Enuff Z'nuff : Strength

Hard FM / USA
(1991 - Atco / Atlantic Records)
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Lyrics

1. HEAVEN OR HELL

You broke my heart when you broke my face,
And it came apart when you brought disgrace.
And I'll never know what's on your mind!
I took my blows and I took my pain.
There was nothing lost and there's nothing gained.
But I know that down deep in your heart there's a place
That's much finer, I know, than the look on your face.
Don't you wanna go to Heaven? Why you live your life in hell?
Baby all has been forgiven, It's Heaven or Hell.
It tore me up and it pushed me around
And it turned my everything upside down.
I still love you, and I don't know why.
So the time has come that you come to me,
Turn our messed up notes into harmony,
'Cause we're humming a song that we don't really know
Let's get back to the one that we knew long ago.
Repeat Chorus.
Can't you try to roll a seven? Can't you try to ring a bell?
Baby everything's forgiven, it's Heaven or Hell.


2. MISSING YOU

I'm feelin' like I'm needin' a drink. Here I am without you.
I can't go on I can't even think. I'm a man who can't do
What I need to do to get over you after all that we've been through.
'Cause I'm wanting you and I'm needing you,
And I'm missing you. Oh, I'm missing you.
You left with out a trace and no one can take your place.
'Cause I'm missing you. 'Cause I'm missing you.
I can't believe you're gone, how am I to carry on?
I love you and I need you so much but you're tearing me apart.
You've been so cold you don't keep in touch and all I want is a fresh start.
And I hope that I do get over you after all that we've been though.
'Cause I'm wanting you and I'm needing you.


3. STRENGTH

Now is no time to judge our love, with all the mess around us times are tough.
And I know it takes more than I give now, to build a world where you and I can live.
And I need you now to help me through, to be the one I know is true.
To hold my hand, to keep the faith. To be my guard, to be my strength.
I know that I want you to be mine. Friends for life, the arms that comfort me.
Oh but baby it'll take some time to be like others. To build a world to build a family.


4. IN CROWD

To live to be in the public eye is so miserable.
To have to dress a certain way is so miserable.
To run your life by what people say is so miserable.
My hair's too long and you can't pronounce my name,
My favorite songs everybody says are lame.
I've just been rejected by the in crowd.
My life's not affected by the in crowd.
To always have cool things to say is so miserable.
To always have cool chicks to lay is so miserable.
To always have to have the look is so miserable.
To have to live life by the book is so miserable.
I can't find love no matter how I've tried,
But I don't mind 'cause it takes you for a ride.
Repeat Chorus.
I've just been rejected by the in crowd.
I'm unselected, unrespected, who is the in crowd anyway?
My hair's too long and you can't pronounce my name,
My favorite songs everybody says are lame.
I can't find love, no it's just a losing game.


5. HOLLY WOOD YA

Today I gonna send the papers, tomorrow gonna blow it off.
Then I'm gonna show the neighbor I've finally had enough
Of livin' on paper money and the paper ain't thick enough.
To pay the price of lovin' something I just don't seem to love.
Holly wood ya be my merry-go-round?
In this hard stone cold world that's got my feet on the ground.
And all the season taste bad in my mouth and it's got me down.
Holly wood ya.
I haven't got time for wondering, ain't making no time for hope.
I've gotta be doin' something instead of getting hooked on dope.
Got me over the barrel but I feel like standing up.
Life ain't always fair now baby, controlling your own luck.
Repeat Chorus.
Hollywood ya try to keep my head on right?
Hollywood ya fill my hungry appetite?
Oh Holly could I find the fruit and take a bite?
You've got to stand here in my corner as I win this fight.


6. THE WORLD IS A GUTTER

…get your crack here, guns, whores, whatever…
Here is your world, world that you've made, made to destroy you.
Oh what a world, screwed up young girls, all unemployed too.
You can't trust nobody, touch nobody, be somebody, oh.
Crack, junkies, guns, sluts 'n' cocaine. Men killing men feeling no pain.
You've all gone insane, the world is a gutter!
Why's it today, things are this way, and what have we done here?
The money we've made, they tax it away for nothing we see clear.
All the poor are dying, war planes flying. Drugs been buying, oh.
Repeat Chorus.
The air that we're breathing is dirty. Your life's nearly over by forty.
You've all gone insane, the world is a gutter!
Is a gutter...
Stay with your race and your color face. It don't sound like brothers.
The heat on your case 'cause you can't erase what you've done to others.
It's to late to save us, fate has gave us sins that crave us, oh.


7. GOODBYE

Pretty woman drive me out of my head, she said a lot of things she shouldn't have said
And I know the feelings for her in my heart are dead, 'cause now we're sleeping separate beds.
Now that the blue's turned to gray, now that our hearts long to stray.
There's nothing warm, there's nothing true.
With every staged kiss goodnight, I guess it's better than suicide.
Not touching me, not touching you.
Now that time has took it's toll on our love and there is no magic in it left,
And the only words that I can think of are goodbye, babe.
Why should I care what you do after the pain we've been through?
It may be all we've shared as two.
And Ii know it's easier to stay but we've got to walk away.
It's killing me, it's killing you.


8. LONG WAY TO GO

A 1,2,3,4!
I met her on a weekend, didn't have no boyfriend.
Every vibe that she shed told me what I need to know.
Don't wanna take it too slow.
We've done a whole lot of shakin' but we still gotta long way to go.
Do it the back seat, do it on a dark street.
In-between the bed sheets, anywhere two lovers can go.
Repeat Chorus.
Underneath a full moon, in the little girls room.
Listen to the old tunes, anyway two loves can go.


9. MOTHER'S EYES

Isn't it wrong and isn't is strange that a man goes by the color of his face?
And isn't it time we've drawn the line and decided to become a human race, yeah?
Behind that mother's eyes, what makes a man so tough,
That he don't care if anybody lives or dies?
Give him some love, give him some love.
(It might save your life)
Night after night I say the same prayer, and if anybody's listening out there,
Give it a break, it's all give and take. But the taking and giving isn't fair, yeah!
Repeat Chorus.
I'm just a man who don't understand, why is one man not just like another man.
Nothing can change 'til we arrange all of life's important fingers on one hand, yeah.


10. BABY LOVES YOU

You know I, I've got a little problem. I have to be the one, the second guy to none.
But I've got a pretty little girlfriend who tells me all the time she'll be forever mine,
And she says...
That your baby loves you,
Yes your baby loves you.
When your baby loves you,
Nothing's gonna hurt you.
Some nights I lie here with eyes open, with so much on my mind, my teeth begin to grind.
And she'll just hold me and bring me to my senses, and everything's ok when I will hear her say.
And she says...
Repeat Chorus.
When your baby loves you,
All your dreams can come true.
When your baby loves you, Nothing's gonna hurt you.
Baby Loves You!
Love me tonight, love me tonight.
Come on pretty darlin, love me tonight.
Love me tonight, love me tonight.
Come on pretty baby love me tonight.
Love me tonight, love me tonight,
Come on pretty darlin love me tonight.
Love me tonight, love me tonight,
Come on pretty baby, love me when...


11. BLUE ISLAND

Things used to be so good, made love the best we could.
But at times when I should have understood that we would be what we'd be.
All she'd do was complain. All I did was insane.
She came out of the rain, found out my name.
I took a plane, nothing's the same.
Baby doll, I left her back in blue island.
And through it all, all she got from me was pain.
Come a day when we've forgot the time we spent crying,
I'll be around my baby doll.
Hung out with all my friends, some weekends never ended.
But again and again I made her fend for herself, left her unattended.
Repeat Chorus.
Looking back there was so much fun, hung out with nearly everyone.
She slept the nights when I never saw the sun, she cooled down I let my motor run.
If I could get her back some day, I'd do things in a different way.
Remember all the things to say, and baby I'll remember your birthday.


12. THE WAY HOME

A little spark has started fire, my will to be alone is over now.
I'd slay the dragon, walk the wire.
This little girl just takes me higher and higher and higher.
If I lose her, my everything would crumble.
If I lose her, life would not be the same.
If I lose her, my world would take a tumble.
In her eyes I see the light, I see the way home.
She makes me want to be her man. I take a little pride in being with her.
She moves me anyway she can,
Just what she sees in me I'll never understand.
Coming Home (Vie, Z'Nuff)
Taken from the best years of your life.
Took your main intentions and replaced them with a knife.
Gunfire ringing through your weary mind.
Fighting for your life.
A hell on earth but now it's over.
All there to greet you, 'cause there's no one could beat you.
Though we can't hardly reach you, you're coming home.
What went through your mind after the kill?
Will nightmares wake you up, I know they probably always will.
Try to pick up where you left before, they put you in the war.
A hell on earth but now it's over.
Repeat Chorus.
Good to see you, hate to be you.
But we're all there to greet you, you're coming home.
MIA/POW


13. SOMETHING FOR FREE

You're feeling like the world fell down around you.
Feeling like you just don't even care.
And all that hate and hurt that seemed to find you,
Stealing may be all that gets you there.
When everybody seems to talk behind you,
And you can't believe a word nobody says.
And the pill in the bottom of the bottle where I've come to find you
Is your best friend. Well that's all got to end, 'cause baby...
You got something from me.
Something for you, something for free.
You got something from me,
Something for you, something for free.
It's so sad the way you just don't talk about it.
Playing all your money on one hand.
When anything goes smooth you tend to doubt it, but understand.
Oh, that everything in life you've got to pay for,
And you can't avoid every unpleasant thing.
If life's so bad then tell me what you stay for,
Well here's one thing, baby, here's one simple thing that you got,
Repeat Chorus.
(You've got)
You've got the something (you've got a something).
I'll give you something (I'll give you something).
We all got something (we all got something).
Something for free.


14. TIME TO LET YOU GO

You've lost that feeling in your kiss. I'm only holding up the show.
My god your face I'm gonna miss, But I see it's time to let you go.
You don't dig lovin' me no more. We used to make it long and slow.
I've cried so long my eyes are sore. But I see it's time to let you go
It ain't no good if it don't feel good, real good, it still felt good to me.
But if you feel you should, it's understood, and go where you should be.
Take everything that smells like you, leave no reminders here to show,
That at one time, man we were two, but now it's time to let you go.

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