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The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
by Lauryn Hill
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The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill Lyrics
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Title
- It's funny how money change a situation
- Miscommunication leads to complication
- My emancipation don't fit your equation
- I was on the humble, you - on every station
- Some wan' play young Lauryn like she dumb
- But remember not a game new under the sun
- Everything you did has already been done
- I know all the tricks from Bricks to Kingston
- My ting done made your kingdom wan' run
- Now understand L. Boogie's non violent
- But if a thing test me, run for mi gun
- Can't take a threat to mi newborn son
- L's been this way since creation
- A groupie call, you fall from temptation
- Now you wanna ball over separation
- Tarnish my image in your conversation
- Who you gon' scrimmage, like you the champion
- You might win some but you just lost one
- You might win some but you just lost one
- You might win some but you just lost one
- You might win some but you just lost one
- You might win some but you just lost one
- Now, now how come your talk turn cold
- Gained the whole world for the price of your soul
- Tryin' to grab hold of what you can't control
- Now you're all floss, what a sight to behold
- Wisdom is better than silver and gold
- I was hopeless now I'm on Hope road
- Every man want to act like he's exempt
- When him need to get down on his knees and repent
- Can't slick talk on the day of judgement
- Your movement's similar to a serpent
- Tried to play straight, how your whole style bent?
- Consequence is no coincidence
- Hypocrites always want to play innocent
- Always want to take it to the full out extent
- Always want to make it seem like good intent
- Never want to face it when it's time for punishment
- I know that you don't wanna hear my opinion
- But there come many paths and you must choose one
- And if you don't change then the rain soon come
- See you might win some but you just lost one
- You might win some but you just lost one
- You might win some but you just lost one
- You might win some but you just lost one
- You might win some but you just lost one
- You might win some but you really lost one
- You just lost one, it's so silly how come
- When it's all done did you really gain from
- What you done done, it's so silly how come
- You just lost one
- Now don't you understand man universal law
- What you throw out comes back to you, star
- Never underestimate those who you scar
- Cause karma, karma, karma comes back to you hard
- You can't hold God's people back that long
- The chain of Shatan wasn't made that strong
- Trying to pretend like your word is your bond
- But until you do right, all you do will go wrong
- Now some might mistake this for just a simple song
- And some don't know what they have 'til it's gone
- Now even when you're gone you can still be reborn
- And, from the night can arrive the sweet dawn
- Now, some might listen and some might shun
- And some may think that they've reached perfection
- If you look closely you'll see what you've become
- Cause you might win some but you just lost one
- You might win some but you just lost one
- You might win some but you just lost one
- You might win some but you just lost one
- You might win some but you just lost one
- You might win some but you really lost one
- You just lost one, it's so silly how come
- When it's all done did you really gain from
- What you done done, it so silly how come
- [repeat to end]
- It could all be so simple
- But you'd rather make it hard
- Loving you is like a battle
- And we both end up with scars
- Tell me, who I have to be
- To get some reciprocity
- No one loves you more than me
- And no one ever will
- Is this just a silly game
- That forces you to act this way
- Forces you to scream my name
- Then pretend that you can't stay
- Tell me, who I have to be
- To get some reciprocity
- No one loves you more than me
- And no one ever will
- [Hook:]
- No matter how I think we grow
- You always seem to let me know
- It ain't workin'
- It ain't workin'
- And when I try to walk away
- You'd hurt yourself to make me stay
- This is crazy
- This is crazy
- I keep letting you back in
- How can I explain myself
- As painful as this thing has been
- I just can't be with no one else
- See I know what we got to do
- You let go and I'll let go too
- 'Cause no one's hurt me more than you
- And no one ever will
- [Repeat Hook]
- Care for me, care for me
- I know you care for me
- There for me, there for me
- Said you'd be there for me
- Cry for me, cry for me
- You said you'd die for me
- Give to me, give to me
- Why won't you live for me
- [Repeat]
- Unsure of what the balance held
- I touched my belly overwhelmed
- By what I had been chosen to perform
- But then an angel came one day
- Told me to kneel down and pray
- For unto me a man child would be born
- Woe this crazy circumstance
- I knew his life deserved a chance
- But everybody told me to be smart
- Look at your career they said,
- But instead I chose to use my heart
- Now the joy of my world is in Zion
- Now the joy of my world is in Zion
- How beautiful if nothing more
- Than to wait at Zion's door
- I've never been in love like this before
- Now let me pray to keep you from
- The perils that will surely come
- See life for you my prince has just begun
- And I thank you for choosing me
- To come through unto life to be
- A beautiful reflection of his grace
- For I know that a gift so great
- Is only one God could create
- And I'm reminded every time I see your face
- That the joy of my world is in Zion
- Now the joy of my world is in Zion
- Now the joy of my world is in Zion
- Now the joy of my world is in Zion
- Marching, marching, marching to Zion
- Marching, marching
- Marching, marching, marching to Zion
- Beautiful, beautiful Zion
- [repeat to end of song]
- It's been three weeks since you've been looking for your friend
- The one you let hit it and never called you again
- 'Member when he told you he was 'bout the Benjamins
- You act like you ain't hear him then gave him a little trim
- To begin, how you think you really gon' pretend
- Like you wasn't down then you called him again
- Plus when you give it up so easy you ain't even fooling him
- If you did it then, then you probably f*** again
- Talking out your neck sayin' you're a Christian
- A Muslim sleeping with the gin
- Now that was the sin that did Jezebel in
- Who you gon' tell when the repercussions spin
- Showing off your ass 'cause you're thinking it's a trend
- Girlfriend, let me break it down for you again
- You know I only say it 'cause I'm truly genuine
- Don't be a hardrock when you're really a gem
- Babygirl, respect is just a minimum
- Niggas f***ed up and you still defending them
- Now Lauryn is only human
- Don't think I haven't been through the same predicament
- Let it sit inside your head like a million women in Philly, Penn.
- It's silly when girls sell their soul because it's in
- Look at where you be in hair weaves like Europeans
- Fake nails done by Koreans
- Come again
- Come again, come again, come again, come again
- Guys you know you better watch out
- Some girls, some girls are only about
- That thing, that thing, that thing
- The second verse is dedicated to the men
- More concerned with his rims and his Timbs than his women
- Him and his men come in the club like hooligans
- Don't care who they offend popping yang like you got yen
- Let's not pretend, they wanna pack pistol by they waist men
- Cristal by the case men, still in they mother's basement
- The pretty face, men claiming that they did a bid men
- Need to take care of their three and four kids men
- They facing a court case when the child's support late
- Money taking, heart breaking now you wonder why women hate men
- The sneaky silent men the punk domestic violence men
- The quick to shoot the s***n stop acting like boys and be men
- How you gon' win when you ain't right within
- How you gon' win when you ain't right within
- How you gon' win when you ain't right within
- Come again
- Come again, come again, come again, come again
- Girls you know you better watch out
- Some guys, some guys are only about
- That thing, that thing, that thing
- Come on baby, light my fire
- Everything you drop is so tired
- Music is supposed to inspire
- How come we ain't getting no higher?
- Now tell me your philosophy
- On exactly what an artist should be
- Should they be someone with prosperity
- And no concept of reality?
- Now, who you know without any flaws
- That lives above the spiritual laws
- And does anything they feel just because
- There's always someone there who'll applaud
- Come on baby, light my fire
- Everything you drop is so tired
- Music is supposed to inspire
- How come we ain't getting no higher?
- I know you think that you've got it all
- And by making other people feel small
- Makes you think you're unable to fall
- And when you do, who you gonna call?
- See, what you give is just what you get
- I know it hasn't hit you yet
- Now I don't mean to get you upset
- But every cause has an effect
- Come on baby, light my fire
- Everything you drop is so tired
- Music is supposed to inspire
- So, how come we're not getting no higher?
- I cross sands in distant lands, made plans with the sheiks
- Why you beef with freaks as my album sales peak?
- All I wanted was to sell like 500
- And be a ghetto superstar since my first album, Blunted
- I used to work at Foot Locker, they fired me and fronted
- Or I quitted, now I spit it - however do you want it?
- Now you get it!
- Writing rhymes my range with the frames slightly tinted
- Then send it to your block and have my full name cemented
- And if your rhymes sound like mine, I'm taking a percentage
- Unprecedented and still respected when it vintage
- I'm serious, I'm taking over areas in Aquarius
- Running red lights with my 10,000 chariots
- Just as Christ was a superstar, you stupid star
- They'll hail you then they'll nail you, no matter who you are
- They'll make you now then take you down
- And make you face it, if you slit the bag open
- and put your pinky in it, then taste it
- Come on baby, light my fire
- Everything you drop is so tired
- Music is supposed to inspire
- So, how come we ain't getting no higher
- [repeat to end]
- I treat this like my thesis
- Well written topic
- Broken down into pieces
- I introduce then produce
- Words so profuse
- It's abuse how I juice up this beat
- Like I'm deuce
- Two people both equal
- Like I'm Gemini
- Rather simeon
- If I Jimmy on this lock I could pop it
- You can't stop it
- Drop it
- Your whole crew's microscopic
- Like particles while I make international articles
- And on the cover
- Don't discuss the baby mother business
- I been in this third LP you can't tell me, I witness
- First handed I'm candid
- You can't stand it
- Respect demanded
- And get flown around the planet
- Rock Hard like granite or steel
- People feel Lauryn Hill from New-Ark to Israel
- And this is real
- So I keep makin' the street's ballads
- While you lookin' for dressin' to go with your tossed salad
- You could get the money
- You could get the power
- But keep your eyes on the final hour
- Now I be breakin' bread sippin Manichevitz wine
- Pay no mind party like it's 1999
- But when it comes down to ground beef like Palestine
- Say your rhymes, let's see if that get you out your bend
- Now I'm a get the mozzarella like a Rockerfeller
- Still be in the church of Lalibela
- Singing hymns a cappella
- Whether posed in Maribella in Couture
- Or collectin' residuals from off the Score
- I'm makin' sure
- I'm with the 144
- I've been here before this ain't a battle this is war
- Word to Boonie
- I makes a lot like a Sunni
- Get diplomatic immunity in every ghetto community
- Had opportunity went from
- Hoodshock to Hood-chic
- But it ain't what you cop
- It's about what you keep
- And even if there are leaks
- you can't capsize this ship
- Cause I baptize my lips every time I take a sip
- You could get the money
- You could get the power
- But keep your eyes on the final hour
- I'm about to change the focus
- From the richest to the brokest
- I wrote this opus
- To reverse the hypnosis
- Whoever's closest
- To the line's gonna win it
- You gonna fall tryin to ball
- While my team win the pennant
- I'm about to be in it
- For a minute
- Then run for senate
- Make a slum lord be the tenant
- Give his money to kids to spend it
- And then amend it
- Every law that ever prevented
- Our survival since our arrival
- Documented in the bible
- Like Moses and Aaron
- Things gon change, it's apparent
- And all the transparent gonna
- Be seen through
- Let God redeem you
- Keep your deen true
- Watch out what you cling to
- You can get the green too
- Observe how a queen do
- And I remain calm readin' the 73 Psalm
- Cause wit all this on I got the world in palm
- You could get the money
- You could get the power
- But keep your eyes on the final hour
- When it hurts so bad, when it hurts so bad
- Why's it feel so good?
- When it hurts so bad, when it hurts so bad
- Why's it feel so good?
- I loved real, real hard once
- But the love wasn't returned
- Found out the man I'd die for
- He wasn't even concerned
- I tried, and I tried, and I tried
- To keep him in my life
- I cried, and I cried, and I cried
- But I couldn't make it right
- But I, I loved the young man
- And if you've ever been in love,
- Then you'd understand
- What you want might make you cry
- What you need might pass you by
- If you don't catch it,
- If you don't catch it,
- And what you need ironically
- Will turn out what you want to be
- If you just let it,
- If you just let it
- See, I thought this feeling
- It was all that I had
- But how could this be love
- And make me feel so bad?
- Gave up my power,
- I existed for you
- But whoever knew the voodoo you'd do?
- But I, I loved the young man
- And if you've ever been in love you'd understand
- What you want might make you cry
- What you need might pass you by
- If you don't catch it
- And what you need ironically
- Will turn out what you want to be
- If you just let it,
- What you want might make you cry
- What you need might pass you by
- If you don't catch it
- And what you need ironically
- Will turn out what you want to be
- If you just let it,
- If you just let it
- When it hurts so bad, when it hurts so bad
- Why's it feel so good?
- When it hurts so bad, when it hurts so bad
- When it hurts so bad, when it hurts so bad
- Why's it feel so good?
- When it hurts so bad, when it hurts so bad
- When it hurts so bad, when it hurts so bad
- When it hurts so bad, when it hurts so bad
- When it hurts so bad, when it hurts so bad
- As I look at what I've done
- The type of life that I've lived
- How many things I pray the father will forgive
- One situation involved a young man
- He was the ocean and I was the sand
- He stole my heart like a thief in the night
- Dulled my senses blurred my sight
- I used to love him but now I don't
- I used to love him but now I don't
- I chose a road of passion and pain
- Sacrificed too much and waited in vain
- Gave up my power ceased being queen
- Addicted to love like the drug of a fiend
- Torn and confused wasted and used
- Reached the crossroad which path would I choose
- Stuck and frustrated I waited, debated
- For something to happen that just wasn't fated
- Thought what I wanted was something I needed
- When momma said no I just should have heeded
- Misled I bled till the poison was gone
- And out of the darkness arrived the sweet dawn
- I used to love him but now I don't
- I used to love him but now I don't
- Father you saved me and showed me that life
- Was much more than being some foolish man's wife
- Showed me that love was respect and devotion
- Greater than planets deeper than oceans
- My soul was weary but now it's replenished
- Content because that part of my life is finished
- I see him sometimes and the look in his eye
- Is one of a man who's lost treasures untold
- But my heart is gold I took back my soul
- And totally let my creator control
- The life which was his to begin with
- I used to love him but now I don't
- [Repeat to end]
- Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those that trespass against us
- Although them again we will never, never, never trust
- Dem noh know weh dem do, dig out yuh yei while dem sticking like glue,
- Fling, skin, grin while dem plotting fah you,
- True, Ah Who???
- Forgive them father for they know not what they do
- Forgive them father for they know not what they do
- Beware the false motives of others
- Be careful of those who pretend to be brothers
- And you never suppose it's those who are closest to you, to you
- They say all the right things to gain their position
- Then use your kindness as their ammunition
- To shoot you down in the name of ambition, they do
- Forgive them father for they know not what they do
- Forgive them father for they know not what they do
- Why every Indian wanna be the chief?
- Feed a man 'til he's full and he still want beef
- Give me grief, try to tief off my piece
- Why for you to increase, I must decrease?
- If I treat you kindly does it mean that I'm weak?
- You hear me speak and think I won't take it to the streets
- I know enough cats that don't turn the other cheek
- But I try to keep it civilized like Menelik
- And other African czars observing stars with war scars
- Get yours in this capitalistic system
- So many caught or got bought you can't list them
- How you gonna idolize the missing?
- To survive is to stay alive in the face of opposition
- Even when they comin' gunnin'
- I stand position
- L's known the mission since conception
- Let's free the people from deception
- If you looking for the answers
- Then you gotta ask the questions
- And when I let go, my voice echoes through the ghetto
- Sick of men trying to pull strings like Geppetto
- Why black people always be the ones to settle
- March through these streets like Soweto
- Like Cain and Abel, Caesar and Brutus, Jesus and Judas,
- Backstabbers do this
- Forgive them father for they know not what they do
- Forgive them father for they know not what they do
- It took me a little while to discover
- Wolves in sheep coats who pretend to be lovers
- Men who lack conscience will even lie to themselves, to themselves
- A friend once said, and I found to be true
- That everyday people, they lie to God too
- So what makes you think, that they won't lie to you
- Forgive them father for they know not what they do
- Forgive them, forgive them
- Forgive them father for they know not what they do
- Forgive them, forgive them
- Gwan like dem love while dem rip yuh to shreds,
- Trample pon yuh heart and lef yuh fi dead,
- Dem a yuh fren who yuh depen pon from way back when,
- But if yuh gi dem yuh back den yuh mus meet yuh end,
- Dem noh know wey dem do,
- Dem no know, dem no know, dem no know,
- Dem no know, dem no know wey dem do
- I was just a little girl
- Skinny legs, a press and curl
- My mother always thought I'd be a star
- But way before my record deal,
- The streets that nurtured Lauryn Hill
- Made sure that I'd never go too far
- Every ghetto, every city and suburban place I've been
- Make me recall my days in the New Jerusalem
- Story starts at Hootaville grew up next to Ivy Hill
- When kids were stealing quartervilles for fun
- Rode a Mongoose 'til it's dark
- Watching kids show off the stolen ones
- Every ghetto, every city and suburban place I've been
- Make me recall my days in New Jerusalem
- You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got
- Looking back,
- Looking back, looking back, looking back
- You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got
- Looking back
- Thinking back, thinking back, thinking back
- A bag of Bontons, twenty cents and a nickel
- Springfield Ave. had the best popsicles
- Saturday morning cartoons and Kung-Fu
- Main street roots tonic with the dreds
- A beef patty and some coco bread
- Move the patch from my Lees to the tongue of my shoe
- 'Member Frelng-Huysen used to have the bomb leather
- Back when Doug Fresh and Slick Rick were together
- Looking at the crew, we thought we'd all live forever
- You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got
- Looking back
- Thinking back, thinking back, thinking back
- You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got
- Looking back
- Thinking back, thinking back, thinking back
- Drill teams on Munn street
- Remember when Hawthorne and Chancellor had beef
- Moving Records was on Central Ave.
- I was there at dancing school
- South Orange Ave. at Borlin pool
- Unaware of what we didn't have
- Writing your friends' names on your jeans with a marker
- July 4th races off of Parker
- Fireworks at Martin stadium
- The Untouchable P.S.P., where all them crazy niggers be
- And car thieves got away through Irvington
- Hillside brings beef with the cops
- Self-Destruction record drops
- And everybody's name was Muslim
- Sensations and '88 attracted kids from out-of-state
- And everybody used to do the wop
- Jack, Jack, Jack ya body
- Nah, the Biz Mark used to amp up the party
- I wish those days, they didn't stop
- Every ghetto, every city and suburban place I've been
- Make me recall my days in New Jerusalem
- You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got
- Looking back
- Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back
- You know it's hot, don't forget what you've got
- Looking back
- Thinking back, thinking back, thinking back
- Thinking back, thinking back, thinking back
- [To end]
- Now the skies could fall
- Not even if my boss should call
- The world it seems so very small
- 'Cause nothing even matters at all
- Nothing even matters
- Nothing even matters at all
- Nothing even matters
- Nothing even matters at all
- See I don't need no alcohol
- Your love makes me feel ten feet tall
- Without it I'd go through withdrawal
- 'Cause nothing even matters at all
- Nothing even matters
- Nothing even matters at all
- Nothing even matters
- Nothing even matters at all
- These buildings could drift out to sea
- Some natural catastrophe
- Still there's no place I'd rather be
- 'Cause nothing even matters to me
- Nothing even matters
- Nothing even matters to me
- Nothing even matters
- Nothing even matters to me
- You're part of my identity
- I sometimes have the tendency
- To look at you religiously
- 'Cause nothing even matters to me
- Nothing even matters
- Nothing even matters to me
- Nothing even matters
- Nothing even matters to me
- Now you won't find me at no store
- I have no time for manicures
- With you it's never either or
- 'Cause nothing even matters no more
- Nothing even matters
- Nothing even matters no more
- Nothing even matters
- Nothing even matters no more
- Now my team could score
- And make it to the Final Four
- Just repossess my 4x4
- 'Cause nothing even matters no more
- Nothing even matters
- Nothing even matters no more
- Nothing even matters
- Nothing even matters no more
- Everything is everything
- What is meant to be, will be
- After winter, must come spring
- Change, it comes eventually
- [2x]
- I wrote these words for everyone
- Who struggles in their youth
- Who won't accept deception
- Instead of what is truth
- It seems we lose the game,
- Before we even start to play
- Who made these rules? We're so confused
- Easily led astray
- Let me tell ya that
- Everything is everything
- Everything is everything
- After winter, must come spring
- Everything is everything
- I philosophy
- Possibly speak tongues
- Beat drum, Abyssinian, street Baptist
- Rap this in fine linen
- From the beginning
- My practice extending across the atlas
- I begat this
- Flippin' in the ghetto on a dirty mattress
- You can't match this rapper / actress
- More powerful than two Cleopatras
- Bomb graffiti on the tomb of Nefertiti
- MCs ain't ready to take it to the Serengeti
- My rhymes is heavy like the mind of Sister Betty
- L. Boogie spars with stars and constellations
- Then came down for a little conversation
- Adjacent to the king, fear no human being
- Roll with cherubims to Nassau Coliseum
- Now hear this mixture
- Where hip hop meets scripture
- Develop a negative into a positive picture
- Now, everything is everything
- What is meant to be, will be
- After winter, must come spring
- Change, it comes eventually
- Sometimes it seems
- We'll touch that dream
- But things come slow or not at all
- And the ones on top, won't make it stop
- So convinced that they might fall
- Let's love ourselves then we can't fail
- To make a better situation
- Tomorrow, our seeds will grow
- All we need is dedication
- Let me tell ya that,
- Everything is everything
- Everything is everything
- After winter, must come spring
- Everything is everything
- Everything is everything
- What is meant to be, will be
- After winter, must come spring
- Change, it comes eventually
- My world it moves so fast today
- The past it seems so far away
- And I squeeze it so tight, I can't breathe
- And every time I try to be
- What someone has thought of me
- So caught up, I wasn't able to acheive
- But deep in my heart the answer it was in me
- And I made up my mind to find my own destiny
- I look at my environment
- And wonder where the fire went
- What happened to everything we used to be
- I hear so many cry for help
- Searching outside of themselves
- Now I know His strength is within me
- And deep in my heart the answer it was in me
- And I made up my mind to find my own destiny
- And deep in my heart the answer it was in me
- And I made up my mind to find my own destiny
- Yo heh heh tell him it's like uhh you know uhh
- Sweet sweet tell him
- Let me be patient let me be kind
- Make me unselfish without being blind
- Though I may suffer I'll envy it not
- And endure what comes
- Cause he's all that I got and
- tell him...
- Tell him I need him (yeah)
- Tell him I love him (tell him)
- And it'll be alright
- [Background singing]Telll himmm be alright be alright
- Tell him tell him I need him
- Tell him I love him
- It'll be alright
- Now I may have faith to make mountains fall
- But if I lack love then I am nothin' at all
- I can give away everything I possess
- But left without love then I have no happiness
- I know I'm imperfect (I know I'm imperfect)
- & not without sin (& not without sin)
- But now that I'm older all childish things end
- and tell him...
- Tell him I need him (yeah)
- Tell him I love him (tell him)
- And it'll be alright
- [Background singing]Telll himmm be alright be alright
- Tell him tell him I need him
- Tell him I love him
- It'll be alright
- [Bridge]
- I'll never be jealous
- And I won't be too kind
- Cause love is not boastful
- Oooh and loveis not loud
- Tell him I need him
- Tell him I love him
- Everything's gonna be alright[w/ adlibs]
- Oooh oooh yeah yeah aww yeah
- Now I may have wisdom and knowledge on Earth
- But if I speak wrong then what is it worth?
- See what we now know is nothing compared
- to the love that was shown when our lives were spared
- and tell him...
- Tell him I need him (yeah)
- Tell him I love him (tell him)
- And it'll be alright
- [Background singing]Telll himmm be alright be alright
- Tell him tell him I need him
- Tell him I love him
- It'll be alright
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