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Beyonce - If I Were A Boy
If I were a boy
Even just for a day
I’d roll outta bed in the morning
And throw on what I wanted then go
Drink beer with the guys
And chase after girls
I’d kick it with who I wated
And I’d never get confronted for it.
Cause they’d stick up for me.

[Chorus]
If I were a boy
I think I could understand
How it feels to love a girl
I swear I’d be a better man.
I’d listen to her
Cause I know how it hurts
When you lose the one you wanted
Cause he’s taken you for granted
And everything you had got destroyed

If I were a boy
I could turn off my phone
Tell evveryone it’s broken
So they’d think that I was sleepin’ alone
I’d put myself first
And make the rules as I go
Cause I know that she’d be faithful
Waitin’ for me to come home (to come home)

(Chorus)

It’s a little too late for you to come back
Say its just a mistake
Think I’d forgive you like that
If you thought I would wait for you
You thought wrong

(Chorus)

But you’re just a boy
You don’t understand
Yeah you don’t understand
How it feels to love a girl someday
You wish you were a better man
You don’t listen to her
You don’t care how it hurts
Until you lose the one you wanted
Cause you’ve taken her for granted
And everything you have got destroyed
But you’re just a boy

Usher - Trading Places
Now we gonna do this thing a lil different tonight
You gonna come over and pick me up in your ride
You gon knock and then you gon wait
Ooo you gon take me on a date
You gon open my door and ima reach over and open yours
Gon pay for dinner take me to see a movie
And whisper in my ear I bet you really wanna do me
Girl now take me home and get up in my bed
Pour me up a shot and force me to the bed
I'm always on the top tonight I'm on the bottom

Chorus

Coz we trading places
When I can't take no more, tell me you aint stopping
Coz we trading places
Now put it on me baby till I say ooo-we
And tell to shut up before the neighbours hear me
This is how it feels when you do it like me
We trading places
Gon get it, get it get it, get it get it,
Gon get it, get it get it, get it get it,
Gon get it, get it get it, get it get it,
We trading places

I'll be waking you up to a couple
Pancakes and eggs I owe ya breakfast in bed oh baby
And your orange juice sitting on the coaster
Toast on the side baby shawty?
You finished let me get that drink,
Pull the curtain from the window
Time to get up baby let me make this bed up
Today we goin shopping blow 30 on me
Make it 60, spend it like you really love me
Skip dinner and we gon rent a movie
You order chinese food right before you do me
You comin on strong baby let me wash me hands
She said hurry up then get your ass to bed
You get on top tonight I'm on the bottom

Chorus

(yeah) wash the car
(yeah) I'm gonna walk the dog
(yeah) take out the trash
(yeah) with nothing but your t-shirt on
(yeah) I'm gonna
(yeah) in the kitchen girl we crazy we don't give a
Where you want me…
You get on top tonight I'm on the bottom
Coz we trading places
When I can't take no more, you say you aint stopping
Coz we trading places
Now we gon do this thing a lil different tonight
Trading places
Stay tuned for part 2
You been me I been you
But we gon switch this thing back
Ima put it on your ass

Tagging this as music and politics. Politics, Usher? Oh yes, baby. Beyonce's is more obvious, but Usher's got some interesting things to say too. This video is highly sexual, as most of his videos are, but it's about how we do sex and how we define pleasure and work. I swear. Plus, yeah the usual sexism, but it's interesting.

Comments

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

Very neat.

Good songs, too. (Though not surprising. I love Beyonce like nobody's business and like Usher pretty well, too.)