 Genius Lyrics
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The Temptations – Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)
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“Ball of Confusion (That’s What the World Is Today)” was recorded by The Temptations in April of 1970 and released as a single the following month. The song, which reached #2 on
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The Temptations – Papa Was a Rollin' Stone
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The Temptations' “Papa Was A Rollin' Stone” was written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong and produced by Whitfield. Released as a single on the Gordy label in late September
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The Temptations – Get Ready
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Written and produced by Smokey Robinson, “Get Ready” is a straight up love song. It reached #29 in the US upon release in 1966.
Eddie Kendricks sings a falsetto lead, with Melvin
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The Temptations – Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)
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“Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)” was written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong, and produced by Whitfield. It was released as a single on January 14, 1971 and
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The Temptations – War
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[Chorus: The Temptations] / War, huh / What is it good for? / Nothing / War, huh / What is it good for? / Absolutely nothing, say it again / War, huh, good god / What is it good
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The Temptations – Paradise
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[Intro] / Why don't you come, come back, to my paradise / Baby to my paradise / Why don't you come, come back, to my paradise / Baby to my paradise / Why don't you come to my
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The Temptations – The Way You Do the Things You Do
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[Verse 1: Eddie Kendricks & The Temptations] / You've got a smile so bright / You know you could have been a candle / I'm holding you so tight / You know you could have been a
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The Temptations – Glasshouse
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[Intro: The Temptations] / Ah-ha, ah-ha, ah-ha, ah-ha-ha / [Chorus: Dennis Edwards & The Temptations] / If you're living in a glasshouse (Watch out, watch out) / Don't throw no
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The Temptations – Zoom
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[Intro] / [?] / Zoom / We're on our way to the moon / Everybody get ready and say / Zoom, zoom / We're on our way to the moon / Different kinds / That's wild / I can't believe it
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2Pac – Temptations
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“Temptations” is the third and final single for 2Pac’s 1995 album, Me Against The World.
Apart from being one of the better known songs from the album, this song is exceptional in
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The Temptations – Cloud Nine
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“Cloud Nine” was written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong and produced by Whitfield, who recorded it on the Temptations in early October 1968 at Motown’s Studio B in Detroit
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The Temptations – Happy People
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[Intro: Dennis Edwards] / Get up - everybody! / [Chorus: The Temptations] / Happy people are we / Happy people are we / [Verse 1: Dennis Edwards] / Throw away your life long pain
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The Temptations – Treat Her Like a Lady
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This is the first single by the Temptations to have Ali-Ollie Woodson as lead singer. Its upbeat tempo and message of showing women respect make it a favorite.
The single was the
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The Temptations – Masterpiece
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[Verse 1: Damon Harris and Otis Williams] / Money, I ain't got none / (Where I was born, everything was dull and dingy) / Job, can't find one / I lived in a place they called the
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The Temptations – Then
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If Columbus never sailed the sea (If Columbus never sailed the sea) / If Longfellow never wrote a rhyme (If Longfellow never wrote a rhyme) / If leaves have never grown upon a tree
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The Temptations – Ain't Too Proud To Beg
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On the Temptations’ 1966 hit “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg,” a man pleads with his lover not to leave him.
The Temptations tapped David Ruffin to sing lead on the song, with Eddie
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The Temptations – For Once in My Life
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[Verse 1: Paul Williams] / For once in my life / I have someone who needs me / Someone I needed so long / For once unafraid / I can go where life leads me / Somehow I know I'll be
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The Temptations – Oh, Mother of Mine
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[Intro: Paul Williams] / Oh, mother / [Verse 1: Paul Williams] / Oh mother of mine, I've, I've been blind / The things that you tell me, yeah, I paid, I really paid it no mind / Oh
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The Temptations – I Wish It Would Rain
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[Verse 1] / Sunshine, blue skies, please go away / My girl has found another and gone away / With her went my future, my life is filled with gloom / So day after day I stay locked
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The Temptations – Friends
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[Intro] / Through the years we've acquired / And it because of you / The temptations / Of special thanks / Alright fellas let's kick it / Kicking it with my friends / Kicking it
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The Temptations – Witchcraft (For Your Love)
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[Verse 1: Paul Williams] / I heard her when she slammed the door / I didn't bat an eye / I tried to be so strong, yes, I did / I didn't even cry / But, oh, my heart, it was crying
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The Temptations – False Faces
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[Verse 1] / First you say that you want me / Make me quiver with desire / Acting like, you needed me, had my body on fire / But every minute was a night of show / Nothing really
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The Temptations – Power
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[Intro: Melvin Franklin] / Power, boom boom / Power, boom boom boom / Power, boom boom / Power, boom boom boom / Power, boom boom boom / Power, boom boom / Power, boom boom boom
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The Temptations – It's Growing
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[Verse 1: David Ruffin] / Like a snowball rolling down the side of a snow covered hill / It's growing / Like the size of a fish that the man claims broke his reel / It's growing
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The Temptations – This Is My Promise
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[Verse 1] / You're a very special part of my life / You're the one that I adore / You are my cherie amour / You're the one (You're the one) / I've been looking for (That I've been
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The Temptations – Message from a Black Man
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[Verse 1: Melvin Franklin] / Yes, my skin is black / But that's no reason to hold me back / Why don't you think about it, think about it / Think about it, think about it / Think
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The Temptations – Beauty is Only Skin Deep
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[Verse 1: David Ruffin] / So in love, sad as could be / 'Cause her pretty face got the best of me / Suddenly, you came into my life / And gave it meaning and pure delight / Now
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The Temptations – Psychedelic Shack
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(Knock on door; door creaks open) / (Cheers and applause) / Hold it, everybody / Hold it, hold it, listen / Yeah / Psychedelic Shack, that's where it's at / Psychedelic Shack, that
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The Temptations – Man
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Awakened by the daylight, man starts his busy day / Eight hours occupy his mind 'cause the bills gotta be paid / Will he take a moment and give thanks before he's on his way
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The Temptations – You're My Everything
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[Verse 1: Eddie Kendricks] / You surely must know magic, girl / Because you changed my life / It was dull and ordinary / You made it sunny and bright / [Pre-Chorus: Eddie Kendricks
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The Temptations (Ft. Smokey Robinson) – Is It Gonna Be Yes Or No
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[Verse 1: Smokey Robinson] / Ooh, baby / What you gon' do, baby? / Have you thought it through, baby? / Is it gonna be yes or no? / [Verse 2] / Oh, baby / I need you so, baby / I
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The Temptations – I Can't Get Next To You
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[Intro] / Hold it, everybody / Hold it, hold it / Listen ... / [Verse 1] / I can turn the greyest sky blue / I can make it rain whenever I want it to / Oh, I can build a castle
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The Temptations – Law of the Land
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[Verse 1: Dennis Edwards] / Some people will always have it made / Some people will live in poverty for the rest of their days / Time marches on / Yesterday is dead and gone / Life
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The Temptations – Error of Our Ways
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[Intro] / Shooby-dooby-dooby-dooby-doo-wah / (Shooby-doo-doo-doo) / Shooby-dooby-dooby-dooby / (Ah yeah, oh, oh) / Shooby-dooby-dooby-dooby-doo-wah / (Shooby-dooby-dooby) / Shooby-
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The Temptations – I’ll Be There
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[Verse 1] / You and I must make a pact / We must bring salvation back / Where there is love, I'll be there / I'll reach out my hand to you / I'll have faith in all you do / Just
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The Temptations – My Love
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My love is warmer than a smile / My love gives to every needing child / If anyone should ask you who's my true love / Tell them my love true is ever / Letting all their love come
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The Temptations – Hey Girl
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[Verse 1: Paul Williams & (The Temptations)] / Hey, girl, I want you to know / I'm gonna miss you so much if you go / And hey, girl, I'll tell you no lie / Something deep inside of
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The Temptations – Since I Lost My Baby
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[Verse 1: David Ruffin and (Melvin Franklin)] / The sun is shining (Oh yeah) / There's plenty of light / A new day is dawning / Sunny and bright / But after I've been crying all
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The Temptations (Ft. Rick James) – Standing On The Top
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On “Standing On The Top”, former lead singers David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks return to the Temptations as they warn about the dangers of fame and fake friends, like they had done
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The Temptations – Stay
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[Intro] / Ooh ooh, mmm, mmm / Yeah, hey, oh no / Na, na, na, na, na, na, yeah / Ah ah, yeah yeah / [Verse 1] / Just to feel your body / Your sensual design / You know my heart goes
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The Temptations – Ain't No Justice
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Your eyes tell a story, such a sad story / Of the things you feel inside / Of the things you cannot hide / My friend I see trouble in your eyes / There ain't no justice / In that
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The Temptations – Lady Soul
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[Intro] / Whoa whoa oh oh / Whoa whoa oh oh / Whoa whoa oh oh / My lady soul / [Verse 1] / Lying here beside you / Close as we can be / I know what this leads to / I know what you
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The Temptations – Come On
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[Intro: Otis Williams] / Detroit, Michigan / The year? 1960 / Motown Records / At that time, my group was called Otis Williams and the Distants / Now, we were recording for a
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The Temptations – Night and Day
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[Verse 1] / Night and day, you are the one / Only you beneath the moon and under the sun / Whether near to me or far / It's no matter, darling, where you are / I think of you night
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The Temptations – Plastic Man
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[Verse 1: Dennis Edwards] / Well, he specializes in talkin' trash / Carries himself like the world's biggest spender / But he ain't never got no cash / The clothes he wears are
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The Temptations – Mother Nature
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Mother Nature / Go on and take your course / And a-take me with you / Hey, I wanna leave here, oh oh / Mother Nature / Take the chains off me (Please) / As long as I'm livin
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