The Answer

Lyrics

Dream on
 Dream on
 Stop saying the game is sold and not be told
 Try to help the child that's only 4 years old
 Why, why would you sit back and relax
 And watch them kids fall off the tracks?
 How, how can we sit on the sideline and watch it go down?
 You, you need to make someone feel really proud
 Rhythm is the key, can't you see?
 Just don't do it for publicity
 I, I was the boy in the little picture
 Always asking questions but never getting really good answers
 So I screamed out loud and said
 Please give them the answers
 Give them the answers
 They need the answers
 Some people ask me how is life for me
 Growing up in a dark pretty city
 It was scary but life was good
 See in my neighborhood
 In my neighborhood
 In my neighborhood, oh-oh
 In my neighborhood
 It's all coming back to me now
 See, when I was growing up
 There was a lot of people raising me
 I didn't know at the time
 But I listened to everything I heard
 Every man, every woman
 Every teacher, every preacher
 Yes, I listen to
 And you gotta do the same things
 Oh yes, you do, oh-ohh
 March to the drums, look all around you
 Help somebody find their way (oh-ooh, yeah-eh)
 We gotta show 'em the way
 Do it today, show 'em the way
 Show them the way
 Don't let them find out the hard way
 Show them the way
 Show them (oohh)
 Mama you told me, you were coming over Sunday
 To feed me my favorite meal, that's you
 With just one teaspoon, you fill me up
 I'm so glad this love is really real
 See, I'm so thankful, thankful for you
 Was left in cold but now I have the proof
 That you are more than beautiful and I know I'm right
 One look at you and girl, and I melt inside
 You're surely a blessing, not in disguise
 The truth is standing right before my eyes
 'Cause you are answer to all, to all my prayers
 I've been patient, girl, I'm so prepared
 To walk down this road, just me and you
 Girl, every step I'm gonna show my love to you
 Wanna be perfect, now you know I've tried
 To make you happy till the day I die
 I've got this feeling, this feeling inside
 Look in my eyes, girl, you know I can't hide the truth
 'Cause you know me better than I know myself
 So you know I'm really into you
 I send my love to you, baby
 Let me make sunflowers bloom your way
 Add some color to your grayest day
 (Could you love me like the love you say?)
 Love me like you love yourself
 Then we won't need nobody else, oh no
 Larry Graham
 One of these days, we're gonna both sit back
 And think about our first walk and dance
 Doors have been closed, you scooted and screamed
 This kind of love will never see you feet
 You see I'm so tall and too over you
 So proud to be in these new shoes, my dear
 Darling love, you're gonna pick me up
 I don't think I'll ever be in love
 Let me make sunflowers bloom your way
 Add some color to your grayest day
 (Can you love me like the love you say?)
 Love me like you love yourself
 Then we won't need nobody else, oh-no
 (Let me love you like you love yourself)

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Song Details

Duration
09:30
Key
6
Tempo
102 BPM

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