Aliciakeys"The Diary Of Alicia Keys"

1. Harlem's Nocturne

Drop it
Yeah, yeah
Come in for a minute,
Welcome back
It's just me and you in this room right now
There's so many things that are on my mind
Ah yeah, ah yeah
Sometimes it's hard to say
So I take all I've got
And so I take all I have
And I put it into this
I put it right here in my diary
Can u feel it?
Uh, uh, uh
Take this journey with me

2. Karma

Weren't you the one that said
That you don't want me anymore
And how you need your space
And give the keys back to your door
And how I cried and tried and tried
To make you stay with me
But still you said that love was gone
And that I had to leave
Now you, talkin' bout a family
Now you, sayin' I complete your dream
Now you, sayin' I'm your everything
You confusin' me
What you say to me
Don't play with me
Don't play with me

Cause what goes around, comes around
What goes up, must come down
Now who's cryin', desirin' to come back to me
What goes around, comes around
What goes up, must come down
Now who's cryin', desirin' to come back

I remember when
I was sittin' home alone
Waitin' for you
Til' 3 o'clock in the morn
And when you came home, you'd always have some sorry excuse.
And explainin' to me, like I'm just some kinda fool
I sacrifice the things I want to and do things for you
But when it's time to do for me, you never come through
Now you, wanna be a bond of me (eyyy)
Now you, have so much to say to me (heyy)
Now you, wanna make time for me
What you do to me
You confusin me
Don't play with me
Don't play with me

Cause what goes around, comes around
What goes up, must come down
Now who's cryin', desirin' to come back to me
What goes around, comes around
What goes up, must come down
Now who's cryin', desirin' to come back

I remember when
I was sittin home alone
Waitin for you
Til 3 o'clock in the morn
Night after night
Knowin sumthing goin on
Wasn't home befo me
You was, you was gone
Lord knows it wasn't easy, but believe me
Never thought you'd be the one that would deceived me
And never do wha u was supposed to do
No need to hose me fool, cause I'm ova you

Cause what goes around, comes around
What goes up, must come down
Now who's cryin', desirin' to come back to me
What goes around, comes around
What goes up, must come down
Now who's cryin', desirin' to come back

It's called Karma baby
And it goes around.
What goes around, comes around
What goes up, must comes down
Now who's cryin, desirin to come back to me

3. Heartburn

Uh, oh oh
Come on
A. Keys, Let's go

Lemme
Lemme, Lemme, Lemme
Lemme tell you something
Tell ya how I feel
When he comes around
I gettin to feelin ill
It's a aching feelin
Inside my chest
It's like I'm goin in-to cardiac arrest
Adrenaline rushin in my body
Over my power I just can't fight it
Doesn't matter how
I keep on tryin'

I can't deny I've got this heartburn
Burnin' in my soul (heart burn)
Call the fire department (ooh ,heartburn)
It's out of control (heartburn), oh
You got me trippin' slippin'
Gettin' beside myself

I tried some medication
But don't nothin' help
So I said, Doctor doctor, tell me will I die
And he said “count to five Alicia”
And I'm gone be alright
Lets go, 1, 2, 3, 4
Adrenaline rushin' in my body
Over my power I just can't fight it

Doesn't matter how
I keep on tryin'
I can't deny I've got this heartburn
Burnin' in my soul (heart burn)
Call the fire department (ooh ,heartburn)
It's out of control (heartburn), oh
Taste so good, I can't resist
Gettin' harder to digest

Can't take no mo
Gotta shake it off
Now break it down, and take it to the ground with me now
Everybody say oh
Ohh, uh oh oh

Don't you know I got this (heartburn)
Burnin in my soul (heartburn)
Call the fire department (heartburn)
It's out of control (heartburn)
What you trynna do (heart burn)
Burin in my soul (heartburn)
Call the fire department (heartburn)
It's out of control (heartburn) ohh, uh

Shake it, Shake it, Shake it, Shake it off (go head girl)
Shake it, Shake it, Shake it, Shake it off (ohhhooohhh)
Shake it, Shake it, Shake it, Shake it off (go head girl)
Shake it, Shake it, Shake it, Shake it off (ohhhooohhh)

4. If I Was Your Woman/Walk On By

Hey Yo, Mo B, Drop it on me.
Yeah, yeah let's do it like this

If I was your woman
And you were my man
You'd have no other woman
You'd be weak as a lamb

If you had the strength
To walk out my door
My love would overrule my sins
And I'd call you back for more

If I was your woman
If I was your woman
And you were my man, yeah

She tears you down darling
Says you're nothing at all
But I'll pick you up darling
When she lets you fall
Cause, You're like a diamond
But she treats you like glass
Yet you begged her to love you
For me you won't ask

If I was your woman
If I was your woman
If I was your woman
Here's what I'd do
I'd never, never, no, no, stop lovin' you
Yeah, Yeah, Mmm hmm

Life is so crazy
And love is unkind
Because she was first darling
Will she hang on your mind?
You're part of me
But you don't even know it
I'm what you need
But I'm too afraid to show it

If I was your woman
If I was your woman
If I was your woman
Here's what I'd do
I'd never, never, no, no, stop lovin' you
If I was your woman
Here's what I'd do
I'd never, never, never stop lovin' you

Uh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
If I was your woman
If I was your woman
If I was your woman
If I was your woman
If I was your woman

5. You Don't Know My Name

Baby, baby, baby from the day I saw you
I really, really wanted to catch your eye
There's something special 'bout you
I must really like you
'Cause not a lot of guys are worth my time
Ooh baby, baby, baby
It's getting kinda crazy
'Cause you are taking over my mind

And it feels like
Ooh, ooh, ooh
You don't know my name
I swear
It feels like
Ooh, ooh, ooh
You don't know my name
Round and round and round we go
Will you ever know?

Oh, baby, baby, baby
I see us on our first date
You doing everything that makes me smile and when we had our first kiss
It happened on a Thursday
Oh, it set my soul on fire
Oh, baby, baby, baby
I can't wait for the first time, my imagination's running wild

And it feels like
Ooh, ooh, ooh
You don't know my name
I swear
It feels like
Ooh, ooh, ooh
You don't know my name
Round and round and round we go
Will you ever know?

I'm saying, "He don't even know what he's doing to me
Got me feeling all crazy inside
I'm feeling like whoa!"
I'm doing nothing I've never done for anyone's attention
Take notice of what's in front of you cause did I mention?
Whoa, you about to miss a good thing
And you'll never know how good it feels to have all of my affection
And you'll never get a chance to experience my loving, whoa
'Cause my loving feels like

Ooh, ooh, ooh
You don't know my name
Round and round and round we go
Will you ever know?
Ooh, ooh, ooh
You don't know my name
Round and round and round we go
Will you ever know?
Will you ever know it? No, no, no, no, no
Will you ever know it?

Well I'm a'have to just go head and call this boy:
"Hello? Can I speak to, to Michael? Oh, hey how you doing? I feel kinna silly doin this but uh, this is the waitress at the coffee house on 39th and Lenox, you know that, one with the braids? Yeah, well I see you on Wednesdays all the time, you come in every Wednesday on your lunch break, I think, and you always order the special, with the hot chocolate. My manager be tripping, talking about we gotta use water, but I always use some milk and cream for you, cause I think you kinda sweet. Anyway, you always got on some fly blue suit and your cufflinks is shining all bright. So what you do? Oh word? Yeah that's interesting, Look man I don't wanna waste your time but I know girls don't usually do this, but I was wondering if maybe we could get together outside the restaurant one day? You know cause I do look a little different outside my work clothes. I mean we could just go across the street to the park right yeah. Wait, hold up my... my cell phone, breaking up, hold up, can you hear me now? Yeah, so what day did you say? Oh yeah, Thursday, perfect man!

And it feels like
Ooh, ooh, ooh
You don't know my name
I swear
It feels like
Ooh, ooh, ooh
You don't know my name
Round and round and round we go
Will you ever know?

And it feels like
Ooh, ooh, ooh
You don't know my name
I swear
It feels like
Ooh, ooh, ooh
You don't know my name
Round and round and round we go
Will you ever know?

6. If I Ain't Got You

Some people live for the fortune
Some people live just for the fame
Some people live for the power yeah
Some people live just to play the game
Some people think that the physical things
Define what's within
I've been there before
But that life's a bore
So full of the superficial

Some people want it all
But I don't want nothing at all
If it ain't you baby
If I ain't got you baby
Some people want diamond rings
Some just want everything
But everything means nothing
If I ain't got you

Some people search for a fountain
Promises forever young
Some people need three dozen roses
And that's the only way to prove you love them

And in a world on a silver platter
And wondering what it means
No one to share, no one who truly cares for me

Some people want it all
But I don't want nothing at all
If it ain't you baby
If I ain't got you baby
Some people want diamond rings
Some just want everything
But everything means nothing
If I ain't got you

Some people want it all
But I don't want nothing at all
If it ain't you baby
If I ain't got you baby
Some people want diamond rings
Some just want everything
But everything means nothing
If I ain't got you

If I ain't got you with me baby
Nothing in this whole wide world don't mean a thing
If I ain't got you with me baby

7. Diary (feat. Tony! Toni! Tone!)

Lay your head on my pillow
Here you can be yourself
No one has to know what you are feeling
No one but me and you

I won't tell your secrets
Your secrets are safe with me
I will keep your secrets
Just ain't goin'
Be as the pages in your diary

I feel such a connection
Even when you far away
Ooh baby if there's anything that you fear
Come forth and call 4894608
And I'll be here

I won't tell your secrets
Your secrets are safe with me
I will keep your secrets
Just ain't goin'
Be as the pages in your diary

And only we know what talked about baby
Don't know how you can be driven me so crazy
Baby when you're in town
Why don't you come around
Be the loyalty you need
You can trust

I won't tell your secrets
Your secrets are safe with me
I will keep your secrets
Just ain't goin'
Be as the pages in your diary

8. Dragon Days

Ooh baby ooh
Like a dazzle in the stress, I'm stressing you
My castle became my dungeon, cause I'm longin' for you
Feelin' strong for ya
Your my night of shining armor
See your face in the silver moon
Oh over the lagoon

And it feels like dragon days
And the fire's hot
Like a desert needs water
I need you a lot
Dragon days, I need to be saved
I'm missin' you
In the day we drag on and on

Desperate for you baby
Do you know what that means?
It means, I feel like an addict must feel
When he feels
It's an act of desperation
I get lost in my dreams
Cause like a lady in waitin', I'm waitin for you
Like a kiss in time over alligator water
Waitin' for my prince of paradise to call me, take me away
From these, tock tick

Dragon days
And the fire's hot
Like a desert needs water
I need you a lot
So baby
Dragon days, I need to be saved
I'm missin' you
In the day you drag on and on

Don't you wanna play?
D-R-A-G-O-N days
Got me D-R-A-G-G-O-N
Cause I want u baby
And I need you baby

Dragon days
And the fire's hot
Like a desert needs water
I need you a lot (I need you a lot, I need you so bad)
Dragon days, I need to be saved
I'm missin' you
In the day we drag on and on
On, and on, on and on

Dragon days
And the fire's hot
Like a desert needs water
I need you a lot (I need you a lot, I need you so bad)
Dragon days, I need to be saved
I'm missin' you
In the day we drag on
Yeah yeah yeah, oh oh oh ohhh
Yeah yeah yeah, oh oh oh ohhh

9. Wake Up

You used to my closed ally
In this cold, cold world of deception and lies
We would defend and protect one another
Now I can't tell if we are enemies or lovers
So who's gonna rescue us from ourselves
When are we gonna wake up
Baby, it's time for loving
When are we gonna wake up
My baby, before it's too late

Oh baby
Where did we go wrong, baby
Did this cold, cold world turn us in a stone
Well
Now all that battle
Is your ego and your pride
It's ticking like a time bomb
Ready to ignite
Hurt me to fight

So who's gonna rescue us from ourselves
When are we gonna wake up
Baby, it's time for loving
When are we gonna wake up
My baby, before it's too late
When are we gonna wake up
Baby, it's time for loving
When are we gonna wake up
My baby, before it's too late

When the smoke clears
What will be left for us but tears and pains
Why must we argue over the same things
Just to make your friend go back again
It's never too late
Living to own
Can't get it right when no one thinks they're wrong
Gotta get out of the bed
And take a look what's going on

Oh when are we gonna wake up
Baby, it's time for loving
When are we gonna wake up
My baby, before it's too late
When are we gonna wake up
Baby, it's time for loving
When are we gonna wake up
My baby, before it's too late
When are we gonna wake up
Baby, it's time for loving
When are we gonna wake up
My baby, before it's too late

Oh baby (wake up)
Oh darling (wake up)
When are we gonna wake up (wake up)
When are we gonna take a look and see (wake up)
What's going on (wake up)
Oh what's going on (wake up)
It was wasting so much time (wake up)
And we're about to lose it all (wake up)
Oh baby baby baby (wake up)
Said I need you baby
Oh I need my baby home (wake up)
Bring my baby back to me (wake up)
Oh baby baby baby (wake up)
Oh oh (wake up)

10. So Simple

It would be, it would be
It would be so simple
What is
And what it was
What should it be
When it comes to you
And how it seems
And how it is
There's been a change
When it comes to me, yeah

Oh baby you, oh baby me
Oh maybe we can try another day, another way
All in my mind,
I'm wondering why,
We can not find what was left at the beginning
If I could kiss you again
If I could kiss you again
If I could kiss you again
It would be, it would be so simple

Cause I would love you again, hold you again
Kiss you again
It would be, it would be,
Could it be, could it be so simple
Now it's hardly simple
It's just simply hard, when it comes to you and
I'm by myself
Not being myself

Just to avoid all this confrontation with
Oh baby you, oh baby me,
Oh maybe we, can put this armour down and settle down
Oh it's off track
That is a fact
Can we get it back, get it back to the beginning

If I could
Kiss you again
Kiss you again
Kiss you again
It would be, it would be so simple
Cause I would love you again, hold you again, kiss you again
It would be, it would be,
Could it be, Could it be so simple

Don't you know that it would be
Don't you know that it would be
Don't you know that it would be
It would be
It would be
It, it would be
It would be

Kiss you again
Kiss you again
Kiss you again
It would be, it would be so simple
Cause I would love you again, hold you again, kiss you again
It would be, it would be,
Could it be, could it be so simple
Yeah la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

Yeah, we gotta work till we're like this don't stop
Here we got it going on
Now we drive on

11. When You Really Love Someone

I'm a woman
Lord knows it's hard
I need a real man to give me what I need
Sweet detention, love and tenderness
When it's really unconditional
I'm telling ya
Cause a man just ain't a man if he's man enough

So love you when you're right
Love you when you're wrong
Love you when you're weak
Love you when you're strong
Take you higher in a world that you're feeling low
He's giving you his last, as he's thinking of your first
Giveing comfort when he's thinking that you're hurt
That's what it's like when you really really love someone
I'm telling ya, I'm telling ya

Cause you're a real man
And Lord knows it's hard
Sometimes you just need a woman's touch
Sweet affection, love and support
When it's really unconditional
I'm telling ya, oh
Cause a woman ain't a woman if she's woman enough

So love you when you're right
Love you when you're wrong
Love you when you're weak
Love you when you're strong
Take you higher in a world that you're feeling low
She's giving you a best, even when you are at your worst
Giving comfort when she's thinking that you're hurt
That's what it's like when you really really love someone
I'm telling ya, I'm telling ya
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

Sometimes you're gonna argue, sometimes you're gonna fight
Sometime it's gonna feel it'll never be right
But something so strong if you hold it on
It don't make sense what to make a good song
Cause a man just ain't a man if he's man enough

So love you when you're right
Love you when you're wrong
Love you when you're weak
Love you when you're strong
Take you higher in a world that you're feeling low
He's giving you his last, as he's thinking of your first
Giving comfort when he's thinking that you're hurt
That's what it's like when you really really love someone
I'm telling ya, I'm telling ya
I'm tellying ya that if a woman ain't a woman if she's woman enough

So love you
Love you when you're right
Love you when you're wrong
To hold you
Love you when you're weak
Love you when you're strong
Take you higher and higher
In a world that you're feeling low
She's giving you a best, even when you are at your worst
Giving comfort when she's thinking that you're hurt
That's what it's like when you really really love someone

I'm telling ya, I'm telling ya
Mm, mm, yeah
Mm, mm, yeah
Mm, mm, yeah
Mm, mm, yeah

12. Feeling U, Feeling Me (Interlude)

13. Slow Down

14. Samsonite Man

I don't wanna do this over and over
He's a man so full of style and grace
Any woman being impressed
Takes a smile and paints it on your face
Makes you feel like you've been blessed
Promises things so special
Seems to come right from a song
Soon as you begin to feel secure
Turn around and he is gone

Packing his bags, gotta go, gotta go
Packing his bags, gotta go
He's a Samsonite Man

Maybe he is just a rollin' stone
Wandering from here to there
Searching for a place to call his home
Wonder if he even cares
So many years of heartache and pain
That's all you seem to know him for
Is it you, or is it he to blame?
Whenever he walks out your door

Packing his bags, gotta go, gotta go
Packing his bags, gotta go
He's a Samsonite Man

Where you're always running to, away from me
If the wind blows you in my direction
You'd come through the rendezvous
Forget about your good attention
Leave me lonely and confused

Mr. Samsonite pack a bag
That is my suggestion
From here on out you will be leaving
My distraction yeah
So I know the game baby
And it will never be the same (no no no no no)
'Cause now I got him

Packing his bags, gotta go, gotta go
Packing his bags, gotta go, gotta go
Packing his bags, gotta go, gotta go (Now you gotta go)
Packing his bags, gotta go (I can't take it no more)
Packing his bags, gotta go, gotta go (What do I love him for)
Packing his bags, gotta go

He's a Samsonite Man
Why don't you just go
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, woah woah yeah yeah
You can't hurt me no more baby
You can't touch me
You can't hurt me no more baby
Gotta go, gotta go

Pack your bag, pack it up
Gotta go, hit the road Jack
You ain't gotta go home, but you can get the hell outta here

15. Nobody Not Really

Who really cares?
Who really cares when I talk?
What I feel?
What I say?

Nobody not really
Who wants to take
The time to find a stand?
I would like someone to heal me
With some empathy
That I can't find

Nobody not really
Maybe I'm invisible to the world
Is there anyone in the world even think of me
As more than just a hopeless cause
Maybe the world is not my block

My stoop
My life
My dreams
My anything, anything
Who wants to help?

Oh but she's so tired
Powerful, but you're not here
I'm alone in a big empty space with
Nobody not really

16. Streets Of New York (Feat. Nas & Rakim)

New York, New York, New York, New York City
Whoa
New York, New York, New York, New York City, City

It’s like jungle out here
So much struggle out here
And my dreams steal my rest
Sleeps the cousin of death
Always feels like a race against father time
In the streets of New York

All I see is street hoes
And bullet holes in my people
Only crime fills the brain
Feels like I’m going insane
The revolution has to start don’t waste no time
In the streets of New York

New York, New York, New York, New York, oh
State of mind
New York, New York, New York, New York, oh
State of crime
New York, New York, New York, New York, oh
Big Dreams
New York, New York, New York, New York, oh
Big schemes

Oh it’s like the game
Just ain’t the same
Baby thugs and girls with no shame
Can’t get away epidemic plagues
Every hood in every state
Don’t have no reason cause believing’s hard to find
In the Streets of New York

New York state of mind
New York state of mind
In the Streets of New York
New York state of mind
In the Streets of New York
New York state of mind
In the Streets of New York
New York state of mind

New York, New York, New York, New York City
Whoa
New York, New York, New York, New York City, City
Oh
New York, New York, New York, New York City
Whoa
New York, New York, New York, New York City, City