Please

Here I am again asking questions,
Waiting to be moved.
I am so unsure of my perception,
What I thought I knew I don't seem to
Where is the turn so I can get back to what I believe in?
Back to the old me and

[Chorus]
God, please hear my call.
I am afraid for me.
Love has burned me raw
I need your healing
Please, please, please.

[Verse 2]
I am such a fool
How did I get here?
Played by all the rules
Then they changed
I am but a child to your vision
Standing in the cold and the rain
Lost here in the dark
I can't see my foot to take a step,
What is happening?
Oh, this hurts so bad. I can hardly breathe.
I just want to leave so...

[Chorus]
God, please hear my call.
I am afraid for me.
Love has burned me raw
I need your healing
Please,
God, please hear my call.
I am afraid for me.
Love has burned me raw
I need your healing
Please, please, oh, please, please.

God please hear my call.
I am afraid.
Love has turned me cold,
I need your healing.
Please, please, please, please, please, please

-Jill Scott, Exclusively

Reminiscing

 I never heard these songs before today, but their styles took me waaaaaay back, to 15 years ago.

Silver Spring Maryland, where I lived.
Washington Dc, where I worked 10 miles away.
Chocolate city.
Steve Harvey on the radio or TD Jakes on BET as I got dressed for work.   D'angelo, Jill Scott, Luther Vandross, Stevie Wonder, The Roots, Mos Def, Musiq Soulchild, Nas, Jay-Z, Destiny's Child, The Clipse, etc on the radio 24/7, 365.
Chocolate city.
My friend Henry. My friend Amanda. My friend Roland. My friend Diego. My friend Onyx. My friend Jeffrey. My friend Daniel. My friend Kirby.
Shakara and her fights when I would take her to predominately black clubs (there were many in Dc because it was Chcocolate City) and all of a sudden black women would find me attractive when I was with her.
Chocolate city.
 Lots of times I wish Washington Dc was still 10 miles away to the east,
Madison, Milwaukee, and Racine 10 miles away to the west,
 Southern California 10 miles away to the north

(and Paris to the south)

**Hello**

But when I wake up ...

everything i went through will be beautiful.

/the lack of

This reminds me of racine and knoxville and memphis and lexington and louisville and cincinnati and indianapolis and minneapolis and edina and wheaton and kenosha and los angeles and marion and madison and gaithersburg and germantown and silver spring and rockville and falls church and richmond and the district of columbia and bethesda and rockville and baton rouge and trenton and newark and toronto and hartford and  brooklyn and queens and manhattan and chicago and waukesha and waukegan and long island and memphis and milwaukee and even fontenay sus bois and paris and every place but

here.

not just the music, not just dwele or jill scott but the interaction between the three.

So much dopeness

Jill Scott

                                            Everything ain't for everybody, but I try it anyway.

--Jill Scott

(How did stars get inside the room?)

Friday!!!

Jill Scott

Some of them wanna break you down, steal your crown
Use and abuse you.
Some of them smile in your face, cause they heard it some place,
You got more then their used to
Some of them want to steal your love, ooh
Cuz they're jealous of ...how you're living and giving.

I keep
Moving forward, pressing onward, striving further
I keep
Keep on laughing, keep on living, keep on loving yeah
I keep
Keep on dreaming keep on achieving, keep on believing
I keep
I keep smiling when I come thru ...and I cry when I need too.

Some of them, oh they stab you in your back, cuz it's love they lack.
Some of them won't even try ...to see the good inside.
But I ....

I keep
Moving forward, pressing onward, striving further
I keep
Keep on laughing, keep on living, keep on loving yeah
I keep
Keep on dreaming keep on achieving, keep on believing

Hey. Oh oh oh
I keep on , keep on living, keep on learning , keep on smiling ooh ooh yeah
Keep on laughing, keep on living, keep on loving yeah
I keep
Keep on dreaming, keep on believing, keep on achieving.
I keep smiling when I come thru, and I cry when I need to
(Adlib below)
Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yea yea yeah
I keep on , keep on keeping on.
Yea. I keep ,keep on keep keepin on keep keeping on

surely, slowly

Slowly surely,
I walk away from
that old desperate and dazed love
caught up in the maze of love
the crazy craze of love
thought it was good
thought it was real
thought it was
but it wasn't love

I just don't know
Where i should go
So
Slowly surely
I walk away from
self-serving
undeserving
constantly hurting me love
deserting me love
you said, I said, we said
but

Slowly surely
I walk away from
confusing love
misusing love
abusing love
this can't be

Slowly surely
I walk away from
self serving
undeserving
constantly hurting me love

I just don't know
where I should go
No
I just don't know
know, know, know
Where I should go
so

Slowly surely
I walk away from
that old desperate and dazed love
caught up in the maze of love
the crazy craze of love

thought it was good
thought it was real
thought it was
but it wasn't love

I just don't know where to go
So

Slowly surely
I walk away from
I walk away from
Slowly surely
I walk away from love
Oh
slowlyy, surely one step at a time
but surely
I will pass the old love aside
and love me
slowly,
surely I walk away from
slowly surely I walk away from desperating love
caught up in the maze love
crazy crazy craze of love
slowly surely, I walk away from [repeat 5 times]
Slooooooowly Suuuuuuurely, slowly surely

Good morning heartache- Jill Scott & Chris Botti

What's on your valentines day soundtrack?

This is what's worked for me in the past.

Thank you for loving me- Chante Moore
Your Love Supreme-John Coltrane
Things that lovers do-Chante Moore & Kenny Lattimore
Come to me-Kenny Lattimore
Higher-D'Angelo
Fortunate-Maxwell
Waiting for a girl like you-Foreigner
Half on a baby- R Kelly
Damn U-Prince
How does it feel-D'angelo
Still in love with you-Al Green
Whatever-Jill Scott
The Question of U-Prince
Warmth-Janet Jackson
Someday is tonight-Janet Jackson
any Jodeci Song
Slow Love-Prince
Scandalous-Prince
Adore-Prince
Anytime, anyplace- Janet Jackson
Do me baby-Prince
Bitches Brew- Miles Davis
A Love supreme-John Coltrane
Purple Rain Prince
A House is not a home-Luther Vandross
I who have nothing-Luther Vandross
If this world were mine-Cheryl Lynn & Luther Vandross
So-Amazing-Luther Vandross
Baby it's me- Diana Ross
Lady DuJour- Johnny Gill
My,my,my- Johnny Gill
Sensitivity-Ralph Tresvant



What's on your soundtrack?

Unreleased --Jill Scott

i miss these things.

• seeing more than 5 black people per week
• taking my nephew for drives every other weekend
• seeing my mother every other weekend as well
• listening to tom joyner in the morning on the radio while getting ready for work
• making love to the same woman multiple times per week
• her scent on my pillow
• hangin with my friend Jeff and catching a movie
• baking cakes for my department and the cakes being devoured within 30 minutes
• seeing more than 5 black people per week
• the African World Fests every summer in Milwaukee
• the Arab World Fests every summer in Milwaukee as well
• having my family to rely on when my friends are busy and it's the weekend
• turning on the radio and hearing Jill Scott, Luther Vandross, Anthony Hamilton and D' Angelo and others of that genre
• taking the train to work in  DC
• having too many friends to hang out with.
• not having to call 50 people to see what they have planned for the weekend and having only one person respond
• driving with my friend Henry to atlantic city every payday friday
• seeing more than 5 black people per week
• being in love
• being happy
• i think i even miss the snow, even though I remember hating it. but at least i was with family
• having social things in common with the people I meet
• happy hour with friends after work
• knowing every one in the gym and the ease with which I made new friends
• making love to the same woman multiple times per week
• seeing more than 5 black people per week
• my friends
• Wisconsin, period

Jill Scott talks about the song So In Love

(everything I've been through will be beautiful)- Jill Scott

So In Love- Jill Scott & Anthony Hamilton

this video makes me smile

Def Poetry-- Jill Scott

So in love- Jill Scott & Anthony Hamilton