Song Lyrics

Critical reviews of the album were mostly positive. Keys’ work had a sound similar to 1970s soul singers such as Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, and Stevie Wonder along with hip hop influences like those apparent in neo soul artists such as Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu, and D’Angelo. Please click here to download Celine Dion A Mothers Prayer Mp3

I pray you’ll be my eyes
And watch her where she goes
And help her to be wise
Help me to let go

Every mother’s prayer
Every child knows
Lead her to a place
Guide her with your grace
To a place where she’ll be safe

I pray she finds your light
And holds it in her heart
As darkness falls each night
Remind her where you are

Every mother’s prayer
Every child knows
Need to find a place
Guide her with your grace
Give her faith so she’ll be safe

Lead her to a place
Guide her with your grace
To a place where she’ll be safe

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Another single from Songs in A Minor, “A Woman’s Worth”, made the top ten in the U.S. as well. Keys and the album won five Grammy Awards in 2002, including “Best New Artist” and “Song of the Year” for “Fallin’”. Later, on October 22, 2002, Keys released Remixed & Unplugged in A Minor, a re-issue of Songs in A Minor, which includes eight remixes and seven unplugged versions of some of the songs off her debut album. Please click here to download Alicia Keys When You Really Love Someone Mp3

I’m a woman, lord knows it’s hard
I need a real man to give me what I need
Sweet attention, love and tenderness
When it’s real it’s unconditional, I’m telling y’all

[Chorus:]

Cause a man, just ain’t a man,
If he aint’ man enough
To love you when you’re right,
Love you when you’re wrong
Love you when you’re weak,
Love you when you’re strong
Take you higher
When the world got you feelin low.
He’s given you his last, cuz he’s thinking of you first
Given comfort when you’re thinking that you’re hurt
That’s what’s done when you really love someone
I’m telling y’all, I’m telling y’all.
Cause you’re a real man and lord knows it’s hard
Sometimes you just need a woman’s touch
Sweet affection, love and support
When it’s real, it’s unconditional, I’m telling y’all

[Chorus:]

Oh cause a woman ain’t a woman if she ain’t woman enough
To love you when you’re right
Love you when you’re wrong
Love you when you’re weak,
Love you when you’re strong
Take you higher
When the world got you feelin low.
She’s giving you her best, even when you’re at your worst
Givin comfort, when she’s thinking that you’re hurt
That’s what’s done, when you really love someone
I’m telling y’all
Whooo
Whooo
Whooo
Whooo
Whooo
Whooo
Sometimes you gonna argue
Sometimes you gonna fight
Sometimes it’s gonna feel like it will never be right
But something so strong, keeps you holdin on
It don’t make sense, but it make a good song
Cause a man, just ain’t a man,
If he ain’t man enough
To love you when you’re right,
Love you when you’re wrong
Love you when you’re weak,
Love you when you’re strong
Take you higher
When the world got you feelin low
He’s given you his last, cuz he’s thinking of you first
Given comfort when you’re thinking that you’re hurt
That’s what’s done when you really love someone
I’m telling y’all, I’m telling y’all, I’m telling y’all
That a woman ain’t a woman if she ain’t woman enough
To love you when you’re right
Love you when you’re wrong
Love you when you’re weak,
Love you when you’re strong
Take you higher and higher
When the world got you feelin low.
She’s giving you her best, even when you’re at your worst
Givin comfort, when she’s thinking that you’re hurt
That’s what’s done, when you really love someone
I’m telling y’all
I’m telling y’all
Hmm hmm yeah
Hmm hmm yeah
Hmm hmm yeah
Hmm hmm yeah
Hmm hmm yeah
Hmm hmm yeah
Hmm hmm yeah
Hmm hmm yeah [and fade out]

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The album’s first single, “Fallin’”, gained radio airplay on many different radio formats and spent six weeks at number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. Keys performed Donny Hathaway’s “Someday We’ll All Be Free” at the America: A Tribute to Heroes televised benefit concert following the September 11, 2001 attacks. Please click here to download Alicia Keys So Simple Mp3

It would be, it would be
It would be so simple
What it is ain’t what it was
What should it be when it comes to you and….
How it seems ain’t how it is
There’s been a change when it comes to me and…

[Chorus:]

Oh baby you
Oh baby me
Oh maybe we can try another day
Another way
All in my mind
I’m wondering why we cannot find
What was left of the beginning
If I could
Meet you again,
Miss you again,
Kiss you again
It would be, it would be so simple
Cause I would love you again
Hold you again
Need you again
It would be, it would be
Could it be, could it be so simple
Now it’s hardly simple,
It’s just simply hard
When it comes to you and
I find myself not being myself
Just to avoid all this confrontation with
Oh baby you
Oh baby me
Oh maybe we can put this armor down
And settle down
Oh it’s off track
That is a fact
Can we get it back
Get it back to the beginning
If I could meet you again,
Miss you again,
Kiss you again
It would be, it would be so simple
Cause I would love you again
Hold you again
Need you again
It would be, it would be
Could it be, could it be so simple
Don’t you know that it would be
Don’t you know that it could be
Don’t you know that it would be
Meet you again,
Miss you again,
Kiss you again
It would be, it would be so simple
Cause I would love you again
Hold you again
Need you again
It would be, it would be
Could it be, so simple

[Ad libs and out…]

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Selling over 235,000 copies in its first week (more than 50,000 of those on its first day), Songs in A Minor, released on June 5, 2001, went on to sell more than eleven million units worldwide,and established Keys’ popularity both outside and inside the U.S., where she became the best-selling new artist of 2001 (as well as the best-selling R&B artist). Please click here to download Alicia Keys If I Aint Got You Mp3

Some people live for the fortune
Some people live just for the fame
Some people live for the power, yeah
Some people live just to play the game
Some people think that the physical things
Define what’s within
And I’ve been there before
But that life’s a bore
So full of the superficial

[Chorus:]
Some people want it all
But I don’t want nothing at all
If it ain’t you baby
If I ain’t got you baby
Some people want diamond rings
Some just want everything
But everything means nothing
If I ain’t got you, Yeah

Some people search for a fountain
That promises forever young
Some people need three dozen roses
And that’s the only way to prove you love them
Hand me the world on a silver platter
And what good would it be
With no one to share
With no one who truly cares for me

[Chorus:]
Some people want it all
But I don’t want nothing at all
If it ain’t you baby
If I ain’t got you baby
Some people want diamond rings
Some just want everything
But everything means nothing
If I ain’t got you, you, you
Some people want it all
But I don’t want nothing at all
If it ain’t you baby
If I ain’t got you baby
Some people want diamond rings
Some just want everything
But everything means nothing
If I ain’t got you, yeah

[Outro:]
If I ain’t got you with me baby
So nothing in this whole wide world don’t mean a thing
If I ain’t got you with me baby

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Following Davis to his newly-formed J Records label, she recorded the songs “Rock wit U” and “Rear View Mirror”, featured on the soundtracks to the films Shaft (2000) and Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001) respectively. Keys then released her debut album, Songs in A Minor. Please click here to download  Alicia Keys You Dont Know My Name Mp3

Baby, baby, baby
From the day I saw you
I really really want to catch your eye
There’s something special ’bout you
I must really like you
Cause not a lotta guys are worth my time
Ooo baby, baby, baby
It’s gettin kind of crazy
Cause you are takin over my mind
And it feels like oooooo
But you don’t know my name
And I swear it feels like ooooo ooooo ooooo ooooo
You don’t know my name
(round and round and round we go, will you ever know)

Oh baby baby baby
I see us on our first date
You’re doin everything that makes me smile
And when we had our first kiss
It happened on a Thursday
Ooooo it set my soul on fire
Ooo baby baby baby
I can’t wait for the first time
My imagination’s runnin wild
It feels like ooooo
You don’t know my name
And I swear it baby, it feels like oooo ooooo ooooo ooooo
You don’t know my name
(round and round and round we go, will you ever know)

“I’m sayin, he don’t even know what he’s doin’ to me
Got me feelin’ all crazy inside
I’m feelin like”
Owww! Ooooo Oooooo
Doin more than I’ve ever done for anyone’s attention
Take notice of what’s in front of you
Cause did I mention you’re ’bout to miss a good thing
And you’ll never know how good it feels to have all of my affection
And you’ll never get a chance to experience my lovin’
Cause my lovin’ feels like ooooooo
You don’t know my name
(round and round and round we go, will you ever know
And I swear it feels like oooo ooooo ooooo ooooo
You don’t know my name
(round and round and round we go, will you ever know)
Ohhh

Will you ever know it, no no no no no
Will you ever know it?
“I’m gonna have to just go ahead and call this boy.
Hello? Can I speak to — to Michael?
Oh hey, how you doin?
Uh, I feel kinda silly doin’ this,
But um, this is the waitress from the coffee house on 39th and Lennox
You know, the one with the braids?
Yeah, well I see you on Wednesdays all the time
You come in every Wednesday on your lunch break, I think
And you always order the special, with the hot chocolate
And my manager be tripping and stuff
Talking bout we gotta use water
But I always use some milk and cream for you
Cause I think you’re kinda sweet.
Anyway you always got on some fly blue suit
‘n your cufflinks are shining all bright
So, whatchu do? Oh, word? Yeah, that’s interesting
Look man, I mean I don’t wanna waste your time but
I know girls don’t usually do this,
But I was wondering if maybe we could get together
Outside the restaurant one day
Cause I do look a lot different outside my work clothes
I mean we could just go across the street to the park right here
Wait, hold up, my cell phone’s breakin up, hold up
Can you hear me now? Yeah
So, what day did you say?
Oh yeah, Thursday’s perfect, man:.”
And it feels like oooo
You don’t know my name
(round and round and round we go, will you ever know)
Baby Baby I swear it’s like oooooo
You don’t know my name, no no no
(round and round and round we go, will you ever know)
And it feels like oooo
You don’t know my name
(round and round and round we go, will you ever know)
And I swear on my mother and father it feels like
Oooo ooo oooo ooo ooo ooo
Oooo ooo oooo ooo ooo ooo
Oooo ooo oooo ooo ooo ooo
You don’t know my name
(round and round and round we go, will you ever know?)

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The song was Keys’ first professional recording; however, it was never released as a single and her record contract with Columbia Records ended quickly. Keys later met Clive Davis, who signed her to Arista Records, which has since disbanded. Please click here to download Alicia Keys Jane Doe Mp3

Ay yo, Alicia
What’s up, Kandi?
Man, these Jane Does be killing me thinking they slick wit it
For real, drop the beat
Alicia Keys
Kandi
Collabo

Let’s talk about the situation
‘Bout how you came with information
That’s negative in every which way
Just dissin’ my man and our relations
You say he’s cheatin,’ want me to leave him
I’ve changed my mind, I think I’ll keep him
Listenin’ to you will leave me lonely
That’s not what I’m tryin’ to be

‘Cause I’ll be crazy to let my man go
And let some other Jane Doe
Come and try to steal him, oh no, oh no
Just crazy to let my man go
And let some other Jane Doe
Come and try to steal him, oh no, oh no

Think you slick like I wouldn’t know
But I got something for you Doe
Mess around end up in a choke
Hold
Girl, I think it’s time for you to
Go
Away from my man and me
If that’s how it’s gonna be

‘Cause I’ll be crazy to let my man go
And let some other Jane Doe
Come and try to steal him, oh no, oh no
Just crazy to let my man go
And let some other Jane Doe
Come and try to steal him, oh no, oh no

I love my man
He loves me more
He may not be the perfect man, but I don’t plan to let him go for
Jane Doe
Oh
(Jane Doe Uh oh Jane Doe
Jane Doe Uh oh Jane Doe
Jane Doe Uh oh Jane Doe
Jane Doe Jane Doe Jane Doe)

‘Cause I’ll be crazy to let my man go
And let some other Jane Doe
Come and try to steal him, oh no, oh no
Just crazy to let my man go
And let some other Jane Doe
Come and try to steal him, oh no, oh no

(Jane Doe Uh oh Jane Doe
Jane Doe Uh oh Jane Doe
Jane Doe Uh oh Jane Doe
Jane Doe Jane Doe Jane Doe)
Jane Doe
Oh
(Jane Doe Uh oh Jane Doe
Jane Doe Uh oh Jane Doe
Jane Doe Uh oh Jane Doe
Jane Doe Jane Doe Jane Doe)

‘Cause I’ll be crazy to let my man go
And let some other Jane Doe
Come and try to steal him, oh no, oh no
Just crazy to let my man go
And let some other Jane Doe
Come and try to steal him, oh no, oh no

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Keys graduated from the Professional Performing Arts School, a prestigious high school in Manhattan, as valedictorian at the age of sixteen. Although accepted to Columbia University with a scholarship, she decided to drop out and pursue her musical career. Keys signed a demo deal with Jermaine Dupri and his So So Def label, then distributed by Columbia Records. She co-wrote and recorded a song entitled “Dah Dee Dah (Sexy Thing)”, which appeared on the soundtrack to the 1997 blockbuster, Men in Black. Please click here to download Alicia Keys Butterflyz Mp3

Hmmmmm…
Lately when I look into your eyes
Baby I fly, you’re the only one I need in my life
Baby I just don’t know how to describe
How lovely you make me feel inside

You give me butterflyz
Have me flyin’ so high in the sky
I can’t control the butterflyz
You give me butterflyz
Have me flyin’ so high in the sky
I can’t control the butterflyz

It seems like the likely thing
From the start you told me
I would be your queen
But never had I imagined such a feeling
Joy is what you bring
I wanna give you everything

You give me butterflyz
Got me flyin’ so high in the sky
I can’t control the butterflyz
You give me butterflyz
Got me flyin’ so high in the sky
I can’t control these butterflyz

You and I
Are destiny
I know that
You were made for me

Ohhhhhh…
I can’t control it
It’s driven me
It’s taken over me and I
Ohhhhhh…

You give me butterflyz
Got me flying so high in the sky
I can’t control the butterflyz
You give me butterflyz
Got me flyin’ so high in the sky
I can’t control these butterflyz

You give me something I just can’t deny
Something that’s so free
I just can’t control the way I feel
And I don’t
You give me something I just can’t deny
Something that’s so free
Oh, I never felt like this

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She began playing the piano when she was seven, learning classical music by composers such as Beethoven, Mozart, and her favorite, Chopin. Please click here to download Alicia Keys Caged Bird Mp3

Right now I feel like a bird
Caged without a key
Everyone comes to stare at me
With so much joy and rivalry
They don’t know how I feel inside
Through my smile I cry
They don’t know what they’re doin’ to me
Keeping me from flyin’
That’s why I say that
I know why the caged bird sings
Only joy comes from song
She’s so rare and beautiful to them
Why not just set her free
So she can
Fly, fly, fly
Spreadin’ her wings and her song
Let her
Fly, fly fly
For the whole world to see
She’s like a caged bird
Fly, fly
Oh, just let her fly
Just let her fly
Just let her fly
Spread the wings
Spread the beauty

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Keys’ parents separated during her early childhood, and she was subsequently raised by her mother during her formative years in Hell’s Kitchen, also in Manhattan. In 1985, Keys and a group of other girls played the parts of Rudy Huxtable’s sleepover guests in an episode of The Cosby Show called “Slumber Party”. Please click here to download Alicia Keys Why Do I Feel So Sad Mp3

Friends we’ve been for so long
Now true colors are showing
Makes me wanna cry, oh yes it does
‘Cause I had to say goodbye

By now I should know
That in time things would change
So it shouldn’t be so bad
So why do I feel so sad

How can I adjust
To the way that things are going
It’s killing me slowly
Oh, I just want it to be how it used to be

‘Cause I wish that I could stay
But in time things must change
So it shouldn’t be so bad
So why do I feel so sad

You cannot hide the way you feel inside, I realize
Your actions speak much louder than words
So tell me why, oh

By now I should know that
That in time things would change
So it shouldn’t be, it shouldn’t be so bad
So why do I feel so sad

By now I should know
That in time things must change
So it shouldn’t be so bad
So why do I feel so sad

By now, by now I should know
That in time things must grow
And I had to leave you behind
So why do I feel so sad
If it couldn’t be that bad
Tell me why

By now I should know
That in time things would change
So it shouldn’t be so bad
So why do I feel so sad

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Keys is the only child born to an Irish-Italian mother, Teresa “Terri” Augello (a paralegal and part-time actress), and a Jamaican father, Craig Cook (a flight attendant), in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, New York. Please click here to download Alicia Keys - Never Felt This Way Mp3

Ahhhh…
Ahhhhhhhh…There will never come a day
You will ever hear me say
That I want
Or need to be without you
I wanna give my all

Baby, just hold me
Simply control me
Because your arms
They keep away the lonelys
When I look into your eyes
Then I realize
All I need is you in my life
All I need is you in my life

‘Cause I never felt this way about love…No
Never felt so good…Baby
Never felt this way about love
And it feels so good

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