ups and downs

Ryan Leslie

I wish I could change the minds that decided
That I shouldn t be knighted
As a modern day prince
It only makes sense
Playing every instrument
All the money I spent
Doin shows with the band
Everybody was sayin
That I
Should ve kept the show money
Put it in my pocket
But I wanted to show you the way I really rock it
That real music
That real emotion
Them 80 s synths
That Billy Ocean
There ll be sad songs
Maybe they make you cry
Maybe they give you reason why you should date a guy
Or maybe a reason why you should break it off
Or maybe the moment when you should take it off
Girl, girl
I do it, I do it
That kissin
That French
I m fluent, I m fluent
I got your mind open on that music, that music
Lovin the way you movin , when we doin
what we doin now

Up, down
Round and round
I can work your body through all your
Ups and Downs
I ll show you how
We can make it last through all our
Ups and Downs
Yeah, you don t even know
I mma make your body feel all those
Ups and Downs
Good, good baby
Cause ain t no way to get around
Ups and Downs

Late nights
No sleep
If I ain t on my hustle then I won t eat
Dreamin big
Just wanna live good
I do it for the homies in my old hood
Music banging through the windows they ain t called the cops
Showed up at the virgin when my album dropped
I do it for my sister, for my mom and pop
I used to be homeless behind a barber shop
I wrote some sad songs
Maybe they made you cry
Maybe they gave you a reason why you should date a guy
Or maybe the reason why you should break it off
Or maybe the moment when you should take it off
Girl, girl
I do it, I do it
That kissin
That French
I m fluent, I m fluent
If I don t take you with me then I m ruined, I m ruined
Lovin the way you movin , when we doin
what we doin right

And I swear that I mma hold you down
I do it through the ups and downs
And when your world is spinnin round and round
I do it through the ups and downs
And when you feel like you about to drown
I do it through the ups and downs
I do it through the ups and downs down