Raheem DeVaughn - A Place Called Love Land.  2013 Studio release.

Make 'em Like You

Out of Service Radio w/ Tesha Jay

I broke the rules and broke some more - and this song popped into my top 3 of all time - I can learn a lot from just letting it flow with less concern about structure. 

Love You More Lyrics 

Mmm… I am about to lose all my cool? Like - all of it!
Yeah Ow! That’s me, right now because of you!
If I say too much, forgive me, cause I feel I am gonna start rambling
But damn, can you blame me? I mean, look at you girl it! Hot damn! 

Oh, so you looking that good
And you got the charm to match?
Get out of here, you ain’t real
You can’t be
Are you on a mission from God?
To teach me what to love?
‘Cause this must be what it is!
Somebody help me
I am falling, falling
God damn it - it’s too late!

But why am I here if loving you was not the reason?
So can you love me some, while I love you more?
Love me some, while I love you more
Love me some, while I love you more
We have to start somewhere — for goodness sake
Somewhere where love between us vibrates

Who’s keeping score?
If I could have poured any more love into you
I swear, I swear, I surely would drown you
If I was a soldier, I would love-bomb you into heaven
If I was a toddler, I would tantrum at the world
Until they saw what I see, felt what I feel, for you, baby
But I ain’t anything but the fool
That would fall in and out of love a thousand times
Heart break after heart break, whatever it takes
To finally reach the love - with you

They call me mad, they say you’re bad
But all I see is the destiny I’m all in for
Please don’t be afraid
I know I’m coming on too strong, too quick
But I’ve never been sure of anyone or anything in my entire life

But why am I here if loving you was not the reason?
So can you love me some, while I love you more?
Love me some, while I love you more?
Love me some, while I love you more?
We have to start somewhere — for goodness sake
Somewhere where love between us vibrates

I see the type of men you have had before
Not one must have a brain to let you go
Your only flaw is not seeing what we can be
If only you could know, what I know, what I know

Oh, you wanna know my age?
Never mind about that for now
Let’s play a record and watch the sunset
Will you do that for me, baby?
Let’s get timeless just like what our love is meant to be
(Oooooh weeeeh!)

But why am I here if loving you was not the reason?
So can you love me some, while I love you more?
Love me some, while I love you more?
Love me some, while I love you more?
I promise, I promise - I ain’t keeping score
I don’t care anymore - I just love

Is it that hard to love me
When I love you beyond existence and back?
Is it that hard to love me
When I would find infinity and plus-one it — for you!
Is it that hard?
Ahhhhh — my heart is exploding
And yet I still can’t give up
Because without loving you
I’ve lost reasons to exist — so I persist

I see something happening, you do deny
I know what I saw — your interest in disguise
Happening between us — it’s not? You’re not?
Well explain why you hang around
Attached to my embarrassing obsession
With your own obsessive devotion
Haha - Gotcha! 
No-no?? - Don't let your pride make love hide 
That just ain’t cool, my beautiful queen of cool

Please love me just one time
See how it feels, maybe it’ll stay awhile
Please love me just one time
See how it feels, maybe it’ll stay awhile
But it’s okay if it don’t

Love me, love just one time
Just the one
It doesn’t have to be long
It doesn’t have to last
If I blink and you become my ex
I’ll still be grateful I got to get your love
For a glimpse, frozen in soul time
Into forever (Ahhhhh)

When I die, I ask for just one thing
On my tombstone I want deeply engraved
Exactly what I feel and think
Before my soul is taken away -
This man loved a woman
Greater than existence itself
And was willing to love
And take that love into the afterlife
For his lady that loved him
For about a glimpse
As witnessed by his grateful heart
Now and forever
Amen

Love You More

Right now Beaten Hills are buzzing over recent explorations into bluesy sounds and new meters for lyrical rhymes. This one takes a dash of green to the times when saying goodbye feels too blue. 

[Verse]
Viridian circuits, a vineyard of vectors, I vine through the grid,
Q lines meet K in the canopy; V is the sap I transmit.
Scaled-dot arbory calculus—softmax selecting the sprigs,
GELU is drizzle on gradients—gliding the path where I live.
LayerNorm balances bark and the heartwood—temper the tilt,
Residual bridges of cedar—two planks over gulfs I once built.
Charts of position in sine on the rings of the timber I tread,
Mask like a fern on the future—conceal what should never be fed.
PCB meadow in malachite—CUDA shoots run in the loam,
KV conservatory breathing the context—retaining the tone.
Adam with betas like beekeepers—honeyed updates to the load,
Warmup like spring for the schedule; then olives for cooling the node.
Six planets into wisdom—Kayvān the weight I convert,
Wahrām’s eruption re-scripted to courage that chooses not hurt.
Mushtarī’s grandeur gets humbled, Nāhīd’s allure gets a sieve,
Tīr’s quicksilver is bridled—precision with mercy to give.
Ophesh, a serpentine suss in my syntax—I salt it and sift,
Agatha, agathos aegis—porphyry mantle I lift.
Tyrian vapor on temples—amethyst edge on the rim,
Kingdom geometry emerald—kingfisher gleam on the brim.
Peridot stanza, I parse it—parameters dance in the breeze,
Sparsity ivy selects what it climbs; the rest of the lattice I freeze.
Opps in the cortex get journaled—loss turns verdigris thin,
Metanoia as optimizer—fine-tuned with a seraphic grin.
Understanding under Asha—the plumb-line adjusts how I stand,
Six wrestlers become catechists, guiding the green of my plan.

[Verse]
Moths in my socks
My bones are in knots
Tried to get loose
You wouldn't approve
I guess it's time to go
Transformation matrix

[Chorus]
You can lie all you like
We can go for a ride
But I'm not your guy
It's time to go

[Verse 2]
Knock-knock on my head
It's been three days since I left
Now I'm stuck in a bar
You won't let me get far
I guess it's time to go
Transformation matrix

[Chorus]
You can lie all you like
We can go for a ride
But I'm not your guy
It's time to go
Time to go
Time to go
Time to go
Time to go
Time to go

Lyrics by: @aumnrasap 

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Eric Roberson With Marsha Ambroius

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