Lyrics

[Intro: Mos Def] There was this daddy long-leg spider who spun his lyrics between the trees And she was the fly girl who didn't see the web, and this is the story, ha [Hook: Jill Scott + Mos Def] Love Rain Down Love Rain Down Love Rain Down Love Rain Down (Love rain) (A-rain down) (I said, "What'cha see?") (I see love) (A-love rain) (A-rain down) (I said, "What'cha see?") (I see love) (A-love rain) (A-rain down) (I say, "What'cha see?") (Brand new, alive, from Jill Scott, makin' the ghetto feel hot) (I say, "What'cha see?") (A-let 'em know) [Verse 1: Jill Scott + Mos Def] Met him on a Thursday (Uh huh, uh huh), sunny afternoon Cumulus clouds, 84 degrees He was brown(Uh huh, uh huh) Said he wanted to talk about my mission Listen to my past lives Word! (Uh huh, uh huh) Took me on long walks to places where butterflies rest easy Talked about Moses and Mumia (Uh huh, uh huh) Reparations through colors, memories of shell-tops Oh, yeah, yeah, he was fresh, like summer peaches Sweet on my mind like block parties and penny candy (—for the churro, two for the—) (Uh huh, uh huh) I felt like cayenne pepper, red, hot, spicy I felt dizzy and so near heaven [Hook] Love Rain Down Love Rain Down Love Rain Down Love Rain Down   (A-rain down) (I said, "What'cha see?") (I see love) (A-love rain) (A-rain down) (I say, "What'cha see?") (I see love) (A-love rain) (A-rain down) (I say, "What'cha see?") (I see love) (A-love rain) (A-rain down) (I say, "What'cha see?") (Hah-hah) [Verse 2] The rain was fallin' Slowly and sweetly And stinging my eyes And I could not see that (Uh huh, uh huh) He became my voodoo priest And I, his faithful concubine (Uh huh, uh huh) Wide open, wide, loose like bowels after collard greens The mistake was made Love slipped from my lips (Uh huh, uh huh) Dripped down my chin and landed in his lap And us became brand new (New Jill Scott, everybody, c'mon!) Now me non-clarivoyant and in love Made the coochie easy and the obvious invisible The rain was falling And I couldn't see the season changing And the vibe slipping off its axis Our beautiful melody became wildly staccato (Repeat 1 in background) The rain was falling and I could not see That I was to be plowed and sowed and fertilized And left to drown in his sunny afternoon Cumulus clouds, 84 degrees, melody [Hook] Love Rain Down Love Rain Down Love Rain Down Love Rain Down (Love rain) (A-rain down) (I said, "What'cha see?") (I see love) (A-love rain) (A-rain down) (I say, "What'cha see?") (I see love) (A-love rain) (A-rain down) (I say, "What'cha see?") (I see love) (A-love rain) (I said it's comin', said it's goin', said it's comin', said it's comin' Said it's—) [Verse 3: Mos Def] I stretched my arms towards the sky like blades of tall grass The sun beat between my shoulders like carnival drums I sat still in hopes that it would help my wings grow So then I could really be fly And then she arrived Like day break inside a railway tunnel Like the new moon, like a diamond in the mines Like high noon to a drunkard, sudden She made my heart beat in a now-now time signature Her skin, a canvas for ultraviolet brushstrokes She was the sun's painting She was a deep cognac color Her eyes sparkled like lights along the new city Her lips pursed as if her breath was too sweet And full for her mouth to hold I said, "You are the beautiful distress of mathematics." I said, "For you, I would peel open the clouds like new fruit And give you lightning and thunder as a dowry I would make the sky shed all of its stars like rain And I would clasp the constellations across your waist And I would make the heavens your cape And they would be pleased to cover you They would be pleased to cover you May I please, cover you, please" [Bridge] [Hook] [Produced by Vidal Davis]