Native Tongue

Like this....i've never seen a woman baby
That looks quite the way you do
The way you shake that thing now honey,
Can't take my eyes off you

The way you work it honey
It brings me to my knees
You give me what i'm looking for,
I'll give you what you need
And i said

Chorus:
I got the one thing you want,
Get it all night long
You got the one thing i need,
When your body talks
I hear it talking to me
Say, get it all night long
Woman why can't you see
You're my one thing

I got a world of trouble, baby
It's going on inside my head
Playing your game, got me half insane
Trying to make sense of every word you said

Stop beating around the bush
You're just wasting time
Let's get down to the business honey
And lay it one the line
And i said

Chorus

Tell me the news,
Let's hear your story
You think you got nothing to lose
You better use it up
Before it gets old, baby
And becomes yesterday's news

Chorus out

Well it's friday night and i'm waiting
On your call girl, like i do
Am i wasting my time by this telephone line
Waiting on your call to come through

Chorus:
I should be already over you
Tell me mama, what can i do
It's been a long hard road that you put me through
Seven days over you
Seven days, seven days over you
Seven days over you

Kick it

I kick and fight for you baby
But that's never enough for you
You've been twisted and torn since the day you were born
You make a game of breaking hearts in two

Now i want to give up but i dig the rush too much
I guess that's what love will do
So drag your heart-stopping mind trip downtown, girl
By friday night i'll find someone new

Chorus
Lord knows what you put me through

Already over you, tell me mama what can i do (repeat)

Chorus out

Instrumental

A verdict heard by the jury's word...they're lying
I watch as the victims of the slave ships battle with the demons inside
But no wrong ever righted or proved by the innocent dying
I pray from the ashes of the ruins, the answer will rise

Chorus:
Hey (the scream)
Hear their screams as they rise from the ashes
Hey
Lord save the soul who can hear the scream

A child is born to a world that is slowly dying
He chooses to march to the beat of a different drum
A man lays dead in the street, his mama is crying
The people, they measure this man by the damage he's done

Chorus
Lord praise the man who can hear the scream

Forgive us for our sins, i never meant the things i did
I never meant, i never meant, i never meant

Chorus (repeat)

Listen up, child, there's one thing i've got to make clear
Yeah, i do
You don't see it coming
Hear it coming
Acting like you know nothing
About that strange rumor going on around here

Take me back to the land of the living
Take me down where the sun do shine
Take me back, things be different
You get it, got it, ooooh, you better get it now

Chorus:
Stay alive, let your soul rise up from the bottom
Stay alive, don't let it take you down for the very last time
Stay alive, it don't do you no good looking up from the bottom
Stay alive, don't let it take you down for the very last time

You talk about lies and pain
It don't do you no good with your face in the cocaine

Love, hate, watch that mother
She'll bring you down like no other i've seen
If you know what i mean

Take me back, got to face that demon
Take me down, don't play its fool
Take me back, things be different
You get it, got it, ooooh, you better get it now

Chorus

No, i ain't seen nothin'
No, i ain't seen nothin'
No, i ain't seen nothin' like you before

Repeat chorus

Now pardon my personal demons, child but if you do insist
Sit down and listen to me story awhile, cause it goes something like this

The joint was small but we were having a ball
At a place called the blue duck inn
When i couldn't help but notice her
My future wife walked in

I needed me a dose of her, so i got a little closer
And this is what she said
My old man stands about six foot five
And if he catches you, you're dead

Now i don't need none of that
Giving me the blues
The old man sitting next to me said
Son, let me tell you

Chorus:
Life, you just can't fake it
Love, you gotta make it
Time, you better take it
Lord, ain't that the truth
Hear me out
Your heart will surely feel it
Women come and steal it
Time can only heal it
Lord, ain't that the truth

I save friday night for the ladies
Saturday night for my gin
Come sunday morning, i'm asking the good lord
To forgive me for my sins

Lately my heave-ho get-up-and-go
Wouldn't get me out of bed
I felt like some big wrecking ball
Done hit upside my head

Now i don't need a preacher man
Telling me how to run my life
Until an angel sitting next to me
Said son, heed my advice. she said

Repeat chorus

You better get your story straight
What comes around goes around

Chorus

On a cold night in a hotel in new orleans
Came the final blow
And somehow somewhere we lost sight
In our search for that pot of gold

And all that happened i don't understand
Could somebody here, somebody please explain to me
Cause i'm feeling so damn deceived

And i can't run, can't hide, can't get nothing right lately
Theatre of my soul....play on child

Ashes to ashes...light the good lord lays us down
Dust to dust, oh, no
The time has come to lay to rest the years
All the years it took this heart to trust

Maybe too much too soon, i couldn't get my head on straight
All that worry, just wasted time
And now it's much too late to save it

Long forgotten midnight dancer
Plays her final role
The curtain falls and i'm still standing
Theatre of my soul you left in vain
Could someone please explain, and i said

Solo

I know that nothing's the same
Riding blind on the winds of change
But in my head that scene just keeps on playing

Long forgotten midnight dancer
Plays her final role, oh, yes she does
Can't run, can't hide, can't get nothing right lately
The curtain falls and i'm still standing
In the theatre of my soul
Can't run, can't hide, can't get nothing right lately
When time it just keeps on passing,
I got to let it go, let it roll, let it roll, let it roll
Can't run, can't hide, can't get nothing right lately
I keep searching for those long lost answers
In the theatre of my soul
Theatre of my soul

Well it's four o'clock in the morning
And i'm knocking on your door
She says she's tired of me
Don't want me here no more

She said stop your pissin' and moanin' and groanin'
Go sleep outside with them dogs
Now honey let me please explain
Cause i didn't mean you no wrong

I didn't mean to hurt you baby
Wouldn't do that to you
She said bite your lip, now, sweet child
You're the bastard son of a thousand blues

Well my daddy was gone by the day i was born
And my mama i have never seen
I was born in the back of a black cadillac
And raised by a gypsy queen

And as a child i was hell gone wild
Raised in the eye of a storm
By the time i was ten i was doing time again
Cause i knew what that gun was for

Chorus:
No, no, no, i'm the bastard son of a thousand blues
No, no, no, don't know what i'm going to do
No, no, no, i'm the bastard son of a thousand blues
No, no, no, tell me, mama, what i'm going to do

Ladies have come and ladies have gone
But there's one i remember quite well
Years have gone past, but her memory lasts
But the story i cannot tell

Well i've lived and i've lied
And i've loved and i've tried
To put my soul to good use

Guess i'm shit out of luck
Cause that name, it just stuck
I'm the bastard son of a thousand blues, dig

Chorus, out