Be yourself tonight

would i lie to you 

would i lie to you honey 

now would i say something that wasn't true 

i'm asking you sugar would i lie to 



you my friends know what's in store 

i won't be here anymore 

i've packed my bags 

i've cleaned the floor 

watch me walkin' 

walkin' out the door 



believe me 

i'll make it make it 



tell you straight 

no intervention 

to you face 

no deception 

you're the biggest fake 

that much is true 

had all i can take 

now i'm leaving you 



watch me, watch me, ooh yea

no one on earth could feel like this 

i'm thrown and overblown with bliss 

there must be an angel playing with my heart

i walk into an empty room 

and suddenly my heart goes boom 

it's an orchestra of angels 

and they're playing with my heart 



must be talking to an angel 



and when i think that i'm alone 

it seems there's more of us at home 

it's a multitude of angels

and they're playing with my heart 



i must be hallucinating 

watching angels celebrating 

could this be reactivating 

all my senses dislocating 

this must be a strange deception 

by celestial intervention 

leavin' me the recollection 

of your heavenly connection

well the sound of your voice on the telephone 

make me feel distressed 

make me all alone 

why do i feel so incomplete 

when you're not here i'm just obsolete 



my bed is burnin' all through the night 

you're the only one that can make me feel right 

try to lay down my sleepin' head 

but i'm tossin' and turnin' around instead 



like a ball and chain 

i love you like a ball and chain 

make it alright now 

love you like a ball and chain 

feels too good 



i'm a fool i know but i'm stuck on you 

i'm a fool i know and it's makin' me blue 

there's a river of blood 

there's a river of tears 

i've been waisting all these years

now there was a time 

when they used to say 

that behind every great man 

there had to be a great woman 

but in these times of change 

you know that it's no longer true 

so we're coming out of the kitchen 



cause there's something we forgot to say to you,

we say sisters are doin' it for themselves

standin' on their own two feet 

and ringin' on their own bells 

sisters are doin' it for themselves 



now this is a song to celebrate 

the conscious liberation of the female state 

mothers, daughters and their daughters too 

woman to woman we're singin' with you 

the inferior sex has got a new exterior we 

got doctors, lawyers, politicians too 

everybody take a look around 

can you see there's a woman right next to you 



now we ain't makin' stories 

and we ain't laying plans

don't you know that a man 

still loves a woman 

and a woman still loves a man 

just the same though

it's alright, baby's coming back 

and i don't really care where he's been 

it's alright, baby's coming back 

and i won't turn him around this time 



i'll be you cliff you can fall down from me 

i'll be you ledge you can lean upon me 

i'll be you bridge your flowering tree 

you can still depend on me 





and i'll be the ticking off your clock 

and i'll be the numbers on your watch 

and i'll be your hands to stop the time

i'll even be your danger sign



and i'll be your grace your dignity 

and i'll be your night your destiny 

and i'll be your comfort and your ease

i will be your storm at seas 

and i'll be your sharp intake of breath 

and i'll be your work i'll take no rest 

and when the world falls to decline 

i'll be yours and you'll be mine 



make it easy on yourself tonight