CeCe Winans Album

I remember Saturdays helping Mama in her kitchen
Conversations prying, baking with passing down the wisdom
She said babygirl you’re a queen and this is how you should be treated
Words she washed with tears and planted in my soul

Chorus
Can we just go back to the simple kinda living?
Can we just go back and maybe start from the beginning?
Back to better days, when love was for the giving
Can we just go back to the way we were?

Mama said there was a time when brothers were each others keepers
Sisters held each other close till there was nothing left between them
Back when a song was a song you could sing along didn’t matter how long
Just as long as it spoke to ya, sung to ya
Do you know what I mean?

Now I’m chasing rainbows and dreams,
trying hard to believe
this is how it could be
Yesterday was yesterday, tomorrow’s just a day away
By then it may be too late, maybe we can start today

Another bird has grown
another part of all of us is gone
Another right has been wronged
Still we go on and on until
The words for each of us are all to real
Still I am not able to feel what you feel
And I cannot say how long, it will take for you to heal

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But I believe you will
And someday your broken hard will mend
I know it will
And you will find your smile again
Take your time, for time is what it’s gonna take
And then one morning you’ll awake to find there’s one less tear
Then you’ve healed, I believe you will

The world has let you down
And words that could explain could not be found
To say that I understand is not enough
And it’s gonna be a little while, before your heart can learn to trust

When you feel like all your hope is gone
Keep holding on till you find your way back to the garden
Find a way to heal you heart again

I know that you think you can't pray after that mistake
but I know it's the only way you can make it better
And I know situations get too much for you to take
and you feel like you're gone break and it makes you say

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I can't take it
When will things get better?
I'm so frustrated, but it's gonna be okay cause
you’ve got someone in your corner
Who's gonna be there for ya
Just fall on your knees, say a prayer and receive

When the world feels like it's on your shoulders (I pray, you pray, we pray)
When your life seems like its upside down (I pray, you pray, we pray)
When your lonely nights are getting colder (I pray, you pray, we pray)
I pray, you pray no matter how dark the day

I know you think you've gone too far and you waited too late
But I know that He loves you and there's no love greater so
And I know that it's hurting and you want your pain to end
And you feel like you can't win and it makes you say

(Chorus)

Our Father which art in heaven
Hallowed be Thy name
All you gotta do is say

You're crying night and day
You wonder how you ever lost your way
Nothing matters, you must survive
You heart is slowly dying and so you cry

Chorus
All that I need is love
From the moment I wake
Let me feel your embrace
All that I need is love
Hold me closer each day, every step of the way

Like flowers need the rain to live
A bright beginning Lord, the greatest gift you give
You changed my, life forever
Lover of my life, I realize

When the morning comes and the sun rises to the sky
All my troubles will be over and the way made easy
Until then all I need is to know You'll always hear me
When I call out Your name, call out Your name

When he woke her up this morning she saw something on his mind
His eyes were cold and distant and his spirit was unkind
He said I’m off to find myself and I won’t be coming back
She said ask the Lord to help you not to act like that
Why don’t you just ask the Lord to help you not to act like that?

Now I know a woman burdened by the choices that she’s made
Life reflects the consequence of making mistakes
So in her prayers each night she prays perpetually
Lord help me now to be the best that I can be
Father won’t you just help me now to be the best that I can be?

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Cause I know there is joy, there is forgiving
There is peace and contentment
There is love and it grows unrelenting
I know my Lord He loves me just like that
I don’t have to worry cause I know He loves me just like that

Well you may know some women hurting like the ones I’ve just described
Who’s future seem impossible for them to survive
You can tell them I’m living proof by what He’s done for me
The only thing required is that you just believe
All you have to do is simply just believe

Just like that, just like that
Think about it He can make everything change
Just like that
He’s giving me love unconditionally
Treating my soul with everything I need
I love the way He loves me just like that

Now have faith in what you hope for and not in what you see
Believe in what I say to you and keep your eyes on Me
Cause I can change your husband’s heart and make his love for you come back
Don’t doubt what I can do, I love you just like that

When I promised I`ll be there
and told you I would always care
well I meant every word
And know it`s hard to let me clos
Those times it really hurts the most
I`m trying desperately to be heard

Though you push me away
I can feel your sorrow
You don`t have be afraid
`cause you

You are loved
Somebody told me to tell ya
you`ve been waiting for someone to say
you are loved
So let you heart be encouraged
It`s gonna be okay `cause
You are loved

No you`re not alone,you`ve got got a friend
To be by your side from the start till the end
and now I`ll always be around for you
so whenever you begin to doubt
My love for you will show just how
I`m faithful and that I`ll remain true
No matter what life takes ou trough
see I will be the one you can always come back to `cause you

You are loved
Somebody told me to tell ya
you`ve been waithing for someone to say
You are loved
So let your heart be encouraged
It`s gonna be okay `cause
you are loved

Lord you set my soul on fire, object of my desire
I finally realize that I need You in my life
Right here by my side, You cover me day and night
And I just wanna thank you
Thank you for your mercies

Hallelujah for saving me
Hallelujah for healing my body
Hallelujah for joy You bring
Let everything that hath breath give you praise (in the morning)
Praise (in the noonday song)
Praise (in the midnight)
Let everything that hath breath give it to You

When You pulled me up out of sin
When my body had done me in
There was nothing until You stepped in and saved me
Now, now that I know the cost
That You paid for me on the cross
I just wanna say thank you
Give You the highest praise

If only one return to tell the story
If only one return to give you glory
With all my mind, body, soul and each breath in me
Let me be the one, let me be the one

Would You let me be the one?
Because of all I have I know I gotta praise Him
Would You let me be the one?
I’ll be the first and last to give Him everything
Would You let me be the one?
And if all I had was to give Him all my praise
Would You let me be the one?

Always Sisters, Always Friends (repeat)

Chorus
Always Sisters, Always Friends
Let’s stay real close till the end
Forgiving each other, letting love cover
Always Sisters, Always friends

Verse
We have to live in harmony
Even though we may disagree
Fighting each other, is not the answer
But sharing the greatest gift, Oooo
Let’s be enriched with peace and love
Having compassion from above
Never forsaking just understanding
Ain’t that what families are made of

Always Sisters, Always Friends

Verse
No matter what may come or go
We stick together and it shows
This bond between us
Foundation is trust
That’s what true family is all about.

Chorus

Bridge
We really gotta’ learn to love each other
I need to stick real close by your side
There’s no way that we can live without each other
So why do we try

Chorus

Forever and always , I’m always gonna be with you, always
Forever and always, No matter what you’re going through, always

I could tell by the way you smile
I could feel it in your touch
And I knew this heart of mine
This time would fall in love

All the hopes and promises given
And the pain that life can bring
Will build our will and commitment to face anything

I will love you faithfully, forever unconditionally
And my love I promise
Everything I have is yours
You’re everything I prayed and waited for
And my love I promise you

Now we begin our life today
And though we’ve only just begun
The quest until we’re old and gray is the vow to live as one

Through the desert winds that blow
I’ll walk you through the winters cold
I’ll be there to keep the fire alive
And when each passage we endure
We will stay strong, we can be sure
Our love survives

It’s a colorful world it’s a beautiful world that we live (repeat)
It’s a colorful world

She wears nose rings with weird things floating through her hair
She is slightly embarrassed by everyone who stares
And when she walks away you might say she’s a little wild
But she could rule the world when she opens up her mouth and smiles

It’s a colorful world that we live in, a colorful world that we live in
It’s a colorful world it’s a beautiful world that we live in(repeat)

Now he’s been cheated, mistreated by the color of his skin
He is rarely contrary over what should not have been
And he holds up his head instead and he wears a smile
What motivates him most is what he finds deep down inside

Celebrate all our differences
Instead of building these lasting fences
What’s in your heart matters most of all, most of all

We have millions of children with possibilities
From the streets of Nairobi to the hills of Tennessee
Every hand you touch has a friend with a different name
What makes this world a better place is that we’re not the same

Let's Go!

Intro
Welcome to paradise, I know you wanna place like this
You wanna place (uh huh), C'mon (yeah)
Grits and CeCe (Let's Go!)
We wanna place like this (uh huh)
Do you wanna go?

Verse 1
I had to get away, find some time to pray
And assess my life, as good as it can be
It's sadly imcomplete with all this pain inside
Now it's so beautiful here any time of year (any time of the year)
All the waterfalls, and the streets of gold
And those angels I hear singing
I wanna

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I wanna place like this, that I can call my own (call my own)
I wanna place like this, where I will never be alone
I wanna place like this, where I can finally be free (finally be free)
I wanna place like this, made especially for me

Heaven is where I be, yeah

It's paradise, I know I wanna place like this
Where all your dreams come true
Do you wanna go?

Verse 2
There way upon a hill, that's where joy lives, with happiness and
Down milk and honey way lives a brighter day
Next to love overflowing
A picture perfect scene, so calm and sweet
Where paradise begins, life will never end
And those angels I hear singing

Chorus 2
I wanna place like this, that I can call my own
I wanna place like this, where I will never be alone
I wanna place like this, where I can finally be free
I wanna place like this, yeah this is where I wanna be

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I wanna place like this, that I can call my own
I wanna place like this, where I will never be alone
I wanna place like this, where I can finally be free
I wanna place like this, made especially for me

I wanna place like this for you and me where we can be free
I can't wait to dance through the waterfalls
And skate through the streets of gold (oh yeah)
I wanna place like this for you and me where we can be free
Can't wait to sing, laugh and play here the bells ring (Let's go) free

Rap
Hope your open to focusin' on the afterlife
I am, don't have to ask me twice
Gettin' in, though I paid an after price
Stayed till my way was made
Learned the facts fo life
Play it cool in here, never be alone (place)
You can call a home, spot that's all your own
Be free, Grits and CeCe on point again
It's a bliss my friend in a place like this again

It's where I wanna be, I wanna be (yeah)
It's where I wanna be, I wanna be

I wanna place for you and me (yeah), La la la la la (ooh)

Free, free, free,
Oh, get my sing on

I wanna place like this for you and me where we can be free

(Free free, free free, free free) Free, Free, free
Yeah

I wanna place like this (I wanna)

I wanna place like this, (call my own, I wanna) that I can call my own
I wanna place like this, (I'll never be alone) where I will never be alone
(I wanna place like this) I wanna place like this (I can finally be free, yeah yeah yeah) where I can finally be free
I wanna place like this

I wanna place like this, oo

I wanna place like this, (I wanna place like this) that I can call my own (I can call my own)
I wanna place like this, (I'll never be alone) where I will never be alone
(I wanna place like this, I wanna place like this) I wanna place like this, where I can finally be free (I can
I wanna a place like this, yeah this is where I wanna (HEAVEN!!)

I wanna place like this, that I can call my own
I wanna a plce like this, where I will never be alone (I wanna place like this, I wanna place like this)
I wanna place like this, where I can finally be free (I can finally be free)
I wanna place like this, yeah this is where I wanna be

Summer breeze

verse one:
life is a wondering road that never ends all full of ups and downs and turns too many cloudy days a sleepless nights theres gotta be an answer to this pain in side so now im searchin for an hero someone who can help me thru this race and thou ive tried i cant erase the shame only you can make it happen i pray that you will make it happen

chorus:
purified (ooo i wanna be) i wanna be purified i wanna be fresh like a rushing water in the presence of the father purified (ooo i wanna be) i wanna be pure inside i wanna be fresh like a summer breeze is wht i wanna be

verse two:
yea thru the living waters i will run where i will find a better place o how im longing for a perfect heart i need for you to make it happen only you can make it happen

chorus 1x (first part of chorus)

so hear me cry as i pour out my heart telling you how i feel you know where it is so im asking you to heal me (ayeeayea)

Chorus

God is, just a prayer away
All you need to do is call
He will hear, your faintest cry
He’s concerned about you

So while your tears are flowing through
Your time of mourning
He is here to lift your heavy heart
‘Cause He’s in love with you

He knows
He cares
He sees
He’s there
And He’ll carry you
He’s concerned about you

Weeping may, endure for a night
But the morning will bring joy
He won’t give, you more than you can bear
He’s concerned about you

He loves you, oh yes
He loves you, ooooo
He loves you, I know He does, He really does
He’s concerned about you

He knows
He cares
He sees
He’s there
He’ll carry you
He’s concerned about you

Well, He knows
And He cares
He sees
He’s right there
He’ll carry you
He’s concerned about you
He’s concerned about you
He’s concerned, about you