If you want me Are you really here Or am I dreaming I can't tell dreams from truth For it's been so long Since I have seen you I can hardly remember your face anymore When I get really lonely

If I was your girlfriend Would you remember to tell me All the things you forgot If I was your man, if I was your man If I was your best friend Would you let me take care of you And do all the things only your best friend can Only your best friends can

A man can tell a thousand lies I've learned my lesson well Hope I live to tell The secret I have learned, 'till then It will burn inside of me The truth is never far behind You kept it hidden well If I live to tell The secret I knew then

If you can tell me something worth fighting for Blame it upon a rush of blood to the head Honey, all the movements you're starting to make See me crumble and fall on my face And I know the mistakes that I made See it all disappear without a trace And

It's you, it's you, it's you. He's my dilemma One half of me wants ya And the other half wants to forget My-my-my dilemma From the moment I met 'ya I just can't get you out of my head And I tell myself to run from you But I find myself attracted

Yes, the Black survivors! We're the survivors So I Idren, I sistren, We're the survivors (Ow-ow-ow-ow! Ow, ow-ow-ow-ow!) Yeah, yeah, yeah! How can you be sitting there Telling me that you care That you care?

We won't run and hide I'm passing over you like a satellite So catch me if I fall That's why you stick to your game plans and party lives But at night we're conspiring by candlelight We are the orphans of the American dreams Oh shine your light on me

But I can't let you go We used to love and party Now all we do is argue I tell myself I don't want you no more So much love and hurt And hate, people screaming it won't work Time to time I say I'm gonna leave Damn the world, it's just me and my girl

I couldn't resist him His eyes were like yours His hair was exactly the shade of brown He's just not as tall, but I couldn't tell It was dark and I was lying down You are everything he means nothing to me I can't even remember his name Why're you so

I'd tell her to speak up, tell her to shout out Talk a bit louder, be a bit prouder Tell her she's beautiful, wonderful Everything she doesn't see You gotta speak up, you gotta shout out And know that right here, right now You can be beautiful, wonderful