My Maria (Oh Maria I love you girl, oh my Maria) Maria (Oh Maria I love you girl, Maria) I love you My Maria don't you know I've come a long, long way I been longin' to see her When she's around she takes my blues away Sweet Maria the sunlight surely

Into our life again Turn your lights down low And I want you to know right now And pull your window curtains Oh, let Jah moon come shining in Sayin' ooh, it's been a long, long (long, long, long, long) time I kept this message for you, girl But it seems

Oh oh oh oh oh I won't let go now that I've found you Now that I've found you (found you, found you, found you) We come one tonight I've been waiting for your wake up call Growing stronger now I can hear it in a thunderstorm We sing, oh oh oh oh oh I

Some do not believe that you can Feel the need within you but you could We can prove it with the music Go go go, go go go Trot though the wind Come on now, ooh Move your body, let your body go Everybody, let your body go Let the girls say, whoo, whoo

Tears of rage, tears of grief Come to me now, you know Must I always be the thief? We're so low and life is brief We carried you in our arms On Independence Day And now you'd throw us all aside And put us on our way Oh, what dear daughter 'neath the sun

You don't know What you do to me lately Got you rolling papers, got you rolling papers I got so much love for ya Want you to know How much that I fuck with you, oh Wanna roll one up for ya Want you to come to the back of the club It's a gang thing, it's

I'll stand by you Won't let nobody hurt you And I'll never desert you Take me in into your darkest hour Oh, why you look so sad? Tears are in your eyes Come on and come to me now Don't be ashamed to cry Let me see you through

The cops shot the kid The cops shot the kid, the cops shot I still hear him scream The cops used to come around in my neighborhood "Alright, you kids, stop having so much fun, move along!" Oh they'd arrest me, you know, especially at night They had a

And let's spark a new flame 'Cause I wanna tell them they wrong You gon' be my baby Love me, love you crazy Tell me if you with it Baby, come and get it Maybe try a new thing Oh, I don't know what you had planned to do tonight We're standing here looking

Shining on me, warm on my skin So real that I can feel the heat of the sun You, you burn me down Every space of a touch and a smile Somehow when I come undone Even now in the darkness I can feel Oh, I can feel the heat of the sun Why, I don't know why