like the love that I felt from the start
With each beat of my heart
There’s a time when playing ends
And the serious begins
Like the love that I felt from the start
With each beat of my heart
IT AIN’T NO USE
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Um um um um
Um um um um
There ain’t no reason for us sittin’ down
To try to talk our problems out
‘Cause we know the truth,
It ain’t no use each other we must do without.
There ain’t no reason tryin’ to force a smile
When pain is really in its place
‘Cause we know the truth,
It ain’t no use let’s part before we lose love’s trace.
(We’ve got to say)
Wow oh oh ooh
(Bye bye bye bye bye)
Wow oh oh ooh
(Bye bye bye bye bye)
Wow oh ooh oh ooh wow oh ooh
Wow oh oh oh ooh
As I look back I’m really try’n to see
Just what it was that made us spark
‘Cause the fire’s out
It leaves no doubt, the flame’s not burning in our hearts.
We still are young and both of us have time
To find our winter love in spring
Yes we know the truth
It ain’t no use, we’re not each other’s ev’rything.
(We always must say bye)
Wow oh oh ooh yeah
(Bye bye bye bye bye)
Wow oh oh ooh yeah
(Bye bye bye bye bye)
Wow oh ooh oh ooh wow oh ooh
Wow oh oh oh ooh
(Hate to say goodbye)
Wow oh oh ooh yeah
(Bye bye bye bye bye)
Wow oh oh ooh yeah
(Bye bye bye bye bye)
Wow oh ooh oh ooh wow oh ooh
Wow oh oh oh ooh
(Why we say bye)
Wow oh oh ooh
(Bye bye bye bye bye)
The trill is gone babe, yeah, yeah, yeah
(Bye bye bye bye bye)
I tried my best to make it work
(Wow oh oh oh ooh)
But it seems that we can’t get it together, yeah,
(Wow oh ooh)
We’ve got to run in the world
(Bye bye bye bye bye)
Wow oh oh oh ooh
(Bye bye bye bye bye)
Seems that we just don’t want tot do it
(Wow oh ooh oh ooh)
I guess we run out of fluid.
(Wow oh ooh)
Yeah, yeah, yeah wonderful baby, baby, baby
(Bye bye bye bye bye)
Don’t go, take me baby, don’t go baby
(Bye bye bye bye bye)
Ain’t no use ’cause we done run out of juice
(Wow oh oh oh ooh)
(Wow oh ooh)
So long baby bye bye baby.