Aretha Franklin the True Queen of Soul!
Here are some of her lyricsfrom albums such as: Aretha Franklin: Greatest Hits,
Spirit In The Dark, Waiting to Exhale Soundtrack, and Forrest Gump Sountrack.



A Deeper Love

(David Cole, Robert Clivilles)

(Pride) a deeper love
(Pride) a deeper love
(Pride) a deeper love
Woah woah woah woah
(Pride) a deeper love
(Pride) a deeper love
(Pride) a deeper love
Woah woah woah woah

People let me tell you I work hard every day
I get up out of bed, I put on my clothes
'Cause I've got bills to pay
Now it ain't easy but I don't need no help
I've got a strong will to survive
I've got a deeper love, deeper love
Deeper love inside and I call it

Pride (a deeper love)
Pride - a deeper love
(Pride) a deeper love
Woah woah woah woah
It's the (pride) power that gives you
The (pride) strength to survive
(Pride - a deeper love)
(Woah woah woah woah)

Yeah ooh yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Now I've got love in my heart, it gives me the strength
To make it through the day
Pride and love (pride is) oh respect for yourself
And that's why I'm not looking for
Handouts, charity, welfare, I don't need
Stealin', killin', not my feelin'
No backstabbin', greedy grabbin'
Lyin', cheatin' 'cause I've got a
Deeper love, a deeper love
A deeper love inside, I I yeah yeah
I've got a deeper love (deeper), a deeper love (deeper)
Deeper love inside, whoa

(Pride) a deeper love
(Pride) a deeper love
(Pride - a deeper) love
Woah woah (woah woah)
It's the (pride) power that gives you
The (pride) strength to survive
(Pride - a deeper love)
(Woah woah woah woah)

And I wanna thank you for helping me see
There's a power that lives deep inside of me
Give me the strength (give me the strength)
To carry on (to carry on), always be strong
Whoa oh oh oh whoa

(Pride) a deeper love
(Pride) a deeper love
(Pride) a deeper love
(Woah woah woah woah)

People let me tell ya I work hard every day
I get up outta bed, put on my clothes
'Cause I-I-I-I-I got bills to pay
And it ain't easy, it ain't easy
It ain't easy, it ain't easy
It ain't easy yeah, oh oh

I've got a deeper love, a deeper love
A deeper love inside
I've got a deeper love (deeper), a deeper love (deeper)
A deeper love inside

(Pride) a deeper love
(Pride) a deeper love
(Pride) a deeper love
Woah woah woah woah
It's the (pride) power that gives you
The (pride) strength to survive
(Pride - a deeper love) woah yeah
(Woah woah woah woah)

(Pride) a deeper love
(Pride) a deeper love
(Pride) a deeper love
(Woah woah woah woah) hey hay yeah
(It's the (pride) power that gives you)
The (pride) strength to survive
(Pride) ow ow ow ow (a deeper love)
(Woah woah woah woah) woah

(Pride) a deeper love
(Pride) a deeper love
(Pride) a deeper love
(Woah woah woah woah)
(It's the (pride) power that gives) you
The (pride) strength to survive
(Pride) ow ow ow ow ow ow (a deeper love)
(Woah woah woah woah) oh

Chain Of Fools

Chorus:
Chain chain chain (chain chain chain)
Chain chain chain (chain chain chain)
Chain chain chain . . . Chain of fools

For five long years
I thought you were my man
But I found out
I'm just a link in your chain
You got me where you want me
You got your fool
You treated me mean
Oh babe you treated me cruel
(Chorus)

Now every chain has got a weak link
I might be weak child, oh, but I gave you strength

(ooh, ooh)
Now you tell me to leave you alone
My papa said, "Come on home"
My doctor says, "Take it easy"
But your lovin' is much too strong
I'm wedded to ya
(Chorus)

One of these mornings that chain is gonna break
But up until then I'm gonna take all I can take
(Chorus)

A Rose Is Still A Rose

There was a rose I knew I had met her once or twice before
She was a pretty sweet thing not the least bet insecure
And then you came with your stick game and played with her youth
A shamed of the way your play around
She never knew what hit her
Still her honey then forget her
Like a Rose, She was a rose
Trying to forget about you

Chorus:
Cause a rose
Is still a rose
Baby girl
Your still a flower
He can leave you and then take you
Make you and then break you
Darling you hold the power
What I am, is what I am


Now believe me when I tell you that i've been hurt myself
When he tells you that he loves you it's you nobody else
And now you so tough tryin to wear the tight clothes and things
Tossin and Flossin tryin to feel the boy heart break brings
When she looks in the mirror
Shes cryin and you can't hear her
Now the rose is gone
She was a flower
Tryin to forget about you


(Chorus)


Let your life be in the sunshine
Not the darkness of your sorow
You may feel you lost a lot
A new love will come tommrow
Don't believe that life is over
Just because your man is gone
Calm yourself and learn to love
And without him your life goes on
Without him your life goes on
Without him your life goes on


(Chorus)

I Knew You Were Waiting For Me

I Knew You Were Waiting For Me
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(Simon Climie, Dennis Morgan)
@ Aretha Franklin dueted with George Michael
# From Aretha '86 / Greatest Hits 1980-1994

Like a warrior that fights
And wins the battle
I know the taste of victory

Though i went through some nights
Consumed by the shadows
And was crippled emotionally

Somehow I made it through the heartace
I escaped
I found my way out of the darkness, kept my faith
Kept my faith

(Chorus)
And the river was deep I didn't falter
When the mountain was high
I still believed
When the valley was low
It didn't stop me
I knew you were waiting
Knew you were waiting for me

With and endless desire
I kept on searching
Sure in time our eyes would meet

And like the bridge is on fire
The hurt is over
One touch and you set me free

I don't regret a single moment
Looking back, when I think of all those disappointments
I just laugh, I just laugh
(Chorus)

So we were drawn together through destiny
I know this love we share was meant to be


Love For Sale

Love for Sale!
Advertising young love for sale
Who would like to pay the price for a trip to Paradise?
Love for Sale!
Who will buy?
Who would like to sample my supply?
Who would like to climb the stairs?
Who would like to try my wares?
Love for Sale!
Let the poets fight for love in their childish ways
I know every type of love better far than they
If you want the thrill of love
I've been through the mill of love
Old love
New love
Everything but true love!
Love for Sale!!

Respect

RESPECT

What you want, baby, I got.
What you need, you know I got it.
All I askin' is for a little respect
when you come home, baby.
When you come home,
respect.

I ain't gonna do you wrong while you gone,
I ain't gonna do you wrong 'cause I don't wanna.
All I askin' is for a little respect
when you come home, baby.
When you come home,
respect.

I'm out to give you all my money
but all I'm askin in return, honey,
is to give me my proper respect
when you get home, yeah baby,
when you get home.

Ooh, your kisses sweeter than honey
but guess what, so here's my money.
All I want you to do for me is give me some here
when you get home, yeah baby,
when you get home.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T,
find out what it means to me.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T,
Take care, T-C-B.

A little respect ...

- music and lyrics by Otis Redding Jr.

RESPECT YOURSELF

If you disrespect everybody that you run into
how in the world do you think everybody's 'sposed to respect you?
If you don't give a heck about the man with the Bible in his hand
just get out of the way and let the gentleman do his thing.
You the kind of gentleman want everything your way.
Take the sheet off your face boy, it's a brand new day.

Respect yourself, respect yourself.
'Cause if you don't respect yourself
ain't nobody gonna give a good, good hootenanny boy.
Respect yourself.

If you're walking around thinking that the world owes you
something 'cause you're here
you're going out the world backward like you did when you first
came 'ere.
Keep talking about the president won't stop air pollution.
Put your hand over your mouth when you cough, that'll help the
solution.
You cuss around women folk, don't even know their name,
then you're dumb enough to think it makes you a big ole man.

Respect yourself, respect yourself.
'Cause if you don't respect yourself
ain't nobody gonna give a good, good hootenanny boy.
Respect yourself.
Respect yourself...

- music and lyrics by Mack Rice & Luther Ingram

Rock Steady

ROCK STEADY

Rock steady, baby, that's what I feel now.
Let's call this song exactly what it is.
Gotta move your hips
with feeling from side to side,
sit yourself in your car
and take a ride.

C'mon, you movin', rock steady, rock steady, baby.
Let's call this song exactly what it is.
It's a funky and lowdown feelin'
in the hips from left to right.
What it is 'cause I might be doin'
this funky dance all night.

PUT YOUR HANDS UP IN THE AIR
GOT A FEELIN' YOU AIN'T GOT A CARE
YOU GOTTA TAKE THIS BURN
THAT TEAR WE ALL INSIDE

Rock steady, rock steady, baby.
Rock steady, rock steady, baby.

Gotta move your hips
with feeling from side to side,
sit yourself in your car
and take a ride.

C'mon, you movin', rock steady, rock steady, baby.
Let's call this song exactly what it is.
It's a funky and lowdown feelin'
in the hips from left to right.
What it is 'cause I might be doin'
this funky dance all night.

PUT YOUR HANDS...

Rock steady, rock steady, baby.
Rock steady, rock steady, baby.

Rock steady, rock steady.

It's a funky and lowdown feelin'
in the hips from left to right.
What it is 'cause I might be doin'
this funky dance all night.

PUT YOUR HANDS...

Rock steady, rock steady, baby.
Rock steady, rock steady, baby.

- Aretha Franklin

Seesaw

SEE SAW

Sometimes you love me like a good woman oughta.
Sometimes you hurt me so bad, my tears run like water.
Sometimes you get me out right before your friends now
the you kiss on me baby, tell me you love me again.

Your love is like see saw,
Your love is like see saw,
Your love is like see saw, baby.
go up, down, all around like a see saw.

Sometimes you tell me I'm your sweet candy man
then sometimes, baby, I just never know where I stand.
You lift me up when I'm on the ground,
soon as I get up, child, you send me tumbling down.

Your love is like see saw,
Your love is like see saw,
Your love is like see saw, baby.
go up, down, all around like a see saw.

When I'm, kissing you and I like it
and ask you to kiss me again
I reach at you, you jump out of sight,
you change just like the wind.

Your love is like see saw,
Your love is like see saw,
Your love is like see saw, baby.
go up, down, all around like a see saw.

- music and lyrics by Don Covay & Steve Cropper

Think

Chorus:

You better think (THINK!)
Think about what you're trying to do to me
Think (THINK THINK)
Let your mind go. Let yourself go free

Let's go back let's go back let's o way on back when
I didn't even know you. You couldn't 'o been too much more than 10
I ain't no psychiatrist I ain't no doctor with degrees
But it don't take too much IQ to see what you're doin' to me

(Chorus)

Freedom (freedom), Freedom (freedom)

There ain't nothing you could ask I can answer what you want
But I was gonna change my mind if you keep doin' things I don't

(Chorus)

People walkin' 'round everyday planning games and taking scores
Tryin to make other people lose their minds well be careful you don't lose
yours

(Chorus)

You need me and I need you
Without each other there ain't nothing we can do

(vamp)

Oh Freedom (freedom) Freedom (freedom) . . .

There ain't nothing you could ask I can answer what you want
But I was gonna change my mind if you keep doin' things I don't

(Chorus)

You need me and I need you
Without each other there ain't nothing we can do

(vamp)

Freedom . . .
Think ! . . .

Don't Play That Song

Don't play that song for me
'Cuz it brings back memories
Old days that I once knew
The days that I spent with you
Oh no! Don't let them play it
It fills my heart with pain
Please stop it right away
'Cuz I remember just what he said,
He said, "Darling" and I know that he lied
You know that you lied, you know that you lied
Lied, you lied (to me)
Hey mister don't play it no more. Don't play it no more
I can't stand it. Don't play it no more
No more, no more
I remember on our first date,
He kissed me and he walked away
I was only seventeen, I never dreamed he'd be so mean
He told me, "Darling, I love you". Baby, baby, you lied
You, you lied you know that you lied, lied lied
Oh darling, you know that you lied, yeah
You know I know you lied. Darling, you lied
You lied, you lied. You're all that I need
You lied. Oh, you lied.
Hey baby don't play it no more, don't do it
Don't play it no more, no more
I can't stand it no more
OOh hey! Don't play it no more

It Hurts Like Hell

Love was always supposed to be
Something wonderful to me
To watch it grow inside yourself
To feel your heart beside itself


Sometimes it hurts to love so bad
(when you know you've given all you can)
Sometimes it hurts to even laugh
(you do your best but it's still much too sad)
Sometimes the pain is just too much
And it hurts like hell
That's the way it feels


True love it has no hiding place
It's not something you just put away
It's always there inside of you
And it shows in everything you do


Sometimes it hurts to love so bad
(when you know you've given it your best)
Sometimes it hurts to even laugh
(you feel a thousand miles from happiness)
Sometimes the pain is just too much
And it hurts like hell
That's the way it feels


Here we are the two of us
So full of love, so little trust
But dying for some tenderness
But too afraid to take the step


Sometimes it hurts to love so bad
(when you know you've given it your best)
Sometimes it hurts to even laugh
(there's nothing funny if it's killing you)
Sometimes the pain is just too much
And it hurts like hell
That's the way it feels


I know if there is any chance
For us to find our happiness
We've got to learn tolet it go
Forget all the pain we know


Sometimes it hurts to love so bad
Sometimes it hurts it hurts to even laugh
And it hurts like hell
That's the way it feels