Aaron Neville

Tell It Like It Is

If you want something to play with
Go and find yourself a toy
Baby my time is too expensive
And I’m not a little boy

If you are serious
Don’t play with my heart
It makes me furious
But if you want me to love you
Then a baby I will, girl you know that I will

Tell it like it is
Don’t be ashamed to let your conscience be your guide
But I know deep down inside me
I believe you love me, forget your foolish pride

Life is too short to have sorrow
You may be here today and gone tomorrow
You might as well get what you want
So go on and live, baby go on and live

Tell it like it is
I’m nothing to play with
Go and find yourself a toy
But I… Tell it like it is
My time is too expensive and I’m not your little boy

Warm Your Heart

Well, we’re all searching for peace of mind
Love in this world is hard to find
Come close to me, hold my hand
And warm your heart

Only a true love, can satisfy
Open your arms and close your eyes
Walk with me, hold my hand
And warm your heart

Well, you’re the reason, for the way I’m feelin’
‘Cause I’ve never felt this way before
I want to make you, ohh so happy
That’s all I’m livin’ for, yea

Just sorrow, yes, you should know
We need each other when lights are low
Stay with me, hold my hand
And warm your heart

Well, you’re the reason, for the way I’m feelin’
‘Cause I’ve never felt this way before
I want to make you, ohh so happy
That’s all I’m livin’ for

So come to me and make things right
I’ll keep you happy, both day and night
Stay with me, hold my hand
And warm your heart

Sweet Amelia

Oh, Amelia
My southern woman
Never had a chance to say goodbye

I met her back in sixty-three, she was such a mystery
She was there on Barron Street, down in New Orleans
So wild but yet so tame, she could calm a hurricane
She was only seventeen and Amelia was her name

Oh, when I took her for a ride, she got close by my side
And when I looked into her eye, Amelia kept me hypnotized
But in my heart she fell, oh, I got pulled into her spell
I can still see her there with the flowers in her hair

Oh Amelia, my Southern woman
I can still feel you every time I close my eyes
Sweet Amelia, where did you run to?
We never had a chance to say goodbye

I remember making love underneath the stars above
I can feel the summer breeze up in magnolia trees
That night in the Southern land, the girl, she took me by the hand
And I was weak as a little lamb but I became a man

Love was pumping through my veins, her lips were sweet like sugarcane
We rode all night in the rain ‘cross the Lake Poncetrain

She had a heart as fine as fire, burning innocent desire
I can still see her there with flowers in her hair

Oh, Amelia, my Southern woman
I can still feel you, every time I close my eyes
Sweet Amelia, where did you run to?
We never had a chance to say goodbye

Just like a shooting star, she vanished in the night
But I’ll always remember her lips so warm and tender
In my heart she’ll always shine so bright
Sweet Amelia, if I could just see her one more time

Oh Amelia, my Southern woman
I can still feel you every time I close my eyes
Sweet Amelia, where did you run to?
We never had a chance to say goodbye

Oh Amelia, my Southern woman
I can still feel you every time I close my eyes
Sweet Amelia, where did you run to?
We never had a chance to say goodbye

Oh Amelia, my Southern woman
I can still feel you every time I close my eyes
Sweet Amelia, where did you run to?
We never had a chance to say goodbye

Oh Amelia, my Southern woman
I can still feel you

Don’t Take Away My Heaven

Oh, baby, I found heaven when I found you
And this heaven is somethin’ I don’t wanna lose
I only know that if you ever said goodbye, I couldn’t stand the pain
These eyes would cry, cry, cry like the rain

And the sun would have nowhere to shine
And the stars would all fall from the sky
Baby, please
Don’t take away my heaven, oh, no

‘Cause this world would stop turnin’, I know
And I’d lose my whole world if you go
Baby, don’t
Don’t take away my heaven, oh, no

Oh, baby, I saw forever when I saw you
And if you left me, I can’t imagine what I’d do
Now that I’ve gone and built my world around your love, I couldn’t let you go
Don’t ever say goodbye, no, don’t, don’t, don’t ever go

‘Cause the sun would have nowhere to shine
And the stars would all fall from the sky
Baby, please
Don’t take away my heaven, oh, no

‘Cause this world would stop turnin’, I know (Yes, I know)
And I’d lose my whole world if you go (If you go)
Baby, please
Don’t take away my heaven, oh, no

‘Cause you might as well take my life from me
What good would a life without you be anyway (Anyway)
If you go away

Well, the sun would have nowhere to shine
And the stars would all fall from the sky (From the sky)
Baby, please
Don’t take away my heaven, oh, no

‘Cause this world would stop turnin’, I know (Yes, I know)
And I’d lose my whole world if you go (If you go)
Baby, don’t, no
Don’t take away my heaven, oh, no

Don’t take away my heaven, don’t take away your love
Don’t take away my world ’cause baby, I need your touch
Baby, don’t
Don’t take away my heaven, oh, no

Please don’t take away my heaven
Please
Baby, don’t, oh, no
Don’t take away my heaven, oh…

Don’t take away my heaven, don’t take away your love
Don’t take away my world ’cause baby, I need your touch
Baby, don’t, oh
Don’t take away my heaven, oh, no

I Can’t Imagine

You know I wondered where I be if not for you
I’d still be wondering through this world without a clue
At night I wake up and look across the bed
And you never think that crazy things
Were running through my head.

I Can’t Imagine
Our journey through this world without you
I’m loving everything about you I search my heart and
Soul how could there ever be a greater love than ours
I Can’t Imagine

Oh oh

I want to wrap you like a present in my arms
Give you to myself and keep you safe from harm
My every moment devoted to your care I don’t even
Want to think how I survived without you here

I Can’t Imagine
Our journey through this world without you
I’m loving everything about you I search my heart and
Soul how could there ever be a greater love than ours
I Can’t Imagine

Shared my life with any other
I’m making love with you I Can’t Imagine
I search my heart and soul how could there ever be
A greater love than ours

Let me tempt you and deliver
Let me make you feel the open road
I’ll make your blood run like the river
How could it be, be better than to ever
Love you more

I Can’t Imagine
Our journey through this world without you
I’m loving everything about you I search my heart and
Soul how could there ever be a greater love than ours
I Can’t Imagine

Everybody Plays the Fool

Ok, so your heart is broken
You’re sitting around mopin’, cryin’, cryin’
You say you even think about dying
Well, before you do anything rash, baby, dig this

Everybody plays the fool, sometime
There’s no exception to the rule, listen baby
It may be factual, it may be cruel, I ain’t lying
Everybody plays the fool

Fallin’ in love is such an easy thing to do
But there’s no guarantee that the one you love, is gonna love you
Oh, loving eyes they cannot see a certain person could never be
Love runs deeper than any ocean, it clouds your mind with emotion

Everybody plays the fool, sometime
There’s no exception to the rule, listen baby
It may be factual, it may be cruel, I ain’t lying
Everybody plays the fool

How can you help it, when the music starts to play
And your ability to reason, is swept away
Oh, heaven on earth is all you see, you’re out of touch with reality
And now you cry, but when you do, next time around someone cries for you

Hey, everybody plays the fool, sometime
Use your heart just like a tool, listen baby
They never tell you so in school, I wanna say it again,
Everybody plays the fool

Everybody plays the fool, sometime
There’s no exception to the rule, listen baby
It may be factual, it may be cruel, I ain’t lying
Everybody plays the fool

Every plays the fool, sometime
There’s no exception to the rule, listen baby
It may be factual, it may be cruel, I wanna say it again
Everybody plays the fool

A Change Is Gonna Come

Angola Bound

Too many mornin’ gotta wake up soon
Oh Lord and eat my breakfast by the light of the moon
Oh Lord by the light of the moon
If you see my Momma, tell her this for me
Oh I’ve got a mighty long time, Lord knows I’ll never go free
Oh Lord, I’ll never be free

Angola bound now
Angola bound
Angola bound now
Angola bound

I got lucky last summer when I got my time, Angola bound
Oh my partner got a hundred, I got ninety-nine, Angola bound
You been a long time coming but you’re welcome home, Angola bound
And go to Louisiana get your burdens on, Angola bound
Oh captain, oh captain don’t you be so cruel, Angola bound
Oh you work me harder than you work that mule, Angola bound

If it wasn’t for the captain, oh Lord, I’m shaggin’ house
I’d be with my woman, yeah, before the sun goes down
You come up here skippin’ and a-jumpin’, oh Lord it won’t last long
Gonna wish you was a baby boy, in your mother’s arms

Angola bound now
Angola bound
Angola bound now
Angola bound

Don’t want no gal, boy lovin’ cause I got my load, Angola bound
Don’t want no trouble out the boys I know, Angola bound
Oh they always talkin’ ’bout dangerous blue, Angola bound
If I had my shank I’d be dangerous too, Angola bound
Oh captain say walk and the boss say run, Angola bound
If I had my pistol I would do ?nere one, Angola bound

If it wasn’t for the captain, oh Lord, I’m shaggin’ house
I’d be with my woman, yeah, before the sun goes down
You come up here skippin’ and a-jumpin’, oh Lord it won’t last long
Gonna wish you was a baby boy, in your mother’s arms

Angola bound now
Angola bound
Angola bound now
Angola bound

If it wasn’t for the captain, oh Lord, I’m shaggin’ house
I’d be with my woman, yeah, before the sun goes down
You come up here skippin’ and a-jumpin’, oh Lord it won’t last long
Gonna wish you was a baby boy, in your mother’s arms

Angola bound now
Angola bound
Angola bound now
Angola bound

If I’d always listened to what my Momma said, Angola bound
I wouldn’t be deep down in the trouble this way, Angola bound
Oh my Momma, she told me, leave that junk alone, Angola bound
Got hooked to the habit had to carry on, Angola bound
The jury found me guilty ’cause they wrote it down, Angola bound
Judge said, “Junkie boy you’re penitentiary bound,” Angola bound

Angola bound now
Angola bound
Angola bound now
Angola bound

Angola bound now
Angola bound
Angola bound now

Please Remember Me

When all our tears have reached the sea
A part of you will live in me
Way down inside my heart
The days keep coming without fail
A new winds gonna find your sail
And that’s where your journey starts

You’ll find better love
Strong as it ever was
Deep as a river runs
Warm as the morning sun
Please remember me

Just like the waves down by the shore
We’re gonna keep on coming back for more
‘Cause we don’t ever wanna stop
Out in this brave new world you see
Only the valleys and the peaks
I can see you on the top

You’ll find better love
Strong as it ever was
Deep as a river runs
Warm as the morning sun
Please remember me

Remember me when you’re out walking
When snow falls high outside your door
Late at night when you’re not sleeping
And moonlight falls across your floor
When I can’t hurt you anymore

You’ll find better love
Strong as it ever was
Deep as a river runs
Warm as the morning sun
Please remember me
Please remember me

Use Me

Well my friends feel it’s their appointed duty
They keep trying to tell me all you want to do is use me
Well my answer said all that use me stuff
Is I-I-I wanna spread the news
That if it feels this good getting used

Oh, you just keep on using me
Until you use me up
Uh huh, until you use me up

Well my brother, you know he sit me right down and he talked to me
Well he told me, that I ought not let you just walk on me
(Well, you too big for that boy)
Well I’m sure he meant well
You know but when our talk was through
I just said now brother if you only knew
You’d wish that you were in my shoes

Oh, you just keep on using me
Until you use me up
Uh huh, until you use me up

Well sometimes, it’s true you really do abuse me
Well you get me in a crowd of high class people
And then you act real rude to me
But oh baby, baby, baby, baby
When you love me I can’t get enough
And I-I-I said I wanna spread the news
That if it feels this good getting used

Oh, you just keep on using me
(Come on now, now)
Until you use me up
Until you use me up

Talking ’bout you using me
Well it all depends on what you do
It ain’t too bad the way you’re using me
‘Cause I’m sure, I’m using you to do the things you do

Uh huh, until you use me up
Oh no, oh no, until you use me up
Until you use me up
Until you use me up

Baby, just keep on using
Oh no no, until you use me up
Until you use me up
Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby
Until you use me up
Funky, funky, funky, funky, funky, funky
Funky, funky, funky, funky, funky
Until you use me up

Some Days Are Made for Rain

We held each other ’til the moon was high
We waved that sleepy little town good bye
And driving off together we crossed our hearts
Living for the promise that love would keep us honest
I said I’d be yours if you’d be mine
We were crazy baby
And every day the sun was sure to shine
But it tried and tried
Sometimes the wind makes a sudden change
And some days are made for rain

We fixed a tire and we drove like hell
We kissed like fire in a cheap motel
I never felt the hunger so bad before
Holding you beside me
Walls came down inside me
And I thought I was yours and you were mine
That was crazy baby
I was sure the sun would always shine
But it tried and tried

Sometimes the wind makes a sudden change
And some days are made for rain

You want to talk about love
I’ll tell you all about love
Nothing but trouble
On top of falling
One day you’re walking on air
Next day you look and there’s no one there
She never cared
She never cared

Now I’ve been sleeping with the tv on
I get so tired of wondering where you’ve gone
You tore across my heart across like a hurricane
I’m counting up the damage
Trying hard to manage
I thought I was yours and you were mine
That was crazy baby
And I was sure the sun would always shine
But take a look outside
Sometimes a wind makes a sudden change
Here comes those clouds and they’re full of pain
Some days are made for rain
Some days are made for rain

Let it pour outside
Some days are made for rain

Some days are made for rain

To Make Me Who I Am

I’ve walked through this world sometime without a friend
My life has been up and down, been close to an end
I’ve been through the mill and I’ve paid my dues
Walked so many miles in different peoples shoes

But I’ve been through the fire and I’ve walked in the rain
I’ve felt the joy and endured the pain

Once I was a schemer but I always was a dreamer
But it took me who I was and where I’ve been
To make me who I am

I’ve met a lot of lost souls in the bowels of hell
Traveled some crooked roads and got some stories yet to tell
I’ve shot up with the junkie in piss stench halls
Broken bread with the devil, fallen on my knees to God

Some days I was blessed, some nights I was damned
But I always tried to lend a helping hand

Once I was a deceiver, now I am a believer
But it took me, who I was and where I?ve been
To make me who I am

Oh, I’ve seen the little children all strung out on dope
No one to care about them, living without hope
But I’ve been lucky that I always had a song
I’ll sing it with compassion, to try to right the wrong

Once my life was wretched but why should I regret it
‘Cause, it took me, who I was and where I’ve been
To make me who I am

This is dedicated to my friends in jail
For my brother Jake who had to ride the rail
For my friend Roonie and Melvin who were so dear
They were so misunderstood but I wish they were still here
To hear this song I sing from my heart
They’re forever in my soul even though we had to part

Once I was a deceiver, now I am a believer
But it took me who I was and where I’ve been
To make me who I am

God said, “I forgive you, wipe away the scars
‘Cause I know it took who you were
And where you came from to make you who you are
‘Cause I know it took who you were
And where you came from to make you what you are