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Greatest hits and rarities Lyrics

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Maxi Priest - Greatest Hits & Rarities

 

Close To You

Wild World

Just A Little Bit Longer

Some Guys have All The Luck

Message In A bottle

Groovin"In The Midnight

That Girl

One More Chance

Love Somebody For Life

Back Together Again

Man With The Fun

Mary´s Got A baby

Diggin´On You

Everything I Own

The Tide Is High

Waiting For A Girl Like You

Never Had A Love So Good

 

Close To You

written by G. Benson, W. Sela, M. Elliott

 

She was a Jezebel this Brixton queen

Living her life like a backstreet dream

Telling me lies when the truth was clear

I think she knew what I wanted to hear

Spinning me round like a wheel on fire

Walking a tightrope on love's high wire

Fatal attraction is where I'm at

There's no escape for me

 

chorus

I just wanna be close to you

And do all the things you want me to

I just wanna be close to you

And show you the way I feel

 

I feel love when I'm lying in the midnight hour

Holding you just like a dream

Love is never what it seems

When we touch and you're holding me the way you do

Girl you make my dreams come true

You make my dreams come true

 

repeat chorus

 

She was a Gemini on the cusp of Mars

She holds me back or she goes too far

Winding me up just to let me down

So emotionally gagged and bound

There was more to this than meets the eye

A devil woman locked inside

With the full moon rising I was scared

I think I was possessed

 

repeat chorus

 

I feel love every time your body's next to mine

Something deep inside of me

Wants to love you endlessly

When we tough girl you don't know how it makes me feel

I just can't believe it's real I can't believe it's real

 

repeat chorus

 

She had an attitude I can't explain

You never know if you're in the frame

Tying me up with elastic words

I'm on a countdown till I get hurt

Her blood was hot and she burned so bright

A neon sign there in the night

It's hard to say if I went too far

My heart still bears the scars

 

I just wanna be close to you

I just wanna be close to you

I just wanna be close to you

 

She was a Jezebel this Brixton queen

Living her life like a backstreet dream

Telling me lies when the truth was clear

I think she knew what I wanted to hear (I just wanna be close to you)

Spinning me round like a wheel on fire

Walking a tightrope on love's high wire

Fatal attraction is where I'm at

There's no escape for me

 

I wanna be close to you

And do all the thing you wanna me to

I just wanna be close to you

I just wanna be close to you baby

Show you the way I feel

I just wanna be close to you

And do all the thing you wanna me to

I just wanna be close to you

Top

 

Wild World

written by Cat Stevens

 

Now that I've lost everything to you

You say you wanna start something new

And it's breaking my heart you're leaving

Baby I'm grieving

 

But if you want to leave take good care

Hope you find a lot of nice things to wear

But then a lot of nice things turn bad

Out there

 

chorus

Oh baby baby it's a wild world

It's hard to get by just upon a smile girl

Oh baby baby it's a wild world

I'll always remember you like a child girl

 

You know I've seen a lot of what the world can do

And it's breaking my heart in two

Because I never want to see you sad girl

Don't be a bad girl

 

But if you wanna leave take good care

Hope you find a lot of nice friends out there

But just remember there's a lot of bad everywhere

 

repeat chorus

 

You know I've seen a lot of what the world can do

And it's breaking my heart in two

Because I never want to see you sad girl

Don't be a bad girl

 

But if you want to leave take good care

Hope you have a lot of nice things to wear

But then a lot of nice things turn bad out there

 

repeat chorus

Top

 

just A Little Bit Longer

written by Handel, Tucker

 

You say you're hurting oh

Cause they say I'm flirting oh no

You just can't take it anymore

Your friends say I'm no good for you

But in my heart I'm so true

A partner for life we can be sure

You've asked me for some time to clear your mind

I stayed away it hurt so much

Without your touch

Now I'm back and you say

 

chorus

Just a little bit longer baby

For my love keeps growing stronger

A little more time to say

But in my head a love song plays

For you and me teah ah oh

 

We played in the rain together

That feeling lives on forever

Memories that bring tears of joy

We've had our share of bad times too

Hurting each other me and you

It's brought us much closer in the end

Just too much we've both fought for

To put it all down the drain

I've stayed away just for a while

But now you're driving me insane

 

repeat chorus

 

I said all there is to say now

Hoping that you'll make me stay

Believe me I'm yearning for you girl

Hope there's a place in your heart

That remembers the good from the start

Just put me back where I belong

You asked me for some time to clear your mind

I stayed away it hurt so much

Without your touch now I'm back and you say

 

repeat chorus

Top

 

Some Guys Have All The Luck

written by J. Fortang

 

Lonely, so lonely, oh so lonely, ah

Alone in the crowd on a bus after work I’m daydreaming

The guy next to me has his woman on his arm, my arms are empty

How does it feel when the woman that you love says yes she loves you

It seems unfair when there’s love everywhere and yet there’s none for you

 

chorus

Some guys have all the luck

Some guys have all the pain

Some guys have a little sunshine in their lives

My life is always a little bit of rain

 

Someone to take on a walk by the lake, dear Lord let it be

Someone who shouts, someone who is liable to cry at sad movies

I do believe I will die

Just to look in her eyes and find them filled with me oh

But you’re just a dream and as real as it seems, I’m not that lucky

 

repeat chorus

 

It’s just a losing game, things have got to change

Some girl will give my love a try

With my love her arms will open wide

 

repeat chorus

Top

 

Message In A Bottle

written by Sting

 

Just a castaway on an island lost at sea-o

Another lonely day, no one here but me-o

More loneliness than any man could bear

Rescue me before I fall fall into despair-o

 

chorus

I'll send an SOS to the world

I'll send an SOS to the world

I hope that someone gets my

I hope that someone gets my

I hope that someone gets my message in a bottle

Oh yeah message in a bottle ooh

 

A year has passed since I wrote my note

But I should have known this right from the start

Only hope can keep me together

Love can mend life but love can break your heart-o

 

repeat chorus

 

My message, my message, message in a bottle

 

Woke up this morning, I don't believe what I saw

A hundred million bottles washed up on the shore

Seems like I'm not alone in being alone

A hundred million castaways looking for a home

 

repeat chorus

 

Sending out an SOS message in a bottle

Sending out, sending out, sending out

Sending out an SOS

Sending out an SOS

Sending out an SOS

Reaching to the world my load

 

My message my message

Sending out an SOS

Sending out an SOS

Sending out an SOS

Top

 

Groovin´In The Midnight

written by D. Morales, M. Elliott, H. Tucker, M. Bennett

 

Oh oh oh

I want do it with you

I want do it with you

I want do it with you ah yeah

I want do it with you

I want do it with you

 

Uu Uu Uu

Oh yeah yeah oh yeah yeah yeah yeah

Grooving all night

 

chorus

Grooving in the midnight

Sailing on a summer breeze

Rocking with the passion

Taking it to ecstasy

 

repeat chorus

 

Is it my imagination

Or is this just a deal

I'm already jumping to conclusions

Ooh it feels so real

You say, the bottom line's excitement

Don't care how far we go

The night is young and calls for fun

But let's just take it slow

 

repeat chorus 2x

 

Did I read you right

Or do I take the cue

I'll make the first move

Then I'll leave it up to you

We can't go wrong

Feeling like we do

Let desire lead the way

And we'll just follow through

 

The sky's the limit

You say you're down with it

Soon we'll see if you're just playing cute on me hey

 

The sky's the limit

You say you're down with it

Soon we'll see if you're just playing cute on me hey

 

repeat chorus 2x

 

Oh yeah

I want to do with you

I want to do with you yeah yeah yeah

I want to do with you

I want to do with you oh yeah

I want to do with you

I want to do with you Uu Uu Uu

I want to do with you

 

Oh

The sky's the limit

You say you're down with it

Soon we'll see if you're just playing cute on me hey

 

The sky's the limit

You say you're down with it

Soon we'll see if you're just playing cute on me hey

 

repeat chorus 2x

 

All night all night rocking and grooving grooving all night

All night all night rocking and grooving grooving all night

 

If it's al right it's almost midnight we got moon light

If it's al right it's almost midnight we got moon light

 

If it's al right it's almost midnight we got moon light

If it's al right it's almost midnight we got moon light

 

Grooving in the midnight

Sailing on a summer breeze

Rocking with the passion ecstasy

 

Grooving in the midnight

Sailing on a summer breeze

Rocking with the passion ecstasy

 

Take it slow my my my my my

 

Let's get little closer hum

We get together and feel alright 

Top

 

That Girl

written by G. Benson, M. Elliott, R. Livingston, S. Pizzonia, O. Burrell., B.T. Jones, S. Cropper, L. Steinberg, Al Jackson

 

The girl has got the touch

What she got is a little something

That kind of girl

Maxi Priest just make them know

 

She's the kind of woman

Who let's you know

When she knows what she wants

She won't let go

Takes you to a place of your fantasy

Walks you to the door

But she holds the key

 

chorus

That girl(ooh)that kind of girl

That girl(ooh)that kind of girl

 

No matter who you are

Or what you do

She knows how to click

In everything you do

She can make you hot

When it's cold outside

Take you on a high

Even make you fly

 

repeat chorus

 

Mmmmmmm, she's outspoken

I'm heartbroken

Just the kind of girl to keep my love life rolling

She's outspoken

I'm heartbroken

Just the kind of girl to keep my that that that

Girl to make you break your silence and speak

Just a glimpse upon the the silhouette make my knees

Get weak mmm mm

Baby baby so unique a reggaematic

Lover lover make her life complete

 

repeat chorus

 

She's the kind of woman

Whe knows the street

And even under pressure

She's smooth and sweet

No complications

Just attitude

Believes in what she's got

And she won't get used

 

repeat chorus

 

Well I'm weak to her touch

So vulnerable to her blush, love struck

That girl I got an instant crush

You can call me a lush, infatuation or just lust

The girl possess the stuff to

Make the man them oh ah

 

Holy Moses Lord it could have been me

Caught up in this trap and didn't wanna be

But I ain't no fool I was one step ahead

I had to let go cause I was over my head

 

repeat chorus

 

Gangster kind of lover

Cause she's the Shaggy kind of girl

Let them know

Sexy kind of lover

Let them know

Maxi kind of girl

 

She's outspoken

I'm heartbroken

Just kind of girl to keep my love life flowin'

She's outspoken

I'm heartbroken

She's the kind of girl to keep my that that girl

 

repeat chorus

 

I got to let them know

She's the kind of girl that captivates your soul

A rude girl type of lover

Shaggy and Maxi Priest definitely on the girl them case

Top

 

One More Chance

written by M. Elliott, S. Law, T. Davy, L. Hamblin

 

Uh oh yeah

There's no reason for hurting baby

You know I'm on your side

Cause I've been sitting here thinking about us baby

And I wanna make it right oh yeah

Though I know I really stepped out a line before

Time after time

And you just got to believe in my promises baby

Even though that's the last thing on your mind oh yeah

 

I know I realize all the things I've done wrong

We must find a way to make our love grow strong

 

chorus

One more chance is all I ask, one more chance

Just one more chance

Got to believe in my promises baby

One more try is all I ask, one more chance

Just one more try hey hey hey

 

Uh oh

Won't you please just reconsider baby

Forget all the things I said and done

For all it takes is just a little understanding

Think of love and we'll make it right hey

 

I feel my life changing

You changed me for the better

Within my heart I know what's right

We should be together

 

One more chance is all I ask

Just one more chance

Got to believe in my promises baby

One more try is all I ask, one more chance

Just one more try hey hey hey uh oh

I wanna do you right

One more try one more try baby

I wanna do you right

I should've known better than to cause you pain oh~

To let you down and turn away

Let me do you right

 

Won't you give me one more try, won't you give me a one more try baby

I wanna make it right, one more try

I realized I know I was wrong all the things I said and done

One more chance baby that's all I ask that's all I ask

 

I wanna do you right

One more one more one more one more one more try

Let me do you right

I should've known better than to cause you pain oh~

To let you down and turn away

One more chance oh baby

It's all I ask I gotta make you mine

One more chance

One more one more one more one more one more try

Let me do you right

Top

 

written by Yuji Oda, M. Elliott, T. Ludwig

 

My love comes straight from the heart

As a friend, as a friend

Even though we are so far apart

As a friend

 

chorus

Lalala love somebody tonight

Lalalalalalove somebody for life

And I will never never never never never let love go

I want to love somebody tonight, right

For real, watch this

 

I still remember now

The dreams that I had

Try to make it through the night

Tossing and turning, missing your love

Can't get you out of my mind

I'm always searching, trying to find where you are

Are you thinking of me

My heart is so empty, time goes so slow

And all I see is memories

 

I can't believe that what we had

We'd let it slip away no

This time we won't let it go

 

repeat chorus

 

We take for granted what we love the most

Not realizing till it's gone

Searching for love we find loneliness

Now I'm so sorry I was wrong

You were my butterfly and I set you free

With the hope you come back to me

Come back to me

 

This love comes straight from the heart

As a friend, as a real good friend

And this love will never end

???????? tell your friend Maxi Priest come again, right

Watch this, have merci

lalalala I wanna love somebody tonight

 

I still remember now

The dreams that I had

Try to make it through the night

Tossing and turning, missing your love

Can't get you out of my mind

 

repeat chorus

Top

 

Back Together Again

written by R. Lucas, J. Mtume

 

It seems we've weathered

Hard times we've been through

In silence I've waited

I've missed you (miss you too)

 

chorus

Coz you, you and I back together again

We got the world in a spin,

Coz you you and I back together again,

We've got the world in a spin

 

It's all come together

Problems we've defeated

I'm here heart in hand

You take all that I've got if you need it baby

 

repeat chorus

 

Love will last forever (that's true)

We can make it real (got to be real)

Say you'll leave me never

We can truly feel (watcha feel) (I feel like getting...)

 

Back together

(Baby keep it real and I will be there till the end)

 

Younger and wiser

Time has shown the way

We've come full circle to stay (here to stay)

(We got the world)

 

repeat chorus

 

(Rap)

You know the deal

My life story from broke

We always talked about the bad times that turned jokes

We spoke about you leaving the town, yo I was down

But now you're back in my life to having

ypou around (I hold you down)

Remember the fun we have young

You thought it was done, never none

We haven't begun

Together we come the land of living of giving

My heart to you every part

You the one I'm feeling

 

Truth is the light

It's the joy that we both share

Make love day and night

It's so easy to do when you care

 

repeat chorus

Top

 

Man with The Fun

written by G. Benson, M. Elliott, R. Livingston, S. Pizzonia, T. Brevette

 

If I get your name and your telephone number

We can get together baby sooner than later

But if you walk away then we're gonna be strangers

Won't you take the chance I can make it much better

I don't really know you but I'm trying to get over

You looked so good I just had to walk over

I wondered if your name is Lisa, Tammy or Mona

And if you spare the time I can tell you about me

 

chorus

Cause I'm the man with the fun,yes I am

Yes I'm the man with the fun

I don't hit and run

Cause I'm the man with the fun,yes I am

Yes I'm the man with the fun

I don't hit and run

 

I'm the type of man who can hold it together

And even if it rains I can be your umbrella

So tell me what to do (So I can) hold you much closer

Baby won't you give me just your name and your number

Or is there someone else, I don't see no ring

And if you say no we can do our thing

It's looking like you're free is it true that you're single

So maybe we can get together baby and mingle

 

repeat chorus

 

If I get your name and your telephone number

We can get together baby sooner than later

But if you walk away then we're gonna be strangers

So if you take the chance baby things will get better

 

repeat chorus

 

Not gonna leave you

Put your trust in me baby

Top

 

Mary´Got A baby

written by M. Elliott, R. Livingstone, G. Chambers, M. Davis

 

chorus 1

Mary's got a baby pretty little baby

What am I supposed to do

I try my best to help her show her that I care

But brothers got their problem too

 

chorus 2

Hot man fi get a hot woman yeah

Rastaman fi get a ras woman yeah

a lioness fi get a lion,right right

 

Too much drama and commotion that's surrounding me

It's a sticky situation and I can't break free

Lord, I wish that sweet sweet Mary could be my cherie

But my Mary's got a baby and it's not for me

 

repeat chorus 1

 

Listen the DJ style and listen mi patter

Woman weh mi love oonu fi try understand

Beenie pon di riddim Maxi Priest a number one

And any were that wi go a we a rock di nation

Woman a write me, woman a hold we

Woman a draw down we hand

Any weh them see we come jump pon we like ants

This is Beenie Man up on the version

Maxi Priest yuh a number one singer help me sing along

 

repeat chorus 2

 

Every morning that I wake it's only bills I see

It's so hard just for a man to build a family

All the stress and strife of life has got a hold on me

When I hear the baby cry it breaks a part of me Oh well

 

repeat chorus

 

My life and your life is just familiar

Every day dem want to kill mi in the media

And dem say mi have seven baby mother

Buitmi check dem have a next baby father

Well a four youth mi get although mi a fret

Cause every girl weh fi step in a mi crip yes

All now mi nuh see di next three yet

 

repeat chorus 1

repeat chorus 2

Top

 

Diggin´On You

written by H. Asamoto, T. Maeda, G. Benson, M. Elliott

 

So here we are

No one wants to be the first to say

What we're feeling

You touched my heart

And suddenly those words just ain't the same

It has new meaning

 

You've giving me what I've been missing

And I don't wanna let it go

We don't have to rush this moment

Baby we can let it flow

I don't know where it all got started

I don't know where it's gonna go

Just gotta let you know oh baby

 

chorus

I'm diggin' on you

Diggin' your kindness

Diggin' your everything

Baby, don't you know

I'll do the best I can

To be good for you

I know what I want

May be the same for you

I'm in love

Diggin' diggin' on you oh baby

 

So in to you

There's nothing else I really want to do

You're all that matters

Through and through

You know you can depend on me always

To make you happy

 

You came to me from out of nowhere

And suddenly the game has changed

Tomorrow is another story

Cos nothing stays the same

I'm planning me a new direction

I can see it in your eyes

That's no lie

 

repeat chorus

 

So take me as I am

Put your heart in mine

Stay with me forever

Here I stand, stand before you now

Take me as I am

Put your heart in mine

I've spent lonely days

Hold me tight

Need your love, take me forever

 

repeat chorus 2x

 

So take me as I am

Put your heart in mine

Stay with me forever

Here I stand, stand before you now

Take me as I am

Put your heart in mine

I've spent lonely days

Hold me tight

Need your love, take me forever

 

repeat chorus

Top

 

Everything I Own

written by David Gates

 

You sheltered me from harm

Kept me warm, kept me warm

You gave my life to me

Set me free, set me free

The finest years I ever knew

Is all the years I had with you

And

 

chorus

I would give anything I own

Give up my life, my heart, my home

I would give ev'rything I own

Just to have you back again

Just to touch you once again

 

You taught me how to love

What it's of, what it's of

You never said too much

But still you showed the way

And I knew from watching you

Nobody else would ever know

The part of me that can't let go

And

 

repeat chorus

 

Is there someone you know

You're loving them so

But you'd taking them all for granted?

You may lose them one day

Someone takes them away

And they don't hear the words they say

 

repeat chorus 2x

 

Just to have you back again

Just to talk with you once again

Just to have you back again

Top

 

The tide Is High

written by J. Holt

 

chorus

The tide is high

But I'm holding on

I'm gonna be your number one number one

 

I'm not the kinda man

Who gives up just like that no

 

It's not the things you do

That tease and hurt me bad

But it's the way you do the things you do to me

I'm not the kinda man who gives up just like that no

 

repeat chorus

 

Every girl wants you to be his girl

But I'll wait my dear till it's my turn

I'm not the kinda man who gives up just like that no

 

repeat chorus

 

Hey yeah allright

Easy baby allright

 

repeat chorus

Top

 

Waiting For A Girl Like You

written by M. Jones, L. Gramm

 

chorus

I've been waiting for a girl like you to come into my life

I've been waiting for a girl like you, a love that will survive

 

So long, I've been looking too hard, I've been waiting too long

Sometimes I don't know what I will find, but I only know it's a matter of time

When you love someone, when you love someone

 

It feels so right, so warm and true, I need to know you feel it too

Baby maybe I'm wrong, won't you tell me I'm coming

too strong oh baby

Cause this heart of mine has been hurt before and this time I wanna be sure

 

repeat chorus

 

You're so good, when we make love it's understood

It's more than a touch or words can say

It's only in dreams it's this way

When you love someone, when you really love someone

 

Now I know it's right, from the moment we wake till deep in the night

There's nowhere on earth I'd rather be than to hold you tenderly

 

repeat chorus

 

my life my life my life

 

repeat chorus

 

I've been waiting for someone new to make me feel alive

yeah waiting for a girl like you to come into my life

My life

Top

 

Never Had A Love so Good

written by . Elliott, R. Simpson

 

Never never never oh baby

Oh Lord I wanna thank you

For giving to me

Someone so special

Who would make me see

Sweet love and affection in a different way

When all I ever do is just hope and pray

I've always been a dreamer

And my dream just came through

I woke up to reality

And it sure feels good

You're my inspiration

The way you stand by my side

And I don't wanna break this heartbeat of mine

 

chorus

Oh I never had a love so good, so right

And I never had a love like this in my life

And I'm so scared I'll never chance it again

Oh lovers and friends

Lovers and friends lovers and friends

 

I believe in sincerity

And I mean just what I say

Together like it's meant to be

And there's no better way

You give me understanding

When I needed it most

And with everyday I'm wanting you more

 

repeat chorus

 

I really thank you Lord

You opened up my door

I'm where I wanna be

With her lying next to me

And every day I pray

This is how it's gonna stay

Two of us together night and day

 

repeat chorus

 

Oh I never had a love like this in my life

No I never had a love like this in my life

Oh I never had a love like this in my life

No I never had a love like this in my life

Hey ooh baby baby

I really thank you Lord ooh yeah

You opened up my door ooh baby baby baby

I really thank you Lord yeah oh baby

I never had a love like this in my life

No I never had a love like this in my life

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