I was never one for singing what I really feel / Except tonight, I’m bringing everything I know that’s real / Stars, they come and go, they come fast, they come slow / They go like the last light of the sun, all in a blaze
Baixar Mais Tocadas: Nina Simone
Don’t talk, just hold me closer / Let me sit on top of your knee / Go ahead and take care of business / For me, for me, for me
The name of this tune is Mississippi goddam / And I mean every word of it / Alabama’s gotten me so upset / Tennessee made me lose my rest
I would do anything, anything you say / If you would just be mine / What more, what more can I say? / I would give anything, anything I own
I, who never had much / I now have a treasure / A love too great to measure / I am blessed with happiness
Love me love me love me / Say you do / Let me fly away / with you
Like a flower waiting to bloom / Like a light bulb in a dark room / I am sitting here waiting for you to come home and turn me on / Like the desert waiting for rain
Beat-up little seagull / On a marble stair / Tryin’ to find the ocean / Lookin’ everywhere
You’ve got to learn to show a happy face although you’re full of misery / You mustn’t show a trace of sadness and never look for simple things / You’ve got to learn although it’s very hard the way(?) you pocket in your pride / Sometimes face humiliation while you’re burning up inside
What’s gonna happen now? In all of our cities? / My people are rising; they’re living in lies / Even if they have to die / Even if they have to die at the moment they know what life is