I'ma wash away my sins I'ma rinse away this dirt I forgot to make amends To all the friends I may have hurt I better stop and say my grace From that I pray that I don't fall 'Cause on the way back down I may End up runnin' back into them all I never

Her love's like rain on a tin roof Sweet song on a summer time storm And the way that it moves you It's a melody of passion raging on Then it's gone Her eyes are blue just like the ocean Her heart is a river free Well now and then she gets the notion And

(Go ahead baby and) Do it I'm `bout to do it for ya This joint has got me open Show me what you got I got a new one for ya I like the way that sounds I like to break it down Ooh that's my favorite song

Igama lami 'nkunzi emnyama (my name is "black bull") Yimi 'nkunzi emnyama (I am "black bull") Ngicitha amasoka (I am the one who tests young men in love) Something in the way she moves In the way she touches me In a way that no one can ever do Something

All in due time, see the world through different eyes. All in due time, the shadows will give way to light. Pacing aimlessly, With my mind in unrest Unsure of what may come. What have I done to bring this down on me? Helpless to make this undone How much

I'm a goner Somebody catch my breath I wanna be known by you Don't let me be gone Though I'm weak I'll slip away Into the sound The ghost of you Is close to me

Stop all this talk, turn off the telephone Open up another bottle, send those people home Let it get real quiet, turn that lamp way down low I'm gonna float down this river of tears I remember how we spoke on the days he was dry Even now that he's gone

In my loneliness When you're gone and I'm all by myself And I need your caress I just think of you And the thought of you holding me near Makes my loneliness soon disappear Though you're far away I have only to close my eyes and you are back to stay I

Sometimes I wish I had three different faces I'm going to court for three cases in three places One in Queens Manhattan one in Brooklyn The way things is looking I'ma see central bookings Facing 3, 3 to 9 is mad time After re-concurrence for assault 2-9

(That's the way love is, sure enough how it is) That's the way love is, baby Ah, baby, as the bitter tears fall from your eyes Oh, a thousand times you ask yourself why The one guy you love has departed Oh, you're left alone and broken-hearted, ooh Love