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Applause
02:18
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Applause
High off all the applause
Yeah we hope we don’t fall
Yeah we live for it all
Got your hands in the air
Wave em like you don’t care
Ain’t much better than here
High off all the applause
Yeah we hope we don’t fall
Yeah we live for it all
Got your hands in the air
But what if you don’t care
Where do we go from here?
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2. |
Be Real With Yourself
02:06
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Be Real With Yourself
You want the lights,camera, action
You want the fame and a big reaction
You want the cash
(Run it up)
Class
(Run it up)
Ass
(Run it up)
Yeah
You want the praise and the satisfaction
wanna buy a house for the fam in the Hamptons
You want the cream
(Run it up)
Dream
Even if it ain’t what it seems
I know you frontin like you wanna be modest
Don’t hate on me cause I like to be honest
About the reason I put up with the bullshit
For the dream that they promised me
We’re singing and we’re dreaming for the luxury
when is it a crime to want the finer things?
After all these things but be real with yourself
What does it mean?
Be Real With Yourself
Verse 2 (oohs)
So you want that cash, class, ass and all that jazz
Yeah I know you think it’s easy to go out on a show
Better hope it ain’t nothin that they seen before
Cause when you out on the scene
For that cream
Or the dream, whatever that means
Lemme tell you make this one thing clear
Better hope that what you tryna say they tryna hear
Ha ha ha
Be real with yourself
Can you do this? (Can you do this?)
Is your skin in the game are your true to this? (Are you true to this?)
Do you know what you doing? Are you clueless?
(Are you clueless?)
Be real with yourself, be real with yourself hey
Be real with yourself cause it ain’t for everybody na
No it ain’t for everybody
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Merry Go Round
01:38
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Ooooo
I can only hang my head for so long
Tap clap and alla that
Yeah I’ve been singing along
On the merry go round
I could never make you want me for nothing
Out here beggin for something, You know
On the merry go round
I can’t make you give a damn about me
Even when I’ve given all of myself to make you happy
I can’t make you believe in this thing,
I can only show ya
I can’t make you see me if your eyes are closed
Hey hey hey
Why am I even up here anymore
When you done seen it all before?
I done tried to get outta the show
It’s a feeling I can’t control
Got me down on my down on my knees
Got me beggin beggin please
Hey hey hey
I been out on my own
Try to get it til the getting is gone
Yeah the cycle won’t end
I keep tryin and tryin again
I don’t know how much more I can stand
Tore down like a raggedy Ann
In a fit, in a tizzy
Baby I’m getting dizzy on the merry go round
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4. |
Papa
02:29
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Papa
Was the man
You could feel the power coming straight from his hands
Papa
He could sang
He could make you feel emotion from the
Floor to the stands
Now. papa
Want no punk
Yeah he got ambition he got get what he want
Now papa
Chose one day
Movin’ from Memphis to LA
And my daddy taught me
Unh
My daddy taught me
Ain’t no motherfucka better than me na
Ain’t no motherfucka better
Papa
On the road
Papa
Doing show
Papa
Got the gig
That’s the reason papa
Aint’ at the crib
Papa
Goin far
Did you see papa’s
Brand new car (mhmm…)
Papa
On the scene
Do you know that papa
Doing his thing
(Vocal percussion and ad libs)
Papa had potential be the most influential
Hop on stage and give em somethin’ to remember
His charm and his wit
Damn near offended
He had the haters but he never let it sweat em
Papa
He was smooth
Yeah he had the notes and he kept the groove
Papa
Could make em laugh
But he wasn’t playing about his craft
Papa had a temper
Don’t nobody mess with him
Been through enough to make a grown man whimper
Yeah he got resentful from the way they they did him
Chip got heavy so I carried it with him
I do this in his honor
Try to take it farther
You know what they say l”ike daddy like daughter”
If you coming at me
Motherfucka I got ya
You got learn this lesson from the
Shit that he taught me
Oooohh, ooooooh
PAPA was the man
Paps was my dad
Here’s for the papa’s that ain’t get they praise
Let em know
PAPA BY HIS NAME!
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5. |
I Flirt With Fame
03:34
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I flirt with fame
From day to day
From time to time
She don’t know my name
And it’s better that way
Cause we talk online
Yeah we up all night
Like we really together
But she’ll never be mine
She act like she want me
Like she wanna get to know me
But I know she lying
So I’m not really sure if I like her like that
If I want her like that
I think it’s more of a love of fantasy
than fact
In a deep sleep next to my boo
I dream of her
I dream of her all over me
Making an audience of you
I flirt with Fame
From time to time
From day to day
She's pretty intrigued
about me being
the one to blow her away
But I’m looking for someone
That’s really really gonna
love me for me
The words are pretty
But somethings kinda fishy
who’s on the other side of screen?
So I’m not really sure if I like her like that
If I want her like that
I think it’s more of a love of fantasy
than fact
In a deep sleep next to my boo
I dream of her
I dream of her all over me
Making an audience of you
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6. |
Leave Well Enough Alone
02:45
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Leave Well Enough Alone
Girl you know that I'm conflicted
So why you wanna push me to my limits
Everytime that I come near you, I wanna do what you want me to do but, but it wouldn't be cool
Oooh
I'm not cold, so while am I shakin'
Girl, you've put me through some serious changes
(My mind keeps telling me)
And my mind keeps tellin' me to turn and walk away,
(Think it over, think it over)
I know I better go, before it's too late
Chorus:
You know I want to kiss you(but I better leave now) ooh
I want to stay here all night (but I need to go, need to goooo)
You make me weak so why I'm strong, I better leave well enough alone
I guess I’ll leave well enough alone
I guess I’ll leave well enough alone
I guess I’ll leave well enough alone
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Potential
04:02
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How do I measure up?
Where can I fill my cup?
When will I know enough is enough
Enough
Everybody’s in the crowd
All of the ones who taught me how
Feels like I’m running out of time
To make them proud
All this potential
Is weighing on me
They see potential
They’re waiting on me
How could I get so attached?
the applause will never last
I thought I wanted it so bad
Not knowing it was what I had
What began as just a dream
Has now my become my everything
Does it matter in the end, if what I’ve done is never seen?
All this potential
Is weighing on me
They see potential
They’re waiting on me
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I see how we treat creators
our mothers, our makers
the builders, the breakers
out spirit, our nature
I see how we treat creators
of our music, our language
our culture, our flavor
our soil, our nation
I see how we treat creators
like a slave to their labor
draining them of all their greatness
just to try and imitate it
I see how we treat creators
through the ways that we play favorites
through the doubts within our prayers
through the messes we keep making
I see how we treat our creators
I see how we treat our creators
Can't you see what we've created?
I see how we treat our creators, oh
I see how we treat our creators
the originators, the misbehavers
the agitators our our nation
we're all creators, oh
To all my creators,
Keep going and keep the faith that
We're highly favored
I know they've been ungrateful
but we won't let them break us
no we won't let them break us
We're all creators oh
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Picture me on the cover of vogue
Lookin good strike a pose
Wearing all the clothes
Givin all the smoke
Picture me gettin momma that car
making fans outta stars
Ghostwritin for the folks
Alla y all takin notes
Picture me IG you can @ me
Movin up changed the addy
Looking good with a baddie
Got the cake and the fatty
Look at me look at what I’ve established
Look at all I made happen
All y’all niggas saggy
Yeah I’m free and I’m happy
Naaa
Ain’t inna place to make demands
See
I don’t need what you handing
I might switch
to ya language
Let alla y’all understand me
I don’t cater to no one
I don’t care what you fancy
I opened the door up
let you all hear the rehearsal
Let you in on the outtakes,
Seeing me as a person
But I’m in control
You might run the tickets but I run the show
I’m doing it for ya but I’ll let you know
I determine how this shit will go
Cause I does this shit
we ain't next up baby we was this shit
from the 20s to the 20s yea you luh that shit
any moment that I choose I can become this shit
I DOES THIS SHIT
and yall want this shit
hustle and a bustle but you not this
yeah i want it nevermind it so i does this
try to compete but we already done won this shit
we run this shit, yeah
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Breathe
03:16
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Breathe
Stretch my arms out
Can you let a nigga breathe?
Been workin 24/7
For a like or a comment/ light or a comet
Tryna find out the reason
Why you care you still living
Wit yo mama
Fuck I care about opinions
I don’t want em
Specially when I’m the one performing
Doing my thing when and how I wanna
Whether I’m on Carnegie y’all or I’m on the corner
Sp Let me breathe
Yal don’t need nothin from me
Here’s the food on the table
If you like what I’m cookin
Then we all could eat
But what you won’t do
Is make me feel guilty
For not being on the grind
Telling you my life
some shit belong to me
Can you let a nigga breathe?!
Breathe
Breathe breathe
Ohhh
You ain’t costing me my sleep
Sleep
Sleep
Sleep
My momma worked too hard have me worryin bout this shit
Grand momma teaching kids in the district
My daddy fought his way out the trenches
Why the fuck you think I care about some pictures
yeah we worked too hard, and we payed this debt
paved that way so i could lay back
so i don't need this and no i don't need that
Man, I don't even care if you like this track
wont you let a nigga breathe?
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10. |
Get Off The Stage
03:24
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Don’t you wish you could get offstage
Don’t you wish you could misbehave?
Don’t you wish you were free to move and be because nobody knew your name?
Don’t you wish you could scream out loud
Feel the passion all around
Without the pressure and the hype to make sure everybody like you
You ain’t gotta make no one proud
Don’t you wanna be a part of the movement
No talking, just doin
With your hands in the air and your feet on the ground
Getting wild baby just groovin
you on stage but you wanna be free
Of the doubt and jealousy
So take a bow from the show feel free to go
Get a taste of reality
When I get off the stage
I jump
I leap into the crowd
I What!
When I get off the stage
I walk
I slide
I dance
I pose
I strut!
When I get off the stage
I make the rules on how
I do my thang
When I get off the stage
I ain’t worried
Cause I know ain’t nobody in my lane
When I get off the stage
I rage
I curse
I scream
I smash
I throw!
When I get off the stage
I pop
I storm the streets
I"m ready to go!
When I get off the stage
I chill and relax
For when I’m through
When I get off the stage
I’ll tell you what I’m about to do
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11. |
Everybody's On Stage
02:39
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Was I looking for fame?
Was I l searching for God?
Searching for heaven in al your your eyes
I get off the stage
it feels so contrived
I left for a moment
didn’t wanna arrive
Am I searching for something that doesn’t exist?
It’s a feeling to have but never to get
a moment to feel but never to wish
The slippery joy falling out of my grip
Is it a love of the spotlight
Or a fear of the dark?
fear of what I’ll sing if the music doesn’t start
how I’ll act when there is no cause
who I’ll be when there’s no applause
Am I searching for something that doesn’t exist?
It’s a feeling to have but never to get
Its a moment to feel and never to wish
The slippery joy falling out of my grip
If life's a stage
I don't know where i stand
should i go through the motions and see where i land?
am i singing a song or doing a dance?
is God the director or the stagehand?
I'm just here
the light and dark shine on me
looking out in the crowd I feel free
I guess I decide who the people are gonna see
Everybody's on Stage
and they're waiting for me
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Taylor Simone Harvey Los Angeles, California
Taylor Simone Harvey is a singer, songwriter, producer, and loop artist with a career spanning over 10 years.
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