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Fundamental
by Bonnie Raitt
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Overall Rating:
3.2830
Avg. Critic Score:
3.4750
Fundamental Lyrics
Lyrics
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Title
- Let's run naked through these city streets
- We're all captives of captivity
- Let's wear madness like a crucifix
- Let's tattoo Bible quotes across both our hips
- [Chorus:]
- Let's get back to the fundamental things
- Let's get back to the elements of style
- Let's get back to simple skin on skin
- Let's get back to the fundamental things
- Let's dance barefoot over broken glass
- Slither like a snake does through the wet, cold grass
- Howl and tremble in a sleepless grind
- Let's do the braindrain, leave it all behind
- [Chorus]
- You can sit in your room and worry
- You can contemplate the end
- Or let your house burn down behind you
- Run bare-ass through the streets again
- You can hide out on your rooftop
- Wishing you had never been
- Or go down to Hal's bar and grill
- Find your innocence again
- [Chorus]
- You bring me roses
- You give me kisses
- You bring me moons and stars
- That shine so high up in the sky
- My heart is beating wild and crazy
- Hope that I can find
- A cure for this love
- Could be you want me
- Could be you care
- Could be the words you say,
- Are things I just want to hear
- You me nervous, got me shaking
- Maybe I can find
- A cure for this love
- La la la la...
- Doctor, doctor
- Give me healing, so I can stop this feeling
- It's getting so much stronger
- And I just can't go on much longer
- Doctor please
- Find me a way out of love
- When the phone rings
- And no one answers
- The letters comeback saying
- Lover cannot be found
- Don't go looking, don't bother searching
- You see it's cuz your baby
- Found herself a cure for love
- La la la la...
- There's a howlin at my window, baby
- I hear him closin in
- That green-eyed jackal's got the scent
- Knows I'll let him in
- He slinks in by me at the fire
- More bitter than the cold
- And it's a rage as old as hades
- That'll sputter on these coals
- I'm callin on the furies, to let the toast begin
- I'm roasting on the spit of love again
- I never have believed you
- But I stick around for more
- Somethin bout that hollow in your eyes
- There's a darkness at the core
- Well, it's got me slowly turnin
- I'm basting on the bone
- I'm skewered like some drunken fool
- In juices all my own
- Callin the furies' carrion choir
- Singin me back upon the pyre
- I'm roasting on that spit of love again
- You can call it what you want
- But it's lyin just the same
- There's no mercy in these ashes, baby
- When your love's a cryin shame
- And they're howlin in moonlight, baby
- They're here to call my bluff
- They're wonderin if there'll ever come a day
- When I'll have finally had enough
- I'm callin on the furies, to let the toast begin
- I'm roasting on that spit of love again
- Who'll take the only hearts they got
- And throw them into the fire?
- Who'll risk their own self respect
- In the name of desire?
- Who'll regret everything they've done
- And who will get the bill?
- Lovers will
- Who'll hurt each other all the time
- And never give it a thought?
- Who'll lie about where they've been
- And hope they never get caught?
- Who'll say each other's kisses
- No longer thrill?
- Lovers will
- Lovers will do almost anything
- For the thrill that only love can bring
- If love is a healer, who'll be the first ones ill?
- Lovers will
- Who'll never know what they've got
- Until it's just about gone?
- And whose arms will gather up what's left
- To carry on?
- And who'll stalk that little bit of love
- That hasn't been killed?
- Lovers will
- When I was a girl, my favorite thing
- In the whole wide world
- Was to see a field and
- Run for no reason
- And off I'd go, no one behind
- Only earth below
- Just a patch of green, green as the season
- Don't ask why, your feet just fly
- Green and sky is all that you're needin
- Why ask why, when all that's true
- The sky is blue, blue for no reason
- Now that things have changed
- Everything's carefully prearranged
- Not a thing gets done
- Except for a reason
- Now I'm overrun, I'm startin to feel
- Like a hired gun
- Where's the chance, where's the fun
- Where is the pleasin?
- Try and try, you moan and sigh
- You just can't find a thing to believe in
- Why ask why, when all that's true
- The sky is blue, blue for no reason
- Don't ask why, your feet just fly
- Green and sky is all that you're needin
- Why ask why, when all that's true
- You're just blue, blue for no reason
- You come home late from work, baby
- You wonder why it ain't on the table
- After the day that I've had
- I don't believe I'm able
- You give me every little reason in the book
- But there's one thing that I think you've overlooked
- You say you're tired, well so am i
- Baby you've got to try and
- Meet halfway or we ain't gonna make it, baby
- Meet halfway if you want to get it right
- Meet halfway cause I ain't gonna take it, baby
- Meet halfway in the middle of the night
- Our love is kind of stalled, baby
- But it ain't about the sex
- I'd trade the roses and the negligees
- If we could just connect
- I go deeper when you look into my eyes
- There's a place where neither one of us can hide
- And it's up to us to reinvent the game
- Love it when you call my name and
- Meet halfway, ain't no doubt about it, baby
- Meet halfway, and we're halfway home
- Meet halfway, got to scream and shout it, baby
- Meet me halfway and I'll shake you to the bone
- Baby, won't you come and tell me
- Tell me what we're gonna do...yeah, baby
- I've tried everything I know just to,
- Just to try and get along with you
- Wake up in the morning and already
- You are aimin for a fight
- No matter what I say or do
- I'm never gonna get it right
- But ain't we gettin kind of tore down
- Always layin it on the line
- I don't think that when they called it love
- This what they had in mind
- [Chorus:]
- (Hey) Baby, don't you know that
- I'm on your side
- All you got to do now, darlin...
- Take my little heart and open wide
- Hey baby, I know we can work it out
- Might take a little mojo workin, baby
- But ain't that what love is all about?
- Hey, Baby, must be somethin bout this
- push and pull
- makes me wonder if we stir it up...
- just to make sure things'll never get dull.
- Come on baby take the gloves off
- and then untie those shoes
- I got something more tantalizin
- For you left and right to do
- [Chorus]
- Come my love
- Come bravely to me
- Let your heart be still
- For our time
- Has come my tender one
- To be free of will
- And fly
- Blind on fearless love
- Let them wild winds blow
- We'll shine
- On all we're fearful of
- Then we'll let it go
- Let it go
- Skippin' stones
- Across the great unknown
- Safe at water's edge
- Don't look down, baby
- We're gonna leave this losin' town
- And leap out from the ledge
- And fly
- Blind on fearless love
- Let them wild winds blow
- We'll shine
- On all we're fearful of
- Then we'll let it go
- Let it go
- I need love
- And I search it everyplace I go
- And lately I been in a zone
- It's got a will of its own
- But right now I'm here to discuss
- Just what you think about us
- I need love, I need love
- And I'm checkin everything I see
- You know at times I wanna take on three
- That's just the way I could be
- I let you know about that
- Just so you know where I'm at
- I need love, I need love
- It's always been this way and ain't' nothin'
- Gonna change it
- And ain't nothing you can try
- I need love, I need love
- And I'm takin every chance I man
- And baby you could make my day
- There's just one thing I should say
- Now that's it's all said and done
- You know I do need to run
- I need love, I need love
- Last night I thought I found you
- I saw it in a dream
- I was tangled in the rushes, baby
- You were caught up in the stream
- And the more I tried to reach you
- The more you slipped away
- And when I woke up in the darkness
- I was callin' out your name
- [Chorus:]
- You and we dance around it
- Why is the truth so hard to say
- We long for true love, well
- We've found it, it's just
- One belief away
- There's a shadow in the garden
- And it's coiled around our hearts
- Won't you help me to believe you, baby
- Won't you show me where to start
- The more I try to reach you
- The more you slip away
- I want to wake up in the darkness
- And hear you callin' out my name
- [Chorus]
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