Mariah Carey - Rainbow Album Lyrics

Heartbreaker
Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme)
Bliss
How Much
After Tonight
X-Girlfriend
Heartbreaker (Remix)
Vulnerability (Interlude)
Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)
Crybaby
Did I Do That?
Petals
Rainbow (Interlude)
Thank God I Found You

Heartbreaker

[ Featuring Jay-Z ]

Give me your love
Give me your love
Give me your love
Give me your love
Give me your love
Give me your love
Give me your love
Give me your love

You gotta bounce to it like this
You almost gotta walk to this
Uh-huh
Escape

Boy your love's so good
I don't want to let go
And although I should
I can't leave you alone
'Cause you're so disarming
I'm caught up in the midst of you
And I can not resist, and oh

Boy if I do
The things you want me to
The way I used to do
Would you love me, baby
Or leave me feeling used?
Go and break my heart

Heartbreaker, you got the best of me
But I just keep on coming back incessantly
Oh why, did you have to run your game on me
I should have known right from the start
You'd go and break my heart

Give me your love, give me your love
Give me your love, give me your love
Give me your love, give me your love
Give me your love, give me your love
Give me your love, give me your love
Give me your love, give me your love
Give me your love, give me your love
Give me your love, give me your love

It's a shame to be so euphoric and weak
When you smile at me
And you tell me the things that you know
Persuade me to relinquish my love to you
But I can not resist at all

Boy if I do
The things you want me to
The way I used to do
Would you love me, baby
Or leave me feeling used?
Go and break my heart

Heartbreaker, you got the best of me
But I just keep on coming back incessantly
Oh why, did you have to run your game on me
I should have known right from the start
You'd go and break my heart

She want to shop with Jay, play box with Jay
She want to pillow fight in the middle of the night
She want to drive my Benz with five of her friends
She want to creep past the block spyin' again
She want to roll with Jay, chase the skeeos away
She want to fight with lame chicks, blow my day
She want to inspect the rest, kick me to the curb
If she find a strand of hair longer than hers
She want love in the jacuzzi, rub up in the movies
Access to the old crib, keys to the new crib
She want to answer the phone, tattoo her arm
That's when I gotta send her back to her moms
She call me "Heartbreaker"
When we apart, it makes her
Want to get a piece of paper, scribble "I hate ya"
But she know she love Jay because
She love everything Jay say, Jay does and uh

Heartbreaker, you got the best of me
But I just keep on coming back incessantly
Oh why, did you have to run your game on me
I should have known right from the start
You'd go and break my heart

Heartbreaker, you got the best of me
But I just keep on coming back incessantly
Oh why, did you have to run your game on me
I should have known right from the start
You'd go and break my heart

Heartbreaker, you got the best of me
But I just keep on coming back incessantly
Oh why, did you have to run your game on me
I should have known right from the start
You'd go and break my heart

Heartbreaker, you got the best of me
But I just keep on coming back incessantly
Oh why, did you have to run your game on me
I should have known right from the start
You'd go and break my heart

Give me your love, give me your love
Give me your love, give me your love

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Writer: Jeffrey Cohen, Lincoln Chase, Mariah Carey, Narada Walden, Shawn Carter, Shirley Elliston
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Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme)

Hmm
Whoah

They can say,
Anything they want to say
Try to bring me down, but I will not
Allow anyone to succeed hanging clouds over me,
And they can try
How to make me feel that I
Don't matter at all
But I refuse to falter in what I believe or loose faith in my dreams

'Cause there's
There's a light in me
That shines brightly
They can try
But they can't take that away from me
From me

Oh oh
No, no, no, no, no, no
Ay

Oh they
They can do
Anything they want to you
If you let them in
But they won't ever win
If you cling to you pride, and just push them aside,
See I,
I have learned
There's an inner peace I own
Something in my soul that they can not possess
Oh I won't be afraid and the darkness will fade

'Cause there's
There's light in me me
That shines brightly, yes
They can try
But they can't take that away from me

No, oh
They can't take this
Precious love I'll always have inside me,
Certainly the Lord will guide me where I need to go

Woah, woah
They can say
Anything they want to say
Try to bring me down
But I won't face the ground
I will rise steadily sailing out of their reach
Although they do try
How to make me feel that I,
Don't matter at all,
But I refuse to fall,
Tell me what I believe or loose faith in my dreams
'Cause there's a light in me
That shines brightly yes

They can try but they can't take that away from
Me
From me
No, no, no, no, no, no

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Writer: MARIAH CAREY, DAVID MORALES, DIANE WARREN
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Realsongs
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Bliss

Touch me baby
It feels so amazing (yeah)
And you stimulate me
And you make me want you more and more

What do I do, what do I say
Does it feel good, to you this way
I wanna be, all that you need
Boy what's your fantasy?
Better hold on, ready or not
Baby my love ain't gonna stop
Take it down low, make me get high

Ooh my love goes
On and on and on and on and on
My love goes
On and on and on and on and on
My love goes on
See, all my love's for you

Baby don't you rush me, no
You gotta take it slow
Just let the feeling grow
Until it overflows
Anyway you want it now
Just gotta tell me how
To give you everything
You've even dared to dream

Isn't it bliss, to you right now
Don't be subdued, say it out loud
Ain't it a sweet, luscious delight
When you're immersed in my
Ocean of love, coming on strong
Baby I've been waiting so long
Revel inside of paradise

Ooh my love goes
On and on and on and on and on (yeah)
On and on and on and on and on
My love goes
On and on and on and on and on

So
Gimme some pure delectable love
Like I'm gonna give to you (I'm gonna give it to you)
Keep coming around
'Cause I won't run out
I can't get enough of you, my love goes on

Ooh there it goes
On and on and on and on and on
My love goes
On and on and on and on and on
My love goes
On and on and on and on and on
My love goes
On and on and on and on and on

See all my loves for you
You baby, you baby, you baby (amazing) my
See all my loves for you
You baby, you baby, you baby my (it's for you)
My love, my love my lovin' goes (let it go)
You baby, you baby, you baby my
See all my loves for you
You baby, you baby, you baby my
My love, my love my lovin'
My love goes on and on (you baby, you baby, baby)
My
See all my loves for you
You baby, you baby, you baby (amazing)
My love, my love my lovin'

Just drinking you in
And still tingling
Baby can't you feel what you do to me
Ain't nobody who can compare to you
What you waiting for, come give me some more

You baby, you baby, (yeah) you baby my
See all my loves for you
You baby, you baby, you baby my
You baby, you baby, you baby my

My love goes
My love goes
My love goes
My love goes
My love goes
My love goes
My love goes
For you
Ah (my love goes) (Baby it's all for you)

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Writer: JAMES WRIGHT, TERRY LEWIS, JAMES HARRIS III, MARIAH CAREY
Copyright: Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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How Much

[ Featuring Usher ]

The way I feel for you
I can't describe
It's almost too intense
To verbalize
Essentially you're all
I'm living for
And basically each day
I need you more and more

[Chorus:]
Have you even been so enamored baby
That's how much I love you
All I need in this life, you see
Is me and my boyfriend
Have you ever feit lost
When you know you gotta leave me
That's how much I love you

Love is yours and mine
Till the very end
Just me and my boyfriend

Don't underestimate the love in me
It's obvious these feelings run so deep
I fail and fail for you day after day
Nobody eise could ever take your place

[Chorus]

You don't gotta waste your time and worry
You don't gotta look for reassurance
'Cause elearly you're the only one that's getting this and
Sugar I don't need nobody else
But you
And honey I ain't letting go too soon
Because 1 can't get enough
Why you asking how much?
It's more than you can handle baby

[Chorus]

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Writer: MARIAH CAREY, BRYAN MICHAEL PAUL COX, JERMAINE DUPRI, DARRYL HARPER, RICKY ROUSE, TUPAC AMARU SHAKUR, TYRONE J WRICE
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After Tonight

I look at you looking at me
Feels like a feeling meant to be
And as your body moves with mine
It's iike I'm lifted out of time

And time again
Patientiy I've waited
For this moment to arrive

After tonight
Will you remember
How sweet and tenderly
You reached for me
And pulled me closer
After you go
Will you return to love me
After tonight begins to fade

I feel your touch caressing me
This feeling's all l'll ever need
With every kiss from your sweet lips
It's like I'm drifting out of time

Alone will tell
If you feel the way I feel
When I look in your eyes

After tonight
Will you remember
How sweet and tenderly
You reached for me
And pulled-me closer
After you go
Will you return to love me
After the night becomes the day

Time
And time and time again
So patiently I've waited
For this moment to arrive

After tonight
Will you remember
How sweet and tenderly
You reached for me
And pulled me closer
After you go
Baby will you return to love me
After the night becomes the day
After tonight begins to fade

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Writer: DAVID FOSTER, MARIAH CAREY, DIANE EVE WARREN
Copyright: Lyrics © Peermusic Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group, Realsongs
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X-Girlfriend

[Chorus:]
Ex-girlfriend you can't have him
It's about time
That you found you a new man
He's moved on
Don't you know, don't you know
You gotta let him go,
Let him go, let him go
Ex-girifriend you don't listen
Stop trying
He's not gonna give in
He's not yours anymore
Don't you know
You gotta let him go
Let him go, let him go

Hey ex-girlfriend
It's too bad when you had him
Y'all thing didn't work
But he's all mine now
So stop pursuing him
Before you get your feelings hurt
See our love is hot
And no, it won't stop
'Cause I got him on lock
And although he rejects you
It don't seem to affect you
'Cause you just keep trying
To get wit him

So don't, don't keep, keep calling
Hanging up the phone
When I answer I know it
Tears you up inside and
Why do you sit in silence
On the other end
'Till I hang up and you
Predictably call right back again

[Chorus]

Hey ex-girlfriend
Whatever your name is

I'm really not amused
'Cause the things you do
Are very offensive
And sometimes straight up rude
All those late night calis and notes
On his car
Won't get you anywhere
You can call his mom
As much as you want
And he won't really care

[Chorus]

I understand why
You want him back
But don't you know
Our love's too strong
For you to penetrate
It's too late
He's not your baby no more

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Writer: MARIAH CAREY, KEVIN J. BRIGGS, KANDI L. BURRUSS
Copyright: Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG Rights Management
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Heartbreaker (Remix)

[ Featuring Da Brat, Missy Elliott, DJ Clue ]

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Writer: Jeffrey Cohen, Lincoln Chase, Mariah Carey, Narada Walden, Shawn Carter, Shirley Elliston
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Vulnerability (Interlude)

Why
Oh why (oh why)
Did (did)
Ooh whoah
I should have known
That you'd
Right from the start
That you'd
Go and break
Knowing I was
My heart
Knowing I was
So vulnerable
Oh

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Writer: MARIAH CAREY, JAMES SAMUEL III HARRIS, JAMES HARRIS III, TERRY LEWIS
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Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)

[ Originally by Phil Collins ]

How can I just let you walk away,
Just let you leave without a trace?
When I stand here taking every breath with you, ooh
You're the only one who really knew me at all

How can you just walk away from me
When all I can do is watch you leave?
'Cause we've shared the laughter and the pain
And even shared the tears
You're the only one who really knew me at all

So take a look at me now
'Cause there's just an empty space
And there's nothing left here to remind me
Just the memory of your face
Take a look at me now

Well there's just an empty space
And you coming back to me is against the odds
And that's what I've got to face, oh

I wish I could just make you turn around
Turn around and see me cry
There's so much I need to say to you
So many reasons why
You're the only one who really knew me at all

So take a look at me now
Well there's just an empty space
And there's nothing left here to remind me
Just the memory of your face

Take a look at me now
See there's just an empty space
But to wait for you is all I can do
And that's what I've got to face

Take a good look at me now
'Cause I'll still be standing here
And you coming back to me is against all odds
That's the chance I've gotta take
Take a look at me now
Take a look at me now
Take a look at me now

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Writer: Phillip David Charles Collins
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Crybaby

[ Featuring Snoop Dogg ]

When I think of our untimely end
And everything we could have been
I cry, baby I cry -

Ok so it's 5 am and
I still can't sleep
I took some medicine
But it's not working
Someone's clinging to me
And it's bittersweet
'Cause he's head over heels
But it ain't that deep
I finally changed my number
Got a different pager
Then last Saturday
Your cousin called to say you're
Tryin' to reach me
Probably because you see that
I'm with someone new

[Chorus:]
Late at night like a littie child
Wandering around alone in my new friend's home
On my tippy toes
So that he won't know
I still cry baby
Over you and me

Sipping Bailey's Cream
Sy the stereo
Trying to find relief
On the radio
I'm suppressing the tears
But they start to flow

'Cause the next song I hear
Is a song I wrote
When we first got together
Early that September
I can't bear to listen
So I might as well drift
In the kitchen
Pour another glass or two
And try to forget you

[Chorus]

[Chorus 3x]

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Writer: TEDDY RILEY, MARIAH CAREY, TIMOTHY WILLIAM GATLING, GENE GRIFFIN, AARON ROBIN III HALL, CORDOZAR CALVIN BROADUS, TREY LORENZ
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Did I Do That?

I really hope
When you hear this song
That you're happy
With someone new
I found a love I can call my own
And I owe it in part to you

Don't you know that you seem
Just a little crazy
You had my trust and intimacy
But you threw it away just threw it away
And now it's all in the past
When I think of you
I just laugh
My friends must have thought
I was high to have given so much
To someone not worth my time

[Chorus:]
Funny how sometimes
You can really lose your mind
And things you would never do

You rhapsodize
And get caught up in the hype
'Till your senses return to you
Love plays you for a fool

You were so insecure
And your crew was so immature
Conversations, painfully weak
You were much better off
When you didn't speak
But boy to teil you the truth
It was my illusion of you
Being somehow destined for me
That had me in a daze
But we're not the same in truth

[Chorus]

I really hope when you hear this song
That you know it was meant for you
Though your attention span's not that long
Try to do the best you can do!

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Writer: JOSEPH JOHNSON, WARDELL JOSEPH QUEZERGUE, CRAIG BAZILE, MARIAH CAREY, TRACEY WAPLES
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Petals

I've often wondered if there's
Ever been a perfect family
I've always longed for undividedness
And sought stability

A flower taught me how to pray
But as I grew, that flower changed
She started flailing in the wind
Like golden petals scattering

And I miss you dandelion
And even love you
And I wish there was a way
For me to trust you
But it hurts me every time
I try to touch you

But I miss you dandelion
And even love you

I gravitated towards a patriarch
So young predictably
I was resigned to spend my life
With a maze of misery

A boy and a girl befriended me
We're bonded through despondency
I stayed so long but finally
I fled to save my sanity

And I miss you little sis and
Little brother
And I hope you realize
L'll always love you
And although you're struggling
You will recover
And I miss you little sis and
Little brother

So many I considered
Closest to me
Turned on a dime and sold me
Out dutifully
Although that knife was chipping
Away at me
They turned their eyes away and
Went home to sleep ...

And I missed a lot of life
But l'II recover
Though I know you really like
To see me suffer
Still I wish that you and I'd
Forgive each other
'Cause I miss you, Valentine
And really loved you

I really loved you -
I tried so hard
But you drove me away
To preserve my sanity -

And I lound the strength to break away
Fly...

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Writer: MARIAH CAREY, JAMES SAMUEL III HARRIS, JAMES HARRIS III, TERRY LEWIS, JAMES WRIGHT, JAMES QUENTON WRIGHT
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Rainbow (Interlude)

I know
There is a rainbow
For me to follow
To get beyond my sorrow
Thunder (thunder)
Precedes the sunlight
So I'll be all right
If I can find that rainbow's end

I will be all right
If I can find that
Rainbow's
Mm

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Writer: Mariah Carey, Terry Steven Lewis, James Quenton Wright, James Samuel Harris Iii
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Thank God I Found You

[ Featuring Joe, 98° ]

I would give up everything
Before I'd separate myself from you
After so much suffering
I finally found unvarnished truth
I was all by myself for the longest time
So cold inside
And the hurt from the heartache would not subside
I felt like dying
Until you saved my life

Thank God I found you (Yeah yeah)
I was lost without you (I was lost)
My every wish and every dream
Somehow became reality
When you brought the sunlight
Completed my whole life
I'm overwhelmed with gratitude
'Cause baby I'm so thankful I found you

I will give you everything (Everything)
There's nothing in this world I wouldn't do (Oh no)
To ensure your happiness
I'll cherish every part of you
'Cause without you beside me I can't survive
Don't wanna try (I don't wanna try)
If you keeping me warm each and every night
I'll be alright
'Cause I need you in my life

Thank God I found you (I'm thanking you)
I was lost without you (So lost without you)
My every wish and every dream (Every wish, every dream)
Somehow became reality
When you brought the sunlight (Brought the sunlight)
Completed my whole life (Completed)
I'm overwhelmed with gratitude (Overwhelmed with gratitude)
'Cause baby I'm so thankful I found you

See I was so desolate before you came to me
Looking back (Looking back)
I guess it shows that we were destined
To shine over the rain to appreciate
The gift of what we have
And I'd go through it all over again
To be able to feel this way (This way)
Oh, thank God I found you (Yeah yeah)
I was lost without you (Lost without you baby)
My every wish and every dream (And every dream)
Somehow became reality

When you brought the sunlight (Brought the light)
Completed my whole life (My whole life)
I'm overwhelmed with gratitude
See baby I'm so thankful I found you
Oh, thank God I found you
I was lost without you
I'm overwhelmed with gratitude (So overwhelmed)
My baby I'm so thankful I found
You, you
I'm overwhelmed with gratitude
My baby I'm so thankful I found (I found you)
You

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Rainbow Info:

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Rainbow is the seventh studio album by American R&B singer Mariah Carey, released on November 2, 1999 in the United States, by Columbia Records. The album followed the same pattern as Carey's previous two albums, Daydream (1995) and Butterfly (1997), in which she began her transition into the urban adult contemporary market. Rainbow contains a mix of hip hop-influenced R&B tracks, as well as a variety of ballads. Carey produced the album with David Foster and Diane Warren, who, as well as Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, replaced Walter Afanasieff, the main balladeer Carey worked with throughout the 1990s. As a result of her divorce from Sony Music CEO Tommy Mottola, Carey had more control over the musical style of this album, so she collaborated with several hip-hop artists such as Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, Master P and Mystikal as well as female rappers Da Brat and Missy Elliott. Other collaborations include the pop and R&B acts Joe, Usher and boyband 98 Degrees.

On Carey's previous album, Butterfly, she began incorporating several other genres, including R&B and hip hop, into her musical repertoire. In order to further push her musical horizons, Carey featured Jay-Z on the album's lead single, the first time in her career that another artist was featured on one of her lead singles. Carey wrote ballads that were closer to R&B than pop for this album, and worked with Snoop Dogg and Usher on songs such as "Crybaby" and "How Much", respectively, both of which featured strong R&B beats and grooves. Several of the ballads that Carey wrote during this period, including "Thank God I Found You" (written with Terry Lewis) and "After Tonight" (written with Diane Warren), mirrored sentiments she experienced in her personal life.

The album spawned five singles, two of which became number-one hits on the US Billboard Hot 100, making Rainbow her seventh-consecutive studio album to produce one or more number-one hits. The album's lead single, "Heartbreaker", became Carey's fourteenth number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped the record charts in Canada and New Zealand. "Thank God I Found You", featuring Joe and 98 Degrees, also topped the Billboard Hot 100, but achieved moderate international chart success. The next two singles, "Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme) and "Crybaby" featuring Snoop Dogg, were released as a double A-side. The songs were at the center of a public feud in between Carey and Sony Music due to the label's alleged weak promotion of the singles. Carey's cover of Phil Collins' "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" with Westlife peaked at number one in Ireland, Scotland and the UK Singles Chart.

Rainbow was well received by music critics, who generally praised Carey's embrace of R&B and hip hop in her music. The album debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200, with first week sales of 323,000.

It was her first non-holiday studio album since 1991's Emotions to not reach number one. However, within a month, Rainbow was certified triple-Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), denoting shipments of three million copies within the United States. Internationally, the album peaked at number one in France and Greece, and charted within the top-five positions in Australia, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Japan and Switzerland. Globally, Rainbow has sold an estimated eight million copies.

Performed By: Mariah Carey
Genre(s): Pop, hip hop, R&B
Length: 55:49
Released: November 2nd, 1999
Year: 1999

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