Joe Album

Hoo...baby
Oh...baby
Yeah...hey...
Whoa...
Doo doo doo doo doo
No, no, no, no, no

I'm stayin' home tonight
I don't wanna go nowhere
I'm just gonna love you, baby
All night long

I wanna rub your back and kiss your feet
Romantically I wanna be yours, baby
All night long

Girl, you hold the key to my soul
(It's obvious I need you)
Oh, anything you want is yours
(I'll go outta my way to please you)

Girl, I wanna show you love
Romance you till you get enough (Oh)
Oh, baby, now let's stay home tonight
(Can't you see that-that I need you, baby)

Girl, here is where I wanna stay
No friends, no phones, no two-ways (Mmm...)
Oh, let's stay home tonight
(Don't you know that I need you)

There's no one else but you
Makes me wanna call up fellas
And say, "Later, dude"
¡®Cause I'm home forever

I just can't look at you and leave you, baby
I gotta stay right by your side, hoo...
Let's just stay home tonight

All you gotta do is say
(Just say what you've been needin')
Oh, you can never know your way
(¡®Cause girl, I'm here for pleasin')

Girl, I wanna show you love (Oh...)
Romance you till you get enough
Oh, baby, now let's stay home tonight
(I just want it to be me and you and nobody else)

Girl, here is where I wanna stay
No friends, no phones, no two-ways 
(Don't you hear me, baby)
Oh, let's stay home tonight
(Mmm...hmm...)

Girl, you hold the key to my soul
(It's obvious I need you)
Oh, anything you want is yours
(I'll go outta my way to please you)

Girl, I got the remedy, don't you see
That we got to keep this thing so tight, so tonight
All about you and me, ah, baby
Don't that sound alright, oh

Girl, I wanna show you love (Hoo...)
Romance you till you get enough 
(I wanna love you right)
Oh, baby, now let's stay home tonight
(Hoo, I wanna love you, baby, oh, yeah)

Girl, here is where I wanna stay
No friends, no phones, no two-ways
Oh, let's stay home tonight
(Wanna spend some quality time)

(I'm talkin' no phone, no friends, no business)
(I sent the kids to your mama's, baby)
Oh, baby, now let's stay home tonight
(Hoo...ey...hey...hey...yeah...)

Girl, here is where I wanna stay (Rose petals)
No friends, no phones, no two-ways 
(Will lead you to the bed, baby)
Oh, let's stay home tonight (Let's stay home tonight)

Ooh Child things are going to get easier
Ooh Child things it's get brighter

Better Days x 4
Keep your head up
Better Days x 4 
Keep your head up

She grew up in Brooklyn the Eastside and fulton street
Never knew father
He got shot hustling
She stated acting much older
Her mother couldn't control her
Losing direction
Started sex'n-no protection

And now she's expecting
A life she wasn't ready for
She*s feeling rejected
And her futures unsure
And if you want
Run out there on your own
Don*t give up sunshine
There will be better days
(Keep your head up)
Gotta keep movin' on
To raise a child alone
Don*t give up sunshine
There will be better days
(Keep your head up)

Are you down with full time
On weekend stripping
So you met baller, but ain't down, but trick*n
Gonna have to put your kid through school
Guess you hit snotty love for you
And you know your wrong girl
You gotta believe

And now you're expecting
A life you wasn't ready for
You're feeling rejected
And her futures unsure
And if you want
Run out there on your own
Don*t give up sunshine
There will be better days
(Keep your head up)
Gotta keep movin' on
To raise a child alone
Don*t give up sunshine
There will be better days

What if a woman
Had a man on the side
And she never spent time with you
What if a woman
Said she's working late
And it's always the same excuse
What if a woman
Took the keys to your whip
Said I'll be right back 
Don't trip
What if a woman
Left you home with the kids 
Changing diapers and shit
What a twist

Could you stand inside her shoes and walk a mile
(I don't really think so)
Could you hold her down when she doesn't smile
(I don't know a man who could)
What if a woman x 3 
-Was just like you
What if a woman x 3
-Was just like you(try to imagine that) What if a woman x 3
-Was just like us What if a woman x 3
Could you ever wonder if she does

What if a woman
Started wearing the pants
Would you feel less of a man and more
Never wanna settle down
Always wanna run around
On the low
You can beg
You can plead
You can cry
She won't be your wife- but your eyes are full of tears
She'll be running the streets
With girls hanging out tonight
It's the same thing you do to her

Could you stand inside her shoes and walk a mile
(See I don't really think so)
Could you hold her down when she doesn't smile
(I don't know a man who could)
What if a woman x 3 
-Was just like you
What if a woman x 3
-Was just like you(try to imagine that)
What if a woman x 3
-Was just like us
Could you ever wonder if she does
If the table were turned around
Would you leave
Would you stay
Would you drown
If the cards you were dealt were to change

Alone
It's like being in a crowded room with no familiar faces
Alone
It's like thinking that I see your face in unfamiliar places
Alone 
It's waking up to a empty bet you used to lay your head on
Alone
And I don't wanna be alone anymore

See I was wrong
Not afraid to admit
I was such a jerk
Can't believe the things I did
I made you hurt
You don't deserve that
Never know just what got until it's gone

Now I'm shook-up (I can hardly sleep)
Now I'm choke-up (I can hardly eat)
Now we broke up and it's killing me
I'm falling, I'm falling baby
Don't wanna be, don't wanna be
Alone

Never brought a rose
Never said I love you
Oh baby
Never realized
I couldn't live without you
Always heard you talk
Never really listened
And I never said how beautiful you are

If I had another chance 
Promise I'd be twice the man
I was
Yesterday 
If I had another try
I never tell another lie
I swear

Isn't this the world
The place (that) we call home
Isn't this the world
Then why do I feel alone

Isn't this the world
The place we call home
Isn't this the world
Then why do I feel alone

I've walked around just/about all my life(well,well)
I slept on park benches/many many nights(well,well)
Even remember the days/I had nothing to eat(I,I)
But someone to love me/is all I need

What we gotta do(what we gotta do)
Me and you(what we gotta do)
We have to change our selfish ways no matter who else does
We have to rise, rise above
Together in love

On top of living this life of love without(well,well)
I've been ignored and talked about(well,well)
This is not the riches that I live to see(I,I)
But someone to love me is all I need

What we gotta do(what we gotta do)
Me and you(what we gotta do)
We have to change our selfish ways no matter who else does
We have to rise, rose above
Together in love

Isn't this the world
The place (that) we call home(the place, the place, the place)
But isn't this the world
Then why do I feel alone

Isn't this the world
The place (that) we call home
But isn't this the world
Somebody tell me
Somebody tell me

Feat. Shaggy

{All the ghettos around the world}
{Dig this}
{Ghetto Fabulous Joe}
{Shaggy}
All the children sing {Uh}

I'm a ghetto child
I'm a ghetto child (Check it, out)

There's a world out there that I wanna see
There's a man that I'm destined to be
I won't be stopped by the ghetto streets
I believe inside that I can't be beat

This life could be a ball and chain
If you let yourself get caught in the game
I had some friends who sold drugs for dough
But I don't intend to go down that road

Just because I'm a ghetto child
I won't live down to your expectations (No, no)
Just believe that a ghetto child
Can rise in the highest celebration (Oh)
Know that I am a ghetto child
But I can see the best in me, can you
I'm a ghetto child

All the ghettos around the world, dig this

One day I'm gonna change the world
Make a better place for every boy and girl
Everyone in need, homeless families
Have a place to sleep and food to eat

I'll take every gun off the streets
So another tear won't be shed in grief
And every thug in every hood
I will make 'em change from bad to good

I believe that it can be done
Gotta start somewhere and I'm that one
All the children sing (Yeah, yeah)
All the children sing (Yeah, yeah)

Just because I'm a ghetto child
I won't live down to your expectations
Just believe that a ghetto child
Can rise in the highest celebration
Know that I am a ghetto child
But I can see the best in me, can you
I'm a ghetto child (Ooh, yeah, ooh)

{Hey, yo', look at me inna different light}
{Spare me all about those stereotypes}
Ain't no madness that'll bring me down
Gonna take this life and turn it around

{Now see, the sky's the limit, I won't be denied}
{Ain't no stoppin' me, I'm a ghetto child}
And at the end when it's said and done
We will all be singin' this ghetto song

I believe that it can be done (Yeah, oh)
Gotta start somewhere and I'm that one
All the children sing (Yeah, yeah)
All the children sing (Yeah, yeah)

Just because I'm a ghetto child
I won't live down to your expectations
Just believe that a ghetto child
Can rise in the highest celebration (Oh...oh...oh...)
Know that I am a ghetto child
But I can see the best in me, can you
I'm a ghetto child (Let's go to church now)

Just because I'm a ghetto child (Uh)
I won't live down to your expectations (Take me to
church now)
Just believe that a ghetto child (Ooh)
Can rise in the highest celebration (Hey, hey)
Know that I am a ghetto child (Ooh, yeah)
But I can see the best in me, can you
I'm a ghetto child (Hey, ghetto child,
whoa...oh...ooh...)

Just because I'm a ghetto child
I won't live down to your expectations (Sing a song
for me)
Just believe that a ghetto child (Sing a song for me)
Can rise in the highest celebration (Everybody sing it
now, yeah)
Know that I am a ghetto child
But I can see (Ooh, yeah) the best in me, can you (Oh)
I'm a ghetto child (So I can see the best in me, can
you)

It's not where you're from, it's where you're gonna be
(Hey)

Understand
Girl I'm a different brand
I'm not the average man
I can show you things you've never seen
I'm making plans to fly to the South France
I got ticket in my hand 
So baby let's just up and leave

I'm that romantic type
Who likes do thing right
Make love by candle-light
'Cause I'm that kind of guy

I like sexy girls
From east to west-coast
She could be ghetto or be a supermodel
I like sexy girls
All kind of women
I got so many
And that's just how I'm living

I like the way she move her hips
Run her tongue across her lips
Sippin' wine instead of cries so, so sexy

Think about her jeans
Victoria secret thongs
Surely get me sprung
Love the way they look on you
We could shill down at the sunset grill
Or get lost out in Brazil
Let's do whateva suits your mood

I like the way you shake your thing
Ooh you make me wanna scream
(Ooh Ooh Ooh)
So sexy So sexy
Looks so good inside your clothes
You don't need your skin exposed
And still

Sorry baby - didn't mean to do this to you
Sorry baby - didn't mean to do this to you

After a long night of lusting
Shorty came home while I was crushing
I'm about to get busted
I'm rushing
It's about to unfold
And I'm about to get thrown in the cold
Cause she be on some left-eye shit
Might set my house on fire-take a brick to my whip
Oh no!
I wanna hit it some more
But I think I heard my girl put her keys in the door
Can I hide under the bed(You can't go there)
In the closet(You can't go there)
On the balcony(But you can't, she'll look)
There's a hide-away behind the bush

Oh no here she comes
Shorty bounce my girl is on her way upstairs
I know here she comes
You need to get your shit and get up out of here
Oh no here she comes
You're about to get a _________ straight __________
Oh no here she comes
OOOHH NOO!
I know she's gonna trip
If she finds you here messing with her man
Better disappear
Think I got a plan
Get you outta here
Shhh!
You should jump out the window

I gotta come yp with an excuse
The reason why I had a girl up in this room
She won't believe me though

For love
For life and eternity
This is my prayer

I pray that our love
Is more than enough
To weather the storm
I pray that you're strong
The nights that I'm gone
And you're home alone
I pray you'll forgive
Whateva I did
That brought you the tears
I pray here right now
As I make this vow
We last through the years

Lover's prayer
When I get down on my knees at night
Lover's prayer
I pray God we gonna be alright
Lover's prayer
With my head down and my hands up high
How I hope he will answer my
Lover's prayer

I pray that the sun
Continues to shine
With all that you do
No matter the bad
No matter how low
you'll make it through
I pray that I'm there
Whateve you want whateva you need
I pray that your heart
Carries apart, apart of me

I pray that your smile would
Light up my life won't ever fade
I pray that the trials we share between
Us won't ever break
I pray that you hold all of
Your dreams you will exceed
My final prayer you'll take this ring

Can I talk to you

Pain-
I know that I cause you some pain
And baby I know it's a shame
The games, the strain
Love- girl all you had for me was love
And I ran your love in a muck
No hugs and what, what, what
What was I thinking

It hit me like a flash a light
I realize you are my life
And I really love you (I love you)
Yes I do, yes I do

I've changed like an 80's fade to the corn-rows
To the white-house from death-row
Projects to holly-wood
I've been to Atlantis, from bad to good 

I've changed like a poor excuse to a true friend
I'm a brand new start from a dead end
Like a guilty man turned innocent
Baby I've changed

Life- I'm willing to lay down my life
Baby won't you be my wife
Except this ring tonight
Now I was a blind man who spent his whole life
In the dark no trees, no bees, no central-park
And I realize you are my life
You're the perfect work of art lady
It hit me like a flash of light
I realize you are my life
And I really love you (I love you)
Yes I do, yes I do

The thought of losing you has caused
My transformation my rehabilitation, dedication, inspiration
Girl I'm brand new
Listen clearly baby
I'm willing to show you the little things I meant to do
Before I never took the time to do

I understand x 4
Girl I understand, I understand,
See I understand,

You used to be the life of the party
But now you walk with head hung low
Cause he ride your nerves like a harley
And it's obvious that wasn't there before
Now you taken to wearing make up
To hide the marks that wasn't there before
In your heart you wanna break up
Can't find the nerve to walk out the door

Why don't you take those chains and break those chains
No love should cause you so much pain
Why don't you walk away before it gets too late
Leave him now
(see I understand)
Love should never hurt

You should have left the first time that he hit you
But instead you just stead and cried
Your friends and family tried to tell you
But you told them to mind their B.I
A career girl with a bright future
You had so much going on in your life
Since that man came along and abused you
Bour life has been everything but right
Two babies at home, can't pay the damn loan
Girl it's all wrong, you gotta move on
You say you really love him, I understand lady but tell me

Why don't you leave that man, go on your own
You're so fine, you are strong
Spread your wings, fly away
Girl don't cry another day
Don't give up, take a chance
Find your way, take a stand

I remember when we were so inseparable
Our love was so unusual
So young and innocent
I don't know where it went
But it's gone, gone, gone, gone, gone

Cause I believe 
There's another man in line
It's killing me
Cause I thought I finally found my Mrs. Right
Perfect yesterday
Soon it fade away
Disappear without a trace
And I don't know where she gone
She used to call me up and no she won't
She used to love me now she don't anymore
Where did I go wrong
What have seen her side
If I wasn't filled with self illusion
I know I should walk away
But my heart just won't obey
And it's so, so, so, so strong

Ooh my Ooh my x 2
Why should I be a love casualty
Ooh my Ooh my x 2
Somebody better come pray for me
Ooh my Ooh my x 2
Why should I be a love casualty

Ooh Mr. Lover(Mr. Lover) 

Met a girl on trip to Spain
Took a walk and in the rain 
Dinner by candle-light
Every night
She was every man's delight
Had a dream________
Bentley and humor
And I fell in love
Instantly the way she put that thing on me

I have kissed the most exotic faces
From London to Honolulu
Made love in the most romantic places
What more can one man do
Livin' in a world of girls
It's like swimming in a sea of peals
Tastes like caviar
Watching shooting stars
She's like _sh to the touch
Diamonds in a ruff

Had a girl who was a beauty queen
Most beautiful one to me
Straight out of a magazine
Centerfold
Took a ride on my_________
Puerto Rican, Dominican, Americana
And beautiful Rio Janiero
And they all look so good to me 

Like a ride in an air balloon
Through the sky on a night with a silver moon
Like the first time lovers kissed
Like the first time lovers with come true
Like a Saturday sun
Like a rush when you know you're found
That one

Feat. Petey Pablo

Petey's Rap:
Your______________ are fat
I'm bout eat you up girl
The wait has been long enough
And I'm ready (been ready) to freak the funk
Where the gravy-lick that biscuit
Let me get some hottie on toast with a pound of butter
No soda, no juice, no water or nothing junk man____ till
I pass the hell out
I want some slobber hanging out the side of your mouth
I want some honey flow to the bed to the couch
I wants some to the front to the back of the house
No phone, no 2-way, nobody tracking us down
Baby mama, your baby daddy
Petey back in the house
Let me rub you down in hot oil and cocoa butter
Let's play hide and go seek and he can't stop
Cause this year past you need to take this thing to the rubber
Hey Joe bring that hook back and let me slip on this rubber

(This is the remix)
Girl it's been a while for us
We gotta lot of making up
Let's get into some sexy stuff
Ain't no need for us to rush
(This is, This is the remix)
Girl I got an appetite
And I'm about to take a bite
So baby let's dim the lights
Daddy's staying home tonight

Tell your girlfriends
Don't be coming round like if we be on the bed rocking
All night
Girl I'll have you in and out of here
Seen it like a __________
Girl I wanna show you love
Romance you till you get enough
Oh baby now let's stay home tonight
Can't you see that - that I need you baby

Girl here is where I wanna stay
No friends, no phone, no 2-way
Oh let's stay home tonight
Don't you know that I need you

Ooh Ooh settle me baby
It's about to get crazy
Gonna be ridin' tonight
Cause you got a sexy way
So girl put on a show for J
And you know how I like to play
When we play
Ooh no pager, no phone
Don't knock on my door
Leave us alone
Nobody's home
Ooh
No car, no keys
I can't go
She can't leave
Please baby
(Let's stay home tonight)

Girl I got the remedy don't you see 
That we got to keep this thing so tight

All this space really don't give me no room
'Cause my mind is crowded with these lonely thought
And it all has to do with you
Now I have been here and I've been there
Even told my friends I didn't care
'Cause when it all hit me that you would never forgive me

Now, I'm living in a house where love could of been
But dreams only lasted for the moment
But the pain doesn't end, it keeps going and going
Now I found out some things in life just don't work out
Gotta get myself together, 'cause you're gone now
But the pain doesn't end, it keeps going and going

No regret, but I can't get myself confused
So those pictures on the wall have to come down
I'm already in a messed up mood
Now love's been warm and it's been cold
But I never had a heart break live this old
'Cause when it all hit me that you would never forgive me

So Tell me (Love's gone away)
Why nothing ain't right, nothing ain't right
Trying to be strong, but I can't, trying to be strong
Another whole day without you in my life
Trying to go through these days
I really don't think you understand
Why nothing ain't right, nothing ain't right
Trying to be strong, but I can't, trying to be strong
Another whole day without you in my life
I really don't think you understand

Painful memories just haunting me
Through this lesson learned about you and me