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Peace and light. My name is Erykah Badu,
also known as Badoula Oblongata.
And this is your 2019 Soul Train Soul Cypher.
♪ ♪
♪ I wish that I never ♪
♪ And you know I wish that I never ♪
♪ Listen ♪
♪ Even though I'm working a lot ♪
♪ And every day's a new day with you ♪
♪ Girl, I owe you all that I got ♪
♪ So everything I have is yours ♪
♪ You're my inspiration, my love mate ♪
♪ And my lover and my friend ♪
♪ Oh, the woman that I turn to ♪
♪ Time and time again ♪
♪ And I just thought you should know ♪
♪ The day just don't start for me ♪
♪ Till you walk through the door ♪
♪ Tell me that you care for me ♪
♪ I just thought you should know ♪
♪ The day just don't start for me ♪
♪ Whoa, until you tell me ♪
♪ That you care for me ♪
♪ Keyshia, come on ♪
♪ Ladies, ladies, ladies ♪
♪ Ladies, can you feel me, yeah ♪
♪ I remember when I needed love that was heaven-sent ♪
♪ Take me away ♪
♪ So many times I should've let you go ♪
♪ Thought you completed me ♪
♪ I felt I should've cheated ♪
♪ When I had another new love ♪
♪ But trust and believe me ♪
♪ You were incapable ♪
♪ Of loving somebody like me, yeah ♪
♪ And last night a voice said, I, I ♪
♪ Said play your cards right, I, I ♪
♪ Deep down I said I ain't through now ♪
♪ I just want it to be over ♪
♪ Over ♪
-♪ I just want it to be over ♪ -♪ Over ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
-Come on, Le'Andria. -♪ Oh, yeah ♪
♪ Hey, hey ♪
♪ Hey ♪
♪ His love is one in a million ♪
♪ It goes on and on and on ♪
♪ He gives me a really good feelin' ♪
♪ All day long ♪
♪ His love is one in a million ♪
♪ It goes on and on and on ♪
♪ He gives me a really good feelin' ♪
♪ All day long ♪
♪ Better days, better days I have ♪
♪ Better days, better days you can have ♪
♪ Better days, better days I can have ♪
♪ You can have better days ♪
♪ I think you better call Jesus ♪
(cheering, applause)
-♪ Call him, yeah ♪ -♪ Call him ♪
♪ And tell him, "Come on" ♪
♪ Come on, come on, come on ♪
♪ I think you better call on Jesus ♪
♪ Call him ♪
♪ And tell him, "Come on" ♪
♪ Come on, come on, come on ♪
♪ Anthony, yeah ♪
♪ Said I'm comin' ♪
(cheering, applause)
♪ Well, well, well ♪
♪ Listen ♪
♪ All up in my business ♪
♪ Tryin' to see what I'm getting there ♪
♪ You know this beat is hittin' ♪
♪ Come and get what you been missin', yeah ♪
♪ And I be sittin' here waitin' ♪
♪ On you to come home again ♪
♪ 'Cause I'm too tired of bein' alone without you ♪
♪ Without you, my friend ♪
♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa ♪
♪ Baby, I, baby, I, baby, I be ♪
♪ Sittin' here waitin' on you to come home again ♪
♪ And I will never leave ♪
♪ Promise I'll be here to the very end ♪
♪ Right by your side ♪
♪ To protect you and to love you, to be with you ♪
♪ Well, I ♪
♪ Come on home to me ♪
♪ And you're the Cypher, 2019 ♪
-♪ Hey ♪ -♪ You're the Cypher ♪
-♪ Tonight ♪ -♪ Call you tonight ♪
♪ Tonight we're gonna represent Soul Train ♪
-♪ Tonight, yeah ♪ -♪ Oh, tonight ♪
♪ We're gonna sing from our hearts tonight ♪
-♪ Tonight ♪ -♪ We're gonna sing from my heart this night ♪
♪ Tonight ♪
♪ And everything is gonna be all right ♪
-♪ Tonight ♪ -♪ Oh ♪
-♪ Tonight ♪ -♪ Oh, come on ♪
-♪ Tonight ♪ -♪ Oh, yeah ♪
♪ Tonight... ♪
This has been your 2019 Soul Cyph-- I'm happy.
♪ I'm so happy ♪
♪ Talking like Barry, hey ♪
♪ On the third day ♪
♪ Hey, and it's payday ♪
♪ Woke up this mornin' ♪
♪ Feeling pretty blessed, hey ♪
-♪ And I got dressed, hey ♪ -(vocalizing)
And right now I'm about to hit a real high note,
and then we gonna end this mother.
-(laughter) -Y'all ready? Yeah.
♪ Ah... ♪
-(song ends) -(cheering)