Lenny Kravitz

Sitting on top of the world



Remember the times we used to play

We'd sing and we'd dance all damn day

But all I do is sing the blues

But have I forsake you by telling you

What you must do

And all I do is sing the blues



But I would never lie, let things go by

Leave you in road to die

I would never ever say goodbye



Never gonna say goodbye

Never gonna say goodbye



Remember the times that we

Used to share

You got to remember the times

That we used to share

That we used to share



But the only way for you to survive

Is to open your heart it will guide

You wanna stay in this world of music and life

You got to turn around

And spread a little love and get high


Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule - 1989

Let love rule


Love is gentle as a rose

And love can conquer any war

It's time to take a stand

Brothers and sister join hands



We got to let love rule

Let love rule



We got to let love rule

Let love rule



Love transcends all space and time

And love can make a bitter child smile

Can't you see this won't go wrong

But we got to be strong

We can't do it alone



We got to let love rule

Let love rule



We got to let the rule

Let love rule


Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule - 1989

Freedom train


It's on the freedom train

Come on dance on the freedom train


Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule - 1989

My precious love


You came to me like a dream

How would I know it was a scheme

To get me to you



Your eyes burned like fire

Through my heart

Allthough we were lifetimes apart



Making mistakes was my game

Your life I tried to rearrange

But now I know a better way



My precious love



Now you're a woman

You've got a child

And those days of being wild

Are gone with the past



But now baby you still ain't got no home

All those endless nights you've had to roam

But I know a better way



My precious love


Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule - 1989

I build this garden for us


In this garden

This lovely garden

I build a temple of love

Walk with the Father

Won't be a bother

To touch the Earth as it was



We'll farm the land each day

And in the sunshine we will play

Glory glory for the day He came

Our tears had gone away

We'll make love in the shade

And in theocean we will bathe

Little fishies in the sea

Say hooray



I build this garden for us



In this garden

Our children will grow

Darling this is a must

We'll be so happy

Our little family

So full love and trust



And darling when we're old

We'll close the gates and lock the door

Our love will never fade away

When it's pure it forever lasts

And darling when you're cold

I'll hold you tight and keep you warm

Little darlin' gonna make it through the storm

You'll never be alone



I build this garden for us



In this garden

There'll be no war

No racial prejudice

You'll be my brother

Of any color

You'll just be okay with us

We'll live each day in peace

I hope that we will on day reach

The rest of the world

When they are ready to be teached

The Kingdom will come

Thy will will be done

On Earth as it is in Heaven



I build this garden

I build this garden for us

I build this garden for us


Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule - 1989

Fear


I smell the fear that rains inside

The thought of children who must oblige

To tainted dreams and polluted seas

The missing moon and melting trees

A mist of doom and clouds of pain

Toxic waste and acid rain

The passing of our ignorance

A liftetime spent in abstinence



Living in fear

Living in fear

I can't tell you no lies

Living in fear

Living in fear



Conditioned to hate and them to blame

Their search for God is just the same

Machines for hearts, how warped a view

Forgetting that they're human too

Waiting like a branded steer

Who first will launch the burning spear

When every day may be your last

You think we'd learn from our past



Living in fear

Living in fear

I can't tell you no lies

Living in fear

Living in fear



I smell the fear that rains inside

The thought of so many lives denied

More wounded soldiers, another burning flag

And rows and rows of body bags

No time for tears as the night falls cold

The days survivors crawl back in their holes

As for the rest they're shipped back home

Home to the rows of white tomb stones



Living in fear

Living in fear

I can't tell you no lies

Living in fear

Living in fear


Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule - 1989

Does anybody out there even care


The dream is lost

Don't let it slip away

Or bloody days won't be far away

Cause when there's no more sun

There's no where you can run



Does anybody know how many lives we've lost

Can anybody ever pay the cost

What will it take for us

To join in peace my friends

Does anybody out there even care



Wake up world before it's too late

It's time for love to conquer hate

And when that battle's won

We all can live as one



Does anybody know how many lives we've lost

Can anybody ever pay the cost

What will it take for us

To join in peace my friends

Does anybody out there even care



Riots in the streets, men dressed in white sheets

Is that what we want

A little boy hanging from a tree

and a burning cross

If we can learn that we're one

We can overcome

Before it takes us all

We'd better catch ourselves before we fall



Does anybody know how many lives we've lost

Can anybody ever pay the cost

What will it take for us

To join in peace my friends

Does anybody out there even care


Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule - 1989

Mr. Cab Driver


Mr. Cab Driver won't you stop to let me in

Mr. Cab Driver don't like my kind of skin

Mr. Cab Driver you're never gonna win



Mr. Cab Driver won't stop to pick me up

Mr. Cab Driver I might need some help

Mr. Cab Driver only thinks about himself



Chorus:



Mr. Cab Driver

Mr. Cab Driver



Mr. Cab Driver don't like the way I look

He don't like dreads he thinks we're all crooks

Mr. Cab Driver reads too many story books



Mr. Cab Driver pass me up with eyes of fire

Mr. Cab Driver thinks we're all 165'ers

Mr. Cab Driver fuck you I'm a survivor



Let me in

Chorus

Chorus


Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule - 1989

Rosemary


Little Mary was five years old

Her parents left her, she was out in the cold

Alone to live and find her way

In this great world of heartache and sin



Eyes of brown, matted locks of gold

Her flowered dress is tattered and soiled

Tear stained cheeks, her feet cold and bare

Who could have left a child so rare



Rosemary your day will come

He loved you so He gave His only son

Keep the faith in your soul

Stay down on your knees

I'm begging you please

Hold onto the beats at your heart



A burning heart and tired eyes

Howling winds for lullabys

No one there to soothe her fright

Nowhere to turn but the inward light

Because life is for believing

That your heart can turn to gold

All you need is Christ to receive it

There's eternal life for every soul



Rosemary your day will come

He loved you so He gave His only son

Keep the faith in your soul

Stay down on your knees

I'm begging you please

Hold onto the beats at your heart

He loves you

He needs you

He wants you

So don't let Him down


Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule - 1989

Be


Lord what's the matter

Am I lost

This life's a disaster, what is the cause

Am I a junkie, what is my fate

Or am I a flunkie who doesn't relate

Or am I a child so full of hate



Am I doctor or even a priest

Or am I a rapist who needs a release

A psychotic prancer

Times Square dancer

The mind can see as long as you'll be

For real with yourself

And you'll forever be



Lord what's the matter am I insane

This life's an illusion that's all it remains

Are you listening, are you Boss

Am I gonna make it up on that cross

Believe in Your name and

You'll forever be


Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule - 1989

Blues for sister someone


I know a girl who gets off

By sticking needles in her vein

Oh Lord what s ahme

She's got no money so she turns tricks

And plays dirty games

Oh Lord spare her pain

What she say she do to you

You'd have to be insane

The bathroom stall, her bedroom

The one that's always engaged

She sleeps and eats with the plague

She's got a baby in her belly

But she just don't care

What will become of the pair

Oh Lord what can she do

To get the shit out her hair

To get the shit out her hair

Oh Lord it's not fair

Blues for sister someone

Oh Lord


Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule - 1989

Empty hands


He rode in town on a white horse

With nothing in his hands

he came to gather his people

And take them to his promised land

When he came

He knew there would be bloodshed

But still no violence made his plans

He came to fight in a battle

With no guns or money

But with his empty hands



With is empty hands



They said hey body what you lookin' at

As they eyed his dreaded mane

He said my father has sent me

I've come back to reclaim

The cildren whose hearts

Were so whole and pure

Now it's you who'll die in pain

So they lunched the man

Who foolde the word

And all the children ghatered

In his empty hands



In his empty hands


Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule - 1989

Flower Child


Dressed in purple velvets

With a flower in her hair

Feel her gentle spirit

As the champa fills the air

She wears rubys on her fingers

Tiny bells upon her toes

She's the finest thing

I've ever seen

Love that ring inside her nose



Flower child yeah

Flower child yeah



She's a psychedelic princess

On a magic carpet ride

And where her trip will carry you

Is somewhere you can't find

She's on a plane of higher consciousness

Meditation is the key

She's got her shit together

Cause her soul and mind are free



Flower child yeah

Flower child yeah



She's a child of Martin Luther

As a freedom fighter she

Speaks of liberation on the land

And on the sea

Her eyes are made of sunshine

And her lips are jelly sweet



Flower child yeah

Flower child yeah


Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule - 1989

Fields of joy


Lets wander slowly through the fields

Slowly slowly through the fields

I touch the lieaves that touch the sky

Just you and I through the fields of joy

All trouble slowly fades away

Slowly slowly fades away

I hold your hand inside my hand

Acros the land through fields of joy

The sound of music that we hear

The blend of colors in the air

All cities, mountains disappear from view

All truth and beauty near to me and you

With you through the fields

With you through the fields

With you through the fields

The fields of joy



Let's wander slowly through the fields

Slowly slowly through the fields

I know our love will never die

Just you and I

Through the fields of joy

Through the fields of joy


Lenny Kravitz - Mama Said - 1991

Always on the run


My mama said

That your life is a gift

And my mama said

There's much wieght you will lift

And my mama said

Leave those bad boys alone

And my mama said

Be home befor the dawn

And my mama said

You can be rich or poor

But my mama said

You can be big or small



But I'm always on the run



My mama said

That it's good to be fruitful

But my mama said

Don't take more than a mouthful

And my mama said

That it's good to be natural

And my mama said

That it's good to be factual



But I'm always on the run



My mama said

Baby don't ride that crazy horse

And my mama said

You must push with much force

And my mama said

Go get all that you're after

And my mama said

That love's all that matters



But I'm always on the run


Lenny Kravitz - Mama Said - 1991

Stand by my woman


There were times I wasn't kind

And there were times I wasn't even around

And there were times I made you cry

So many times I had to say goodbye

When you want to talk

I'm on the phone

But now baby I am here for you alone



Chorus:



I'm gonna stand by my woman now

I'm gonna stand by my woman now

'Cause I can't live my life alone

Without a home



There were times I didn't understand

And there were times I wouldn't hold your hand

But baby now I'm here for you

'Cause baby I am so in love with you



Chorus

Chorus

Chorus



Stand by my woman now

I'm gonna stand by my woman now



'Cause I can't live my life alone

Without a home

Without a home


Lenny Kravitz - Mama Said - 1991

It ain't over 'til it's over


Here we are still together

We are one

So much time wasted

Playing games with love



Chorus:



So many tears I've cried

So much pain inside

But baby it ain't over 'til it's over

So many years we've tried

To keep our love alive

But baby it ain't over 'til it's over



How many times

Did we give up

But we always worked things out

And all my doubts and fears

Kept me wondering

If I'd always be in love



Chorus

Chorus

Chorus


Lenny Kravitz - Mama Said - 1991

More than anything in this world


More than anything in this world

I just want you to be my woman

More than anything in this world

I wanna be your man

I'd walk through fire

Stand in the rain

I'll go to hell and back

On a plane

I'd scale the mountains

Swim the seas

I beg for mercy

Down on my knees



Chorus:



More than anything in this world

I just want you to be my woman

More than anything in this world

I wanna be your man



I cause you sorrow

I've caused you pain

But love all we will have to gain

I searched the whole world, oh I

And I want you to be my baby


Chorus


Lenny Kravitz - Mama Said - 1991

What goes around comes around


My pockets were full now my money's gone

My friends come around and now they're gone

Things come and they come and then they go

And where they go nobody knows



Chorus:



It's gonna come around

What goes around comes around

It's gonna come around

What goes around comes around



My cup over runneth with fullness and grace

Yet people push bullshit in my face

The future can't hold what your money can't buy

My brother keep striving your child relies



Chorus



This world keeps on spinning does the future know

We're destined to screw ourselves one blow

We've ruined what's pure down from nature below

You'd better look back it'll all be gone



Chorus



So children please listen this world is yours

This message is too deep to ignore

Your forefathers said but they did not do

The things that would how that they cared for you



Chorus



Comes around comes around comes around

Comes around comes around comes around

Comes around comes around comes around

Comes around yeah



Gonna take you higher

I'm gonna take you higer

I'm gonna take you higher

Yeah yeah yeah



I'm gonna take you higher

Gonna take you higher

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Gonna take you higher higher

Higher higher higher higher

Gonna take you higher

Gonna take you higher


Lenny Kravitz - Mama Said - 1991

The difference is why


I'm just a human

I never said I was God

And each day I wonder where you are

How could our lives once be so together

Now we're apart

I know we can make it

But where do we start

Sometimes the scales get unbalanced

Don't you know the reason why ?



The difference is why

The difference is why



You say you can't trust me

Have you tried

You say you don't love me

That's a lie

There are so many so many rainbows

That we were to climb

But baby baby why can't we survive ?

We've got to get our heads untangled

And free our state of mind



The difference is why

The difference is why



Sometimes the scales get unbalanced

Don't you know the reason why ?



The difference is why

The difference is why

Does this have to mean goodbye ?


Lenny Kravitz - Mama Said - 1991

Stop draggin' around


Thinking positivity

If you wanna be with me

I'll take you to the promised land

Come on baby take my hand



Stop draggin' around

Higher and higher and higher we get

I'll freak you like a sexolette

You say you wanna be my wife ?

I'll take you to another life, come on



Stop draggin' around



Come on baby take my hand

I'll take you to the promised land



Stop draggin' around


Lenny Kravitz - Mama Said - 1991

Flowers for Zoë


Flowers for Zoë

Love for Zoë

Angels and rainbows

All kinds of things you can call your own



Gardens for Zoë

And oceans for Zoë

Jungly gum playgrounds

All kinds of thing for you to explore



Flowers for Zoë

And love for Zoë

Angels and rainbows

All kinds of thing you can call your own



God is for Zoë

And heaven's for Zoë

Oh can you believe

That everything is waiting to unfold ?



You can call your own

You can call your own

You can call your own


Lenny Kravitz - Mama Said - 1991

All I ever wanted


Baby can't keep on running

All I want you to do is to feel with me yeah

We both are hurting

And it's gonna take a little time

To heal all the wounds and save our family



Chorus:



All I ever wanted

All I ever needed

All I ever wanted was love

Remember kissing in the moonlight

How we held each other all night

All I ever wanted was love



Darling darling darling

Don't you want to feel good inside ?

It seems I've forgotten how it feel to be

Look up to the stars

And ask the heavens

To show you the truth

So that you can be free



Chorus



Tell me what's the answer

It's gotten so cloudy I just can't see

But you got your life and I got mine

Are we even ?

When I know I want you

And baby you want me



Chorus


Lenny Kravitz - Mama Said - 1991

When the morning turns to night


Little girl with heroin so blue

You've got to find the future in you

Your scepters and needles will put you away

Forever and a day


Your future will haunt you before you get there

Imagine the planet with no air

All mute no light no sun only night

As far away as neverland


As the sky comes tumbling down to the head

And the valleys are all filled up with dirt

As many people as there are sands in the the sea

Will die the morning after


So little girl with heroin blue

I guess your future is all up to you

Through the battle sequence you must fight

'Til the morning turns to night


So imagine our world with no air

Just follow the son, he'll take you where

The night and the seas are all full of light

'Til the morning turns to night

'Til the morning turns to night


Lenny Kravitz - Mama Said - 1991

What the ... are we saying ?


Will we ever understand

Or is the fate of man at hand ?

Will we live or shall we die ?

How will we ever know if we never try ?

The government's the devil's hands

It's a lie and it's a scam

They wind us up, put us down, and watch us go

And if you close your eyes

There's a big surprise



Chorus:



What the fuck are we saying ?

Do we feel what we dream about ?

We've got to keep on praying

And one day we'll see the light



I've been lost in the name of love

And we kill our brothers daily in the name of God

We'd better chill before we take on some tribulation

And if we realized

Then we'd make a little love now sing


Chorus

Chorus


Lenny Kravitz - Mama Said - 1991

Butterfly


You are the most beautiful thing

I've ever seen

You shine just like sunlight rays

On a winter snow

I just had to tell you so



Your eyes sparkle as the stars

Like the moon they glow

Your smile could light the world on fire

Or did you know ?



Your mind's full of everything that

I want to know

I just had to let you know

I just had to tell you so

You're my butterfly

Fly high

Fly fly fly


Lenny Kravitz - Mama Said - 1991

Dancing Till Dawn

The way she moves really talks to me
I'm going out of my mind
`Cause the way that she winds...is truly divine

She takes her time as she approaches me
Then she gives me the sign as she moves her behind
That only God would design

Like a bullet from a gun the dj makes a run
When she feels a beat my baby
I can't get her off the floor
She keeps me dancin' til dawn

The lights are low
She likes to dance for me
It's making me high `cause the look in her eye
Is hot as July
hey

The night is young, gold bar's the place to be
The music is right cause the dj is tight
Zappa into Barry White, yeah!

Like a bullet from a gun the dj makes a run
When she feels a beat my baby, I can't get her off the floor
She keeps me dancin' til dawn

Like a bullet from a gun the dj makes a run
When she feels a beat my baby, I can't get her off the floor
She keeps me dancin' til dawn

Like a bullet from a gun the dj makes a run
When she feels a beat my baby, I can't get her off the floor
She keeps me dancin' til dawn

Like a bullet from a gun the dj makes a run
When she feels a beat my baby, I can't get her off the floor
She keeps me dancing til dawn
Like a bullet from a gun the dj makes a run
When she feels a beat my baby, I can't get her off the floor
She keeps me dancing til dawn
She keeps me dancing
Like a bullet from a gun the dj makes a run
When she feels a beat my baby, I can't get her off the floor
She keeps me dancing til dawn

I Want To Go Home

Will I make it out of here alive
Will I ever get to see my unborn child
Will I ever get to live my own dreams
Cause this hell where I am now just ain't for me
If I could just kiss you goodnight...oh

I wanna, I wanna go home
I just wanna get along with my life
I wanna....i wanna go home
I just wanna get along with my life

Will I have to take a life does that make peace
They say it's in the name of god that I'm a beast
I don't wanna stay out here another day...oh
I'm just trying to get back home in any way
How I miss all the good times...ya ya

I wanna...I wanna go home
I just wanna get along with my life
I wanna...I wanna go home
I just wanna get along with my life

I wanna...I wanna go home
I just wanna get along with my life
I wanna...i wanna go home
I just wanna get along with my life
I wanna...I wanna go home
I just wanna get along with my life...oh
I wanna (I wanna be)...I wanna go home (I wanna be)
I just wanna get along (oh) with my life

I wanna go home
I wanna get along with my life
I wanna go home
I wanna get along with my life
I...I miss you babe

Uncharted Terrain

When I was just a boy
Granddaddy sat me on his knee
He told me that he loved me and that we were family,
We spoke about the world and all the possibilities
Then he held me in his arms
He said: "Be what you want to be"

He paved a way for me to follow
Uncharted terrain now had a lane
It's how I got over

When I became a man
Granddaddy said: "Come walk with me"
He said: "Being a man comes with responsibility
And always keep your word to the best of your ability"
When he looked me in my eyes
He said: "It's time to set you free"

He paved a way for me to follow
Uncharted terrain now had a lane
It's how I got over

He paved a way for me to follow
Uncharted terrain now had a lane
It's how I got over

He paved a way for me to follow
Uncharted terrain now had a name
It's how I got over

Confused

Talking 'bout a woman
Talking 'bout a man
I just can't seem to get it together
Joining hands in hands
The clock it ticks and it tocks
But my heart is on the rocks
I'm confused, so confused
And I got to tell you something's wrong with the news
Yeah
I'm confused, so confused
And I got to tell you something's wrong with the news
I can't choose

Baby baby baby baby baby
Let me feel you no good inside
All I wanna do is love you, love you, love you
Instead of making you cry
But when I come about
I just met another woman the other side of town

I'm confused, so confused
And I gotta tell you something's wrong with the news
I can't choose
I'm confused, so confused
And I gotta tell you something's wrong with the news
I can't choose

You ask me if I love you baby
And I tell you that I do
But don't you ask me if you're the only woman
'Cause I can't say that it's thru

Talking 'bout a woman
Talking 'bout a man
I just can't seem to get it together
Joining with a man, hand in hand
The clock it ticks and it tocks
But my heart is on the rocks

I'm confused, so confused
And I gotta tell you something's wrong with the news
I can't choose
I'm confused, so confused
And I gotta tell you something's wrong with the news
I can't choose
I'm confused
Yes I am darling, so confused
And I gotta tell you something's wrong with the news
I can't choose
I'm confused, have mercey, so confused
And I gotta tell you something's wrong with the news
I just can't, I just can't choose
Oh yeah baby