MAIAH LAY

FREEDOM
Music: Rebecca Laakso/Daniel Lantz
Lyrics: Rebecca Laakso

I think I’m flying, can’t feel the ground,
man, I’m not lying, can’t find no words, no no
I start to shimmer, gleam and shine
I bet this feeling always will be mine
and when I wake up in the morning
I get down on my knees, so happy I’m not dreaming

My legs are moving side to side
I cannot help it, I’m flying high,
got good things around me and on my mind
I got my style and I got my pride
I heard you wonder why I walk around and smile,

well, guess what, I'm gonna tell you now

I’m a free woman
a free woman, baby
I’m gonna live in sunshine now
ain’t nobody gonna bring me down
Free woman, baby
I said love will open every door,
and when you got it then you just want more Freedom

I had some company I shouldn’t have
but they're long gone now, it’s in the past
made the wrong decisions, now I’ll make it right I believe and I can breath, surrounded by light I used to wonder, now I know, and I’m stronger than I've ever been before

I’m a free woman
a free woman, baby
I’m gonna live in sunshine now
ain’t nobody gonna bring me down
Free woman, baby
I said love will open every door,
and when you got it then you just want more Freedom

Do you like your freedom?
Yo sayin’ yeah yeah yeah
Do you like your freedom?
Yo sayin’ yeah yeah yeah
Do you like your freedom?
Yo sayin’ yeah yeah yeah
Movin’ on, movin’ on, freedom!

I’m a free woman
a free woman, baby
I’m gonna live in sunshine now
ain’t nobody gonna bring me down
Free woman, baby
I said love will open every door,
and when you got it then you just want more

Freedom

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TOUCHING MY SOUL
Music: Rebecca Laakso/Daniel Lantz
Lyrics: Rebecca Laakso

I’m not about to lose now, I won’t lose now

baby, I’m about to call

I’m all about to win, you don’t know how it’s been

Imma get it, wanna have it all

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It’s clear in my mind what I want this time, 

I don’t need a man, got to understand

I’ve been lying to y’all

Sometimes I wish I didn’t know 

where life would take me and where I’d go

but it’s written down, I can see that now

La la la la la la la la

You touching my soul now

La la la la la la la la

with your fingers so cold now

La la la la la la la la

You touching my soul now

La la la la la la la la

with your fingers so cold now

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It’s hard for you to say no, just say no

you walking around and asking me why

well, everything is changing and I’m changing

and I found the one so now boy you can go

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Why you hating, why you hating on me?

Why you hating, why you hating on me?

Why you hating, why you hating on me?

Why you hating, why you hating on me?

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FANTASTIC
Music & Lyrics: Daniel Lantz
 

Here's a man who's on the ball,
been there, done that, seen it all

He opens up and shares but it's so…

Sells the life of thousand dreams

to fire up your self-esteem

The story sure is nice but it's so…

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Amazing, fantastic, gotta getcha enthusiastic

Exciting, so drastic, maybe just a little too fantastic

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A smile to make your ego cheer, 

he cares for things we want to hear

Speaks of peace on earth but it's so…

Laughs and chimes in with the times,

a trite routine and so he pines

for sympathetic gestures but it's so…

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Amazing, fantastic, gotta getcha enthusiastic

Exciting, so drastic, maybe just a little too fantastic

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Dishes out the make-believe,

old recipe from up his sleeve

Keeps the cover up but it's so…

Loves his modern fairytale,

a thrill for those he knows so well

His system isn't perfect but it's so…

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Amazing, fantastic, gotta getcha so enthusiastic

Exciting, so drastic, maybe just a little too fantastic

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A champion to procrastinate,

goes up in smoke that desperate day

No push and no shove, well it's so…

Tries the truth but makes it sweet,

Pulls his stunt to make ends meet

Paints it by the numbers but it's so…

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Amazing, fantastic, gotta getcha so enthusiastic

Exciting, so drastic, maybe just a little too fantastic

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Back in from that rainbow's end,

a damage only time can mend

The dust has left our eyes and it's so…

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WHAT YA DOIN' (feat. Papa Dee)
Music: Rebecca Laakso/Daniel Lantz
Lyrics: Rebecca Laakso
 

I’ve been unfocused, lately it’s been about you all the time

And I haven’t noticed that my body’s getting wetty when it’s hittin’ my mind

I can’t control it, thoughts of you was interrupt my entirely life

I cannot wait until we meet again skin to skin tonight

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When we oh get down for real

I’ve been waiting for so long so why should we hold on

I know how you feel, I want you to get in my zone

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‘Hey Hey’

Gimme de ting, just gimme de ting, what a feelin'

(Thoughts of you was interrupt my entirely life)

Oh yeah, baby what you doin’ to me?

‘Hey Hey’

What ya doin', what ya doin', what ya doin' to me

(Thoughts of you was interrupt my entirely life)

Oh yeah, baby what you doin’ to me?

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You know I’m on it, I come whenever when you want me to be, there I want it so bad so bad, mmm oh I need it

I know exactly how I want it to be, nobody else, just you and me and I’m tired of waiting and I believe 

that you feel the same, go set me free 

And I be like…

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until we meet the next time

Skin to skin, what a feelin'

reach for the ceilin'

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for the true meaning

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Boy, lately it’s been about you all the time

And I haven’t noticed

that my body’s getting wetty when it’s hitting my mind

I can’t control it, thoughts of you interrupt my entire life

I cannot wait

until we meet again skin to skin tonight

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When we oh get down for real

I’ve been waiting for so long so why should we hold on

I know how you feel, I want you to get in my zone

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‘Hey Hey’

(Thoughts of you was interrupt my entirely life)

Oh yeah, baby what you doin’ to me?

‘Hey Hey’

(Thoughts of you was interrupt my entirely life)

Oh yeah, baby what you doin’ to me?

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STAY
Music: Rebecca Laakso/Daniel Lantz
Lyrics: Rebecca Laakso
 

I can’t resist you no more
don’t know why I’m feeling so low

and I got my eyes open
don’t know what she’s doing
guess that’s why I suffer so
 

I want you to stay in my life

you would be my man and I’ll be your wife

I know you can feel me, hear me and see me

cause I left on you my both eyes

I know you can feel me everyday you’re not with me

and knowing that we are young that makes me feel alright cause you haven’t grown up being with that girl that you hooked up with

as long as time goes by we can live and love again

You are the love of my life

and I know you love me so much

I don’t want no trouble just hold me and I’ll be alright

and I’ll be alright

 

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HELLO BABY
Music: Rebecca Laakso/Daniel Lantz
Lyrics: Rebecca Laakso

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Hello, baby

I’ve missed you so much

Pretty baby (your smile)

making me blush

I’ve been waiting for the sun to rise

this early morning got a perfect surprise

Hello, baby

I’ve missed you so much

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Hello, hello

I’ve been longing for your love

your lips, your kisses and oh you’re so pretty

I wanna feel your love

mouth is so hot wanna make out with it

Hello, hello

I’ve been longing for your love

I’ve been longing for your love

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Hello, baby

where have you been?

Isn’t it crazy

now you’re under my skin

I’ve been waiting for the sun to rise

this early morning got a perfect surprise

Hello, baby

where have you been?

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Hello, hello

I’ve been longing for your love

your lips, your kisses and oh you’re so pretty

I wanna feel your love

mouth is so hot wanna make out with it

Hello, hello

I’ve been longing for your love

your lips, your kisses and oh you’re so pretty

I wanna feel your love

mouth is so hot wanna make out with it

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WHY DON'T YOU MISS ME?
Music: Daniel Lantz
Lyrics: Daniel Lantz/Rebecca Laakso
 

You say you love me you say that you do

but I don’t know if I trust you

And I was so sure when you said that before but now

it’s like I don’t know you

 

Time is flying by

and I wonder every night

what I'm supposed to do

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I give you everything you want and more but I

get none in return

You don’t seem to care when I try to be there for you boy

I'm getting concerned

 

Don't wanna play this game

Will I ever find a way

to get what I deserve?

 

I wanna have your love

But you're not givin' it to me

Baby I just wouldn't see

Why you never wanted me

I give you all my love

and I try to make you feel

But you wanted to be free

This was never meant to be

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So what's the thing here, we ain't goin' nowhere when I

try to reach you

Just want you close, don't want you to go, no, tell me why

is that an issue?

 

Time is flying by

and I wonder every night

what I'm supposed to do

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You keep on telling me I should not worry and things

will get better

And I know, I know, yeah, I heard that before, it was good

before you met her

 

Don't wanna play this game

Will I ever find a way

to get what I deserve?

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I wanna have your love

But you're not givin' it to me

Baby I just wouldn't see

Why you never wanted me

I give you all my love

and I try to make you feel

Now you wanted to be free

This was never meant to be

Baby I just wouldn't see

Why you never wanted me

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I try my best to love you

(So why don't you miss me, baby?)

I say the words that please you

(So why don't you miss me, baby?)

I hold your hands and kiss you

(So why don't you miss me, baby?)

I give you things you wish for

(So why don't you miss me, baby?)

I feel my love grows stronger

(So why don't you miss me, baby?)

Well you're not there any longer

(So why don't you miss me, baby?)

I shine each time you see me

(So why don't you miss me, baby?)

I cry when you don't love me

(So why don't you miss me, baby?)

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CRAZY WITH LOVE
Music: Daniel Lantz
Lyrics: Daniel Lantz/Rebecca Laakso

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I used to feel so lost way back in the day

but since I met you all my troubles seem far away

no one told me love was blind

Funny how you make me feel on top of the world,

when you gimme the looks but never say the words

But I can read your mind

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I don't know just what it is

Or why you make me feel like this

I got my own analysis

I'm in love with you, now I know you love me

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Feeling the summer

slowly burning away

Could you be closer

so we can be together baby

You're the one who's driving me crazy with love

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With you I don't ever have to put on a show 

and I don’t need no make up or fancy clothes

and it gets me every time

I love every part of your body and face

you’re so fine, boy, I will never replace you

just wanna say you’re mine

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I don't know just what it is

Or why you make me feel like this

I got my own analysis

I'm in love with you, now I know you love me

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Feeling the summer

slowly burning away

Could you be closer

so we can be together baby

You're the one who's driving me crazy with love

 

Wishing the summer

was over and gone in a day

cos there'll be no summer

if I'm still here without you baby

You're the one who's driving me crazy with love

 

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CAN'T GET NOTHING FROM YOU
Music: Rebecca Laakso/Daniel Lantz
Lyrics: Rebecca Laakso
 

Baby, you never told me you were sorry

couldn’t do nothing for me

you never told me I was pretty

And baby, you know how really bad I want ya

but I can do nothing for ya

and I don’t have much money

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If I’m not good enough, don’t waste your time,

go and get your stuff and stop with those things that you do and what you say to me

You don’t know what I got, see I want to grow and learn stuff and with your head high I can’t get anything from you

 

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I can’t get nothing from you, get nothing from you

You can’t get much more from me, get much more from me

I can’t get nothing from you, get nothing from you

You can’t get much more from me, get much more from me

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Baby, ever since I let you own it

I never felt so lonely

got to find a place to be

And baby, don’t act like you don’t know it

I don’t want to be lonely

so I’m saying goodbye

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I’m leaving today

I’m leaving today

I’m leaving today

I’m leaving, I’m leaving today

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THE RIDDLE
Music & Lyrics: Nik Kershaw
 

I got two strong arms

Blessings of Babylon
Time to carry on and try

For sins and false alarms

So to America the brave

Wise men save

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I got plans for us
Nights in the scullery
And days instead of me
I only know what to discuss

Oh, for anything but light

Wise men fighting over you

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It's not me you see
Pieces of Valentine
And just this song of mine

To keep from burning history

Seasons of gasoline and gold

Wise men fold

I got time to kill
Sly looks in corridors
Without a plan of yours
A blackbird sings on bluebird hill

Thanks to the calling of the wild

Wise men's child

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Near a tree by a river there's a hole in the ground

Where an old man of Aran goes around and around

And his mind is a beacon in the veil of the night

For a strange kind of fashion there's a wrong and a right

But he'll never, never fight over you

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TROUBLE TRAIN
Music: Rebecca Laakso/Daniel Lantz

Lyrics: Rebecca Laakso/Nils Jansson

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I messed it up, I’m on a trouble train

I’m packin’ up, back on the same road again

Same dirt, pain and shame tight in my hand

Tryin’ to clean it up, but it seems to remain

and because it’s easier when you got God to blame

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Nailed by myself and I can’t find myself kind

always an empty gap in my mind

and I don’t seem to care about anything but me for some reason

And always in the end in this pathetic war 

between myself and I am lying flat on the floor 

and in the end someone has to build me up again for some reason

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Tired of mundane and sick of demands

Trouble train's at the station - got my ticket in hand

Delusions of grandeur's how I'm kickin' it man,

actin' like my next track will be big in Japan

Meanwhile enough bills are pilin' up for me to dive in 'em who knows one day it might erupt but I don't give the slightest fuck

I'll ride the trouble train 'til that train is wrecked,

less "fake it 'til you make it" - more "fake it 'til you break your neck"

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You and I we got a great history

so come a little closer and listen to me

you think I’m wild but that’s not how it is

I just need love so now come back to me

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Not even close to fortune and fame

and my smile is so far away

He took my heart and my soul, all that I had

So I light up, don’t care about this game

don’t give a fuck if I lose my name

If I’m not a winner then I’m gonna sit down, be mad and be quiet

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I don’t know about you but I think you’re insane

and I don’t think it’s pretty how you mess with my brain

your stupid little lover does exactly what you say, poor child

And then in the end when I’m done talking

you always scream and yell at me and start walking

away cause you’re not afraid

cause I’m the slave and you’re OK up there

 

Not really mad at you - just got a rather rude attitude in general and I'm all animal - wanna battle dude?

Posin' as a man of huge stature too, that'll do,

better be lookin' out when I'm passin' through,

casual people just annoy me so I spit in their faces,

keep flippin' 'em off on a regular basis

In the end this approach will undoubtedly fail,

trouble train's on the track and about to derail

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You and I we got a great history

so come a little closer and listen to me

you think I’m wild but that’s not how it is

I just need love so now come back to me

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I messed it up, I’m on a trouble train

I’m packin’ up, back on the same road again

Same dirt, pain and shame tight in my hand

Tryin’ to clean it up, but it seems to remain

and because it’s easier when you got God to blame

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Nailed by myself and I can’t find myself kind

always an empty gap in my mind

and I don’t seem to care about anything but me for some reason

And always in the end in this pathetic war 

between myself and I am lying flat on the floor 

and in the end someone has to build me up again for some reason

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Tryin to get off
Time to pull the brakes, cos I'd rather get off

I just need love

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BY THE RIVER
Music & Lyrics: Daniel Lantz

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Mean old man

Sister love

Mary and Eve mustn't tell

All those years

That mean old man

Turned every day into hell

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Steely eyes

A beast of man

Went over and over again

Sisters played

The waiting game

As only dreamers can

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How a twosome keeps growing older

With the hatred brewing inside

And a moon to drive men crazy

Made the lasses stand up and fight

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Mary and Eve did him with their daggers

By the river in the black of night

Can you believe 'tis the stuff of legend by the river

Mary and Eve did him with their daggers

By the river in the black of night

Can you believe 'tis the stuff of legend by the river

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Old man down

Sister love

Mary and Eve wouldn't tell

Innocent

Blue green eyes

Their story no one couldn't sell

 

How a twosome keeps growing older

With the hatred brewing inside

And a moon to drive men crazy

Made the lasses stand up and fight

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By the river, by the river, by the river

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JUST WANNA LIVE
Music: Rebecca Laakso/Daniel Lantz
Lyrics: Rebecca Laakso

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You know that you came to me,

you know that I set you free, boy

Every time I think about us I always cry silently cause 

I gave you all of me, thought I gave you everything you needed

And now I'm crashed down, down to the ground

so now you listen carefully 

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You said I messed it up but I was not the one who did it 

I was on the top but you hurt me so bad and now, now

now I can't get up, can't get up, can't get up 

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I just wanna live my life

I just wanna live my life 

I just wanna live my life

I just wanna, just wanna, just wanna  

just wanna

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Believe me when I tell you, I really loved you, boy

You made me feel so happy, you gave me love and joy

You taught me everything about love and about pain 

You had my heart, we'd never be apart 

You told me that you felt the same

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You said I messed it up but I was not the one who did it 

I was on the top but you hurt me so bad and now, now

now I can't get up, can't get up, can't get up 

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I just wanna live my life without you

It's my life and you don't have to be around

I just wanna live my life without you

It's my life and you don't have to be around

if I don't want to