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Brown Sugar

D'Angelo

4:22•neo soul • Album Brown Sugar • 1995-07-03

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Description

It all starts as a casual conversation - as if two old acquaintances met at a jazz bar and started reminiscing about ‘the good old days.’ Only then does the music straighten your shoulders, and the air becomes thick as molasses. Your body sways on its own, as if it knows the rhythm in advance.

Every line is lazy pleasure, every breath is unhurried flirtation. Here, they don't rush to love, they just enjoy the moment: caramel light, slow chords, laughter in a glass of something amber. Everything sticks to the skin a little, leaving a trace - sweet, lively, such that you want to return to it again.

© 1995 Virgin Records America Inc. ℗ 1995 Virgin Records America Inc. ©

Lyrics and translation

Original

Let me tell you 'bout this girl, maybe I shouldn't

I met her in Philly and her name was Brown Sugar

See, we be making love constantly

That's why my eyes are a shade blood burgundy

The way that we kiss is unlike any other way

That I be kissing when I'm kissing what I'm missing

Won't you listen?

Brown Sugar babe, I gets high off your love

I don't know how to behave

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

Ooh ooh

Oh sugar when you're close to me

You love me right down to my knees

And whenever you let me hit it

Sweet like the honey when it comes to me

Skin is caramel with those cocoa eyes

Even got a big sister by the name of Chocolate Thai

Brown Sugar babe, I gets high off your love

I don't know how to behave

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

Ooh ooh

Now that'd be how the story goes

Brown Sugar got me open, now I want some more

Always down for a ménage à trois

But I think I'm a hit it solo

Hope my niggas don't mind

Stick out my tongue and I'm bout

Ready to hit this pretty gritty

Bitty with persistence

Yo, I don't think ya'll hear me

Brown Sugar babe, I gets high off your love

I don't know how to behave

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

Ooh ooh

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

English translation

Let me tell you 'bout this girl, maybe I shouldn't

I met her in Philly and her name was Brown Sugar

See, we be making love constantly

That's why my eyes are a shade blood burgundy

The way that we kiss is unlike any other way

That I be kissing when I'm kissing what I'm missing

Won't you listen?

Brown Sugar babe, I gets high off your love

I don't know how to behave

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

Ooh ooh

Oh sugar when you're close to me

You love me right down to my knees

And whenever you let me hit it

Sweet like the honey when it comes to me

Skin is caramel with those cocoa eyes

Even got a big sister by the name of Chocolate Thai

Brown Sugar babe, I gets high off your love

I don't know how to behave

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

Ooh ooh

Now that'd be how the story goes

Brown Sugar got me open, now I want some more

Always down for a ménage à trois

But I think I'm a hit it solo

Hope my niggas don't mind

Stick out my tongue and I'm bout

Ready to hit this pretty gritty

Bitty with persistence

Yo, I don't think ya'll hear me

Brown Sugar babe, I gets high off your love

I don't know how to behave

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

Ooh ooh

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

I want some of your Brown Sugar (sugar)

© 1995 Virgin Records America Inc. ℗ 1995 Virgin Records America Inc. ©

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