Toni Braxton Album

Darkchild, oh yeah
Toni Braxton, oh
Ha-ha, uh-huh
Yeah, uh, uh
Darkchild yeah

Listen girl
Who do you think I am?
Don t you know that he was my man?
But I chose to let him go
So why do you act like I still care about him?
Looking at me like I m hurt
When I m the one who said I didn t want it to work
Don t you forget I had him first?

1 C What you thinkin ?
Stop playing me
He wasn t man enough for me
If you don t know now here s chance
I ve already had your man
Do you wonder just where he s been, yeah?
Not be worried about him
Now it s time you know the truth
I think he s just the man for you

2 - What are you thinking?
Do you know about us back them?
Do you know about your husband, girlfriend?
I m not thinking bout him
But you married him
Do you know I made him leave?
Do you know he begged to stay with me?
He wasn t man enough for me

Listen girl
Didn t he tell you the truth?
If not then why don t you ask him?
The maybe you can be more into him
Instead of worrying about me
And hopefully you won t find
All the reasons why his love didn t count
And why we couldn t work it out

Repeat 1

Repeat 2 (2x)

Oh yeah
So many reasons why are love is through, yeah
What makes you think he ll be good to you, no
It makes no sense cause he will never change
Girl you better recognize the game, oh yeah

What are you thinking?
Do you know about us back them?
Do you know about your husband, girlfriend?
I m not thinking bout him
But you married him
You know I made him leave
And you know he begged to stay with me
He wasn t man enough for me

Written by Toni Braxton and Keri Lewis

Where's the sand, I'm set
My body, thumping going pitty pat
Gettin' tan and wet
And When I feel the beat
I lose control of it
Ooh baby, I'm feelin' you
I must admit
Looking tight and fit
And I imagine you and I in

Summer bodies, shake it to the
Music's going through your body
Temperature is rising
Can you feel the heat, the heat

Sleeping in 'til noon
Be naughty, put bubbles in the swimming pool
Skinny dip for two
And as you feel the rhythm taking hold of you
Ooh papi, I love it when you ooh eeh ooh
And I'm hooked it's true
I imagine you and I in

Summer bodies, shake it to the
Music's going through your body
Temperature is rising
Can you feel the heat, the heat

Summer's almost over so you better hurry
Andale! Andale!
Starting right now let's dance and party
Ole! Ole! Ole!
Give Me a reason to love you through, through the
Season
No need to hesitate, come on let's get it on
Let's celebrate 'cause it's

Summer bodies, shake it to the
Music's going through your body
Temperature is rising

A smoky room, a small café
They come to hear you play
And drink and dance the night away
I sit out in the crowd
And close my eyes
Dream to mind
But you don't know
You don't even know that I'm there

I wish that I was in your arms
Like that Spanish guitar
And you would play me through the night
Till the dawn
I wish you'd hold me in your arms
Like that Spanish guitar
And you would play me through all night long
All night long I'd be your song, I'd be your song

Fill my heart with
Every note you play
I pray you'll look my way
And hold me to your hear someday, yeah
I long to be the one that
You caress with a tenderness
And you don't know
You don't even know that I exist

I wish that I was in your arms
Like that Spanish guitar
And you would play me through the night
Till the dawn
I wish you'd hold me in your arms
Like that Spanish guitar
All night long
All night long I'd be your song, I'd be your song

Te sientes inteligente
Cierras tus ojos
Y suenes que soy tuyo
Pero yo no se
Ni si quiera que estas aqui

Me gustaria tenerte en mis brazos amor

I sit out in the crowd
And close my eyes
Dream to mind
And you don't know
You don't even know that I exist, oh

I wish that I was in your arms
Like that Spanish guitar
And you would play me through the night
Till the dawn
I wish you'd hold me in your arms
Like that Spanish guitar
Wish that I was in your arms
Like that Spanish guitar
All night long
All night long I'd be your song
(Seria tu cancion)

I'll be your song, your song, your song
I'll be your song, yeah
I'll be your song, your song, your song
Play me all night long
I'll be your song, your song, your song
I'll be your song, yeah
I'll be your song, your song, your song
I wanna be your song
I'll be your song, your song, your song
I'll be your song, yeah
I'll be your song, your song, your song

Written by Toni Braxton, John'ta Austin, Teddy Bishop

Hey, hey hold up a minute
Let me stop up here and use this pay
Phone real quick
Hey, hey Toni, it's me, I was just calling
You know
Just calling to let you know, don't
Wait up for me tonight
I mean I just got a lotta things on my
Mind I gotta think about, you know
Just umm, I'll be over Brian's house,
You know, just for tonight
I mean, I know things are different, but
You know
It's not you, it's me, you know, it's
really me, you know
I mean basically, I just think I'm gonna
need some space

Why are you calling me on the phone
Why you not at home on time
You say you're staying over your
Friends
'Cuz you got a lot on your mind
Now you're swearing up and down that
It ain't me
Still you say that things have changed
So tell me what exactly does it mean
When you say you need your space

Just don't make no excuses, no no
Why you gotta lie to me
Just be a man about it
Baby, you don't gotta lie to me, no
Just be a man about it
If you wanna leave go on
Just be a man about it
Come and grab your things and go on
Right now
Just be a man about it

I Mean, you gotta understand I love
You, you know what I'm saying
And I love you enough to say that I
Think,
I Think you deserve somebody better
Than me, you know
And right now, I can't give you what
You need, you know

I mean, I wanna love you, and I'm gonna
Love you, one day but, you know
I mean, you just gotta understand
Where I'm coming from

You say right now that you're not
What I'm looking for
And what you really need is time to
Grow
You're promising that one day you may
Come around
And I'm supposed to let that go
But where the hell do you get off
Telling me your mama said
I'm not what you need
Tell you what, since she knows it all
Then that's where you need to be

Just don't make no excuses, no no
Why you gotta lie to me
Just be a man about it
Baby, you don't gotta lie to me, no
Just be a man about it
If you wanna leave go on
Just be a man about it
Come and grab your things and go on
Right now
Just be a man about it

Can you tell me how you can
Say you're in love and then
Treat me so bad
Boy, you know it just ain't right
I cannot believe the way you handled
Things
You want to lie

Just don't make no excuses, no no
Why you gotta lie to me
Just be a man about it
Baby, you don't gotta lie to me, no
Just be a man about it
If you wanna leave go on
Just be a man about it
Come and grab your things and go on
Right now

Toni Braxton featuring Left Eye


[Toni]
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Whoo!
Whoa, oh, oh, oh

It is an age-old story
Goes back to Adam and to Eve
Ooh I know, you know
What I want for
And if it ain't clear to ya baby
Don't stop, let's rock
Give it to me baby

1 - Gimme, gimme
Gimme some, gimme some
Don't act like you don't want none
Hey yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
What ya gonna do

Gimme, gimme
Gimme some, gimme some
Don't fight what you can't son
Hey yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
What ya gonna do

[Toni]
You know you can't ignore it
(Say my name, say my name)
I'm always there in your dreams
Ooh you know and I know
What I do want for
And if it ain't clear to ya baby
Don't stop, let's rock
Come and get it baby
Oh baby

Repeat 1

(Girlfriend, help me sing, oh yeah)
Whoa, oh, oh, oh
What ya gonna do
Whoa, oh, oh, oh

Gimme gimme
Gimme some, gimme some
Don't fight what you can't son
Hey yeah yeah yeah yeah
What ya gonna do

[Left Eye]
Four letter words and three wishes is what I came for
Lovebirds blowin' kisses in picture frame form
Which is the fraction of is major attraction
Comin' soon
I bust and implode, gimme gimme room
I keep it blazin', it's so amazin'
The occasion that I am raisin', passive body invasion
So what you savin' all that love for?
Open up your mind, explore and make it hardcore
(Do you like candy?)
I'll be your candy store
Give you just a little more than what you bargain for, uh
And if you askin' for some guidance, it's not a minus
I break it down to a science, kitchen appliance
Sixty-nine, gimme mine, I'll be your valentine
365 days, I want my sunshine
See I been waitin' for the planets to realign
Total eclipse on my lips until the end of time

Repeat 1
Repeat 1
Repeat 1

Gimme gimme gimme babe
Gimme gimme gimme darlin'
Oh yeah, woo
Yeah!

Written by Diane Warren

Did you think my life would end that day
That you walked out when you broke my heart
Did you think I couldn't make it through
Ooh, without you
Did you think you'd stop my world with goodbye, oh no
Did you think I'd crumble inside

Not Me, I'm still breathing
And this heart of mine is still beating
I, I'm not feeling any pain
No baby, not me, I'm still breathing
This old heart of mine is still beating
The tears I cried have dried
you are gone and I survived
I'm still breathing

There were times when it took all my strength
To just get through, yeah, through another day
There were so many nights I thought that I was gonna die
Without you
But the tears I cried somehow made me strong, so strong
Did you think I couldn't go on

Not Me, I'm still breathing
And this heart of mine is still beating
I, I'm not feeling any pain
No baby, not me, I'm still breathing
This old heart of mine is still beating
The tears I cried have dried
you are gone and I survived
I'm still breathing

You tried to cut me down
But look who's still around
Without you
Did you think you'd stop my world with good bye, no baby
Did you think I'd crumble, just crumble inside

Not Me, I'm still breathing
And this heart of mine is still beating
I, I'm not feeling any pain
No baby, not me, I'm still breathing
This old heart of mine is still beating
The tears I cried have dried
you are gone and I survived
I'm still breathing

The tears I cried have dried
You are gone and I survived
I'm still breathing
The tears I cried have dried
You are gone and I survived

And if I was wrong
I know I don't deserve this, yeah
Don't stay too long
I need to hear those words
You used to tell me
From way back when we were just friends
Before this love affair began
Tell me how a love can end
Or how a broken heart can mend
Please tell me this is not the end
Please tell me now
How the fairy tale begins
Or how it was supposed to end
Please tell me that part again?

Tell me now
(Tell me now baby)
Tell me now
(Again baby)
Tell me now
(Whoo!)

Now tell me what's wrong
I never meant to hurt you, no baby ooh
Was it the home, the car?
Or darling all those things we thought we needed
But tell me even if it ain't true
But baby please don't say we're through, no, no
Tell me how a love can end, yeah
Or how a broken heart can mend
Just tell me this is not the end
Please tell me now
How the fairy tale begins
Or how it was supposed to end
Please tell me that part again?

Tell me now
(Tell me now baby)
Tell me now
(Break it down darling)
Tell me now

I wanna know that feeling
That from way back telling me it was true that
Love was sweet and innocent
Cause you and I just can't be friends
Make all the wrong go right again
Where true love never has to end, ooh
Tell me how
Tell me how our love can win
Just tell me this is not the end
Tell me, tell me how this fairy tale begins?
Or how it was supposed to end
Please tell me that part again?

Oh I need to know, ooh baby

And now the art of love
[Whispered]
Turn out the lights
That's nice
Can I sit on your lap
Ummm
So sexy
Umm

Real sexy
Umm
Baby you're so sexy
Oh baby
Umm
Hey papi
Umm, grab mami

Show me the art of love
Like I've never knew before
Like I never have before
Come here darling
Come here darling

I want you bad
Ok, do it again
Umm
You like that?
Yes
Yes

Written by Toni Braxton

I know that it's over but I still reminisce
'Bout the very first time that I saw you
And the first time that we kissed
I still recall the days of good old love we made
Without taking off our clothes
you spoke a language to my body baby
So universal, you and me talking baby

Ooh ahhh, oh my, ooh la la la la
Uhh uhh, uhh uhh
Speaking in tongues babe with you

Maybe we could exchange
A little conversation
315-37 69 call me boy anytime
Don't need no caller id, 'cause I won't have anybody
Interrupting our call
Talk dirty to me baby without talking at all
you got me singin' baby

Ooh ahhh, oh my, ooh la la la la
Uhh uhh, uhh uhh
Speaking in tongues babe with you

How do we play pretend
How do we do not sin
And be together making love forever
Then I will fantasize
Make you up in my mind
And intimately I will cry

Ooh ahhh, oh my, ooh la la la la
Uhh uhh, uhh uhh

Written by Keith Crouch, John Smith, Toni Braxton, Mechallie Jamison, Samuel
Gause

Is tonight's the night that you take
Control of me
Tell me boy, what's it really gonna be
spending time for a while
Oh daddy come close, I'm straight
I'm feeling your style
I love the way you make me feel
When you keep it real
When you're holding me
When you're spooning me
Oh you look sexy when you're
Touching Me
When you're bumping me gently
Sitting here waiting in my Vicky's
In the mirror imaging you're with me
Petit Cheri and I'm smelling real nice
And Jouet could chillin' on ice
Coming over at a half past ten
And I'm wondering if I'm really gonna
Let him in
Give in
Give it up
Let it go
Or tell him no

Should I just give him some
Maybe
Is this the night for fun
Maybe

So, here it is, and he comes right in
And I fix us drinks
And I start to think
About what I'm gonna do
Will a brother be true
Will he size my body up and down
Can he beat the odds
Can he play it safe
Will he make me hot
Will he hit the spot
That I love a lot
Will he leave me hanging lonely
Desperately
Will he go and tell all his friends
That we did it and we did it again
Had me weak between the sheets
Will he say I was a real big freak
Maybe I should slow it down
Cool off my flow, relax
And let him know if this gets out
No more, no glove, no love, oh no

Should I just give him some
Maybe
Is this the night for fun
Maybe

Should I just give him some
Maybe
Is this the night for fun
Maybe

Maybe
Pretty baby
Love me like a lady

Should I say yes or no
Should I just let it go
Should I slow down my roll
Let me think 'cuz I really don't know
Don't know what to do about it baby
If I do it will I regret it?
Maybe I should just forget it
What about if he ain't got no dough?
Tell me I should let him go

Maybe
Should I give him some?
Pretty baby

Written by Toni Braxton, Brian Casey, Brandon Casey, Teddy Bishop

You've been wrong for so long
And I can't take the pain you bring me
No more
You've been wrong for so long
And I can't take the pain you bring me
No more

Friday night, it's 10:15
You're working late, am I naive
To believe that it's true
Finally I've realized
Your lies have opened up my eyes
This love affair, now it's over, over

You've been wrong for so long
And I can't take the pain you bring me
No more
You've been wrong for so long
And I can't take the pain you bring me
No more

Here we go, over again
Ya got me hangin' on a limb
I recommend that you leave
What do I do
What do U say
When I love you
And you don't feel the same
Don't wanna play no more games
I don't wanna play it now

You've been wrong for so long
And I can't take the pain you bring me
No more
You've been wrong for so long
And I can't take the pain you bring me
No more

Baby, won't you
Stop, look, listen to my heart
It's crying for you
Stop, look, listen to my heart
It's falling for you
Stop, look, listen to my heart
It's calling for you
Stop, look, listen to my heart
It's finally over you

You've been wrong for so long
And I can't take the pain you bring me
No more
You've been wrong for so long
And I can't take the pain you bring me

Written by Daryl Simmons, Pure Soul, Toni Braxton

Explain to me, honestly, who is she
Tell me you don't love this girl
Damn it boy, why'd you go and ruin everything that I been livin' for
Is this where I'm supposed to turn my back
Cry a tear and walk away
Before I do, a word to you, you should know
Know you've make a big mistake

Why? When? Where? How? Who?
What made you go off and do this crazy thing
Thought I loved you good, loved you all I could
Never just for a ring
Why? When? Where? How? Who?
What made you go off and lose your mind this time
Treated you so good, but you knew I would
Never just for a ring

Proud to say, everyday, that I stayed
Very much in live with you
Even though I'll never know what it's like
To hear you say the words "I do"

Why? When? Where? How? Who?
What made you go off and do this crazy thing
Thought I loved you good, loved you all I could
Never just for a ring
Why? When? Where? How? Who?
What made you go off and lose your mind this time
Treated you so good, but you knew I would
Never just for a ring

So, no more holding hands
No kisses and no wedding plans
Our love was just a lie
So now, I'll go an cry
Oh, why?

Why? When? Where? How? Who?
What made you go off and do this crazy thing
Thought I loved you good, loved you all I could
Never just for a ring
Why? When? Where? How? Who?
What made you go off and lose your mind this time
Treated you so good, but you knew I would