17 Will Get You 20

(verse 1)
She hit him with a right hook
When he wasn’t looking
Said this girl she don’t fight fair
She don’t care

She tells him that she wants him
She says that it’s not wrong
So that he might play along
He tries to be so strong

It’s almost every night
He tells her it’s not right he says
And she just asks him why

(chorus)
Why can’t we
Be more
Than what we are?

She’s almost too close
For him
Not to say yes

Then he says
Everything I wanna do is not right
Then he say another time, another place
It’s all right, it’s alright yeah

(verse 2)
He fights off the temptation
The thoughts inside his mind
Life is so unkind
All this time

He does not want to tell her
That things the way they are
Have already gone too far
They’ve gone so far

It’s almost every night
He tells her it’s not right he says
And she just asks him why

(chorus x1)

Yeah...
Now who’s gonna know now?

Then he says
Everything I wanna do is not right
Then he say another time, another place
It’s all right, it’s alright yeah

People stand around me and ask me why?
Why do you act that way at your age?
I say I don’t understand the question
I say that I’m just alive
And it’s you who’s dead inside
It’s people like me who keep the world young
Smiling like an child on their birthday
And make the trees want to become green
And after every winter my pain brings the rain
A new beginning that washes away yesterday
A new season comes every year
And a new day breaks everyday
Not like you, you don’t see
What if God showed up at your door?
Would he ask you to come out and play?
Or would He only be there
To ask you how to get to my house
Come out and play, come play with me
We’ll build a fort, we’ll climb a tree
But you won’t and you don’t know why
So you might as well be left behind
With the all the trained thoughts that cloud your mind
I feel like it could be my fault
Like I can’t show the world
The child we all have inside
I know I am, I know I’m me
And how with my dreams running wild
I want to make it all alright
For you and me tonight
I think if you could see through my eyes
Just one glance
You just might smile
You just might cry
But for that one moment
Just one time
You will find the inner child
And you will feel alive
I swear this to you, I swear you will
Please, don’t worry about me
I’ll do just fine
Better than most
It’s me who worries about you
And you think I’m childish
I know I am and I’m ok
I’m just worried about you

(vesre 1)
I will go there
I will meet you
In the morning
Just as long as you guide me by the hand
Well you say you’ll take me to heaven
Or even better
To my bed then
Lay me down there

(verse 2)
I say oh yeah
I say right there
Said you touch me
And you just seem to know my body well
Well I said that if you can love me
Just as well as you touch me
I’ll be fine
I’ll be fine and I’ll take you tonight

(chorus)
Let’s go get drunk on some wine
And we’ll dance on through the night
Then we’ll go up to my bedroom
And turn off all the lights

I wanna touch you
And then I’ll put you to sleep
I want to feel you breathing
As you lie next to me
Oh yeah, right there
I say tomorrow will be ok

(verse 3)
Say oh no
It’s not too slow
We’re gonna have to take our time
Our time to get it right now
We can do what we want
Said there will be some distractions
But they can’t fight our attraction
Anyway here…

(verse 2)

(chorus)

(outro)

(Verse 1)
I look in your eyes and see a doubt
I know you’re lying and I want to shout…out loud
I know there’s something that you told me wrong
Otherwise I would not be sitting here writing
And singing this song

(Chorus)
And there is something inside of me
That tells me you’re not a part of me now
I know, I know
You’ve been lying to me (x2)

Can tell by the way your body moves
Towards me

(Verse 2)
Well something inside of me died that day
Like I was lost, cold, hungry, in the middle of the city
And I could not find my way
Like the trees don’t let the light shine through
You were uptight, always right, looking for a fight
And I could not count on you

(Chorus x 2)

Can tell by the way your body moves
Towards me now
And singin’ I…

(Verse 2)

(Chorus x2)

(into adlib jam)

(Chorus x1)

And there’s so much waisted life
Spent thinking ‘bout what I did last night
In these dreams I never live
That rattle in my mind

And the way I feel today
Is different than yesterday
And these dreams I know
Are not my soul
But I think about them anyway now

Every time I wake my dreams
They fall down slow and never come back to me
And I fell like that tonight

Every time I lose my soul
You bring it back to me
Better than it was in the first place love

I know
That you and me
Can make reality feel good
And not do what we’re told
Live young
Then die when we are old

Sometimes we all lose sight
Of who we are
And we’re left sleeping like we might
Die here alone tonight

Every time I lose my soul
You bring it back to me
Better than it was when I lost it in the first place now

I know
That you help me
Sing these melodies
And give my feelings a sung voice
Yet I still sleep
It’s not my choice

But every time I wake my dreams
They fall down slow and never come back to me
And I fell like that tonight
And I know
Know that
You’ll bring me back to me

Every time
I lose my soul you bring it back to me
Better than it was
Better than it was
Better than it was before

You bring it back to me
You bring me back to me

(Verse 2)
I said damn Ma’ I feel so lost
How do I know if I made the right choices?
She said you learn when you pay your cost
Or just listen to the sound of my voice...and I did and then she said...

(Chorus)
She said son, yes it all makes sense
I live my life just to watch you grow...my boy now take it slow...
For every choice there’s a consequence
And that’s all you’ll ever have to know...my boy now take it slow...

(Verse 3)
I had the best dream just yesterday
About how you can always right my wrong
You always know just what to say
Well I don’t, that’s why I wrote this song

(sub-verse 4)
Hail Mary full of Grace
Amazing Grace how sweet the sound
To hear the sound of your voice...falling all around
I was lost...but now I am found

(Verse 5)
I know you’ll forever be there for me
It makes me calm, so I let go a sigh
She gives her love unconditionally
It’s all just enough to make a grown boy cry

(chorus)

Every time I look into tomorrow
I see your face smiling down
And every time I look in the mirror
I see your face smiling down
And all I can say is...
Mother don’t cry for me

(verse 2)
Everybody’s got a dream
A dream that might come true
But the dream I have will go unanswered
Because I know you
Don’t feel like I do

(chorus)
And all I know is I will wait for you
And all I know is I can’t stay with you, here tonight
I need to leave, I gotta breathe and all I need’s
A little affection, attention from you
I don’t think it’s all that much to ask

(verse3)
Well I tried my best
To give you what you need
Well I guess my best wasn’t good enough
For anyone but me and I hope you see

(chorus x2)

(verse 4)
Some sing of broken hearts
Hearts that break in two
Well my heart it broke in a thousand pieces
The day that I met you