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Lyrics
HONEY
Honey was an absolute hit, it repeated
the feat as “Fantasy” and “One Sweet Day” by debuting #1 in the charts with
merely a week of radio and promotion.
Mariah’s music career is different after this song, which video
revealed her as a sexy captive in Puerto Rico and showed her as “the 90’s
Barbarella” as some critic said.
►HONEY
Lyrics: M.
Carey – Music: M. Carey – S. Combs – K. Fareed – S. Jordan – S. Hague – B.
Robinson – R. Larkins – L. Price – M. McLaren
Oh, oh,
honey get me hooked on you...
I like that
Honey you can have me when you want
me
If you simply ask me to be there
And you're the only one who makes me come running
'Cause what you got is far beyond compare
And it's just like honey
When your love comes over me
Oh baby I've got a dependency
Always strung out for another taste of your honey
chorus:
It's like honey when it washes over me
You know sugar never ever was so sweet
And I'm dying for ya cryin' for ya I adore ya
One hit of your love addicted me
Now I'm strung out on you darlin'
Don't you see every night and day
I can hardly wait for another taste of honey
Honey I can't describe
How good it feels inside
Honey I can't describe
How good it feels inside
I can't be elusive with you honey (I like that)
'Cause it's blatant that I'm feeling you (Yeah)
And it's too hard for me to leave abruptly, yeah
Cause you're the only thing I wanna do...
And it's just like honey
When your love comes over me
Oh baby I've got a dependency
Always strung out for another taste of your honey
chorus:
It's like honey when it washes over me
You know sugar never ever was so sweet
And I'm dying for ya cryin' for ya I adore ya
One hit of your love addicted me
Now I'm strung out on you darlin'
Don't you see every night and day
I can hardly wait for another taste of honey
Honey I can't describe
How good it feels inside
Honey I can't describe
How good it feels inside
Baby I can hardly wait
Harlem world
we won't stop and Mariah, you're on fire
Gotta have another taste
Harlem world
we won't stop so Mariah, take us higher
Gotta have you now, come on baby, I need your love right now
Harlem world we won't stop and Mariah, you're on fire
Come sooth me with your honey
Harlem world
we won't stop so Mariah, take us higher
(Break it down)
Oh, oh
Every little thing you do
(Now, what we're gonna do right here, is we're gonna smooth it out, come on)
oh, oh
Honey get me hooked on you
(MC, and she won't stop)
chorus:
It's like honey when it washes over me
You know sugar never ever was so sweet
And I'm dying for ya cryin' for ya I adore ya
One hit of your love addicted me
Now I'm strung out on you darlin'
Don't you see every night and day
I can hardly wait for another taste of honey
It's like honey when it washes over me
You know sugar never ever was so sweet
And I'm dying for ya cryin' for ya I adore ya
One hit of your love addicted me
Now I'm strung out on you darlin'
Don't you see every night and day
I can hardly wait for another taste of honey
BUTTERFLY
This song gives the name to the album
and also the meaning; freedom, reaching out for faith, destiny and
self-acknowledgement. A beautiful
ballad, never released in America as a single CD.
►BUTTERFLY
Lyrics: M. Carey – Music: M. Carey –
W. Afanasieff
When you
love someone so deeply
They become your life
It's easy to succumb to overwhelming fears inside
Blindly I imagined I could
Keep you under glass
Now I understand to hold you
I must open my hands
And watch you rise
chorus:
Spread your wings and prepare to fly
For you have become a butterfly
Fly abandonedly into the sun
If you should return to me
We truly were meant to be
So, spread your wings and fly
Butterfly
I have learned that beauty
Has to flourish in the light
Wild horses run unbridled
Or their spirit dies
You've given me the courage
To be all that I can
And I truly feel
Your heart will lead you back to me
When you're ready to land
chorus:
Spread your wings and prepare to fly
For you have become a butterfly
Fly abandonedly into the sun
If you should return to me
We truly were meant to be
So, spread your wings and fly
Butterfly
I can't pretend these tears
Aren't over flowing steadily
I can't prevent this hurt
From almost overtaking me
But I will stand and say goodbye
For you'll never be mine
Until you know the way
It feels to fly
chorus:
Spread your wings and prepare to fly
For you have become a butterfly
Fly abandonedly into the sun
If you should return to me
We truly were meant to be
So, spread your wings and fly
Butterfly
MY ALL
 
One of
Mariah’s most powerful ballads from recent years. It really shows her best by being romantic, spontaneous and
strong. The remix version is also
notable. “My All” became her 14th.
#1 hit in America with a big radio play success (During the summer ’98 it was
all over the place).
►MY
ALL
Lyrics: M. Carey – Music: M. Carey –
W. Afanasieff
I am thinking of you
In my sleepless solitude tonight
If it's wrong to love you
Then my heart just won't let me be right
'Cause I've drowned in you
And I won't pull through
Without you by my side
chorus:
I'd give my all to have
Just one more night with you
I'd risk my life to feel
Your body next to mine
'Cause I can't go on
Living in the memory of our song
I'd give my all for your love tonight
Baby can you feel me
Imagining I'm looking in your eyes
I can see you clearly
Vividly emblazoned in my mind
And yet you're so far
Like a distant star
I'm wishing on tonight
chorus:
I'd give my all to have
Just one more night with you
I'd risk my life to feel
Your body next to mine
'Cause I can't go on
Living in the memory of our song
I'd give my all for your love tonight
I'd give my all to have
Just one more night with you
I'd risk my life to feel
Your body next to mine
'Cause I can't go on
Living in the memory of our song
I'd give my all for your love tonight
I'd give my all for your love
Tonight
THE ROOF
(BACK IN TIME)
I love this song because it’s
different. If you listen to Mariah’s
previous recordings you’ll notice how innovating this song is and how great
it sounds. Love the rap.
►THE
ROOF (BACK IN TIME)
Lyrics: M. Carey – Music: M. Carey –
J.C. Oliver – S. Barnes – C. Rooney – A. Johnson – K. Muchita
It wasn't
raining yet
But it was definitely
A little misty on that warm November night
And my heart was pounding
My inner voice resounding
Begging me to turn away
But I just had to see your face
To feel alive
And then you casually walked in the room
And I was twisted in the web
Of my desire for you
My apprehension blew away
I only wanted you
To taste my sadness
As you kissed me in the dark
Every time I feel the need
I envision you, caressing me
And go back in time
To relieve the splendor of you and I
On the rooftop that rainy night
And so we finished the Moet and
Started feeling liberated
And I surrendered as you took me in your arms
I was so caught up in the moment
I couldn't bear to let you go yet
Threw caution to the wind
And started listening to my longing heart
And then you softly pressed your lips to mine
And feelings surfaced I'd suppressed
For such a long time (And I was lifted)
And for a while I forgot
The sorrow and the pain
And melted with you as we stood
There in the rain
Every time I feel the need
I envision you (Envision you), caressing me (Caressing me)
And go back in time (Back...)
To relieve the splendor of you and I (You and I, you and I...)
On the rooftop that rainy night
Every time I feel the need
I envision you (Envision you), caressing me
And go back in time
To relieve the splendor of you and I
On the rooftop that rainy night
Last night (Last night) I dreamed that I (Dreamed I)
Whispered the words I love you (I love you, boy)
And touched you so very
Subtly as we were kissing goodbye
Hmm...
Ooh... yeah
Oh...
Pretty baby
How I'm missing you
Every time I feel the need
I envision you (Envision you), caressing me (Caressing me)
And go back in time (Back in time)
To relieve the splendor of you and I
On the rooftop that rainy night
Every time I feel the need (When I feel the need)
I envision you, caressing me (Over and over and over again)
And go back in time (Oh...)
To relieve the splendor of you and I - It was oh so sweet, you and I
On the rooftop that rainy night (On that rainy night)
Every time I feel the need (Last night I had the strangest dream)
I envision you, caressing me (I was actually quite symbolic)
And go back in time (As I whispered, that I loved you)
To relieve the splendor of you and I (Very subtly)
On the rooftop that rainy night
Every time I feel the need
I envision you, caressing me
And go back in time (Back in time)
To relieve the splendor of you and I
On the rooftop that rainy night
►FOURTH
OF JULY
Lyrics: M.
Carey – Music: M. Carey – W. Afanasieff
Trembling
Starry eyed
As you put your hand in mine
It was twilight
On the Fourth of July
Sparkling colors were
Strewn across the sky
And we sat close enough
That we just barely touched
While roman candles
Went soaring above us and, baby
Then you put your hand in mine
And we wandered away...
I was trembling inside
But I wanted to stay
Pressed against you there and leave the world behind
On that Fourth of July
So starry eyed
On the flowery hillside
Breathless and fervid
Amid the dandelions
As it swept over me
Like the wind trough the trees
I felt you sigh with a
Sweet intensity and baby
Then you put your hand in mine
And we floated a, floated a, floated away
Delicately lay entwined
In an intimate daze
A crescent moon began to shine
And I wanted to stay
Tangled up with you among the fireflies
On that Fourth of July
Thunder clouds
Hung around
So threateningly
Ominously hovering
And the sky
Opened wide
Showering
Then you put your hand in mine
And we ran from the rain
From the rain, yeah
Tentatively kissed goodnight
And went our separate ways
And I've never truly felt the way that I
Felt the Fourth of July
Fourth of July
Truly I have never felt the same inside
Like that Fourth of July
Fourth of July
Truly I could never feel the same as I
Felt that Fourth of July
Oh, baby
BREAKDOWN
“Breakdown” is another musical
revelation to everyone’s eyes. Mariah
definitely wanted to expand and she did it.
Compare this song to others like “Emotions” and you’ll know what I’m
talking about.
►BREAKDOWN
Lyrics: M. Carey – A. Henderson – C.
Scruggs – Music: M. Carey – Stevie J.
You called
yesterday
To basically say
That you care for me but
That you're just not in love
Immediately I pretended to be feeling similarly
And let you to believe I was ok
To just walk away from the one thing
That's unyielding and sacred to me...
Well I guess I'm trying to be nonchalant about it
And I'm going to extremes to prove I'm fine without ya
But in reality I'm slowly loosing my mind
Underneath the guise of smile gradually I'm dying inside
Friends ask me how I feel and I lie convincingly
'Cause I don't want to reveal the fact that I'm suffering
So, I wear my disguise 'til I go home at night
And turn down all the lights and then I breakdown and cry
So what do you do when somebody you're so devoted to
Suddenly just stops loving you and it seems they haven't got a clue
Of the pain that rejection is putting you through
Do you cling to your pride and sing 'I will survive'
Do you lash out and say 'How dare you leave this way'
Do you hold on in vain as they just slip away...
Well I guess I'm trying to be nonchalant about it (Hey...)
And I'm going to extremes to prove I'm fine without ya (Oh...)
But in reality I'm slowly loosing my mind (Losing my mind)
Underneath the guise of smile gradually I'm dying inside
Friends ask me how I feel and I lie convincingly (Do you feel)
'Cause I don't want to reveal the fact that I'm suffering
So, I wear my disguise 'til I go home at night
And turn down all the lights and then I breakdown and cry
Raps (Wish
Bone – Krayzie Bone):
Gonna break you down
Only if you let it
Everyday crazy situations rockin' my mind
Tryin' to break me down, but I won't let it, forget it
I'll be feelin' like it's gonna break me down
Turnin' me around
Stressin' me out
I'm thinkin' it gonna get out and let me
Release some stress (Stress)
Don't ever wanna feel no pain (Pain)
Hoping for the sun but it looks like rain (Rain, rain, rain)
Oh, I just wanna maintain
Yeah, I can feel the preassures, yo
But nevertheless, Krayzie won't fall
It's over, it's ending here (Here)
Well I guess I'm trying to be nonchalant about it - I'm crying...
And I'm going to extremes to prove I'm fine without ya
But in reality I'm slowly loosing my mind
Underneath the guise of smile gradually I'm dying inside
Friends ask me how I feel and I lie convincingly - How do I feel
'Cause I don't want to reveal the fact that I'm suffering - I'm losing my
mind
So I wear my disguise 'til I go home at night
And turn down all the lights and then I breakdown and cry
Well I guess I'm trying to be nonchalant about it - I...
And I'm going to extremes to prove I'm fine without ya
But in reality I'm slowly loosing my mind (I'm slowly losing my mind...)
Underneath the guise of smile gradually I'm dying inside
Friends ask me how I feel And I lie convincingly - How do I feel
'Cause I don't want to reveal the fact that I'm suffering
(Why are you thinking I gotta be suffering, so I)
So I wear my disguise 'til I go home at night
And turn down all the lights and then I breakdown and cry
Well I guess I'm trying to be nonchalant about it (Cry...)
And I'm going to extremes to prove I'm fine without ya (Cry...)
But in reality I'm slowly loosing my mind (Cry...)
Underneath the guise of smile gradually I'm dying inside (Cry...)
Friends ask me how I feel And I lie convincingly (Cry...)
'Cause I don't want to reveal the fact that I'm suffering (Cry...)
(Cry...) So I wear my disguise 'til I go home at night
►BABYDOLL
Lyrics: M. Carey – M. Elliot – Music:
M. Carey – C. Rooney – Stevie J.
It's 2:11
and I'm stressin'
Watchin' TV
in my hotel suite
I check my service every second
At 2:10 you
still hadn't called me
So I'm gonna leave my cell phone
Turned on in
my purse by the bed
And before I fall asleep
I guess I'll
just check my machine (Go check it one more time)
Again and again because I'm obsessing on you
chorus:
I wanna be your babydoll (I just wanna be yours)
Wrap me up nice and tight (Wrap me up nice and tight)
Love me through the night
Come, lay me down
Enfold me in your arms (Hmm...)
Cover me with velvet kisses
Rock me on and on and whisper softly to me
You wanna be my babydoll
Oh, yeah
Zoning out thinking 'bout
You and me
between the sheets
I wanna get intimate
But you're
not within my reach
So I'll have a little more wine
And I'll try to drink you
Out of my
head
And I'll lay awake awhile
Till I'm
high enough I can
Forget about
you until
Then I wake up again
chorus:
I wanna be your babydoll (I just wanna be yours)
Wrap me up nice and tight (Wrap me up nice and tight)
Love me through the night
Come, lay me down
Enfold me in your arms (Hmm...)
Cover me with velvet kisses
Rock me on and on and whisper softly to me
You wanna be my babydoll
Oh, yeah
Slipping into dreams (Slipping into dreams)
I feel my love surround you
My subconscious seems (My subconscious seems)
To weave itself all around you
Do you care for me (Do you care for me)
Beyond idolization
Tell me how you feel
But don't keep me at bay
'Cause I won't be waiting long
chorus:
I wanna be your babydoll (I just wanna be yours)
Wrap me up nice and tight (Wrap me up nice and tight)
Love me through the night
Come, lay me down
Enfold me in your arms (Hmm...)
Cover me with velvet kisses
Rock me on and on and whisper softly to me
You wanna be my babydoll
Oh, yeah
Don't you wanna be
My babydoll
Oh, come rock me on, and on and on...
I wanna be your babydoll
My babydoll
And I'll be there
Between the sheets
My body's longing
Why don't you call
I really want ya
Boy don't you do it
Oh...
My babydoll
I wanna be your babydoll (My bed)
(Don't you wanna be) My babydoll
I wanna be your babydoll
►CLOSE
MY EYES
Lyrics: M. Carey – Music: M. Carey –
W. Afanasieff
I was wayward
child
With the weight of the world
That I held deep inside
Life was a winding road
And I learned many things
Little ones shouldn't know
chorus 1:
But I closed my eyes
Steadied my feet on the ground
Raised my head to the sky
And though time's rolled by
Still I feel like that child
As I look at the moon
Maybe I grew up
A little too soon
Funny how one can learn
To grow numb to the madness
And block it away (Block it away)
I left the worst unsaid
Let it all dissipate
And I try to forget
chorus 2:
As I closed my eyes
Steadied my feet on the ground
Raised my head to the sky
And though time's rolled by
Still I feel like a child
As I look at the moon
Maybe I grew up
A little too soon
Nearing the edge
Obvious I almost
Fell right over
A part of me (A part of me)
Will never be quite able
To feel stable
That woman-child
Was on the verge of fading
Thankfully I
Woke up in time, time, time
Guardian angel I
Sail away on an ocean
With you by my side
Orange clouds roll by
They burn into your image
And you're still alive
chorus 3:
As I closed my eyes (You're always alive)
Steadied my feet on the ground
Raise my head to the sky
And though time's rolls by
Still feel like a child
As I look at the moon
Maybe I grew up
A little too soon
►WHENEVER
YOU CALL
Lyrics: M. Carey – Music: M. Carey –
W. Afanasieff
Love
wandered inside
Stronger than you
Stronger than I
And now that it has begun
We cannot turn back
We can only turn into one
I won't ever be too
Far away to feel you
And I won't hesitate at all
Whenever you call
And I'll always remember
The part of you so tender
I'll be the one to catch your fall
Whenever you call
And I'm truly inspired
Finding my soul
There in your eyes
And you
Have opened my heart
And lifted me inside
By showing me yourself
Undisguised
And I won't ever be too
Far away to feel you
And I won't hesitate at all
Whenever you call
And I'll always remeber
The part of you so tender
I'll be the one to catch your fall
Whenever you call...
Ooh... yeah
And I will breathe for you each day
Comfort you through all the pain
Gently kiss your fears away
You can turn to me and cry
Always understand that I
Give you all I have inside
And I won't ever be too
Far away to feel you
And I won't hesitate at all
Whenever you call
I won't ever be too far to feel you
And I won't hesitate at all
Whenever you call
I'll always remember
The part of you so tender
And be the one to catch your fall
Whenever you call
►FLY AWAY (BUTTERFLY REPRISE)
Lyrics: M.
Carey – E. John – B. Taupin – Music: M. Carey – D. Morales
Don't be
afraid to fly
Spread your wings
Open up the door
So much more outside
Don't (Don't) be afraid to fly (Be afraid to fly)
Come spread your wings
And just fly away you'll see that it's alright
Fly, fly, just fly, just fly
Don't be afraid
Don't let your spirit die
She said
Spread your wings and prepare to fly
For you have become a butterfly
Spread your wings and prepare to fly - Don't be afraid, don't be afraid
For you have become a butterfly - Don't be afraid to fly
(Fly) Spread your wings and prepare to fly (So much more outside)
For you have become a butterfly (Hey)
Spread your wings and prepare to fly
(Come spread your wings and just fly away to the sun)
For you have become a butterfly
Fly...
Don't be afraid to fly
Don't be afraid to just fly
You, (Hey) you, have become a butterfly
Don't be afraid to just fly
Butterfly
Butterfly
Free to fly
Fly away
Bye, bye (Bye, bye)
Butterfly (You have become a butterfly)
Free to fly
Fly away
Bye, bye - Butterfly...
(Oh...) Bye bye
Butterfly (Butterfly)
Butterfly (Butterfly)
Free to fly
Butterfly
Butterfly (Butterfly)
Spread your wings and prepare to fly
For you have become a butterfly
Spread your wings and prepare to fly
For you have become a butterfly
►THE BEAUTIFUL ONES
Lyrics
& Music: Prince
Baby, baby,
baby
What's it gonna be?
Oh, baby, baby, baby
Is it him or is it me?
Don't make me waste my time
Don't make me lose my mind baby
Baby, baby, baby...
Can't you stay with me tonight?
Oh, baby, baby, baby
Come on, don't my kisses please you right?
You were so hard to find
The beautiful ones, they hurt you every time
Paint a perfect picture, baby
Of me, yeah
And bring to life a vision in one's mind
The beautiful ones
Beautiful ones
Always smash the picture
(Always) Always every time
Sing it, Mariah
If I told you baby (Told you babe, baby)
That I was in love with you (I was in love with you)
Oh, baby, baby, baby...
If we got married (We got married)
Would that be cool...? Ooh..
You make me so confused
The beautiful ones (Always)
You always (Always) seem to lose
Baby
(Baby, yeah) Baby
(Yes they do) Baby (Yes they do)
So beautiful ones (The beautiful)
Beautiful ones (I've got one thing)
So beautiful ones (Like my mind)
Beautiful ones (My mind)
Listen
Do you want him
Or do you want me?
'Cause I want you
'Cause I do, baby
I want you
Oh, baby
Alright, baby
I want you, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I want you (Said I want you)
Baby, baby, baby, baby, yeah
Alright, yes
See I may not know
Where I'm going, baby
I may not know
Said I may not know
See I may not know
What I need
But I need, but I need, but I need
But one thing is for certain, baby
I know what I want
And if it please you, baby, please you, baby
And I'll beg you down on my knees
I want you, I want you
You
Oh, oh, I need you
You're so bad to me, baby
And I want you
Why, oh, why
Why, oh, why (Oh, why)
Why, oh, why
Baby, I, oh, baby, baby, baby
Baby, yeah, hey
Need you, yeah
(I want you...) Do you want Sisqo? (Babe, I want you)
Do you wanna love me, love me (Me...)
Do you wanna throw me away
I gotta know, I gotta know baby
Gotta know
Baby, baby, baby, baby
(Baby, baby, baby)
I need you Hey, hey, hey (Baby, baby, baby)
I want you now
Tell me why (Tell me why)
Beautiful ones (Oh)
They hurt you
Every time
►OUTSIDE
Lyrics: M. Carey – Music: M. Carey –
W. Afanasieff
It's hard to
explain
Inherently it's just always been strange
Neither here nor there
Always somewhat out of place everywhere
Ambiguous
Without a sense of belonging to touch
Somewhere halfway
Feeling there's no one completely the same
Standing alone
Eager to just
Believe it's good enough to be what
You really are
But in your heart
Uncertainty forever lies
And you'll always be
Somewhere on the
Outside
Early on, you face
The realization you don't have a space
Where you fit in...
And recognize you
Were born to exist
Standing alone
Eager to just
Believe it's good enough to be what
You really are
But in your heart
Uncertainty forever lies
And you'll always be
Somewhere on the
Outside
And it's
hard
And it's hard
Irreversibly
Falling in between
And it's hard
And it's hard
To be understood
As you are
As you are
Oh and God knows
That you're standing on your own
Blind and unguided
Into a world divided
You're thrown
Where you're never quite the same
Although you try, try and try
To tell yourself
You really are
But in your heart, uncertainty forever lies
And you'll always be
Somewhere on the
Outside
You'll always be
Somewhere on the
Outside
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Music Entertainment
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