Leon Bridges - Coming Home Album Lyrics

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Coming Home

Baby, baby, baby
I'm coming home
To your tender sweet loving
You're my one and only woman
The world leaves a bitter taste in my mouth, girl
You're the only one that I want

I wanna be around
I wanna be around you girl
I wanna be around girl
I wanna be around

Baby, how I'd be grieving
If you wanted to leave me all alone now
By myself, I don't want nobody else
The world leaves a bitter taste in my mouth, girl
You're the only one that I want

I wanna be around
I wanna be around you girl
I wanna be around girl
I wanna be around

Baby, baby, baby
I'm coming home
To your tender loving
You're my one and only woman
The world leaves a bitter taste in my mouth, girl
You're the only one that I want

I wanna be around
I wanna be around you girl
I wanna be around girl
I wanna be around

I need you baby
Girl I, I need your loving
Darling, wanna hold you close
Girl, girl

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Better Man

I don't want much
I just wanna be a better man
To my baby
Meet me off good luck
I was singing with them Jezebels
Under perfume sheets
Got a golden smile, heart overflow
But got us in love, but it wasn't enough

What can I do? What can I do?
To get back to your heart
I'd swim the Mississippi river
If you would give me another start, girl

All night long I was out
Out till the morning
But baby you're tender
Love's what I'm longing
Baby please, I'm down on my knees begging
I thirst for you girl
Baby I'm running to your well

What can I do? What can I do?
To get back to your heart
I'd swim the Mississippi river
If you would give me another start, girl

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Brown Skin Girl

Brown skin girl on the other side of the room
Brown skin girl staring with her brown eyes
Ooh, baby, don't you know you're a cutie pie?

Princess, little honey with the polka-dot dress on
Ruby-lipped lady whose name I don't know
Let me tell you, darling
Ooh ooh ooh
Ooh whoo-ooh
Ooh ooh ooh
Ooh whoo-ooh, OK

Brown skin girl with the white pearls 'round her neck
Brown skin girl, let me hold you close under the white moon
Cause baby, I'm ready and you know that I'm waiting on you

Princess, little honey with the polka-dot dress on
Ruby-lipped lady whose name I don't know
Let me tell you, darling
Ooh ooh ooh
Ooh whoo-ooh
Ooh ooh ooh
Ooh whoo-ooh
Ooh ooh ooh
Ooh whoo-ooh
Ooh ooh ooh
Ooh whoo-ooh

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Smooth Sailin'

Over the horizon
She's smooth sailin'
These concrete seas
Now she's headed
East down the boule - the vard

Sugar
Said I like the way (like the way)
Said I like the way (like the way)
You sail your ship down
Let me be your cargo

I won't wear you down
No honey I won't
Wear you down

I don't really know
Her destination
But I get a feeling I
Get to be your passenger
Sugar let me be your passenger

Sugar
Said I like the way (like the way)
Said I like the way (like the way)
You sail your ship down
Let me be your cargo

I won't wear you down
No honey I won't
Wear you down

She's smooth
Smooth sailin' (Smooth sailin' yeah)
She's smooth
Smooth, darling

Sweet pretty baby
Won't you be my lady, oh
Sweet Honey, darling
You know I'm calling
I want you

Sugar
Said I like the way (like the way)
Said I like the way (like the way)
You sail your ship down
Let me be your cargo

I won't wear you down
No honey I won't
Wear you down

She's smooth
Smooth sailin' (Smooth sailin' yeah)
She's smooth
Smooth, darling

Sweet pretty baby
Won't you be my lady, oh
Sweet Honey, darling
You know I'm calling
I want you

Sugar
Said I like the way (like the way)
Said I like the way (like the way)
You sail your ship down
Let me be your cargo

I won't wear you down
No honey I won't

Wear you down

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Shine

Lord, don't remember my sins
My sins from my youth
Don't remember my sins

And father, please elude my transgressions
Let them blow in the wind like sand
Cause all of my deeds, you know them

Use me as your vessel
I want to shine like the candle
Shine like the burning candle in the room

Lord, don't remember, ooh, don't remember

And father, please elude my transgressions
Let them blow in the wind like sand
Cause all of my deeds, you know them

Use me as your vessel
I want to shine like the candle
Shine like the burning candle in the room

Don't remember me as a [?] man walking
I don't wanna be like the Israel children

Lord, don't remember, ooh, don't remember
My sins from my youth

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Lisa Sawyer

She was born in New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana
Branded with the name Lisa Sawyer
Circa 1963

Grandmother was Indian
Indian
Her mother's name was Eartha
Swift as the wind
Fierce as fire
Her father's name was Victor
Worked two jobs to provide for his flock

She was the youngest of seven
Seven
She grew up on Louisa Street
Chaos around but inside cozy
Small but a mansion in her eyes
Eyes, eyes, mansion

Never had much money
Money
But was filthy rich
With the wealth you couldn't get from a dark casino
Or a lottery ticket
They had love
Love, love
Rich in love

She had the complexion of
The complexion of a sweet praline
Hair long as the sea
Heart warm like Louisiana sun
Voice like a symphony
Of the most beautiful instruments
Beautiful

At the age of sixteen
Sixteen
She found Christ at an altar
All along he was calling her name
The gospel spoken from an old wrinkly man
Man, man
Gospel

She was born in New Orleans
She was born in New Orleans
She was born in New Orleans
New Orleans

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Flowers

Flowers of the fields
Here today, vanish in the wind
Go to sleep, you may not wake up with the morning sunrise
Move so fast, baby, right before you close your eyes

So you better run
Move fast like the bullet from the gun
Over the hills, salvation rests in the sun
You're turnin' it, baby, rest in the sun
So won't you come?
So won't you come, baby?
So won't you come?
So won't you come, baby?

Making plans (ooh, bop, bop, bop) for tomorrow (ooh, bop, bop, bop)
Even though you don't (ooh, bop, bop, bop) don't know your fate (ooh, bop, bop, bop)
Blind eyes (ooh, bop, bop, bop) leaning on a whole dead faith (ooh, bop, bop, bop)
Sink your feet into (ooh, bop, bop, bop) a concrete foundation (ooh, bop, bop, bop)

So you better run
Move fast like the bullet from the gun
Over the hills, salvation rests in the sun
You're turnin' it, baby, rest in the sun
So won't you come?
So won't you come, baby?
So won't you come?
So won't you come?

I wanna tell you (tell you) about the good news (good news)
I wanna tell you (tell you) about the good news (good news)
I wanna tell you (tell you) about the good news (good news)
I wanna tell you (tell you)

So you better run
Move fast like the bullet from the gun
Over the hills, salvation rests in the sun
You're turnin' it, baby, rest in the sun
So won't you come?
So won't you come, baby?
So won't you come?
So won't you come, baby?

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Pull Away

Whoa, girl
I wanna (pull away) from you
It's been too long
I wanna (walk away) right now
I thought that our love was true
But all along, I was wrong

My pillow bears a tear of a man in pain
Our love, I thought I could sustain
Don't worry about me anymore
Cause I'll be gone by the morning time

Whoa, girl
I (poured out my heart) to you
Despite
You put a (knife in my back), straight through
I thought that our love was true
But all along, I was wrong

My pillow bears a tear of a man in pain
Our love, I thought I could sustain
Don't worry about me anymore
Cause I'll be gone by the morning time

I was wrong
I was wrong
I was wrong
I was wrong
I was wrong

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Twistin' And Groovin'

I got a call from my baby, said she fed up with me
Said she's found another lover in another city
Said she's doing fine in New Orleans

Now she got me pacing, huh, wondering where'd I go wrong
Got me going in circles like the merry-go-round
Gonna take the west train to Louisiana in the morning

Sweet little girl from the ninth ward of New Orleans
The way she dancing, you could see her from Tennessee
Up under that red dress are legs long as the bayou trees
She got a golden smile, I know she's the one for me in the room

She's a-twistin' and a-groovin', shakin' and a-movin'
She don't know what she doin' to me, I
Love the way that you dance, and honey, I've got a question:
Baby, would you be my queen?
All right now

Her name was Eartha was her name, I could never forget
Just like the way she dipped on the bronze-tiled floor
Honey was movin' with ease, each and every step
So good that baby had my eyes at her glow
No shiny jewelry, still the brightest thing illuminatin' the room

That girl is twistin' and a-groovin', shakin' and a-movin'
She don't know what she doin' to me, I
Love the way that you dance, and honey, I've got a question:
Baby, would you be my queen?

Ooh, ooh, baby
Ooh, ooh, baby
Ooh, ooh, baby
Ooh, that baby got a golden smile, I know she's the one for me in that room

That girl is a-twistin' and a-groovin', shakin' and a-movin'
She don't know what she doin' to me, I
Love the way that you dance, and honey, I've got a question:
Baby, would you be my queen?

Ooh, ooh, baby
Ooh, ooh, baby
Ooh, ooh, baby
Mmm, that baby got a golden smile, I know she's the one for me in that room

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River

Been traveling these wide roads for so long
My heart's been far from you
Ten-thousand miles gone

Oh, I wanna come near and give ya
Every part of me
But there is blood on my hands
And my lips aren't clean

In my darkness I remember
Momma's words reoccur to me
"Surrender to the good Lord
And he'll wipe your slate clean"

Take me to your river
I wanna go
Oh, go on
Take me to your river
I wanna know

Tip me in your smooth waters
I go in
As a man with many crimes
Come up for air
As my sins flow down the Jordan

Oh, I wanna come near and give ya
Every part of me
But there is blood on my hands
And my lips aren't clean

Take me to your river
I wanna go
Go on,
Take me to your river
I wanna know

I wanna go, wanna go, wanna go
I wanna know, wanna know, wanna know
Wanna go, wanna go, wanna go
Wanna know, wanna know, wanna know
Wanna go, wanna go, wanna go
Wanna know, wanna know, wanna know

Take me to your river
I wanna go
Lord, please let me know
Take me to your river
I wanna know