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Maxi Priest - Man With The Fun

 

That Girl

Man With The Fun

Watching The World Go By

Message In A Bottle

Heartbreak Lover

Love Will Cross Over

All Kinds Of People

Happy Days

Golden Teardrops

Are You Ready For Me

Ain't It Enough

Human Cry

Frienenemy

Won't Let It Slip Away

That Girl (Urban Mix)

 

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 a key

 

chorus

That girl ooh that kind of girl, gangsta kind of lover

That girl ooh that kind of girl, smooth type 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 silhouette

My knees get weak

Mmmmmmm, baby baby so unique

A reggaemantic lover lover make her life complete

 

repeat chorus

 

She's the kind of woman who 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 I didn't wanna be, I know

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

I had to let go cause I was over my head

 

That girl ooh that kind of girl

Gangsta kind of lover

That girl ooh that kind of girl

Cause she's a Shaggy kind of girl

That girl ooh, let them know

That kind of girl, sexy kind of lover

That girl ooh, let them know

That kind of girl, 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

 

That girl ooh, I got to let them know

That kind of girl

She's the kind of girl that captivates your soul

That kind of girl

A rude girl type of lover

That kind of girl

Shaggy and Maxi Priest definitely on the girl them case 

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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

 

So 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 2x

 

Not gonna leave you

Put your trust in me baby

 

repeat chorus

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Watching The world Go By

written by G. Benson, M. Elliott, A. Marvel

 

There's so much injustice here

I see it every day

Time and time we try to change

And never find a way

We'll climb the mountains far and wide

To find the truth behind the lies

Here I am just searching for some peace

 

chorus

Just watching the world go by

Counting the clouds up in the sky

I'm hoping for a new tomorrow

Without sadness and sorrows in my life oh yeah

 

There is so much hate around

We need to find some love

So much disillusion

I just got to rise above

There is so much going down

To keep my feet on solid ground

Got to find an answer to my prayers

 

Just watching the world go by

Counting the clouds up in the sky

Getting all those complications

And those mad situations out of my life

Just watching the world go by

Seeing all those lonely people pass me by

I'm hoping for a new tomorrow

Without sadness and sorrows in my life my life my life

 

Come along now now now, come along now now now

 

You need to spend some time

To look into yourself

And watch the river flow into the sea

You travel down a highway

Not knowing where it goes

And listening to the music as it flows

 

repeat chorus 

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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 a life but love can break your heart-o

 

repeat chorus

 

My message, my message, message in a bottle, my my my my Lord

 

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 Lord

 

My message my message

Sending out an SOS

Sending out an SOS

Sending out an SOS 

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Heartbreak Lover

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

 

You can go if you wanna

You can stay if you like

You can do almost anything

But you don't run my life

I don't need no ultimatum

I can't deal with no stress

You don't run no part of me

I'm different from the rest

 

chorus

Don't need another heartache

Heartbreak lover

Cause I'm a boombastic kind of lover

 

You can do nothing now to please me

You don't fit my style

You can even try and sweet talk me

Only for a while

Don't ask your friends to call me

I won't change my mind

I tell you it's all over now

Don't waste your time

 

repeat chorus

 

Has it ever occured to you

That I'm a man whose heart can be broken

Woman I want to speak to you

Don't you hurt me over and over again

Woman say?

Did it ever occurred to you

That I'm a man whose heart can be broken

Woy woy woy girl I want to speak to you

Don't you hurt me over and over again

I lame

 

You can go if you wanna

You can stay if you like

You can do almost anything

But you don't run my life

I don't need no ultimatum

I can't deal with no stress

You don't run no part of me

I'm different from the rest

 

repeat chorus

 

You can do nothing now to please me

You just don't fit my style

You can even try and sweet talk me

Only for a while

Don't ask your friends to call me

Cause I won't change my mind

I tell you it's all over now

Don't waste your time

 

Heartache what we fear

Spread this everywhere

Woman me honor your dolly

Me know come ya fe jeer

Pat says she loves me and

Me wonder if she care

The woman I'm looking for

Must be somewhere out there

See Buju ya, Maxi Priest, Beres

Hammond gone clear

Type of man

Fe make the girl them chat

Armshouse and carousing

That we don't want

Raise up galpickenee

Cause we don't stop dance

 

repeat chorus 

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Love Will Cross Over

written by G. Benson, M. Elliott, D. Germain, H. Seaton, L. Charmers

 

In God I believe ooh yeah

In God I believe ooh yeah

 

We rise to another day

So many things to say

Here comes the rain

I know it won't be long

Hope makes me carry on

My life is worth all the pain

So I'm working hard to find some kind of peace of mind

It's what I need to achieve

And even in times of doubt my faith I can't leave with out

In God the King I believe

 

chorus

One Day I know my Lord

Love will take over oh yeah

One day I know

We will cross over oh well

 

So I walk an endless road

Carrying my heavy load

I know that I'm not alone

And when the day is done

I know the time has come

To give my thanks once more

 

repeat chorus

 

Soon one day I know

We will cross over

 

Now there is a time and a place

We've got to run the race

Now there is a lesson to learn, teach them

So we never give up the fight

When we believe we're right

We can overcome

 

repeat chorus

 

Soon one day I know

Love will take over

Got to believe it

We will cross over I know I know

Oh one day love will take over

I know one day love will cross over 

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All Kinds Of People

written by G. Benson, M. Elliott

 

Jah Rastafari

One man's feed is another man's poison

One man's joy is another man's pain

One man's strength is another man's weakness

And it takes all kinds of people

All kinds of people in this world

To make this world turn around

Make this world a better place

Make this world turn around

 

One man's chains is another man's freedom

One man's curse is another man's prayer

One man's dream is another man's nightmare

And it takes all kinds of people

All kinds of people in this world

To make this world turn around

Make this world a better place

Make this world turn around

Make this world a better place

 

bridge 

 

So many questions waiting for the answer 

So many people waiting for their ship to come in  

And salvation to begin hey hey hey

One man's hell is another man's heaven 

One man's enemy is another man's friend 

One man's woman is another man's lover 

And it takes all kinds of people 

All kinds of people in this world 

To make this world turn around 

Make this world a better place 

Make this world turn around

Make this world a better place

 

repeat bridge

  

One man's hell is another man's heaven 

One man's enemy is another man's friend 

One man's woman is another man's lover 

And it takes all kinds of people 

All kinds of people in this world 

To make this world turn around 

Make this world a better place 

Make this world turn around 

Make this world a better place  

Make this world turn around 

Make this world a better place

 

Father we thank thee

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Happy Days

written by G. Benson, M. Elliott, R. Livingston, E. Manesca

 

Now listen to dih man call Maxi Priest  

Man call Pleirs, dih man cal Chhaka Demus  

Is just the three of us wh nuh bogus  

Music dis is coming from dih flick of our wrist  

We nah dis so listen to this  

Ah tell yuh this

 

Happy days are here again 

People gather round and tell your friends  

It's great to be alive with a smile on your face  

Cause that's allright

No you don't have to worry about your diamonds and pearls  

You don't have to play around those kind of girls  

You don't have to be the man who's high and fly 

And that's no lie

 

chorus

Oh singing happy days are here again  

Everything we got is heaven sent  

Think about how lucky we ought to be  

Cause life's the key

 

And if yuh happy just clap your hands  

And if you happy just stamp your feet  

We a celebrate life Jah know say it sweet  

Listen dih rythm you just can't sleep

 

People go to work, people go to school  

People go to church to learn the golden rule  

People like to party, people love the sun  

Every day's a bonus when you're having fun

repeat chorus

 

And if you just rich give to dih poor 

The Father will love you more and more  

And if you strong you help the weak 

You turn yuh back you self defeat

 

Bap ba du bap spap

  

And if yuh happy just clap your hands  

And if you happy just stamp your feet  

We a celebrate life Jah know say it sweet  

 

Listen dih rhythm you just can't sleep

 

Just think about the people who are fighting at war  

Give me just a reason what they're fighting for  

Life could be so nice if we inderstood  

 

Learn to take the bad, like we take the good

repeat chorus

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Golden Teardrops

written by M. Elliott. S. Law, R. Anderson

 

You just don't understand  

I was home just the other day  

When someone told me  

That you're still with the man  

That you left long time ago

 

Oh I'm not tryin' to play in your love affair  

But you mean so much to me  

When I see those teardrops in your eyes  

It all comes back to me 

  

Oh my little sister  

I can be your shoulder to cry on

But you're a big girl now

And you can't waste your life away ooh

 

chorus 

Golden teardrops, chasing rainbows  

Will help you to ease your mind  

But you've got to let go sometime  

Golden teardrops, chasing rainbows  

Will help you to ease your mind  

But you've got to let go sometime

 

Oh my little sister  

I'm not tryin' to tell you what to do  

But the wounds that I thought  

Would have healed by now  

Are still tearing you apart 

 

I can dry your eyes  

But I won't tell you lies  

But you got to be strong  

Need to take control of your life 

 

repeat chorus

 

Sometime sometime ooh yeah  

Chasing rainbows chasing rainbows 

Oh my little sister 

I can dry your eyes  

But I won't tell you lies  

But you got to be strong  

Need to take control of your life

 

repeat chorus 2x

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Are You Ready For Me

written by G. Benson, M. Elliott. R. Livingston

 

chorus

I'm ready for you ooh baby  

Are you ready for me  

Are you ready for me ooh baby  

Cause I'm ready for you

 

Say let's do it my way  

 

Show you the right way 

Just you wait and see  

When you get to know me 

You won't be lonely  

Let's take it naturally  

Girl don't you play me

  

There's no more maybe's  

I want you here with me  

Someone to rely one  

A shoulder to cry on  

I say that love is the key  

Listen nana

 

repeat chorus

 

I need some affection  

Sweet loving injection  

Can't you see what I mean  

There's no escaping  

Don't keep me waiting  

I need you constantly  

Listen nana

 

repeat chorus

 

I need some affection 

Sweet loving injection  

Don't you see what I mean  

There's no escaping  

Don't keep me waiting  

I need you constantly

 

repeat chorus

  

So let's do it my way

Just you wait and see  

When you get to know me  

You won't be lonely   

Let's take it naturally

 

repeat chorus 

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Ain't It Enough

written by G. Benson, M. Elliott. A. Marvel 

 

This one's for you baby  

This time I'll make things right  

Listen

 

Lately I've been thinking that we need some time together  

Nothing ever seems to go the way we planned  

I used to think that nothing would ever come between us 

And what we have is slipping right through our hands

 

chorus

Ain't it enough to say I love you  

Ain't it enough to know I care  

What would it take to prove that I need you  

 

I'll do anything, I swear

 

You're always trying to tell me  

That I never understand you  

The trouble is you never get what I say  

You never listen to my side of the story  

So tell me, do I really have to beg you to stay  

 

Tell me tell me tell me baby

 

repeat chorus

 

Much too far from being over  

Much too close to let it go 

It's our time to get it back together  

 

Cause I can't stand to lose you right now

 

repeat chorus 3x

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Human Cry

written by G. Benson, P. Morgan, R. Morgan, M. Elliott

 

Cry, human cry   

Cry cry ooh Lord

There's a dark place in the heart of the city  

Where no one goes  

People up-town won't admit it  

They don't wanna know  

Children on the sidewalk looking so sad  

People out there they got bad intentions   

And there's nothing to lose

 

chorus

Human cry cry cry  

Human cry from the battlefield  

Human oooh Lord  

Human cry oh Lord

 

Shattered dreams of forgotten souls  

Who struggle to exist  

People on the hill won't come near  

Afraid to take the risk  

Looking for a way out that's not there  

Desperate faces everywhere so hungry   

Searching for shelter

 

repeat chorus

 

Fragile the place is fragile  

We're on the edge of all tomorrows  

And you just can feel the tension  

Tearing us apart  

We're gonna let go if we lose a heart  

Ooh oh the place is fragile 

 

Say it's midnight on the street  

Graffiti everywhere  

And in a fortress on higher ground  

People live in fear  

No this ain't no distant dream  

It's in our own backyard   

Look all around you

 

repeat chorus

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Frienenemy

written by M. Elliott, L. Heywood, D. Heywood

 

I  cry 

I cry,listen me keenly  

I cry, ah bad boy and wickeh man  

I cry for my people  

I'm talking to my people, watch this

 

chorus 

Tell me who are your enemy  

Just type of frienenemy 

Tell me who are your enemy 

Just that type of frienenemy

 

I wanna know just why a man thinks it's funny 

Dising his idrin 

Saying everything leads to money 

Where do you go from here  

Won't you make a decision 

Cause only your friend knows your secret 

Only he can reveal them 

 

repeat chorus 

 

Slow down a minute let me 

Talk to you neatly  

Cause I got something here to say 

Won't you listen me keenly

Why does a smiling face never show no traces 

And fool you with their plastic smiles  

And their smooth conversations 

 

repeat chorus 

 

I wanna know now, yes I do 

I wanna know now 

My my my my my my my Lord 

Dash shi way 

Nah take it back

 

There with a watchful eye trying to 

Trick and deceive you  

Despite of all the good you do  

They'll be there to deny you 

 

repeat chorus

 

Slow down a minute l 

Let me talk to you neatly 

Cause I got something here to say 

Won't you listen me keenly  

 

There with a watchful eye trying to 

Trick and deceive you 

Despite of all the good you do 

They'll be there to deny you

 

repeat chorus

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Won't Let It Slip Away

written by G. Benson, M. Elliott, H. Tucker

 

Yeah just making it with you girl

 

chorus

Holding you tight, squeezing you right 

And I won't let it slip away  

When I feel the taste of your sweet embrace 

I couldn't let it slip away

  

I don't know how I got here 

But I'm in the place 

And the music's rocking in my soul 

No time to waste 

The party is raging and I'm getting hot 

And until I get to know you girl 

I'm not gonna stop

 

Dancing with you cheek to cheek 

And I feel your heat 

And the words you whisper in my ears 

They sound so sweet 

 

repeat chorus 

 

Being here with you girl just takes me away 

To another place, another time  

Ooh I love your way 

The music is playing, we're rocking in time 

And you're really getting to me girl

You're blowing my mind

 

repeat chorus 3x

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