Alicia Keys - Girl on Fire Album Lyrics

[Instrumental]

It's been a while
I'm not who I was before
You look surprised
Your words don't burn me anymore
Been meanin' to tell ya
But I guess it's clear to see
Don't be mad
It's just a brand new kinda me
Can't be bad
I found a brand new kinda free

Careful with your ego
He's the one that we should blame
Had to grab my heart back
God knows something had to change
I thought that you'd be happy
I found the one thing I need
Why you mad?
It's just a brand new kinda me

Ooh, it took a long long time to get here
It took a brave, brave girl to try
It took one too many excuses
One too many lies
Don't be surprised, don't be surprised

If I talk a little louder
If I speak up when you're wrong
If I walk a little taller
I've been under you too long
If you notice that I'm different
Don't take it personally
Don't be mad
It's just a brand new kinda me
That ain't bad
I found a brand new kinda free

Ooh, it took a long, long road to get here
It took a brave, brave girl to try
I've taken one too many excuses
One to many lies
Don't be surprised, oh, said, you look surprised

Hey, if you were a friend
You'd wanna get to know me again
If you were worth the while
You'd be happy to see me smile
I'm not expecting sorry
I'm too busy finding myself
I got this
I found me, I found me, yeah

I don't need your opinion
I'm not waiting for your okay
I'll never be perfect,
But at least now I'm brave
I know my heart is open
I can finally breathe
Don't be mad
It's just a brand new kinda free
That ain't bad
I found a brand new kinda me
Don't be mad
It's just a brand new time for me

And it feels so good
Don't you feel so good?
Talk to me

Hey, I never been this good, not ever, not ever
Never seen this part of me
I know that nothing last forever, however
Oh, I'm not worried about tomorrow
Cause tomorrow may not come
And where my heart take me I follow, you gotta follow

When they lay me down, put my soul to rest
When they ask me how I spent my life
At least I got to love you, when it's all over
When it's all said and done, when it's all over
At least I got to love you, at least I got to love you

Hey, ask when I wanna leave
A lifelong legacy, me loving you and you loving me
Oh, I'm not worried about tomorrow, tomorrow
All I know, all the time we have is borrowed, I feel no sorrow

When they lay me down, put my soul to rest
When they ask me how I spent my life
At least I got to love you, when it's all over
When it's all said and done, when it's all over
At least I got to love you, at least I got to love you

Everybody say hey hey hey hey...

If I do nothing else, oh
If I do nothing else, oh
At least I got to love you, oh yeah
At least I got to love you, tell 'em baby

If I do nothing else, oh
Don't gotta do nothing else, oh oh
At least I got to love you, hey
At least I got to love you

Everybody say hey hey hey hey...
Everybody say hey hey hey hey...

Say mommy, (mommy)
Say I love you (Love you)
(Bye bye) Bye bye, already?
Can you say aye, (aye yo)
How about aye aye aye aye (aye aye aye)
Good boy, what's your name, (CK)
Hahaha, but what's your name? (Egypt)
Aww man, I love you!
(I love you, bye bye)

He says
Have no fear
open up
Let me in

He says
Take a chance
Here's your song
Time to dance

What you're gonna do when it comes for you
Listen to my heart

Oh, You gotta listen to your heart
Listen to your heart
Oh, Why don't you listen to your heart

He says
Here's your sky
Don't look down
We can fly

You said
You're a little bit scared
Just hold on
We're almost there

What you're gonna do when it comes for you
Listen to my heart

Oh, You gotta listen to your heart
Listen to your heart
Oh, Why don't you listen to your heart

You never know until you try
Why so scared when hearts don't lie
Turn off the world and close your eyes
Lose yourself and listen to your heart

Oh, Why don't you listen to your heart
Listen to your heart
Oh, Why don't you listen to your heart

Hey
You know what to do when it comes for you
Hey

You gotta listen baby [x4]
Aha, You gotta listen to it
I'll get you hear it
You gotta listen baby
Mmm

AK, new day
AK, auu!

Party people say, party people say
Ay, it's a new day, it's a new day
The world is getting ready, everybody's ready, yeah
For a new day, for a new day
Celebrate and say, ay, ay, ay, ay

It's alright to feel however you want to
There's no limitation no
Fill up your life, let me see your hands up one time
I celebrate mine, cause I ain't gonna get no more
So we can do this all night
One time, everybody say ay ay oh

There's a feeling that I got that I can't give up
Feeling in my heart that I can't get over
I know that it's coming let the sun come up
Tell me do you feel the same, everybody say

Party people say, party people say
Ay, it's a new day, it's a new day
The world is getting ready, everybody's ready, yeah
For a new day, for a new day
Celebrate and say, ay, ay, ay, ay

Take a look in my eyes, can't you see I'm ready
Come along, let's get it, eh
If you wanna touch the sky, hands in the air one time
All night, and all day
I'mma live it loud like there's only one life
Left to live it up, one life left to live it up

There's a feeling that I got that I can't give up
Feeling in my heart that I can't get over
I know that it's coming let the sun come up
Tell me do you feel the same, everybody say

Party people say, party people say
Ay, it's a new day, it's a new day
The world is getting ready, everybody's ready, yeah
For a new day, for a new day
Celebrate and say, ay, ay, ay, ay

Clock's on the wall
It's now or never at all
I'm gonna give it my all
Whether I rise or fall
I'm gonna give it my all

Party people say, party people say
Ay, it's a new day, it's a new day
The world is getting ready, everybody's ready, yeah
For a new day, for a new day
Celebrate and say...

Celebrate and say...

Celebrate and say...

Celebrate and say...

She's just a girl and she's on fire
Hotter than a fantasy, lonely like a highway
She's living in a world and it's on fire
Feeling the catastrophe, but she knows she can fly away

Ohhhh oh oh oh oh
She got both feet on the ground
And she's burning it down
Ohhhh oh oh oh oh
She got her head in the clouds
And she's not backing down

This girl is on fire...
This girl is on fire...
She's walking on fire...
This girl is on fire...

Looks like a girl, but she's a flame
So bright, she can burn your eyes
Better look the other way
You can try but you'll never forget her name
She's on top of the world
Hottest of the hottest girls say

Ohhhh oh oh oh
We got our feet on the ground
And we're burning it down
Ohhhh oh oh oh oh
Got our head in the clouds
And we're not coming down

This girl is on fire...
This girl is on fire...
She's walking on fire...
This girl is on fire...

Everybody stares, as she goes by
'Cause they can see the flame that's in her eyes
Watch her when she's lighting up the night
Nobody knows that she's a lonely girl
And it's a lonely world
But she gon' let it burn, baby, burn, baby

This girl is on fire...
This girl is on fire...
She's walking on fire...
This girl is on fire...

Oh, oh, oh, oh ohhhhh oh oh oh ohhh oh oh oh ohhhh... [4x]

She's just a girl and she's on fire

Yeah
It's crazy
It's crazy
Come on, come on yeah
I wanna tell you really
Oh yeah, all I wanna know yeah
Hey
I wanna know yeah

[Alicia]
Hey baby how you doing tonight
I wanna let you know
I wanna tell you just how I feel
I wanna love you baby
And it's going so right
I wanna burn a candle
Turn the darkness to the light

With the fire we make
It's getting hotter and hotter
Like a moth to a flame
I can't stay away
From the fire we make
It's getting higher and higher
Like the night to the day
I can't stay away
No no no
stay away

[Maxwell]
Hi baby, won't you tell me the truth
You wanna be the one
You can't stay away
Oh, hey darling
Don't you make no excuse
We can chase this on
And burn the hole inside you

With the fire we make
It's getting hotter and hotter
Like a moth to a flame
I can't stay away
From the fire we make
It's getting higher and higher
Like the night to the day
I can't stay, I can't stay away

[Alicia and Maxwell]
This invisible bullet and it takes us to the stars
It's getting higher and higher
It's the fire we make, (it's the fire we make)
Getting sweeter and sweeter
Like a night to a day
(About to make up this flame)
I can't stay away, say is, no no (yeah)
No no no, No no no, Can't stay away (Can't stay)
No no no (Oh you can't)
No no no (Baby baby baby)
No no no, Yaahhhh

I wanna tell you, I wanna love you
I just wanna stay with you
I can't be done
I just can't stay away
I wanna make some much fire with you baby
I wanna go, gonna go to you darling, ah
I say yeah yeah

Check it out
It feels kinda crazy

These covers
May keep me warm at night
But they can't take your place
Cause they never gonna hold me tight

And these pillows
May let me rest my head
But they can't say good night
And tuck me in before I go to bed

Say now baby girl you're better off
That's what I'm telling myself (over and over)
But I'm lying to myself
Cause I know I don't want nobody else

[Chorus:]
These lips are missing you
Cause these lips ain't kissing you
These eyes put up a fight
But once again these tears always win
These arms are wanting you
Cause these arms ain't holding you
These eyes put up a fight
But once again these tears always win

These candles
Light up my room at night
But they can't light the room they way you did
When you walked inside, oh baby

If these walls could sing
About everything they've witnessed
Oh it'd be a sad sad song
And it'll probably sound something like this

Say now baby girl you're better off
That's what I'm telling myself (over and over)
But I'm lying to myself
Cause I know I don't want nobody else

[Chorus:]
These lips are missing you
Cause these lips ain't kissing you
These eyes put up a fight
But once again these tears always win
These arms are wanting you
Cause these arms ain't holding you
These eyes put up a fight
But once again these tears always win

Tell me when the hell this loneliness is gonna be over
When everything in this room reminds me of you
Everytime I think, I'm getting closer
Cause tears drown me out, once again I lose

These lips are missing you
These lips ain't kissing you
I put up a fight
But once again these tears always win
These arms are wanting you
These arms ain't holding you
These eyes put up a fight
But once again these tears always win

Crying like oh oh...
These eyes put up a fight
But once again these tears always win
Crying like oh oh...
These eyes put up a fight
But once again these tears always win
These eyes put up a fight
But once again these tears always win

Money...
some people so poor; all that they've got is money...
Oh, and diamonds...
some people waste their life counting their thousands...

I don't care what they're offering...
how much gold they got?
They can't afford what we've got,
not even the king...
They can't afford what we've got,
not even the king...

Oh, castles...
some people so lonely; what good is a castle
surrounded by people?
But ain't got a friend that's not on the payroll...

Oh, and I don't care what they bring;
they can have everything...
They can't afford what we've got,
not even the king...
They can't afford what we've got,
not even the king...

All the king's horses and all the king's men
came charging to get what we got...
They offered the crown and the offered the throne;
I already got what I want...

All the king's horses and all the king's men;
they came marching through...
They offered the world just to have what we got,
but I found the world in you...
I found the world in you...

So darling, listen:
your arms around me worth more than a kingdom...
Yeah, believe that
the trust that we feel the kings never felt that...

Yeah, this is the song that we sing...
We don't need anything...
They can't afford this;
this is priceless...

Can't afford what we've got,
not even the king...
Can't afford what we've got,
not even the king...

Right there
In the middle of a conversation
Wasn't anything special you said
It was just there

Right then
I didn't have time even to overthink it
I loved you and all of a sudden
I was all in

It's like my knees are all weak and the butterflies
They were dancing and taking all of my air
From that moment on it was very clear

That's when I knew I fell in love
That's when I knew you were the one
That's when I knew you stole my heart away from me
That's when I knew that I was sunk
That was the moment that I knew I was in love
That's when I knew
That's when I knew
That's when I knew

That day
I didn't know we were going where the night would end
I didn't know there was something brewing and if it was
I didn't know how much I care

That touch
When you barely held my hand I was overcome
With feelings I don't understand
Not in a million years I didn't think that we'd be here

It's like my knees are all weak and the butterflies
Got me dancing and taking all of my air
From that moment on it was very very very very clear

[Chorus:]
That's when I knew I fell in love
That's when I knew you were the one
That's when I knew you stole my heart away from me
That's when I knew that I was sunk
That was the moment that I knew I was in love
That's when I knew
That's when I knew
That's when I knew
Don't you know it?
Hey
That's when I knew Baby
That's when I knew
That's when I knew

Baby

You know (that?) you know
You know what you feel
And there's no denying
That love is for real
There is nothing to do
Just let it in
Gotta surrender

[Chorus:]
That's when I knew I fell in love
That's when I knew you were the one
That's when I knew you stole my heart away from me
That's when I knew that I was sunk
That was the moment that I knew I fell in love
(That's when I knew)
(That's when I knew)
(That's when I knew)
That's when I knew with that minute
That's when I knew it was that beautiful
Sometimes you get it, sometimes you get it
That's when I knew it baby
Yeah, that's when I knew
That's when I knew we fell in love

Yeah, hmmm
Murder murder, I took the red pill
My heart it goes boom every time that we feel
And if he be Jack, then I guess me be Jill
Fell into his arms got me head over the hills

I'm saying, whoa
Feel it up and down and in my soul
If I used to be broken, now I'm whole, oh no
I'm at his mercy, mercy, mercy tonight

I can't count to no amount
There's no limits, no no
To the ways I could love you, babe
Take me over, I can't get over
There's no limits, no no
To the ways I could love you, babe

One two three, to infinity yeah
Two three four, it's ubiquity
It's four five six, to a limitedless love

If there's another one
He's not in this world, love
Can't be no other one
There is only you

Only one and one, only leaves us two love
And when I'm through being your girl
We can stop the whole world for us

I'm saying, whoa
Feel it up and down and in your soul
I'll forever be here at his mercy, mercy, mercy
Loving him for eternity, eternity, eternity
Cause I

I can't count to no amount
There's no limits, no no
To the ways I could love you, babe
Take me over I can't get over
There's no limits, no no
To the ways I could love you, babe

One two three, to infinity yeah
Two three four, here's my prophecy yeah
Four five six, to a limitedless love

Ah oh oh, oh oh oh
Ah oh oh, oh oh oh

One two three, to infinity yeah
Two three four, this is my decree yeah
Four five six, to a limitedless love

A limited, limited, limited, limitedless love
A limitedless love, a limitedless love
A limited, limited, limited, limitedless love
A limitedless love, a limitedless love

Ah oh oh, oh oh oh
Ah oh oh, oh oh oh

What, where am I?

What's life like on a train
Nobody there knows your name
As your decision changed
Do you wish that I came

I thought you'd pick me up from work
I waited for your truck for half hour
I know you said you gonna
But I never thought you'd leave

[Chorus:]
This one thing that was made for us
Chasing us, saving us
I take one thing over everything
I take that thing over anybody

Square face and puppy eyes
Found out they never lied
Your old man lived in the sky
Left your house with a yard
But you went away a different try
Found a place that's your size
Too good to finish life here with me

I couldn't get you to say
Why you wouldn't let me come
What should be simple just ain't
And it shouldn't hurt like it does

[Chorus:]
This one thing is made for us
Won't stay with us, it ain't saving us
But I'll take one thing over everything
I'll take that thing over anybody

Baby, hold me, don't pick me up
I need a compliment
Just a touch from a friend
I need a gentle word
I need your company
I'll keep

[Chorus:]
One thing that was made for us
Chasing us, saving us
I take one thing over anything
I take that thing over anybody

I take one thing over everything
I take that thing over anybody
Oh, oh, anything
Oh, oh, take one thing

You used to the sound of a heart that's breaking
I know it don't phase you anymore
You're the king of the game that you're playing
I know you've played it a hundred times before

You fill your bedroom up with trophies
Then you get a kick out of closing the door
Got all the words to keep on hoping
I know you've said them a hundred times before

Then there's me, all fox for your gun
Then there's me, just love me for fun
Then there's me, no use in pretending
Oh there's me, a 101

I might as well stand in front of a bullet
Close my eyes and kick the chair to the floor
It's like a speeding train that is coming,
I know you've crashed it 100 times before

Then there's me, all fox for your gun
Then there's me, just love me for fun
Uh there's me, no, no use in pretending
Oh there's me, a 101

Everybody says I gotta be crazy
That I deserve everything that I get
But I got a feeling
That makes me wanna ignore all that you've done a 100 times before

Cause then there's me, could I be the one
And baby there's me, to make you undone
Uh darling there's me, no use, no use in pretending
Oh there's me, a 101
Me, 101
So I gotta be, I gotta be, I gotta be a 101
Maybe it's time, maybe it's me
Maybe I could be, Maybe pretend
I gotta be, I gotta be 101,
Yeah baby