["Pains of growing up" Themed songs]

Homemade - Nicole C Mullen

Riding the city bus on the way to school

Me and my two sisters and all the ridicule

The older girls on the back of the bus

Would laugh and call us names

They'd talk about our hair, our clothes

And call us homemade

See the "not so good ole days"

Can make you weak or make you brave

I've never been the most beautiful

No I ain't never been the most popular

But it's amazing what love can do

It's amazing what a little love can do

Every thought and action is like a boomerang

What goes around will come back baby

So careful what you say

And the little ugly ducklings are swans that got away

Cause Cinderella stories, they still happen everyday

Where the "not so good ole days"

Could make you weak or brave

I've never been the most beautiful

Don't care I've never been the most popular

Still it's amazing what love can do

It's amazing what a little love can do

I bumped into a stranger just the other day

She said "Can you spare a dollar sista?"

"My man he ain't got paid"

So I gave her what I had, then I recognized her face

She was the leader of the girls who used to call us homemade

Back when the "not so good ole days"

Could make you weak or brave

I've never been the most beautiful

I ain't never been the most popular

But it's amazing what love will do

Ain't it amazing what

Homemade love will do

[Good songs for a striptease]

Just adding the lyrics to both of these songs...Sorry about the ?s where there should be 's I just cut and paste

Don't Cha

Baby

Ladies

Fellas

Are you ready?

Let?s dance

Baby (ooooh)

I know you like me (I know you like me)

I know you do (I know you do)

That?s why whenever I come around

She?s all over you (she?s all over you)

I know you want it (I know you want it)

It?s easy to see (it?s easy to see)

And in the back of your mind

I know you should be f***ing me (babe)

Don?t cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?

Don?t cha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me?

Don?t cha

Don?t cha

Don?t cha wish your girlfriend was raw like me?

Don?t cha wish your girlfriend was fun like me?

Don?t cha

Don?t cha

Fight the feeling (fight the feeling)

Leave it alone (leave it alone)

Cause if it ain?t love

It just ain?t enough to leave my happy home (my happy home)

Let?s keep it friendly (let?s keep it friendly)

You have to play fair (you have to play fair)

See I don?t care

But I know She aint gonna wanna share

Don?t cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?

Don?t cha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me?(like me)

Don?t cha (don?t cha baby)

Don?t cha

Don?t cha wish your girlfriend raw like me? (raw)

Don?t cha wish your girlfriend fun like me (big fun)

Don?t cha

Don?t cha

I know I?m on your mind

I know we?d have a good time

I?m your friend

I?m fun

And I?m fine

I ain?t lying

Look at me sh**

You ain?t blind (you aint blind)

I know I?m on your mind

I know we?d have a good time

I?m your friend

I?m fun

And I?m fine

I ain?t lying

Look at me sh**

You ain?t blind

I know she loves you (I know she loves you)

So I understand (I understand)

I probably be just as crazy about you

If you where my own man

Maybe next lifetime (maybe next lifetime)

Possibly (possibly)

Until then no friend possibly

Is a ? for me

Don?t cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?

Don?t cha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me?

Don?t cha

Don?t cha

Don?t cha wish your girlfriend was raw like me?

Don?t cha wish your girlfriend was fun like me?

Don?t cha

Don?t cha

Bad Girl

Showed up?

Shawty

What it do?

Oooooooh

Pimpin', oh boy

uh

What cha'll know about a supermodel

Fresh outta Elle magazine

Buy her own bottles

Look pimp juice, I need me one

Bad than a mutha

I hear you sayin'

I need a bad girl

If you're a bad girl

Playas when you see me

Act like you know me

I keep a dollar worth of dimes

You know pimpin' ain't easy

For all my chicks in the club

Who knows how to cut a rug

If you're a bad girl

Get at me bad girl

[Chorus]

Ooh work me baby

Shakin' it the way I like

I'm ready to be bad

I need a bad girl (say yeah)

Get at me bad girl

What sexy lady's comin' home with me tonight?

I'm ready to be bad

I need a bad girl (super bad baby)

Get at me bad girl

Now I've seen a lotta broads

All on one to call

Everyone looked the same butt

Take a look at my dame (my dame)

Fo' sho', she take that Hpnotiq or Alize

There ain't much more I can say but (I need a)

I need a bad girl (bad girl)

If you're a bad girl

Got one thou' on the bar now

Chick need a drink on the flo' now

Look at them bad girls movin' it

Makin' faces while they doin' it

Oh, I wanna take one to the restroom

So close I'm smellin' like your perfume

If you're a bad girl

Get at me bad girl

[Chorus]

Ooh work me baby

Shakin' it the way I like

I'm ready to be bad

I need a bad girl (say yeah)

Get at me bad girl

What sexy lady's comin' home with me tonight?

I'm ready to be bad

I need a bad girl (super bad baby)

Get at me bad girl

I'mma get one of them

Get me one of them

Get me one of them

Get me one of them

Get me one of them

Oh oh oh oh

Get at me bad girl

I'mma get one of them

Get me one of them

Get me one of them

Get me one of them

Get me one of them

Oh oh oh oh

Get at me bad girl

If you wanna party

I got what'chu lookin' for

Come see me in the V.I.P.

It's very necessary

To be that kinda girl for me

If you are, then baby girl

Let's leave

[Chorus]

Ooh work me baby

Shakin' it the way I like

I'm ready to be bad

I need a bad girl (say yeah)

Get at me bad girl

What sexy lady's comin' home with me tonight?

I'm ready to be bad

I need a bad girl (super bad baby)

Get at me bad girl

[x2]

I'mma get one of them

Get me one of them

Get me one of them

Get me one of them

Get me one of them

Oh oh oh oh

Get at me bad girl

I'mma get one of them

Get me one of them

Get me one of them

Get me one of them

Get me one of them

Oh oh oh oh

[Songs About Wanting To Be With Someone But Cant..]

This is sort of a song like that...

I Can't Make You Love Me

written by Mike Reid and Allen Shamblin

as performed by Bonnie Raitt

Turn down the lights

Turn down the bed

Turn down these voices

inside my head

Lay down with me

Tell me no lies

Just hold me close,

don't patronize

Don't patronize me

Cause I can't make you love me

if you don't

You can't make your heart feel

something it won't

Here in the dark

in these final hours

I will lay down my heart

And I'll feel the power

but you won't

No, you won't

Cause I can't make you love me

if you don't

I'll close my eyes

then I won't see

the love you don't feel

when you're holding me

Morning will come

and I'll do what's right

just give me till then

to give up this fight

and I will give up this fight

Cause I can't make you love me

if you don't

You can't make your heart feel

something it won't

Here in the dark

in these final hours

I will lay down my heart

And I'll feel the power

but you won't

No, you won't

Cause I can't make you love me

if you dont

I love this one...so sad

He Stopped Loving Her Today

Sung by: George Jones

Written by: Bob Braddock and Claude Putman, Jr.

He said "I'll love you till I die",

she told him "You'll forget in time"

As the years went slowly by,

she still preyed upon his mind

He kept her picture on his wall,

went half-crazy now and then

He still loved her through it all,

hoping she'd come back again

Kept some letters by his bed

dated nineteen sixty-two

He had underlined in red

every single "I love you"

I went to see him just today,

oh but I didn't see no tears

All dressed up to go away, first time

I'd seen him smile in years

He stopped loving her today

They placed a wreath upon his door

And soon they'll carry him away

He stopped loving her today

(Spoken)

You know,

she came to see him one last time.

Aww, 'n' we all wondered if she would.

And it kept runnin' through my mind

"this time he's over her for good."

He stopped loving her today

They placed a wreath upon his door

And soon they'll carry him away

He stopped loving her today

[Looking for songs similar to True Colours]

Aw thanks Tenacious Peaches...that's really sweet of you. And thank you very much for the link and suggestions. ::

Ken thank you very much too...the lyrics of that Jimmy Buffet song sound great.

Well if anyone is going to do that for someone else, I have a whole list of quotes etc so feel free to PM me and I can send you stuff.

[Looking for songs similar to True Colours]

I'm creating a scrapbook of lyrics, poetry etc. for my friend to encourage her to follow her dreams, to believe in herself, that I'll be there for her etc. Of course with an accompanying CD! I'm looking for songs similar to True Colours and Beautiful at the moment.

But here are the rest of the songs that I've thought about:

Walk On - U2

Make It Happen - Mariah Carey

I Just Can't Give Up Now - Mary Mary

His Eye Is On The Sparrow - Lauryn Hill

You Will Know - Black Men United

I'll Stand By You - The Pretenders

Reach Out (I'll Be There)- Gerald Levert (spelling?)

Remember Me This Way - Jordan Hill

I Am Blessed - Eternal

Breakaway - Kelly Clarkson

I Hope You Dance - Leann Womack

You Gotta Be - Desiree

You've Got A Friend - Carole King

Go The Distance - Hercules soundtrack

Never Give Up - Yolanda Adams

TIA

[Good songs for a striptease]

Bad Girl - Usher

Don't Cha - Tori Alamaze