 Genius Lyrics
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Roberta Flack – Killing Me Softly with His Song
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“Killing Me Softly With His Song” was originally written for and recorded by Lori Lieberman in 1972.
Roberta Flack first heard the song on a flight from Los Angeles to New York
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Roberta Flack – Happiness
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You look at what you've done to me / Look at how you've set me free / Free from how it used to be / Loneliness was the order of the day / Only game I dared to play / All I could
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Roberta Flack – Mr. Magic
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[Verse 1] / He looked at me one day, chased my blues away / Chased my blues away with his sweet smile / I never dreamed I'd need a man so bad / There was something in his style / [
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Roberta Flack – The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
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“The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” is a 1957 folk song written by British political singer/songwriter Ewan MacColl for Peggy Seeger, who later became his wife, to sing.
During
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Roberta Flack – Suzanne
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[Verse 1] / Suzanne takes you down / To a place by the river / You can hear the boats go by / Spend the night forever / You know she's half crazy / But that's why you wanna be
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Roberta Flack – Early Ev'ry Midnite
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Early every midnight / You gonna hear me call your name / Calling you loud and clear / Will you hear, will you hear / What's here in my heart / Hear what has to be said / When I
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Roberta Flack – Feel Like Makin' Love
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Feel Like Makin' Love is the title song of Roberta Flack’s fifth album.
It was written by Eugene McDaniels. Roberta produced the song under the pseudonym “Rubina Flake.”
The song
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Roberta Flack – When You Smile
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[Verse 1] / When you smile I can see you were born, born for me / And for me you will be do or die / Oh baby, let me hold you / You make me wanna hold you / When you smile, smile
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Roberta Flack (Ft. Donny Hathaway) – Back Together Again
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[Verse 1: Donny Hathaway & Roberta Flack] / Seems we've weathered / Hard times we've been through / In silence I've waited / I missed you (I missed you, too) / [Chorus: Roberta
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Roberta Flack – To Love Somebody
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[Verse 1] / There's a light, a certain kind of light / It never shines on me / I want my whole life to be / Lived with you, babe, lived with you / There's a way / Many people say
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Roberta Flack – Conversation Love
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[Verse 1] / Throw sad reflections to the wind where they belong / Surprising things will rise to the top / And hand-painted dreams flow / All of the pain has to go and find its
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Roberta Flack – Let It Be Me
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[Verse 1] / I bless the day I found you / I want to stay around you / And so I beg you / Let it be me / Don't, don't ever leave me lonely / Tell me you love me only / And that you'
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Roberta Flack – I Wanted It Too
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I wanted it too / Just like you / I was hungry / Hungry and blue / You had just the right style / In your smile / Life was really sweet for awhile / I wanted it too / Just like you
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Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway – Come Ye Disconsolate
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[Verse 1] / Come, ye disconsolate, where'er ye languish / Come to the mercy seat, fervently kneel / Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish / Earth hath no sorrow
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Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway – Where Is the Love
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Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway ask each other when they will leave their partners and become true lovers. “Where is the Love” indeed?
This song reached #1 on the R&B and Easy
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Roberta Flack – I Told Jesus
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[Verse 1] / I told Jesus be alright if you change my name / I told Jesus be alright if you changed, changed my name / I told Jesus be alright, be alright, be alright / I told Jesus
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Roberta Flack – Go Up Moses
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[Chorus] / Go up, Moses, you've been down too long / Go up, Moses, sing your freedom song / Go up, Moses, you've been down too long / Go up, Moses, sing your freedom song / [Verse
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Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway – The Closer I Get to You
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[Verse 1: Roberta Flack] / The closer I get to you / The more you make me see / By giving me all you've got / Your love has captured me / [Bridge: Donny Hathaway] / Over and over
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Roberta Flack – Feelin' That Glow
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Somewhere deep in my body / I feel the magical blow / I'm in need of somebody / And I think you should know / You are my magical baby / Feed my magical soul / Let's find a field
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Roberta Flack – Gone Away
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[Verse 1] / I try to reason, and I tell myself you'll return / But you are gone and I know, I know, I know you're gone / You were mine for only a minute / And if I hurt you I didn'
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Roberta Flack – Compared to What
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[Verse 1] / Said I love the lie, lie the love / Hangin' on with a push and shove / Possession is the motivation / Hangin' up the whole damn nation / Looks like we always end up in
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Roberta Flack – After You
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[Verse 1] / Raining again / I ought to get out from under / Sometimes I wonder / Sometimes I don't wonder at all / And as for loving again / Someday somebody might need me / But
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Roberta Flack – Tryin' Times
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[Verse 1] / Tryin' times is what the world is talkin' about / You got confusion all over the land, yeah / Mother against daughter, father against son / The whole thing is gettin
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Roberta Flack – Just Like a Woman
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Nobody feels any pain / Tonight as I stand inside the rain / Everybody knows / Baby's got new clothes / Lately I've shown my ribbons and my bows / And my problems, from my curls
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Roberta Flack – Some Gospel According To Matthew
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Just to see / And then you talked / Till I don't know / If you are still trying / It seems we talk and we talk / Till we both end up practically crying / But love comes to Matthews
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Roberta Flack – I Can See the Sun in Late December
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[Intro] / I can see the sun / I can see the sun / [Verse 1] / I betcha you can't even see the sun / Ah, the sun is shining right before your eyes / I betcha you can't even see
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Peabo Bryson & Roberta Flack – Tonight, I Celebrate My Love
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“Tonight, I Celebrate My Love” was the lead single and most successful track from Bryson & Flack’s collaborative album Born To Love. It was written by well-established hit-writers
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Roberta Flack – River
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There's a river somewhere / That flows through the lives of everyone / It flows through the mountains and the valleys / And the meadows of time (yes it do) / There's a star in the
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Roberta Flack – See You Then
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[Verse 1] / Part of a dream, still hurtin' / Hurtin' in my left eye / And I know I'm gonna have to make a last try / But if I'm back in California before the snow flies / I'll see
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Roberta Flack – No Tears (In the End)
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[Intro] / I don't want no tears in the end / I don't want no tears in the end / [Verse 1] / You made an impression / When I looked at you / I knew what you wanted / I wanted it
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Roberta Flack – I'm the Girl
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For reasons that my fate knows best / I saw a boy one day / With charm and manner he was blessed / He smiled my way / I loved him then, but that's old hat / I love him now, it's
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Roberta Flack – She's Not Blind
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Has love been too hard / Even so, never you mind / Oh no, never you mind / Oh no, never mind / For though it seems the whole world is bruised / You may find, you may find / Love is
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Roberta Flack (Ft. Maxi Priest) – Set the Night to Music
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[Intro: Maxi Priest, Roberta Flack, Both] / Okay, Roberta, we can do what we wanna do / Touch me right here / Set the night to music / Set the night to music / [Verse 1: Maxi
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Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway – For All We Know
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[Verse 1: Donny Hathaway] / For all we know / We may never meet again / Before you go / Make this moment sweet again / We won't say goodnight / Until the last minute / I'll hold
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Roberta Flack – Do What You Gotta Do
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[Verse 1] / Man, I can understand how it might be / Kinda hard for you to love a girl like me / I don't blame you much for wanting to be free / I just wanted you to know / That I'
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Roberta Flack – My Love for You
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You walked right into my life / And you never walked out of it again / My friend / My candlelight and wine / Your heart will beat with mine / We'll drink a toast / 'Cause you are
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Roberta Flack – Oasis
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Oasis is the title song from Roberta Flack’s 1988 album.
The song topped Billboard’s R&B Singles chart for a week in January of 1989, making it Roberta’s first number-one R&B hit
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Roberta Flack – Jesse
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[Verse 1] / Jesse, come home / There's a hole in the bed / Where we slept / Now it's growing cold / Hey Jesse, your face / In the place where we lay / By the hearth, all apart / It
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Roberta Flack – Reverend Lee
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[Intro] / This is a song about a very big, strong, Black / Sexy southern Baptist minister / Who thinks that he has his program all together / Until he runs up against a lady / Who
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Roberta Flack – Friend
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Now the moon is peering through my thoughts are pure and clear / I see the ones I've taken for granted...ones i love so dear! / Oh my Friend / I can depend / Thick or thin / We are
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Roberta Flack – Ballad of the Sad Young Men
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[Verse 1] / Sing a song of sad young men / Glasses full of rye / All the news is bad again / Kiss your dreams goodbye / [Bridge] / All the sad young men / Sitting in the bars
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Roberta Flack – I'm the One
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[Verse 1] / If you're looking for a lover / You don't have to look no further / I'm the one / If you wanna have a good time / Playing in the midnight sunshine / I'm the one / If
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