The Real Thing

Vanessa Williams The Real Thing Lyrics
1.October Sky

Lyricist:Javier Colon, Evan A. Rogers, Carl Allen Sturken

And your eyes once so kind, now they never meet mine
And just stares like a cold winter's night
When you kissed me goodbye I could taste every lie
And I don't have to ask myself why
It's as clear as the October sky

And your words once so sweet, now they fall incomplete
And they're no longer speaking to me
When will I shed my grief for a moments relief
And pretend these aren't tears in, in my eyes?
I'm as blue as the October sky

Now I feel like such a fool 'cause my love's been overruled
So I'll have to plead my case to the moon, what more can I do?
When your touch has gone cold like the first hint of snow
And your emotions seem frozen inside, does this love have to
die?
They're as cold as the October sky

Now I feel like such a fool 'cause my love's been overruled
So I'll have to plead my case to the moon, what more can I do?
When you kissed me goodbye I could taste every lie
There's a hole in my heart a thousand miles wide
It's as deep as the October sky


2.Come On Strong

Lyricist:Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen

If you're gonna kiss me don't just merely kiss me
Baby kiss me lovely and long
I wanna feel some weird vibrations, follow your basic
inclinations
And if you're gonna come on, come on strong

If you're gonna thrill me don't just merely thrill me
Make me feel so right that is wrong
Unless I feel the ceiling cave in how will we know we're
misbehavin'
So if you're gonna come on, come on strong

I wanna hear violins, I wanna see harlequins
I wanna take leave of my senses whatever the consequences

If you're gonna love me don't just merely love me
I wanna feel my skin start tightenin'
Light up and struck by bolts of lightenin'

Bring a guitar to strum on, even a drum to drum on
And if you're gonna come on, come on strong
Yeah, you've got to come on strong boy
Come on strong


3.If There Were No Song

Lyricist:Stephanie Lewis, Rob Mathes

If there were no song
Only silence stretching on and on and on
Then my heart would barely beat for my soul it could not speak
If there were no song

If there were no song
Then for surely I would die for my life would be a lie
If there were no song

Would God still be listening if saints and angels couldn't sing?

If there were voices but no singing
Would the heavens come crushing down to this barren ground?
If there were no song, no song
If there were no song

Would God still be listening if saints and angels couldn't sing?

If there were no song
Only silence stretching on and on and on
Then my heart would barely beat for my soul it could not speak
If there were no song, no song, no song

If there were no song
If there were no song, no song


4.Breathless

Lyricist:Lauren Evans, Phillip Jackson, Rex K Rideout

Candlelight, a glass of wine, setting for the special time with
you babe
Feels like a dream but I'm still awake
As I'm lookin' in your eyes I'm caught up in paradise and ooh
babe
No one else can make me feel this way

You leave me breathless, helpless when you're here so close to
me
Every moment perfect, wish this could last eternally
I love the feelin' I get with every kiss you're givin' me
I don't know what it is about you babe
But I wish that you could stay, you leave me breathless

Just one thought of you and I and I start feelin' butterflies,
ooh babe
I get so weak, I can hardly speak
'Cause boy your love's so heavenly it's like the man on other
galaxy
It's true, you know just what you do to me

You leave me breathless, helpless when you're here so close to
me
Every moment perfect, wish this could last eternally
I love the feelin' I get with every kiss you're givin' me
I don't know what it is about you babe
But I wish that you could stay, you leave me breathless

Your arms they take me to a higher place
So when you say don't be afraid
I'm down to go with you all of the way

I hold on tight and never let you go
Touch the sky and watch the world below
Just you and me, a love so sweet
It's where I want to be

You leave me breathless, helpless when you're here so close to
me
Every moment perfect, wish this could last eternally
I love the feelin' I get with every kiss you're givin' me
I don't know what it is about you babe
But I wish that you could stay, you leave me breathless

Breathless, helpless when you're here so close to me
Every moment perfect, wish this could last eternally
I love the feelin' I get with every kiss you're givin' me
Don't know what it is about you babe
But I wish that you could stay, you leave me breathless

So breathless, leave me breathless, breathless
You leave me breathless, breathless
I don't know what it is about you babe
You leave me breathless, breathless


5.Hello Like Before

Hello like before
I'd never come here
If I'd known that you were here
I must admit though
That's it's nice to see you, dear
You look like you've been doing well

Hello like before
I hope we've grown
'Cause we were only children then
For laughs I guess we both can say
'I knew YOU when'
But then again, that's kiss and tell

Hello like before
I guess it's different
'Cause we know each other now
I guess I've always known
We'd meet again somehow
So THEN it might as well be now


6.Loving You

Lyricist:Kenneth B Edmonds, Rob Lewis, Carole Bayer Sager

Loving you I could spend forever
Loving you could transcend the heavens 'cause of you
You turned all my gray skies blue

Since we met, yours is the only kiss I can't forget
You're my Romeo and I'm your Juliet
You're like a dream come true

Don't need no money, no fortune or fame
Just leaves you empty at the end of the game
Long as I got you here beside me I don't give a damn about it
Nobody can come before my man

You and I, we got that thing that no one can deny
And I'll be your woman 'til the day I die
Forever loving you

Don't need no money, no fortune or fame
Just leaves you empty at the end of the game
Long as I got you here beside me I don't give a damn about it
Nobody can come before my man

You and I, we got that thing that no one can deny
And I'll be your woman 'til the day I die
Forever loving you
And I will be forever, forever loving you


7.Just Friends

Lyricist:Kenny B Edmonds

Here we are once again, it's the same old story
You and I, me and you claiming we're just friends
When are we gonna learn that we don't have a choice?
We both know how it ends so we just choose to pretend

In a way it's all secondary for the way that things have been
We fall out of love and back in love again
We'll go round and round and still say we're just friends

Gotta stop, gotta chill, makes no sense to be falling
You got her, I got him, should not even be calling
We can try if we want but we don't have a choice
'Bout the way we feel, it's hard to stop when something's real

In a way it's all secondary for the way that things have been
We fall out of love and back in love again
In a way it's all kind of scary, the things that we can't admit
We fall out of love and back in love again
We'll go round and round and still say we're just friends

I must stay away from your arms so I don't fall, fall, fall,
fall

In a way it's all kind of scary, the things that we can't admit
We fall out of love and back in love again
We'll go round and round and still say
We'll go round and round and still say
We'll go round and round and still say we're just friends, just
friends


8.The Real Thing

Lyricist:Stevie Wonder

One, two, one, two, three

Looking forward to seeing you
Why it's been such a long, long time?
Looking forward to feeling your
Love has been so heavy on my mind
On my mind, all the time on my mind

Had a chance to look forward
To be part of your love in my dreams
But I can't be happy with
Fantasizing instead of the real thing
The real thing, not my dreams, the real thing

There are no words that can express the way I feel today
'Cause I feel today like no other day
Longing more and more for your loving

There are no songs that I can sing to ease my troubled mind
'Cause my troubled mind will be troubled blue
Until you say you're coming home to me

Let me hear you sweet baby
Let me hear you say the words
Send your love in a hurry
Send it's melody via love bird
A love bird, send your word via love bird

There are no words that can express the way I feel today
'Cause I feel today like no other day
Longing more and more for your loving

There is no other someone that can ease my aching heart
'Cause my aching heart told my troubled mind
The only remedy to this pain is your love

Let me hear you say baby
Everything's gonna be alright
Stop my heart from aching
Stop my eyes from crying through the night
Through the night, I won't cry through the night

The real thing, not my dreams
The real thing, not my dreams
The real thing, not my dreams
The real thing, not my dreams


9.Lazy Afternoon

Lyricist:John Latouche, Jerome Moross

It's a lazy afternoon
And the beetle bugs are zooming
And the tulip trees are blooming
And there's not another human in view but us two

It's a lazy afternoon
And the farmer leaves his reaping
In the meadow cows are sleeping
And the speckled trouts stop leaping upstream as we dream

A far pink cloud hangs over a hill
Unfolding like a rose
If you hold my hand and sit real still
You can hear the grass as it grows

It's a hazy afternoon
And I know a place that's quiet except for daisies running riot
And there's no one passing by it to see
Come spend this lazy afternoon with me
Come spend this lazy afternoon with me
Lazy afternoon

It's a hazy afternoon
And I know a place that's quiet except for daisies running riot
And there's no one passing by it to see
Come spend this lazy afternoon with me, with me

(Lazy afternoon, a lazy afternoon)
There's nothing like lazy, lazy afternoon
(Lazy afternoon, a lazy afternoon)
Hold my hand, let's go deep into a lazy
(Lazy afternoon, a lazy afternoon)
You and me
(Lazy afternoon)


10.Close To You

Lyricist:Isa Gilberto De Oliveira, Allan Arthur Sigsworth

I'm all alone in my sleepless nights
Even though it's you playing on my mind
All of this I've tried to hide, all the things I felt inside
And all my words have been torn

I wanna be close to you, yeah
And I wanna be close to you
And I wanna be close to you, oh
I wanna be close to you

Hey, yeah, ha, ha
Hey, yeah, ha, ha
Hai ah ha
Hey, yeah, ha, ha
Hey, yeah, ha, ha
Hai ah ha

Tantos versos eu rasguei
Tantas vezesquis mudar
Quantas lágrimas sequei
Sem seu olhar

Tanto tempo eu contei
Por você então sonhei
Tantas horas sem um porquê

I wanna be close to you, ooh
And I wanna be close to you
I wanna be close to you, hey now
I wanna be close to you

Hey, yeah, ha, ha
Hey, yeah, ha, ha
Hai ah ha
Hey, yeah, ha, ha
Hey, yeah, ha, ha
Hai ah ha

I wanna be close to you, ooh
I wanna be close to you
I wanna be close to you, hey, yeah
I wanna be close to you, oh

All the things I've tried to hide
All the things I felt inside, hai ah ha
All the things I've tried to hide
All the things I felt inside, hai ah ha

I wanna be close, ooh
I wanna be close, ha
I wanna be close, ooh
I wanna be close to you
I wanna be close to you


11.I Fell In

Lyricist:Shelea Frazier, Philip Galdston

Ooh yeah, I thought I knew my name
But when you asked everything went blank
I must have looked like a fool
But it's true time really can't stand still

Was it something in the wind that told me look again?
'Cause I stared into your eyes and then

I fell in, ooh
I fell in, ooh yeah

I've always been afraid
'Cause there's a chance I'll make a big mistake
All I trust is how I feel
It's so real but somehow I feel safe

How do you know what's at the end of a rushing riverbed?
But you took me to the edge and then

I fell in, ooh
I fell in, ooh yeah
I fell in, I fell in

So I let the ocean carry me and where it takes me I don't know
So far away everywhere I thought I'd be

Something in the wind told me look again
'Cause I stared into your eyes and then

Ooh, I fell in, ooh
I fell in, ooh
I fell in, I fell in
I fell, I fell