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Rating: Each of us has weaknesses, each of us has an Achilles' heel, each of us has a hidden door (or more than one) through which pass in the dead of night those to whom we've confessed our secrets (upon waking or just before sleeping). It's through these hidden doors that also pass those foreign faces we can't tell if they'll betray us. It's through here that the woman who brings honey comes, it's through here that the stranger who brings the torch to set fire to our house comes.
Under the arch of one of these doors, passed, one of these nights, this girl named Esthero. She passed through on one of these sweltering, hot nights. From there, there where no sentinel makes their blessed round.
Esthero brought with her (cunning and enchanting) a bit of hip-hop, some bossa nova, and something indistinct that makes you think of Bjork, Frou-Frou, Sade, and Bebel Gilberto combined. Something that evokes a sensual languor that has no name. Something that has to do with this heat that doesn't let up even when the darkness beats on the city with its fingers without the light seeing it. She brought with her that unfathomable side of Her on which I can't stop questioning myself even when she sleeps.
Will it be a CD that lasts or just music for a night? There's a bit of Cuba ("Blanket Me In You"), a piano intro ("Everyday Is A Holiday") that makes you think of the Beatles or Ben Folds, there's also something of Feist ("Melancholy Melody"), something that harkens back to the best of Sade ("Thank Heaven 4You" and "My Torture") or a technological Cotton Club with "Wikked Lil' Grrls".
In "Dragonfly's Outro" the girl with the very long legs sings "Give me, Give me back my wings so I can fly, And then catch me." Tonight, I feel her whisper intimate words into my ear and I try not to ask myself anymore if she has also brought the torch that she'll need to betray me. Even if that were so, I wouldn't worry about it. Tomorrow morning all this, in any case, will be over.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 We R in Need of a Musical Revolution (04:06)
I'm so sick and tired of the shit on the radio
and MTV, they only play the same thing
no matter where I go
I see Ashanti in the video
I want some thing more
We are in need of a musical ReVoLuTioN!
We are in need of....
How can you make your way through the world today
when everybody is so angry?
And what we HEAR affects our HEARTS...
there's got to be a better way to communicate
so show your LOVE not hate
We are in need of a musical ReVoLuTioN!
(we're so tired of the same old)
We are in need of some spiritual evolution
(we're so tired of the same old, same old)
We are in need of love
We are in need of love
I'm calling, calling, I'm calling out
calling you
Doesn't anybody wanna do something new?
I'm calling all creators in the movement
It's time to offer a solution to the dilution of what we love
And the greats would be so disappointed
'Cause we've sold our souls for what we don't own anymore...
We are in need of LOVE
Lets start a musical ReVoLuTioN!
(we're so tired of the same old)
We are in need of some lyrical evolution
(we're so tired of the same old, same old)
I'm so sick and tired of the SHIT on the radio
and MTV they only play the same thing
No matter where I go
I see Ashanti in the video
I want something
'Cause I'm sick and tired of the shit on the radio
and MTV they only play the same thing
no matter where I go
I see Britney on my video screen
I WANT SOMETHING MORE
Lets start a musical ReVoLuTioN!
I want something more
Lets start a musical ReVoLuTioN
Tell me why....
A grown man can RAPE a little girl
but we STILL hear his SHIT on the radio
A grown-ass man can videotape a little girl
but we still see his mug up on our video screens?
I want something more......
I want something.
03 Blanket Me in You (Never Is So Soon) (04:59)
In how long will you go from here?
Because I want, I want to love you
And how far will you stray from me
When I will not let you go?
Indifference (yeah, yeah), you gave it all to me
And now it is clear to see that
You have no intention of ever coming back to me
Never is so soon, and I will miss you
How does it find me only when I'm needy, only when I'm lonely?
(How does it find me?)
How does it search out, what are the signals?
Why do I give off such thunderous signals?
Why do I give in, why do I give up?
I am a reject of love
And where are my friends now, where are my friends now?
Where is my lover now?
Blanket me in you
Cover me in gold and blue
Reason need not follow you
Blanket me in you
I can still smell you on me
In how long will you go from here?
Because I want, I want to love you
And if I gather all my sorrow
Would you still love me tomorrow?
(It won't be so bad)
I could make your sickness end
I once had my fortune read
"You won't be so sad" he said
I wonder if it's true
Blanket me in you
Cover me in gold and blue
Reason need not follow you
Blanket me in you
I can still smell you on me
So I can still smell you on me
08 Beautiful Lie (05:10)
I don't wanna write another love song
I don't wanna open up my eyes
I don't wanna see what you have done to me
I don't wanna know what's under your disguise
And I don't need to see what's on the inside
Let me enjoy this cause it was all just a beautiful lie
I just wanna keep on believing every little thing you ever said to me
All was true, and I want to be sure you adore me too
I don't wanna know when it ended for you
I want to be able to sleep at night
I want to hold my head up high
I want to feel like you were always mine
But it was all just a beautiful lie
It was all just a wonderful terrible wonderful...
Why'd you give all of your love, just to take it all away?
Baby when I needed you, I didn't know you'd let me go and now I feel like I can't breathe
I need you to lie to me
I want to be able to sleep at night
I want to hold my head up high
I want to feel like you were always mine
But it was all just a beautiful, terrible, wonderful, horrible, beautiful lie
And it's so easy to believe
I don't wanna write another love song
I don't wanna open up my eyes
I don't wanna see what you have done to me
I don't wanna write another love song
I don't wanna open up my eyes
I don't wanna see what you have done to me...
09 Junglebook (04:49)
(featuring Andre 3000)
It's like I told you, I'm getting away from this town
I'll be traveling alone, adventure is calling my name
And if you want to, you can follow me
I'm gonna go to the jungle and build me a home
We could live right (in the jungle baby)
Stay up all night (all night)
Kiss by moonlight (and you could kiss me)
It would be tight
We'll have a family and I will protect you from harm
We could get wilder than all the animals
And I will try to keep it simple if that's what you want
I know you're scared baby, I know you're proud
I know your girl, she was fooling around
She had your head under water your heart under fire
And I've decided she didn't know how to love you
We could live right (we could live right)
Stay up all night (stay up all night)
Kiss by moonlight (you can kiss me)
It would be tight (it would be so right)
We could get by (we could get by)
Start a new life (start a new life)
Dance with fireflies (in the jungle baby)
We could get by (in the jungle baby)
Can't hide from the man in the moon, he's watching
Make love like animals (baby), I'm feeling cannibal
And I'll eat you alive...
Jungle, in the jungle…
We could live right (we could live right)
Stay up all night (stay up all night)
Kiss by moonlight (you can kiss me)
It would be tight (it would be so right)
We could get by (we could get by)
Start a new life (start a new life)
Dance with fireflies (in the jungle baby)
We could get by (in the jungle baby)
We could live right (oh my precious little boy)
Stay up all night (just rest your weary head)
Kiss by moonlight (it's gonna be all right)
It would be tight
We could get by (hush now my precious little boy)
Start a new life (and rest your weary head)
Dance with fireflies (it's gonna be all right)
We could get by
11 Wikked Lil' Grrrls (04:18)
Wicked little girls, kissed the boys and made them cry
Raisin' double trouble every time we pass them by
And some might say we're wicked little girls
With curves and kissers and pearly whites
You better keep an eye on your boys and lock em up tight
You think that I'm a lady? You think that I won't fight?
I'll make your eyes shine like a liliqoi moonlit night whoa oh
You think you're my one and only, only?
Sophisticated Yoni told me:
"You gots to love livin' while you livin' or you won't love life"
I'm the high pimpstress, I'm honeybrown
I'm the baddest bitch to ever hit this town
Cornbread woman, yo ho and a bottle of yum
I'm gonna have a party with my body, do ya wanna come?
Well alright
Cause we're such wicked little girls, kissed the boys and made them cry
Raisin' double trouble every time we pass them by
And some might say we're wicked little girls
With curves and kissers and pearly whites
You better keep an eye on your boys and lock em up tight
Hey girls, I'm back again, that vixen no bell and that Bride of Frank…
Bend the rules, headline "bad news", it's the Sisters of Salem, they on the loose
Shakin' her caboose like Dottie, Octopussy like a James Bond hottie
Smokin' like a Cuban, with a whiff like a rumor, better know what you're doing
Or get kicked out right away, gonna hide away
I'd advise you not to play with those
Wicked little girls, kissed the boys and made them cry
Raisin' double trouble every time we pass them by
And some might say we're wicked little girls
With curves and kissers and pearly whites
You better keep an eye on your boys and lock em up tight
[2x]
Here come those devils, cheeky sneaky rebels
Every day and every night, hot steppin is what we like
Wicked little girls, kissed the boys and made them cry
Raisin' double trouble every time we pass them by
Some might say we're wicked little girls
With curves and kissers and pearly whites
You better keep an eye on your boys and lock em up tight
[2x]
12 Gone (feat. Cee-Lo Green) (05:16)
(featuring Cee-Lo Green)
So why would you stay if its killing us both just to be here?
There's no more room to grow and you won't find yourself 'till you leave me.
It's a beautiful world outside these walls,
and I love you too much to hold you down
with my light shine.....
and its blinding you...so
G'on....get away.....leave me be
'cause I dont wanna see your face around here.
So don't complicate it,
I don't have it in me to hate you.
I was there to be your freedom.
I just want to be your faerie.
And I try to teach you, but I can only stay for one more day
then I am....
Gone....get away....leave me be
cause I don't wanna see your face around here. (repeat)
There ain't nothing here for you if you stay.
And its so hard to hear myself say
"go away"
instead of " baby please stay just one more day"
I barely have the strength to leave you
and you don't wanna be with me
So go on (just get gone)
and leave me alone...
cee-lo: that isn't true
girl, how could you say what you not mean?
oh we used to have such a hot thing
and I just cant go anywhere and be not seen
but for the love of you theres places I have stopped being
and don't make me start about the sweets and all the shopping
I mean God I even went out and got the ring
And its no cliche
Love is blind its in you Literally- stop seeing
But when you truly love someone, you wouldn't be shamed
And if I did not see you there, girl, I wouldn't have came
You must think i've got some strong shoulders 'cause thats where keep putting the blame
Whoever said f**ked up your head
Talking bout if you love somebody enough that you wouldn't have pain.
13 My Torture (06:26)
Set myself on fire, anything to turn your head
I won't deny this, I'm burning from the things you said
Now you got me running around and all that I have found is I can't afford him
All I got is spare change cause he was my fortune
My torture
Had myself a lover, I liked him cause of all of the books that he read
And he was like no other boy that I had ever met before
And I loved all the things that he said
I wanted to heal him, I did not plan on staying as long
I didn't think I would need him so how did he become
My torture
My, my, my
My torture, it's always the sweetest thing
Where do I go? What do I do with this heart?
My torture, my torture
I want you to comfort me
I want you to stop disturbing my sleep
I really thought you were my king
I thought you were my king
I want it to stop hurting so bad
So bad, so so bad...
14 Melancholy Melody (04:36)
Leave me alone
I just want to lay here in my room and let myself cry
I apologize if I've disappointed you
I got lost in my darkness and the light hurts my eyes
I know you're counting on me to feed all of our families
But I just need to be on my own for a little while
Cause I can't stop singing these melancholy melodies
So until then I'll hide
I feel tired all the time, yeah, this weight is exhausting
I cannot please everyone, least of all me
I have no more to give you, it's all ready been stolen
Tell me, what's left for me, a melancholy melody
I know you're counting on me to feed all of our families
But I just need to be on my own for a little while
Cause I can't stop singing these melancholy melodies
So until then I'll hide, I'll hide
Well you think I'm scared to write
That I've got nothing left inside and I'm losing all my fire
But it still burns bright, just not on your command
You think I'm scared to write
That I've got nothing left inside and I'm losing all my fire
That I'm losing all my fire, am I losing all my fire?
Still burns bright, brighter yeah
Leave me alone, just wanna lay here alone in my room and let myself cry
I know you're counting on me to feed all of our families
But I just need to be on my own for a little while
So stop calling my phone, please don't come around my home
I just wanna be alone
I know you're counting on me to feed all of our families
But I just can't stop singing these melancholy melodies, yeah
I just wanna be, I just wanna be…alone
16 Dragonfly's Outro (04:05)
Find me, find me in an open sky
And then wish me, wish me far from you and free
Swallow whole the love I give you, then give it back to me
Tell me, what am I supposed to do with the mess you've made out of me?
Dragonfly, Dragonfly
Give me, give me back my wings so I can fly
And then catch me, catch each breath right from me when you smile
Swallow whole the love I give you, then give it back to me
Tell me, what am I supposed to do with the mess you've made out of me?
Dragonfly, Dragonfly
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