Nelly Furtado

Hey, man, don't look so scared.

You know I'm only testing you out.

Hey man, don't look so angry,

you're real close to figuring me out.

We are a part of a circle.

It's like a mobius strip,

and it goes round and round until it loses a link.

And there's a shadow in the sky and it looks like rain,

and shit is gonna fly once again.

Hey, man, we look at each other with ample eyes,

and why not some time to discover what's behind your eyes?

And I've got so many questions that I want to ask you.

I am so tired of mirrors- pour me a glass of your wine!

And there's a shadow in the sky and it looks like rain,

and shit is gonna fly once again!

I've got a bunch of government cheques at my door.

Each morning I send them back but they only send me more.

I look at myself in the mirror; am I vital today?

Hey, man, I let my conscience get in the way!

And there's a shadow in the sky , but it looks like rain,

and shit is gonna fly once again,

and I don't mean to rain on your parade,

but pathos has got me once again...

and I don't want ambivalence

No I don't want ambivelence no more

I said I don't want ambivalence,

No I don't want ambivalence no more!

Chuva! Chuvinha! Vem, Vem ca, rapaz!

Chuva! Chuvinha! Vem, vem ca, rapaz!

This is not political it's just that I, I demand attention when I walk into the room

And it's not that I can't play ball hard it's just that I don't want to

And the more I think about this pressure love I don't want you

And I can't have you and that's what hurts the most

I cannot show you these things I boast

I'll throw my heart out, keep my head up, I cannot fuck up cuz

I got what you need boy (baby I do) but I will only cause you pain, yeah (I promise that)

I got what you need boy (baby I do) but I will only bring on the rain

So I'll prefer to run this road rough around the edges

Good for something but too good to give it to you

You run your own course at your own pace but I just got impatient

See, I wanted to explore

Forsake you, forsook you, abate you, dissipate you

So turn fate around, I believed that I was free of you (not)

I still believe in those days on benches at sunset or the waves in July

or was it March we weathered weathers and storms

real and imagined, such fragile tenderness

You are truly blessed I stress this as I blow you this kiss as I blow it in the wind, mmwa

I got what you need boy (baby I do) but I will only cause you pain, yeah (I promise that)

I got what you need boy (baby I do) but I will only bring on the rain

Chuva! Chuvinha! Vem, vem ca, rapaz!

Gonna make u cry so damn hard

you're gonna curse your drawers and wish you weren't a boy

Gonna make u cry so damn hard

you'll curse your drawers and wish you weren't a boy, yeah

I will make u cry

(Boohoo)

They say time is made of memories

Well I remembered and I'm tired

This is not political it's just that I remember the fire

Babe you left me with my head held high and I feigned to be more than I was, didn't I?

I thought I could do without sugar love

but this chocolate has turned into sweet bubble gum

Candy is sweet but honey is sweeter

It tastes like the real thing but candy is much much cheaper (Cheaper)

I got what you need boy (baby I do) but I will only cause you pain, yeah (I promise that)

I got what you need boy (baby I do) but I will only bring on the rain

(rain a'fallin' down, rain a'fallin' down, hahahaha)

...time crying...you'll be crying... I'm sorry I made you cry... I didn't

mean to, let me wipe those tears away...wipe those tears away...don't cry

baby...it's only rain

You're beautiful, that's for sure

You'll never ever fade

You're lovely but it's not for sure

That I won't ever change

And though my love is rare

Though my love is true

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I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away

I don't know where my soul is, I don't know where my home is

(and baby all I need for you to know is)

I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away

I don't know where my soul is, I don't know where my home is

All I need for you to know is

Your faith in me brings me to tears

Even after all these years

And it pains me so much to tell

That you don't know me that well

And though my love is rare

And though my love is true

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It's not that I wanna say goodbye

It's just that every time you try to tell me, me that you love me

Each and every single day I know

I'm going to have to eventually give you away

And though my love is rare

And though my love is true

Hey I'm just scared

That we may fall through

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He wants to be, he wants to be, with everything under the sun

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And like a legend who rises and then falls I cannot be his only one

He makes me feel, he makes me feel, like you used to,

(whoa) like you used to

He makes me feel, he makes me feel, like you used to,

(whoa) like you used to

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And like a fickle flower when it first sees the light

I cannot show just how I fight

And like a fickle flower when it first sees the light

I cannot show just how I fight

Babe I saw you walking, it was after midnight

Carrying nothing except for a flashlight

You wanted to be Romeo so low at my window

Will you open the door for me if you believe in chivalry?

For I do not think you low though you bow to me so-so

I do not think you low though you bow to me so-so

Bridge:

I know you want to drink from the purest wine (from the purest wine)

But the drink is far more sour than you would ever think

He wants to be, he wants to be with everything under the sun

And she wants to burn, she wants to burn hot like that sun,

(whoa) hot like that sun

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Just like a legend who rises and then falls (like a legend)

I cannot be his only one (his only one)

And like a callous, cold, callous woman she'll never see what she did done

So like this legend that rises and then falls I'll never be his only one

My love grows deeper every day and takes a little piece of me

My love grows deeper every day, deep into the sea

But takes a little piece of me, a little piece of me

Oh it's so beautiful out and I can't see why we're not allowed to be

Up in the sky with the birds counting the flowers

Oh my powers have failed me again when I can't see beginning to end

No I try and test it again through the hours

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Wandering stars in the blue

could not be born cause of you

Wandering stars in the blue

could not be born cause of you

My love grows deeper every day and takes a little piece of me

My love grows deeper every day, deep into the sea

But takes a little piece of me, a little piece of me

Oh why can't I be green as the grass beneath my feet

As fresh as the dew hits the ground in the morning

And not yellow like bumble bees, please take me off my knees, my knees

I don't wanna be red forever

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I've been looking at the moon but I've been thinking of myself

I've got me under my own skin I don't need nobody else

I'm looking at the moon but I'm thinking of myself

I've got me under my own skin I don't need nobody else

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If I could have sunlight in the palm of your hand

I'd take the moonlight instead

You liked me till' you heard my shit on the radio

Well I hate to say but pop ain't going solo

You liked me till' you heard my shit on the radio

But now I'm just too mainstream for you, oh no

You liked me till' you seen me on your t.v.

Well if you're so low below then why you watching?

You say good things come to those who wait

I've been waiting a long time for it

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I remember the days when I was so eager to satisfy you

and be less then I was just to prove I could walk beside you

Now that I've flown away I see you've chosen to stay behind me

and still you curse the day I decided to stay true to myself

You say your quest is to bring it higher

Well I never seen change without a fire

But from your mouth I have seen a lot of burning

But underneath I think it's a lot of yearning

Your face, the colours change from green to yellow

To the point where you can't even say hello

You tell me you'd kill me if I ever snob you out

Like that's what you'd expect from me, like that's what I'm about

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Bridge:

It's so much easier to stay down there guaranteeing you're cool

Than sit up here exposing myself trying to break through

Than to burn in the spotlight (open fire!), turn in the spitfire (open fire!)

Scream without making a sound (open fire!), be up here and not look down (open fire!)

because we're all afraid of heights

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Why ya hurt me hurt me hurt me hurt me hurt me hurt me hurt me so so,

leave me down down down down low leave me down da down down da down da down down down low...

shit on the radio... shit on the radio... shit on the radio... shit on the radio...shit on the radio

Talking to the mirror again but it's not listening

Cleaning my dirty mind like a toilet but it won't give in

Drinking spirits in the hopes that I will find myself one

But all I can rectify is that the party's just begun

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Party's just begun

I feel like falling asleep and never waking up

It's not that my glass is empty but I need another cup

When all of the doors around me just shut one by one

I feel like falling asleep but the party's just begun

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Shaky shaky steps in the middle of the day

A fire in my path and a cool decay

Of limbs and tooth under my skin

Oh, freedom, where do I begin?

I'm changing my inflection and how I say the words

Maybe it will sound like something they've never heard

Oh, death of the party

I picked up the chalice of malice

And drank till I was full, I drank till I was full

I was thirsty but I drank till I was full,

I drank till I, till I,till I was full

There's a fever in my bones that I know so well

I keep my head low low low to avoid the swell

But it'll be cold in hell, it'll be cold in hell

Before they put me in that chamber

So I'm cleaning up as fast as I can

I'm cleaning up as fast as I can

Cuz you can't unbreak what you break, you can't unfake the very fake

You cannot fuel without a tank,

no you can't unbreak what you break, what you break

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I'm sorry I forsake you

I'm sorry that I left you

I'm sorry I did forget you

And I'm sorry that I made myself feel better

By making you feel never good enough

I know you'll shine much brighter than I ever could

Maybe that is why I was

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Scared of you

(and in everything I do I'm still thinking of you)

oh, you, you

I know you were scared of me

(but everytime I tried to love you I just fell through)

too

Desculpa-me se te ofendi

Desculpa-me se te esqueci

Desculpa-me se eu te deixei

Eu te deixei

E desculpa-me por me sentir bem com tua dor

Sabes que te adoro mas sei que a tua estrela e maior do que a minha,

muito maior do que a minha

E por isso

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Eu tenho medo deste amor

(os dias passo pensando em ti)

amor

Medo deste amor

(Salve-me porque agora estou caindo)

amor

I was scared of you

Scared of you

I left my heart in San Francisco with some club kids

on a crowded street somewhere

The sky was red and he said,

"would you like to come be a part of my North American Dream?"

I could try to chase life down, down the street and I'd find the separation

of fact and fiction

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I'm trynna finda way

I'm trynna finda right

And if I budge I just might

I'm trynna finda way

I'm trynna finda right

And if I budge I just might

I left my conscience somewhere with my rhythm

I heard about it from the mouth of a man

He was hopping some trains and combing the land

Looking for a lover (kiss) planted in the east

Trying to run from the dreaded fist beast

And it lies, it lies in the picket fence call

It was my own paradise with my own private corridor

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So I'm dancing to a new beat and it came to me in bed

My veins became a strain of light that I let to flow instead

And a wish came to me like Peter Pan at my window and said

Evolve your destiny child and you'll never walk alone-no

You'll never walk alone, but

Travel to the land of surrender till' you can't cry no more

Till you can't, till you can't

And you'll never walk alone

all this inspiration is passing me by

all I can do is chill when I really wanna fly

and this pollution do nothing but dirty up my mind

faster than forever in the blink of an eye

to see past my lethargy is hard I feign

the beauty of my youth is gone but the chemicals remain

Chorus

I travel to this land of surrender but I see it's all over me, over and over

again...and I try and I try and I try...an angel on my left side and a devil

on my right..and they fight and they fight and they fight..they're fighting,

they're fighting, they're fighting for my attention...hello? You have my

attention...Do I have your attention?...Can I have your attention

please?...please, you've made such such an impression on me

It's getting so lonely inside this bed

Don't know if I should lick my wounds or say woe is me instead

There's an aching inside my head

It's telling me I'm better off alone

But after midnight, morning will come

And the day will see if you will get some

Chorus:

They say that girl ya know she act too tough tough tough

Well it's till' I turn off the light, turn off the light

They say that girl you know she act so rough rough rough

Well it's till' I turn off the light, turn off the light

And I say follow me follow me follow me down down down down

till' you see all my dreams

Not everything in this magical world is quite what it seems

I looked above the other day

Cuz I think I'm good and ready for a change

I live my life by the moon

If it's high play it low, if it's harvest go slow and if it's full, then go

But after midnight, morning will come

And the day will see if you're gonna get some

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I'm searching for things that I just cannot see

Why don't you don't you don't you come and be with me

I pretend to be cool with me, wanna believe

That I can do it on my own without my heart on my sleeve

I'm running, I'm running, catch up with me life

Where is the love that I'm looking to find?

It's all in me, can't you see, why can't you, why can't you see it's all in me

All in me

Where is your logic?

Who do you need?

Where can you turn in your delicate time of need?

Follow me follow me down down down down

I do not need I do not need nobody

Where is your logic?

Who do you need?

Where can you turn?

Well, well, what do I say

Looks like what goes around comes around

And everyone will have their final say

Sometime, someday

Looks like I only love God when the sun shines my way

Looks like I'm into divinity when I can see its sweet, sweet rays

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I say what I mean but I don't mean what I say

Well, well, it's fine out today

I say what I mean but I don't mean what I say

Well, well, it's fine out

Well, well, what do I say

I've never seen a bad day look quite this way

And well, well, what do I do

When all of my thoughts run right back to you

Looks like I meant to speak with logic,

but hon', the carnal always gets in the way

Well well, this fire was more funner than proper grammar anyway

Chorus

Then you get to the part where your heart just wants to die

Then you get to the part where your heart screams it just sighs

Then you get to the part where your heart knows it's a crime

So it flies like a bird, it's heard, it's heard, it's heard the word

Chorus