Jill Scott Love Rain (remix)(feat Mos Def Lyrics

Love Rain (remix)(feat Mos Def Lyrics

[Jill Scott]

 Love rain down on me, on me, down on me

 Love rain down on me, on me, down on me

 Love rain down on me, on me, down on me   

 

 Met him on a Thursday, sunny afternoon

 Cumulus clouds, 84 degrees 

 He was brown, deep 

 Said he wanted to talk about my mission

 Listen to my past lives. (Word?) 

 Took me on long walks to places where butterflies rest easy

 Talked about Moses and Mumia

 Reparations, blue colors, memories of shell-topped Adidas

 He was fresh, like summer peaches

 Sweet on my mind like block parties and penny candy

 Us was nice and warm, no jacket, no umbrella, just warm

 At night we would watch the stars

 And he would physically give me each and every one

 I felt like cayenne pepper, red, hot, spicy

 I felt dizzy and so near heaven and miles between my thighs

 Better than love, we made delicious

 He me had, had me he

 He had me tongue tied

 I could hear his rhythm in my thoughts

 I was his sharp, his horn section

 His boom and his bip

 And he was my love

 

 Love rain down on me, on me, down on me

 

 The rain was fallin' and, and slowly and sweetly and stinging my eyes

 And I could not see that he became my voodoo priest

 And I was his faithful concubine

 Wide open, wide, loose like bowels after collard greens

 The mistake was made 

 Love slipped from my lips

 Dripped down my chin and landed in his lap

 And us became new

 Now me non-clarivoyant and in love

 Made the coochie easy and the obvious invisible

 The rain was falling

 And I couldn't see the season changing

 And the vibe slipping off it's axis

 Our beautiful melody became wildly staccato 

 [Repeat 1 in background]

 The rain was falling and I could not see 

 That I was to be plowed and sowed and fertilized 

 And left to drown in his sunny afternoon

 Cumulus clouds, 84 degrees, melody

 

 Love rain down on me, on me, down on me

 Love rain down on me, on me, down on me

 

 [Mos Def]

 I stretched my arms towards the sky like blades of tall grass

 The sun beat between my shoulders like carnival drums

 I sat still in hopes that it would help my wings grow 

 So then I could really be fly 

 And then she arrived

 Like day break inside a railway tunnel

 Like the new moon, like a diamond in the mines

 Like high noon to a drunkard, sudden

 She made my heart beat in a now-now time signature

 Her skinny canvas for ultraviolet brushstrokes

 She was the sun's painting 

 She was a deep cognac color

 Her eyes sparkled like lights along the new city

 She lips pursed as if her breath was too sweet 

 And full for her mouth to hold

 I said, "You are the beautiful, distress of mathematics."

 I said, "For you, I would peel open the clouds like new fruit

 And give you lightning and thunder as a dowry

 I would make the sky shed all of it's stars like rain

 And I would clasp the constellations across your waist 

 And I would make the heavens your cape 

 And they would be pleased to cover you

 They would be pleased to cover you

 May I please, cover you, please"