Keep ya head up, oooo child things are gonna get easier ooooo child things are gonna get brighter Little somethin for my godson Elijah and a little girl named Corinne Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice I say the darker the flesh then

Baby lie to me 'cause I couldn't stand the truth And I couldn't bear the thought of losin' you Baby lie to me, tell me everything's all right And when I'm sound asleep, you can fade into the night Girl, instead of sayin' goodbye Girl look at you right

That I'm alright Can't say I'm sad to see you go Cause I'm not (No I'm not) Well I'm not With all the things we said And not a minute spent To think that we'd regret So we just take it back Forget the things we swore we meant

Baby lie to me 'cause I couldn't stand the truth And I couldn't bear the thought of losin' you Baby lie to me, tell me everything's all right And when I'm sound asleep, you can fade into the night Girl, instead of sayin' goodbye Girl look at you right

That I'm alright 'Cause I'm not (No I'm not) Well I'm not And here we go again With all the things we said To think that we'd regret Forget the things we swore we meant I'll write you just to let you know Can't say I'm sad to see you go

You say I waste my life away, but I live it to the full And how would you know anyway, you're just mister dull Why don't you get into the things we do today You could lose twenty years right away, so we say We don't need, no, no no no parental guidance

'Cause I can't stop loving you I can't stop loving you No, I can't stop loving you That I was lying Though I try So you're leaving In the morning On the early train I could say everything's alright

'Cause I can't stop loving you I can't stop loving you No, I can't stop loving you That I was lying Though I try So you're leaving In the morning On the early train I could say everything's alright

Shinin' through the crowd We're holdin' time in our hands and it stops when we say Oh there's somethin' bout the skylight tonight Something that makes me know everything's goin' be alright There's somethin' in the way that the stars align There's not a

And I'm all you need and that you never want more Then you'd say all of the right things without a clue But you'd save the best for last Like I'm the one for you You should know that you're just a temporary fix This is not rooted with you it don't mean