Since last week, AOL's The Boombox blog has been hosting the "Countdown to BLACKsummers'night" listening party, presenting a song a day from Maxwell's nine-track comeback album. For those who have yet to hear BLACK in its entirety (yes, the album has already leaked), this has been something to look forward to daily like a kiss from a loved one. If you haven't succumbed to the temptation of downloading, then AOL will be streaming the whole disc online starting on Friday for your listening pleasure. And while you listen, why not sing along while you're at it? All of the lyrics to the eight tracks with vocals on BLACKsummers'night can be found in one place after the bounce for your convinience. Most importantly, buy BLACKsummers'night when it hits stores on July 7th.
Maxwell BLACKsummers'night [Amazon]
"Bad Habits"
Make me crazy, don't speak no sound
I want you to prove it to me in the nude,
Addicted to the way you move
Honey if anything ever should change in you,
Don't worry I'm standing still
I'll move in with the right of will
CHORUS:
This is the highest cost, take you and make you off
Love you and leave you lost, will you forgive me
Assed out all over town, drags you and keeps you down
Two times in a day around, will you forgive me
I can't control the feeling, girl cause I know you're here
I feel you from the floor to the ceiling; I wanna give it to you over there
Lady when we lock it low, we get together it's an overdose
I'm slipping, I'm here, I'm on my knees I feels my heart's about to explode
CHORUS
Baby to tell the truth, when I'm sober I jones for you
When it's over I'm overdue, girl there's no-one as bad, no-one as bad as you
You got me slippin' around with it, around with it, oh why
You got me sick with this love baby, I'm so I'm so in love I can't come down
CHORUS
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You're takin' my soul down to the letter O
Can't escape the way you got me locked out baby
I gotta break from you, break from you, break from you
CHORUS
- Advertisement - Will you forgive me
Will you forgive me
Will you forgive me
Will you forgive me
CHORUS
- Advertisement -I can't control the feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling
I can't control the feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling
I can't control the feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling
I can't control the feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling
"Cold"
- Advertisement -I'm eating crow babe
I had to go and think that I could be more best
Left alone then with you next, it develops none the less
Hell hath no fury than the flurry of your snow
Global warming aint got nothing on this chic she's not to play with
You can't just leave this, you can't just think that you can quit this
She'll make you regret this, she's on top and she means business
As God as my witness, my summer's gone frigid, my summer's gone frigid
I know you can hear this
CHORUS:
How can you be so cold, how can you be so cold
Good God the girl's gone home: oh my the girl's gone cold
How can you be so cold, how can you be so cold
I'm on freeze fo' sho, oh lord, you're so cold
So cold, so cold
Tell me baby why I can't believe, yeah
Something as good as you could ever love me
Lighter than air you felt like a ton of bricks
You dropped out from the sky filled with mercy
How can you be so cold, how can you be so cold
Good God the girl's gone cold, oh my the girl's gone home
God bless you baby, oh you're too good to me
Too good to be anything the mortal man can call on
Do it baby, do it baby
How can you be so cold, how can you be so cold
Good God the girl's gone home, oh my the girl's gone cold
How can you be so cold, how can you be so cold
I'm on freeze fo' sho, oh lord, you're so cold
So cold, so cold
So cold, so cold
Oh lord it you're so cold
So cold, so cold
"Pretty Wings"
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One day there'll be no remnants
No trace no residual feelings within ya
One day u won't remember me
Your face will be the reason I smile
But I will not see what I cannot have forever
I'll always love ya I hope u feel the same
You played me dirty your game was so bad
You toyed with my affliction had to fill out my prescription
Found the remedy I had to set u free
Away from me
To see clearly the way that love can be
When you are not with me
I had to leave, I have to live
I had to leave, I had to live
CHORUS:
If I cant have you let love set you free
To fly yo pretty wings around
Pretty wings your pretty wings
Your pretty wings around
I came wrong you were right
Transformed your love into like
Baby believe me; I'm sorry I told you lies
I turned day into night
Sleep till I die a thousand times
I should've showed you
Better nights better times better days
As I miss you more and more
CHORUS
Pretty wings ...
"Help Somebody"
There's a moving inner peace that I love to see
Gotta raise my soul to tell ya how I feel
Gotta listen to the tears that people cry for me
In a world that's so wild, fear creeps
Cause when I get up to hear you, tears just fill my eyes
Now I know, I got to let the selfishness subside
Tell 'em ya'll
CHORUS:
Help somebody, help somebody
Show them what it is, give a little bit more
Help somebody, help somebody
Show them what it is, let 'em know
If you see the future, ask it if I'm there,
Ask it if I'm there
Ask it to tell you, did I ever make a stand,
Ask if you may care to mention, did I learn from everything
And even if it takes a sea of eternity to know,
I'll wait a century, a buried mess of bones, help me
Help me to give myself the way that you've given you
Help me to be the helping hand that makes a dream come true
Choir sing
CHORUS
If I'm there tell me if I'm there
Do you see me there
CHORUS
If you see the future, ask it if I'm there, ask it if I'm there
"Stop The World"
Someone stop the world, yeah
Seems like the moment has come and I'm gonna get you girl
The shadows are forming across your parts the vision looks absurd
No one around to interrupt the feelings you stir babe
CHORUS:
Imagine if it was, if this was you, if this was I
So perfectly designed to be here all night
Let the world rage outside, cause when I'm here with you
The world stops for me, the world stops for me
And then extraordinary, ordinary things
Things I can't explain, with subtext, the world stops for me
And girl you know just what I mean, I need you girl...
Sing me a song, sing it soft, sing it long, girl stop my world, oh
CHORUS
Someone stop the world, stop it stop it stop
Someone, someone stop the world, stop the world
We about to stop the world tonight
We're about to love we ain't got no worries no battles
I'm gonna be with my girl tonight
We about to stop the world, stop the world, stop the world
We about to stop the world tonight
We're about to love we aint got no worries no battles
You are my own, yeah
We about to stop the world tonight
Make yourself at home
I'm gonna be with my girl tonight
And lay here all night long
We about to stop the world tonight
Oh yeah
"Love You"
It's you, it's you
You come out from nowhere, disappear and reappear
Houdini would be very proud
I can speculate your fear wonder on your tears but
I just wanna hear the sound
And I know you love to live in extremes
Your sword is made above your dreams, tell me who's cut now
There's a road that's paved and made with signs along the way
Come through somehow
CHORUS:
I can be anything you want me to be
I just wanna love you
Show you exactly what you mean to me
Honey let me love you
Listen to the way I feel when love can change you
Love arranges you
Heaven bless the day God sent you here
Hoping that l
ove don't disappear
Feel you in ways I can't understand
Honey baby tell me I can be yo' man
CHORUS 2:
Let me be anything you want me to be
Baby let me love you
Show you exactly what you mean to me
Honey let me love you
Love you now, love you now
And even after years, I need you when you don't
I'll remain more stubborn than I ever was before
I bear the witness bear the witness for you girl
All that is good is cause of you I'm in the world
I'll never go, I'm frozen, I'm standing here
Won't move until the day I get you near
Hear me when I say, you're the one I want
If you take this rib don't let it go
Baby don't leave or ever go, no
"Fistful Of Tears"
Feel just like a weight has lifted
How can I repay you help me
Understand the currency, a fistful of tears I can afford
Fight of your life is not the cost time will reveal, yeah
All along that you're the one who's losing
CHORUS:
Cause I, I go insane, crazy sometimes
Trying to keep you from loosing your mind
Open your eyes, see what's in front of your face
Save me my fistful of tears
You can make it disappear girl
All you got to do is just, raise up, face up and stay up
All things will heal we'll feel it lifted and kissed from this curse
Don't you let it go, don't you let it go
CHORUS
We gon' fight the war, we gon' fight our fears
The only thing I want to throw is a fistful of tears
We gon' fight the war, we gon' fight our fears
The only thing I got to throw is a fistful of tears
We gon' fight the war, we gon' fight our fears
The only thing I want to throw is a fistful of tears
CHORUS
CHORUS
Crazy sometimes...
"Playing Possum"
Come back from the dead
You left my, my heart here
Say what you will and won't forget
Express disappointment, speak your regrets, yeah
Or baby call out my name, I'll be where you are
I'll be very still, step down to my heart and mend this broken
If only you'd wake up from your constant possum playing
If only you'd wake up
I'm begging you sugar, have some leniency
Call the president and ask him baby, to pardon me and bring you back to me
Oh, oh, oh, oh oooooh
Amend this broken
If only you'd quite this nonsense of your possum playing
If only you'd
Yeah
"Phoenix Rise"
Instrumental track