Showing posts with label morepoppathanrockalbum. Show all posts
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Monday, July 01, 2024

More Poppa Than Rock (2024 Album)


Available now on Qobuz, YouTube, Instagram, and almost everywhere else you can stream or download music!

  1. Jitters
  2. Kiss
  3. Whenever You Call My Name
  4. Buffet Jam
  5. Wish
  6. Give U Everything
  7. Forgiveness
  8. My Lord, My Saviour, My All
  9. Not Gonna Be Without You
  10. Did You Turn The Lights Off?

Sunday, December 10, 2023

Did You Turn The Lights Off?

Did you turn the lights off? 
Did you forget it again? 
Did you turn the lights off? 
Should I turn it off myself? 

Every morning you wake up 
You forget to turn the lights off 
Every morning when I can, 
I can do it if you need my help 

Did you turn the lights off? 
Did you leave an open door? 
I can help you find your phone 
I can also leave you alone 

Every morning you wake up 
You forget to turn the lights off 
Every morning when I can, 
I can do it if you need my help 

Missed to put your glasses on? 
Dishes pilin' up again? 
Did you turn the lights off? 
Should I turn it off… 

I got this thingamajiggy, yo yeah that's me 
Can't sit still, can't focus, can't remember, I can't be 
Like the other kids who do their work with ease 
I'm always restless, distracted, and feeling the squeeze 
 Sometimes I feel like I don't fit in 
Like I'm always out of sync, like I'm always on the brink 
Of losing control, of messing up, of letting people down 
But then I remember that I'm not alone, that I'm not a clown 
I know it's hard to live with this thingamajiggy 
It's a challenge every day, it's a struggle to stay ... on track 
But I also know that it's a gift, that it's a part of me 
That makes me unique, that makes me shine, that makes me rap, you see? 
Some people think that this thing is a curse 
That it's a disorder, that it is something worse 
Than being normal, than being average, than being plain 
But I don't listen to them, don't let them get in my brain 
Some people try to label, putting me in a box 
To say that I'm lazy & stupid, that I'm a paradox 
Of success and failure, of potential and waste 
But I don't let them do that, I don't let them erase 
But I don't let it stop me, I don't let it define me 
I got skills and talents that you can't deny me 
I'm creative, energetic, I'm a star in the making 
I got this thingamajiggy but I'm not faking

Monday, December 27, 2010

Not Gonna Be Without You

18 October 2010, 9:08pm

If I’m going to Tokyo
If I’m going to Texas
I will dance in Rio
I’m going to New York
I’ll see you at Times Square
Or what about Haiti

I’ll take a photo
But not without you
If you go to heaven
If I go to hell
We’ll do church on Sundays
Lord, this is my wife
It just won’t be fair
And I am here

I might go to Vigan,
Let’s go to Bali
I’m going to Melbourne
I'll visit Jerusalem  
If they invent space travel
And when I have enough
Or wherever you will be
Or wherever you will be 

(It's) not gonna be without you
I’ll bring you there
But only with you
You will be there
And I’ll hold your hands
I’d still be there with you

of the Eiffel Tower
Or of me and you
I’ll go with you
(Well, let's hope that doesn't happen!)
I'll always say this prayer
and I love her with my life
If she is somewhere there
Please hear my prayer!

Cairo or China
Just be with me
I’ll be with you
Of course, still with you
I will save money
Let’s go to the moon
Or wherever you will be
I’ll be always here for you

Monday, December 31, 2007

My Lord, My Savior, and My All

2007

You know I want you
You know I need you
You know what's on my mind

You know I love you
You know I seek to
Be with you my whole life

You're my Lord, my Savior, and my All
With the fire of your love
You're the One and Only in my heart
Where your majesty endlessly reigns

I'm serving for you
I'll love only you
and your creations here

I will let people
Know you the same way
You have touched me so

You're my Lord, my Savior, and my All
With the fire of your love
You're the One and Only in my heart
Where your majesty endlessly reigns

You've said what you want from me inside
And I can just love you with all my mind
And I have all my heart, my strength, my soul
All these I give to you alone

Monday, December 31, 2001

jitters

2001

i know how i feel
and it hasn’t changed since
the very first moment you walked in my life

i’ve told you about it
you thought i was not sincere
but baby it’s very clear that i was right

now the time has come to spill it out
let it be known...

but something’s wrong!

i feel the jitters when i am with you
i don’t know why, but i just do
i feel the jitters when i’m close to you
wanna tell you how i feel but i just can’t seem to

it doesn’t mean that
i’m lying to you if
i cannot pronounce these words in my heart

but please give me a chance to prove
that it is your presence that makes my life move

i can only keep it for so very long
gonna tell you know...

but something’s wrong!

i feel the jitters when i talk to you
i don’t know why, but i just do
i feel the jitters when i’m close to you
wanna tell you how i feel but i just can’t seem to

Friday, December 31, 1999

whenever you call my name (prelude)

1999

is it okay if i call you mine
just for a little time
and i would be eternally
grateful as can be
don’t mind if you don’t feel the same
that’s just part of the game
but mind that i will go insane
whenever you call my name

Tuesday, October 21, 1997

kiss

i.
the party's over
but i don't want it over
coz i'm not over
you
seemed like the only person
who put some direction
in my
life
seems so short
i have something to tell you
but must i tell you
now
seems like the good time
you're the one and only one on my mind..
*
it's hard to say it with my lips..
it wants your tender kiss..
oh my heart keeps saying this..
i fell for you..
ii.
it isn't easy
to say please me
i don't see me
worthy of
you
never changed
since i first saw you
i remember
staring
deep into your eyes
you were perfect
i was suspect
of falling
down on my knees
now you are taken
i will take you away..

Wednesday, April 09, 1997

wish

(alternate title: i wish)
9 april 1997

even if i don’t have the world
as long as i have you
i’d rather have nothin’ at all
as long as i have you

i wish i had the money
i’d pay to be with you
i wish that i could fly
i’d fly right back to you

i wish i can become you
i'd know i am near you
[and i wish i never left
if i knew it was me & you

if only i had the world
i'd give it all to you
i wish i breathed in water
i'd cross the pacific to you

i wish that i could fly so high
i'd fly right back to you
i wish i was beside
and have something better to do
than sing this song, sing this song, sing this song]

[new 2024 lyrics are in brackets]

Monday, January 31, 1994

forgiveness

january 1994

take a deep look into my eyes
tell me what do you see
tears are fallin’ like eternal rain
my problems are floodin’ me

what you doin maybe is just right
i know that i deserve it
but can’t you make it a little more light?
and please forgive me
please, please

baby i’m sorry
i know i was wrong
it’s your forgiveness
i’ve needed for so long
all my sadness
will go if you’ll let it
baby know that all i want
is for us to be good friends
again

how much hurt i’ve taken inside
not knowin’ what i should do
i don’t know what’s on your mind
but i know i had to tell you

all i know is i’ve lost your friendship
somethin’ now i value more than love
takin’ the pain, can’t do with hidin’ it
baby it’s your forgiveness that’s all i ask

going back to the times that we were old friends / i never realized that i made it end
i’m blamin’ myself for the whole thing / situations made me stop givin’ you rings
on the phone, yeah i know that you have lost your trust in me / and that’s the same thing goin’ on with jing
i never really want to lose any friends / i value it more than your love so please give me a second chance

Friday, December 31, 1993

buffet jam (you got me thinkin’ o’you)

december 1993

you got me thinkin’ o’ you

you got me thinkin’ o’ you
i wish that you feel it too
you know that i really do
you got me thinkin’ of

you

oh yeah

Wednesday, March 31, 1993

give you everything

(alternate title: "give u everything")
march 1993

give you everything
my heart will
give you everything
just ask for it baby
everything
i will
give you everything

you are the one in my life
who will be here by my side
forever we’ll be in love
and i’ll give you things that you’ve never dreamed of

just ask for it baby

you are the one in my life
forever in my mind
no doubt i’ll love only you
and all i have will be just for you