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Ms Carmelita (feat. Xantoné Blacq)

from Def by Funky DL

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lyrics

Verse One

Yo’, Ms Carmelita, Republica de’ Dominica,
beautiful creature said she used to live in Costa Rica,
Father’s a preacher and her Mother was a Spanish Teacher,
I used to tease her cos her smile was like the Mona Lisa,
but she a keeper, I fell for her deeper and deeper,
Ms Senorita, anything she’d tell me, I’d believed her,
cos I was eager to give her all my time and please her,
I was a dreamer, I’m mesmerized, so I get weaker,
she held composure, so didn’t hand her feelings over,
as I got closer, I thought she’d show me more exposure,
but she got colder, communication mediocre,
and so I told her that I’m prepared to take it slower,
and tried to show her that she could put her faith in me,
but always got the feeling that she empty like a vacancy
and it’s like I’m hypnotised and nothing would awaken me,
I don’t believe in magic, but her spell cannot be shaken free.


Chorus

Hey now, not a tear in her eyes,
Hey now, there’s not a tear,
Hey now, not a tear in her eyes,
Oh, hey now, there’s not a tear.


Verse Two

Yo, I’d get suspicious and wonder if she was malicious,
and started feeling like the love she had for me’s fictitious,
it’s like she playing chess and she the Queen, I’m just a Bishop,
sometimes I go down on my knees and pray like I’m religious,
maybe she’s troubled, cos there’s something she ain’t telling me,
cos every time I look into her eyes there’s no serenity
and there’s no sincerity, it’s like there ain’t no remedy,
and so whenever we come together the chemistry is decomposing,
it’s like someone with no emotion, something is broken,
I can’t fix it without a notion of what the problem is,
but no disclosure, it’s just corrosion,
it’s like she made of stone, just like she was completely frozen,
I tried to get some advice, they told me leave her,
cos maybe she just stoned on smoking Cannabis Sativa,
or maybe nothing’s wrong, it’s just the way that you perceive her,
I couldn’t tell you either, but I’m stuck on Carmelita (Carmelita, Carmelita…)


Chorus

Hey now, not a tear in her eyes,
hey now, there’s not a tear,
hey now, (hey now) not a tear in her eyes,
oh, hey now, (hey now) there’s not a tear.



Outro

(Hey now), hey now, not a tear,
(hey now), hey now, not a tear in her eyes,
(hey now), hey now, not a tear in her eyes,
(hey now), hey now, now, now, oooh!
He-ee-yay-ee-yay-ee-yay-ee-yay (x4)

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from Def, released July 25, 2019

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