Peaches living in niches Digging the scene like beautiful cliches I wanna be clean but I gotta get high It's good to be here, so hard to come by You bring pain cause you got game And needles and pins a man can't take Throwing shapes in a gangster lean

You shook me all night long. You know you shook me, baby I have a bird that whistles And I have birds that sing. You know you shook me You shook me so hard baby Baby, baby, please come home. I have a baby, won't do nothing oh! Oh, oh, buy a diamond ring.

Beating like a hammer Help I'm alive My heart keeps beating like a hammer They're gonna eat me alive Hard to be soft Tough to be tender Come take my pulse the pace is on a runaway train If you're still alive My regrets are few

We were kids in love Kids in love (oh) Kids in love And then we grew up But won't you hold me close tonight Like we're kids in love? This is our last goodbye Don't come and find me So hard to see you cry

Those two years run together like whiskey over ice Melted into memories like somebody else's life I'm glad to say, I've come around But if I could have one wish I'd like another try at twenty five Or was it twenty six Livin' hard was easy when I was

Sometimes good intentions It’s all talk, talk, talk Talkin' in the wind It only slows you down If you start listenin' And it’s a whole lot harder to shine Don’t come across so well

We be ballin' hard, yeah, I just want some paper, yeah NCAA, yeah, we the young and dangerous, yeah I'm playin' with the clit like a guitar NCAA, yeah, set the record straight (Set it) Come on in (Come on in), come on in (Come on in) Honorable C.N.O.T.E

So when the waves come rolling in Then I won't turn the tide And in the line of fire You'll set me aside So go on Richard let go On our last trip to the coast We watched the boats sail the sea "How effortlessly they float" You turned and said to me

'Cause I believe in karma You should try a little harder And you believe in drama Or karma's gonna come for you You can talk that talk but it all comes back around I'll give you something, something to talk about I don't know who you think you are Or

So I imagine my heart with you See what imagination can do Magic mirror come and search my heart Can you tell me what you see There's a thousand voices whispering Songs and you're the melody It's not hard to conceive Love ecstasy imagining you with me