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WHEN IT RAINS

What a mark carved on my heart
I was struck by cupid’s darts
Hit so fast I did not see
Before I knew, love captured me
Believe me this was not my choice
I did my best to quite the noise
Will ever he know what he’s done?
The depth in which this potion runs

When it rains, it pours down
It won't stop from coming now
When it rains there’s a flood
I am all drowned in your love

Every dawn gives way to dusk
With each story endings come
With the ticking of the clock
I long for another touch

Could I have known this fate at all?
I did not know I’d get caught up
Every sunset brings forth light
And soon enough my sun will rise

Heaven knows this only the beginning
I can all ready see where this is heading






TRIANGLE

Jack loves Jane but Jane loves Joe
But how could she ever let Jack go
It’s obvious everyone can see
The trouble with this trilogy
Hearts don’t come…
In sets of three

So what do they do now?
There’s only one way to find out
It’s time to pick your prize and
It better be right, it better be right

This triangle has to untangle
Got to let it go
This triangle is too much to handle
Got to let it go

Jane loves Joe, but Joe’s with Jill
But Jane wants to be with Joe still
It’s bad enough it breaks Jack’s heart
It’s tearing their whole world apart
But how do you stop
When it’s gone so far

CRASH AND BURN

You knew me better than anyone ever
And I remember your very first letter
We were so young and all that we wanted was more
We fit each other like rebels on Harleys
and I knew how to answer your body
but at the speed that we drove we were bound to wash out

We flew rockets to the sun
Knowing we’d crash and burn
And that’s the risk we run
When you fall in love

I could read every word you were thinking
You gave me something I never was given
It was heaven and hell all at once as we laughed and cried
There always needs to be one that is willing
To throw a rope down to someone who’s slipping
But sometimes you gotta know when to let it go

I would not change a thing
All the love, all the pain
You were my everything
It will always remain
It was all worth it...

PEOPLE

Why, oh why
Do people lie
Where, oh where
Do people
Come from

When they take you down
And they break you down
Into tiny pieces
As they watch you drown

and I won’t stop
I won’t stop
I won’t stop
I won’t stop

Truth be known
I have died and reborn
Their control
Won’t trample my soul

Cause I’ve made of stone
And I’m not alone
I would do it all again
Than to never know

RIDE WITH ME

Don’t you talk; you know I’ve heard it all before
That I’m deserving of something more
You think I’m worth it but you’re not the one willing to give it

I don’t need you to make me a promise
Although it’d be some wishful thinking
But you know I think real and it’s too up in the air to not bother me

I believe I know I will find it
All I need is written within me
I was only asking if you’d ride with me
Through this thing called life

I won’t stop it’s not a question
I’ll take off without directions
With you or not, I’d get over and forget
If you wouldn’t come with

All you say is you want me with you
Go on and on but how is it true
Forgive me for this doubt
If we build a home in sand, it’ll only wash away

Good things don’t always come
Knocking at your door
Good things come to those
Who want to share with that someone
Don’t you, don’t you, want to come along?
One day, one day it’s here and another it’s gone

NOT THINKING

What is it now?
You just want to pick a fight
Is something on your mind?
Baby, we can make it right

I’m sorry I lied but you wouldn’t understand it
I didn’t really plan it
Oh my, my, I really did it this time

I was at the wrong place at the wrong time
I should’ve left before that last glass of wine
Wish I hadn’t done it, it didn’t mean a thing
Please believe I made a mistake

Answer the door
I know you’re there, just open up
I’ll wait out in the hall
I’ll stay until morning comes
I’m sorry I lied but you wouldn’t understand it
I didn’t really plan it
Oh my, my, I can’t lose you this time

BE MINE

I can’t decide whether I am in love
Or if I’m just messed up chasing you around
Don’t try and make me go away
You’ll only make me want you more and
I will make sure that you see it my way

What’s a girl gotta do to get your full attention
No one’s gonna do more for you
So you better take it while it’s hot and so I’m asking

Be mine I can’t wait forever
Can’t you see
You belong to me

A chance is all I need
I just want show you what you’re
Missing out 'cause life is too short
I know you wanna run but where are you going to go
There’s only so much fun without that someone

Where are you going to run boy?
Don’t you want my love boy?

SILVER LINING

Paradise, if it ain’t so
How do you know when it’s right?
And when to move on
Lucky ones know how to grow old
How it all goes but I can’t find the gold
Someone shed some light

Am I not seeing what
Everyone else does
Am I stuck in a rut
Hold on I need some hope
Don’t I deserve some too
Like all of us do
Will I stand tall some times
I really don’t know
Is there a silver lining
Or is it just the timing
Don’t I deserve some too
Like all of us do

Memories aren’t there some
Lingering around quietly
Still inside disguised
Heavenly, how it could be
In a heart beat just perfect
If I stole room in a soul
Do I count all the stars
That let me down before
Should I spend anymore
Building this fragile home

Love, Love, Love…

POINT THE FINGER

Why the long face?
I don’t want to hear you out
In the old days
I would let you run your mouth
But it’s a different day now
Got someone different here now
I know you feel like I let you down
Oh but you pushed me out

You can try to point the finger at me
But you knew this would happen
I would move on and find someone who would see
I was worth keeping
I was worth keeping

I know that inside
Everything you meant was well
But from the outside
One would think you never felt
Anything towards me
You left me feeling empty
But everything still turned out fine, no thanks to you

When a glass breaks it never goes back the same
You can vow eternity but I will never take your name
Everything we ever had best to keep it in the past
Everything we ever felt I don’t want to remember back

You can try to point the finger at me
But you knew this would happen
I would move on and find someone who would see
I was worth keeping

MISTAKES

You can’t imagine what I felt
Those days everything fixed itself
Worries, I didn’t have one to sell
Believe me I know I was no angel

Cause I learned the hard way
Made a mistake after mistake

You can’t imagine my surprise
To hear that you moved on and found yourself a new life
Where was I when all of this took place
Please don’t say that it’s too late

Guess you learn the hard way
Keep on making mistakes after mistakes

You were supposed to be
You were supposedly
The only one that knew me
I was supposed to be
Wasn’t I supposedly
The one you loved truly

But I learned the hard way
Make those mistakes after mistakes
And so I learn the hard way
Won’t make those mistakes again, no more mistakes

FINE PRINT

I’ve been holding back
I’ve been holding back

You're like a moving star
I can't get close enough to you
Been months I got your call
Our falling out, we slipped right into

You were an ace for me
My crazy heart got hold of you
Your hand called every bluff
I had to fold and let it go

Since I saw you last
I've been holding back
I figured I should
Do just that
I thought I'd crack
But I smiled instead
I'll let you
Read the fine print

I walk a line between
The thoughts of now and where I've been
Today the grass is green
I've got it all, so why reminisce?

I'm just a mermaid who is
Not content with waveless oceans
Sometimes the gusty wind
Is what I need to feel again

Read between the lines
For what got left behind
But I can't say, I'll hold it down
The weight of seeing you now

PROMISES

All your promises, I've said before
They're only words to fill the space, you won't explore

All your promises, I'm so naive
Because I wanted you and wanted to believe

Where? Where do we go, where do we go from here?
After all the thoughtless things we said
Where, where do we go, where do we go from here?
Now that all the- all the love is dead

You held the secret key straight to my soul
I gave it all to you- you took more than you know
Oh the bitter truth is that I'm better off without you
And I still I know, to let you go will take me years to do

LOVE STORY

If you ask me, I will say it
You make me smile, it’s contagious

And in your eyes, I can see it
Cause your heart is the greatest

I can’t be without you
So don’t go anywhere
You show me love like no one else
Has done yet
And with the road ahead
This is the beginning
Of this love story

When I’m with you, I am taken
With a feeling the feeling that you’ve been chosen

What a longing, it’s the best thing
In a long time I’m not broken

FANTASY

How do you always know what I will say?
You seem to know me in the clearest way
I want to run and hide, keep you from finding me
You shouldn’t see, what is my mystery

But with the timing right
It could be paradise
To do this now
Would not be right

So stay away from me
You’re better off to stay as far from loving me
Just stay a fantasy
In the dark, in the night and in my dreams

I was just fine, yes I was fine I thought
I didn’t think that I would get so lost
To have and not to hold and to pretend I’m cold
It is a lie ‘cause I melt every time

Stay... away from me

Collaborations

THIS IS YOUR LIFE

If walls could talk what would they say
They have seen so many faces
You have your cake and then rotate
Easy come easy go, doesn't matter any way

Don't you know by now
The higher the jump the harder you fall
Chase that high and fly
Dark crystal ball

What do you see, Lord?
Do you believe
This is your life
this is your life
Can't keep a good thing no
You're too good at letting go
This is your life
this is your life







KEEP IT COMING

I could feel it coming; little did I know it'd be now
Oh how you fill me, oh how you kill me
And until I saw it with my own eyes, I'd deny it
But now there's no way out and no point trying

I can't escape it
We'll just embrace it
I'll give myself now
I'll give myself now
No one is like you
How could this be true
No one is like you
No one can be you

This is all I've wanted yet I keep on running.  I'm running
So why am I running
This gives more than I have ever known so just keep it coming
Just keep it coming






BELIEVE IT

Every night every day
I’ve been working too hard lately
I get no sleep
Get no rest and I need to relax baby
So lets go out
Forget this stress
We think too much
Forget this mess
We work too hard
And have no time
So let’s go out
Relax our minds

Can you feel it?
We can escape and feel so free
If you believe it
It will be yours in a heart beat

I’m on the line all the time
Always spinning my wheels around
I need a break cause it’s late
I can finally unwind right now




ROLLING THE DICE

Curiosity killed me
But I couldn’t keep away
And the mystery thrilled me
I like it better that way
Oh the energy filled me
It was electric lust
like anything that’s risky
you can lose so much

You say that you’re lucky
Rolling the dice
Who said I’m looking
For your advice
one day you need me
Another you don’t
I’m not a toy that
You play with and dump

The word around town
is you’re a liar
Well I don’t wanna burn down
in your fire

You can run
you can hide
you can say
what you like
but I’ll find out




THAT DAY

Woke up in the morning with
My broken heart still sound asleep
I knew our star was losing light
Long before we could ever see
All I could hold on to was a fleeting little reverie
All you ever strummed for me was half an empty melody

I was hoping it would change
And turn back this numbing page
But a broken stringed guitar
Can only be only be played for so long

I don’t know how to pretend
We tried so hard
All the feelings felt within
We tried so long
On that day
You left me standing there
Things we said were very strange
They were something like a dream
On that day
I watched you walk away

Maybe what we needed was
To turn away our bitter pride
We add fuel to fire with words
That cut like jagged knives
Falling downhill is the only
Way out of an avalanche
Can we make amends
And maybe just pretend like all is well

I know one day it will change
I’ll look back on this cold day
Fix this broken stringed guitar
And play myself a brand new song

Alex Sayz ft. Nadia Ali "Free To Go"

FREE TO GO

Allow me to refresh you and your memory
You’re the one that started everything
One day you want me then another you want out
I can’t keep up with your many swings
I am one step ahead your mind games
You push me away and pull me back in
So typical there’s nothing much original
I’ve seen it before, I know how you think

You are free to go
No one’s holding you down
You are free to go
No one’s holding you down

You never had my heart you did not…

Armin Van Buuren ft. Nadia Ali "Feels So Good"

FEELS SO GOOD

You’re on the telephone
telling me that she’s gone
Now we’ve been down this road
a million times before

Cause it’s a sweet sensation
thinking of all that hot temptation
You know it’s going right where you want
yeah you know what’s going on

I keep breaking my own rules
Playing your love fool
Trying to forget about the consequence
We keep saying we should
and yeah we know we could stop
But really what it all comes down to

It feels so good, it feels good
When I’m in your arms
Don’t you know it feels so good
Feels so good, feels so good,
When I’m in your arms

You say it’s dangerous
You don’t want to be exposed
But I know you’re liking this
And you’re not gonna let it go

Sultan & Ned Shepard ft. Nadia Ali "Call My Name"

CALL MY NAME

Baby I want you so
I crave your touch and want you close
Every time you come to mind
My tender heart just melts inside
I can’t resist those thirsty lips
My eyes can’t take that look you give
I’m calling for you I hope you know
I fiend for you every time you go

Take control…

Honey you just have a way
To give me pleasure and forget my cares
So come to me, don’t worry love
I won’t lie to you I can’t get enough
You make cry when you’re inside
My heart and soul is yours for life
Just don’t let go, you got me hooked
You give me shivers when you take control

Call My Name Now…

Nadia Ali, Starkillers & Alex Kenji "Pressure"

PRESSURE

I’ve got pressure; I’m in deep
Seems every body wants something from me
I was a lover but now a thief
I’ll take your breath away and set you free
I can’t think; I can’t see
They’re taking pictures; Want to see me freeze
I can’t stop; I’m on top
And everybody likes a view from up above

So much pressure
So much heat
So much hustle
They want me

Come around feel the sound
Oh you make heart pound
Fill me up bring me down
When I hear your sound

Chris Reece & Nadia Ali "The Notice"

THE NOTICE

I'm so tired and I keep on hearing
the same old things from you
just be quiet; save your stories
for that someone new
Every time I try - all I hear is
that you haven't changed
Take a break now quit explaining
I'm about to make a move
There you go - you go again
What's the point in being friends?
Enough is enough; I'm a big girl
if you need to go just tell me now
When did you check out?
When did you sign off?
I didn't get the notice
how could you do this
Wish I knew
thought I knew you better...but whatever
I gave you everything
a girl could give you
It took me by surprise
I let time slip right
through my fingers
Letting you just tell me lies
We should've ended it a
whole lot sooner
but sometimes we can't see
A broken heart is
hanging from the ceiling
Right between you and me
Yeah, here we go, we go again
What's the point in
being friends?
Enough's enough, if we're
not in love
You need to let me go
quit holding on
When did you check out
when did you sign off
I didn't get the notice
how could you do this
Wish I knew though I
knew you better...but whatever
Now that you're checked out
now that we're signed off
Didn't you get the notice
that I am now through this
Wish you knew though
you knew me better but whatever
Baby baby tell me why
our feelings changed
I recall the days you
were my only friend
Baby tell me why we let
this fade away
I will miss you and the
love we used to share

Schiller & Nadia Ali "Try"

TRY

I know you don't believe me
when I say it's gonna be all right
I know you're tired of trying when you feel
you soul is dying inside

But you can count on me
I'm here for you
You can lean on me
believe it's true...

I know that I try,
I try...
I try to make you feel alright
You'll find, you'll
find, you'll find...
That in the middle of
the night, I am yours to love

Every word escapes me
when I think of all the things I've lost
Every where my head turns
it's a dead end road I'm on

Tocadisco & Nadia Ali "Better Run"

BETTER RUN

Once upon a time there lived a girl
She knew what she wanted from the world
In the brown eyes they could see
A fire that burned like summer heat
Nothing but trouble so they thought
They just watched her from afar
If they looked close that flame was a tear
But they hadn't seen a girl so fierce
You better run you better run you don't
know what you're in for
You don't know you don't know what you're
in you're in for
You better run you better run
Cause you don't know what you're in for
Once upon a time there lived a boy
Who would only play with real life toys
One hand here and one hand there
No attachments this man wears
A smile so sweet it's hard to see
That there's no fruit growing in his tree
Once a fool he learned long ago
It's better to burn than feel the cold
Play with fire and you will get burned

Serge Devant ft. Nadia Ali "12 Wives in Tehran"

Creamer & K ft. Nadia Ali & Rosko "Something To Lose"

SOMETHING TO LOSE

My heels are high and I'm thinking about talking a walk
I'm thinking here is only dragging me down
I'm not afraid, I'm gonna take you on
Get a taste of your medicine now
Cause this place
Is so cold
I can't stay
Under your hold
Anybody knows when, you use me, you'll
lose me
You're ...Never gonna learn til
You loose me, you lose me
Do I look to you
Like someone to use
Or am I to you only
Something to lose
My arms are tired and thinking about putting
you down
You're expensive, that's how princesses are
It's so strange, have I not given enough
Get a taste of life without me around
You've changed
From you heels to your soul
Who's using who?
Don't trip on your way home
You dream like a king
But your pride is a fool
I'm not the one who's ego
is so easily bruised
You say you are too strong
To be used, looking like a victim
At me the accused
But wait, I didn't want it this way
But you're making me wrong
And it's not about blame

Armin Van Buuren ft. Nadia Ali "Who is Watching?"

WHO IS WATCHING

Is it stinging?
The acid in your stream
Hear the ringing
Of voices in between

You picked this tune to play
And you had to have your way
Got your masterpiece
But you don't seem pleased

So here it is
Custom made
You wrapped the world
Around your finger
Did you take on
And endless tower
Has your spring
Turned into winter
You're frozen cold
A one man show
But who is Watching?
There's no one watching...

Now you got it
everything you asked
burned your bridges
so why you turning back

My doors won't fit you through
Your head's too heavy to
What could I give you now
I'm still the same tale

So here it is
Custom made
You wrapped the world
Around your finger
Did you take on
An endless tower
Has your spring
Turned into winter
You're frozen cold
A one man show
But who is watching?
There's no one watching...

You can't go back
and you can't come back