We’ve talked about it before, here on the blog. The current music that you hear on the radio is trash sex music, it has nothing to do with love.
So every now and then we have to do a lil music education here on the site. Every blue moon we give a tribute of sorts to the brothers who sing, and sang real music.
These were songs by grown men, with grown men problems, and grown men situations.
They weren’t talking about, wanting a girl with a big booty, they were talking about matters of the heart, and not having sex but instead, making love!
On the next few pages I’ll present 5 love songs (with lyrics) that can break a brother down if it catches him on the wrong day.
We’re talking about the day that his woman leaves him, the pollen count is high and he accidentally left all of the windows open at the house LOL.
Check them out then let us know what songs you would add to our list.
O’JAYS ““ CRY TOGETHER
LYRICS:
You know, me and my woman
We’ve been goin’ through a lot of changes for about six months or so
It’s been real hard to talk to one another
You know a relationship ain’t nothin’ without communication
How we were lying in the bed
The both of us lookin’ at the ceiling overhead
Eyes wide open, about 3 O’Clock in the mornin’
I said, “Baby, we can’t go on this way”
She said, “You’re right”
I said, “I know you love me and I love you”
Then we start holding each other
I felt a tear roll down my face
Last night me and my woman
We cried, cried together
Said we cried {Cry}, cried {Cry}, cried {Cry}
We cried together (Oh…oh…oh…)
Ain’t nothin’ wrong with you, no
There ain’t nothin’ wrong with me, uh-uh
We’re not the only people in the world
Who go through ups and downs
All we have to do is talk
We can work it out
Oh…oh…let me kiss you eyes
Let me wipe your tears away
Let me hold you tight
Tomorrow we’ll feel better “˜cause it’s a brand new day
Oh, last night me and my woman
We cried together
Said we cried {Cry}, cried {Cry}, cried {Cry}, cried
We cried together (Oh…oh…oh…)
Now we had ties when we laughed hearty
We’d even go out on the town and we’d party, party, party
Every day the sun doesn’t shine
Sometimes it has to rain
Just like we enjoy the pleasure
We have to stand the pain
Oh, let me kiss you eyes
Let me wipe the tears away
Oh, let me hold you tight
Let’s talk to each other, I wanna hear what you got to say
Oh…last night, sweet last night me and my woman
We cried together
Said we cried {Cry}, cried {Cry}, cried {Cry}
We cried together, together
And then we and then we and then we and then we made love [Love, love]
{Ooh…ooh…ooh…}
Love like we never made love before
You know we stopped huggin’ each other
And kissin’ {Cry, cry together} and I wipe the tears from my face
And there was love all over the place {Cry, cry together}
Said we cry {Cry, cry together}
There’s nothin’ wrong with you {Cry, cry together}
And there ain’t nothin’ wrong with me {Cry, cry together}
We’re not the only people in the world who go through ups and downs
And changes and turn arounds
LENNY WILLIAMS ““ BECAUSE I LOVE YOU
LYRICS:
Girl, you know I love you
No matter what you do
And I hope you understand me
Every word I say is true, ’cause I love you’
Baby, I’m thinkin’ of you
Tryin’ to be more of a man for you
And I don’t have much of riches
But we gonna see it through, ’cause I love you
Some men need lots of women
For their passions to feel
But I want only you, girl
If it’s in, if it’s in, if it’s in Lord’s will, ’cause I, ’cause I love you
I, I, I love you, baby
With all my heart and soul, oh, oh, oh
I love you
I need you
I want you
I need you
Oh, oh, oh, your love makes me grow stronger
It keeps goin’ on, oh, baby, I’m glad I found you
I just love to be around you, oh, baby
You’ve been so good to me, oh, baby, oh, oh, oh
You know, one time things got so bad until
I had to go to one of my friends and talk to him
And I told him, I said, “You know
I’m having problems with the woman that I love
It seems that I call her on the phone and I, I just can’t get her to answer
And then I went to her house and I saw a car parked in the driveway
I knocked on the door, but still my knocks went unanswered
And then I went home and I, I watched television until television went off
And then I played my records until I just didn’t want to hear them
Anymore and finally I went to bed
But I found myself waking up a few hours later
And the tears were running down my face” And my friend told me
He said, “Lenny, you just oughta forget about her”
But I told my friend, I said, “You know, maybe you’ve never been in love
Like I’ve been in love, and maybe you’ve never felt the things that I’ve felt”
But this is what I told my friend
I said, “You know, sometimes you get lonely
You get lonely, you get lonely”
Oh, oh, oh and I cry, I cry
Oh, oh, oh
And the tears would fill up in the wells, in the wells of my eyes, oh baby
And then it got so bad, it got so bad
Till one time I thought I’d roll myself up in a big ol’ ball and die
And then I met you, darlin’ and you smiled at me
Oh, oh, it was such a pretty smile, yes, it was
And you reached out your hand
You helped me, you helped me, you helped, oh
I’m glad, baby, I’m glad, baby, oh, oh, oh, baby
I won’t ever leave you, baby, I won’t ever grieve you, baby
I’m gonna love you, oh, oh, oh, baby
I’m glad, I’m glad, baby
Oh, oh, yeah, baby, oh, oh, oh
I love you, I love you
I love you, I love you, oh
I love you, I love you
I love you, I love you
I love you, I love you
I love you
DONNEL JONES ““ WHERE I WANNA BE
LYRICS:
I said I left my baby girl a message
Sayin’ I won’t be coming home
I’d rather be alone
She doesn’t fully understand me
That I’d rather leave than to cheat
If she gives me some time
I can be the man she needs
But there’s a lot of lust inside of me
And we’ve been together since our teenage years
I really don’t mean to hurt her, but I need some time
To be alone
But when you love someone
You just don’t treat them bad
Oh, how I feel so sad
Now that I wanna leave
She’s crying her heart to me
How could you let this be?
I just need time to see
Where I wanna be
Where I wanna be…
Sweet little dee-do-dee-dee…
I don’t mean to hurt you, baby, oh, no, no…
Never did I imagine
That you would play a major part
In a decision that’s so hard
Do I leave, do I stay, do I go?
I think about my life and what matters to me the most
Girl, the love that we share is real
But in time your heart will heal
I’m not saying I’m gone
But I have to find what life is like
Without you
Sweet little dee-do-dee-dee…
I don’t mean to hurt you, baby
See when you love someone
You just don’t treat them bad
Oh, how I feel so sad
Now that I wanna leave
She’s crying her heart to me
How could you let this be?
And I just need time to see
Where I wanna be
Where I wanna be…
HAROLD MELVIN AND THE BLUENOTES “I MISS YOU”
LYRICS:
Ooh…ooh…
(Oh, I)
Ooh…ooh…ooh…ooh…ooh…ooh…
(Oh, I)
(I miss you, baby)
(Oh…)
(Oh, I) Oh, I (Oh, I)
(Miss you) I miss you, baby (Miss you)
(Miss you, miss you) I swear I do
(Miss you) Mmm, hmm
Every since you went away
I ain’t been doing nothing but
(Thinking, thinking) (2x)
With my head in my hands
(Thinking)
You been away from so long
and I just don’t think I can carry on so I start
(Drinking, drinking) (2x)
Each and every night
(Drinking)
(Ah…ah…ah…)
Trying to drown all my loneliness away
I don’t forget a day
Fall down on my knees wishing for your return
And oh, how I hurt
‘Cause I (Oh, I) Oh, I (Oh, I)
(Miss you) I miss you, baby
(Miss you)
(Miss you, miss you)
Oh, Lord (Miss you)
You can look at my eyes and see
That a great big man like me has been
(Crying, crying) (2x)
Crying my heart and soul out to you, baby
(Crying)
Sitting in my lonely room
Filled with nothing but gloom and I feel like
(Dying, dying) (2x)
Hey, y’all help me
(Dying)
(Ah…ah…ah…)
‘Cause ever since the day you left
I don’t know what to do with myself
Oh…I wish for your return
And oh, how I hurt
‘Cause I (Oh, I) Oh, I (Oh, I)
(Miss you) I miss you, baby
(Miss you)
(Miss you, miss you)
I miss you, baby (Miss you), oh…I
(Ooh…ooh…ooh…ooh…ooh…ooh…ooh…ooh…)
Oh, I
I miss you, baby
(Miss you, miss you) (2x)
I swear I do (Miss you)
Oh, I (2x)
(Oh, I) Oh, I (Oh, I)
(Miss you, miss you)
I miss you, baby, without you, baby, they’re ain’t no future
(Miss you, miss you, miss you) Yeah, oh…no
(Oh, I) Oh, I (Oh, I)
I miss you, baby
(Miss you, miss you)
I miss you, baby, I miss you, baby
(Miss you, miss you, miss you)
Without you I don’t know what to do with myself, what to do with my time
Hmm
Hello
Did I disturb you
I didn’t mean to take up too much of your time but
Just thought I’d give you a ring and see how you was doing
How’s, how’s everything
A friend of mine told me he saw you the other day
Said you was still looking good
Heh, made me feel kind of good, you know
Told me, told me that you did ask about me
Heh
I been really meaning to try to get to talk to you
For now but
You know how a man’s pride is
Sometimes it kind of won’t let him do what he wanna do
(Oh, I) Yeah, baby
(Oh, I), come back to me, darling
(Miss you, miss you) (2x)
(Miss you, miss you)
I don’t want nobody else, hey, hey, baby (Miss you)
(Oh, I, Oh, I) Hey, baby
(Miss you, miss you)
I miss you, baby
(Miss you, miss you, miss you)
I miss you, baby, I don’t know what to do with my time, with myself
Without you, baby
Hmm, guess what
I know this will knock you dead but
I even went out and got a gig
Oh, forgot you know hip to the hip talk
Plain J-O-B, baby
In eight hours a day, all the overtime I can get
I don’t know, I guess it might be too late but
I swear I miss you
(Oh, I, Oh, I) Yeah, Lord knows
(Miss you, miss you)
(Miss you)
Don’t do me like this, baby (Miss you, miss you)
Yeah, I’m on my knees, I’m begging you please
(Oh, I, Oh, I)
Oh, baby, baby, baby, baby, I miss you, baby
(Miss you, miss you)
(Miss you)
Oh, Lord (Miss you, miss you)
Hey, girl, hey, girl
Hey, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby
(Oh, I, Oh, I)
I can’t go on without you, baby
(Miss you, miss you)
(Miss you, miss you, miss you)
What am I gonna do, what can I say
I love you, baby, ha
Heh, remember how I used to always say how lucky I done been
You know being they got that lottery, I hit it
I’d like to kind of make up for
A lot of things that just seemed not to go right
Don’t want you to think I’m trying to buy back your love or your friendship
But now I feel I got a chance to kind of make things up to you a little bit
Heh, enough about you and me
How’s my little son?
Hmm, he ever ask about me?
Just a little bit
does he still like to go down by the supermarket?
If I could just
If I could just see you
Can’t really say what you mean or what you want over the phone
I swear I miss you
You done heard it ten times or more but
I swear I done changed (2)
(Oh, I, Oh, I) I miss you, baby
(Miss you, miss you)
(Miss you, miss you) Oh, Lord)
Miss you, baby, yeah, baby, yeah, baby, yeah, baby
(Oh, I, Oh, I)
(Miss you, miss you)
(Miss you, miss you, miss you, baby)
Donny Hathaway – A Song For You
LYRICS:
I’ve been so many places in my life and time
I’ve sung a lot of songs I’ve made some bad rhyme
I’ve acted out my love in stages
With ten thousand people watching
But we’re alone now and I’m singing this song for you
I know your image of me is what I hope to be
I’ve treated you unkindly but darlin’ can’t you see
There’s no one more important to me
Darlin’ can’t you please see through me
Cause we’re alone now and I’m singing this song for you
You taught me precious secrets of the truth witholding nothing
You came out in front and I was hiding
But now I’m so much better and if my words don’t come together
Listen to the melody cause my love is in there hiding
I love you in a place where there’s no space or time
I love you for in my life you are a friend of mine
And when my life is over
Remember when we were together
We were alone and I was singing this song for you
You taught me precious secrets of the truth witholding nothing
You came out in front and I was hiding
But now I’m so much better and if my words don’t come together
Listen to the melody cause my love is in there hiding
I love you in a place where there’s no space or time
I love you for in my life you are a friend of mine
And when my life is over
Remember when we were together
We were alone and I was singing this song for you
We were alone and I was singing this song for you