August 21, 2004

  • Erykah Badu… Apple Tree


    It was a stormy night
    you know the kind where the lightning strike
    and I was hangin’ out wit some of my “artsy” friends
    ooh wee ooh wee oooh
    The night was long the night went on
    people coolin’ out until the break of dawn
    incense was burnin’ so I’m feelin right — ah’ight

    See I picks my friends like I pick my fruit
    & Ganny told me that when I was only a youth
    I don’t go ’round trying to be what I’m not
    I don’t waste my time trying ta get what you got
    I work at pleasin’ me cause I can’t please you
    and that’s why I do what I do
    My soul flies free like a willow tree
    doo wee doo wee do wee

    And if you don’t want to be down with me
    You don’t want to pick from my appletree
    And if you don’t want to be down with me
    Then you don’t want to pick from my appletree
    And if you don’t want to be down with me
    Then you don’t want to pick from my appletree
    And if you don’t want to be down with me
    You just don’t want to be down

    I have a home
    and I take it everywhere I go
    Cause I’m planting seeds
    so I reaps What I sow — ya know
    Oh on & on & on & on
    my cipher keeps movin’ like a rollin’ stone
    I can’t control the soul flowin’ in me
    ooh wee

    Oh my my my
    Oh my my my
    Oh my my my ahh
    Oh my my my my my my my
    Ohh
    I picks my friends like I pick my fruit
    & Ganny told me that when I was only a youth
    I don’t walk around trying to be what I’m not
    I don’t waste my time trying ta get what you got
    I work at pleasin’ me cause I can’t please you
    and that’s why I do what I do
    My soul flies free like a willow tree
    doo wee doo wee do wee

    And if you don’t want to be down with me
    You don’t want to pick from my appletree
    And if you don’t want to be down with me
    You dum dum diddy
    And if you don’t want to be down with me
    You don’t want to pick from my appletree
    And if you don’t want to be down with me
    You just don’t want to be down
    You just don’t want to be down
    Ohh you just don’t want to be down
    Down, down, down
    You just don’t want to be down
    Ohh
    You just don’t want to be down
    no oh no
    You just don’t want to be down
    no no no
    You just don’t want to be down