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Mariah Carey - Don't Forget About Us

Mariah Carey - Don't Forget About Us Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Emancipation of Mimi (Ultra Platinum Edition)
Released: 2005

Don't Forget About Us Lyrics

(Don't Forget About Us) Don't baby, don't baby, don't let it go
No baby, no baby, no baby no
Don't baby, don't baby, don't let it go
My baby boy

Just let it die
With no goodbyes
Details don't matter
We both paid the price
Tears in my eyes
You know sometimes
It'd be like that baby

Now every time I see you
I pretend I'm fine
When I wanna reach out to you
But I turn and I walk and I let it ride
Baby I must confess
We were bigger than anything
Remember us at our best
And don't forget about

Late nights, playin' in the dark
And wakin' up inside my arms
Boy, you'll always be in my heart and
I can see it in your eyes
You still want it
So don't forget about us
I'm just speaking from experience
Nothing can compare to your first true love
So I hope this will remind you
When it's for real, it's forever
So don't forget about us

Oh they say
That you're in a new relationship
But we both know
Nothing comes close to
What we had, it perseveres
That we both can't forget it
How good we used to get it

There's only one me and you
And how we used to shine
No matter what you go through
We are one, that's a fact
That you can't deny
So baby we just can't let
The fire pass us by
Forever we'd both regret
So don't forget about

Late nights, playin' in the dark
And wakin' up inside my arms
Boy, you'll always be in my heart and
I can see it in your eyes
You still want it
So don't forget about us
I'm just speaking from experience
Nothing can compare to your first true love
So I hope this will remind you
When it's for real, it's forever
So don't forget about us

And if she's got your head all messed up now
That's the trickery
She'll wanna have like you know how this lovin' used to be
I bet she can't do like me
She'll never be M-C

Baby don't you, don't you forget about us
Late nights, playin' in the dark
And wakin' up inside my arms
Boy, you'll always be in my heart and
I can see it in your eyes
You still want it
So don't forget about us
I'm just speaking from experience
Nothing can compare to your first true love
So I hope this will remind you
When it's for real, it's forever
So don't forget about us

Late nights, playin' in the dark
And wakin' up inside my arms
Boy, you'll always be in my heart and
I can see it in your eyes
You still want it
So don't forget about us
I'm just speaking from experience
Nothing can compare to your first true love
So I hope this will remind you
When it's for real, it's forever
So don't forget about us

Don't baby, don't baby, don't let it go
No baby, no baby, no baby no
Don't baby, don't baby, don't let it go

When it's for real, it's forever
So don't forget about us.

Writer/s: JOHNATA M AUSTIN, MARIAH CAREY, BRYAN MICHAEL PAUL COX, JERMAINE DUPRI
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Peermusic Publishing, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Don't Forget About Us

In this song, Mariah sings about a relationship that didn't work out. Unlike "We Belong Together," which was a huge hit from the album, she sounds confident instead of heartbroken. She makes sure her ex remembers the true love they had and reminds him that his new girl will never be her.

This was Mariah Carey's 17th American #1 song, putting Carey into a tie for second place with Elvis Presley among artists with the most #1 hits in the Rock era in the US, behind the Beatles' 20.

Mariah Carey - Petals

Mariah Carey - Petals Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Rainbow
Released: 1999

Petals Lyrics

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 failing 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
I'll always love you
(Always love you)
And although you're struggling
You will recover
(We're gonna make it maybe)
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
(Sleep)
(Sleep)
(Sleep)

And I missed a lot of life
But I'll 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 guess I loved you)
I tried so hard
But you drove me away
To preserve my sanity

And I found the strength to break away
(Do do do do do)
(Do do do do do do do do)
Fly
Writer/s: Wright, James Quenton / Harris Iii, James Samuel / Lewis, Terry / Carey, Mariah
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Petals

In this song, Mariah describes her relationship with Tommy Mottola, who was head of Sony Records, where she recorded. Carey was married to Mottola from 1993-1998. It's extremely emotional song, with very subdued vocals by Carey, who sings not only about her relationship with Mottola, but with his son and daughter as well.

Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis produced this track. The duo is known for their work on many of Janet Jackson's hits.

Mariah Carey - Lullaby

Mariah Carey - Lullaby Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Charmbracelet
Released: 2002

Lullaby Lyrics

At night as we lay down to sleep
I wonder what you'll show me
I think of you
and the thoughts that you keep
And I, I wonder do you know me
Everything that I have
is broken in two
Everything that I am
revolves around you
And you just don't understand
What a girl goes through

Everyone believes in something
Though we give it different names
You can search the world for that one thing
But it's all the same

Lay your body down
Come and let me bring your
body down
Listen to my voice
the only sound
As I Lullaby you,
lullaby you down

As the moon rides away from the sun
She takes all his light and reflects it
I relate them to us just for fun
There's a parallel that's unexpected
Every star in the sky,
reminds me of you
Twinkling in my eyes,
The way that you do
And I don't know why
I get so blue

Everyday is filled with changes
No matter where you go
Living in a world of strangers
So we go for what we know

Lay your body down
Come and let me bring your
body down
Listen to my voice
the only sound
As I lullaby you,
lullaby you down

Everyone believes in something
But it's all the same
Attitude will keep me going
So I guess I can't complain

Lay your body down
Come and let me bring your
body down
Listen to my voice
the only sound
As I lullaby you,
lullaby you down
Writer/s: Davis, Alana / Tuton, Ed
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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Lullaby

This is a sequel to Mariah's 1997 track "The Roof," off the Butterfly album. It was produced by the team of Dre & Vidal.

Mariah Carey - Love Takes Time

Mariah Carey - Love Takes Time Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Mariah Carey
Released: 1990

Love Takes Time Lyrics

I had it all
But I let it slip away
Couldn't see that I treated you wrong
Now I wander around
Feeling down and cold
Trying to believe that you're gone

Love Takes Time
To heal when you're hurting so much
Couldn't see that I was blind
To let you go
I can't escape the pain
Inside
'Cause love takes time
I don't want to be here
I don't wanna be here alone

Losing my mind
From this hollow in my heart
Suddenly I'm so incomplete
Lord I'm needing you now
Tell me how to stop the rain
Tears are falling down endlessly

Love takes time
To heal when you're hurting so much
Couldn't see that I was blind
To let you go
I can't escape the pain
Inside
'Cause love takes time
And I don't want to be here
I don't wanna be here alone

You might say that it's over
You might say that you don't care
You might say you don't miss me
You don't need me
But I know that you do and I feel that you do inside

Love takes time
To heal when you're hurting so much
Couldn't see that I, I was so blind
To let you go
I can't escape the pain
Inside
'Cause love takes time
I don't want to be there
I don't wanna be there alone

Writer/s: CAREY/MARGULIES
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Love Takes Time

Mariah wrote this with songwriter Ben Marguiles. It was intended for her second album, Emotions, but her label liked it so much they stopped presses of her first album, Mariah Carey, so it could be included. There are copies of Mariah Carey floating around that don't have "Love Takes Time" on it - they are a valuable piece of pop memorabilia. (thanks, Diana - Gold Coast, Australia)

This was Mariah's second single. It followed up "Vision Of Love."

Mariah Carey - Thirsty

Mariah Carey - Thirsty Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Me. I Am Mariah…The Elusive Chanteuse
Released: 2014

Thirsty Lyrics

Thirsty

This bouncy track finds Carey telling off her lover for being thirsty for celebrity instead of giving her affection. The song was co-written by singer and produced by Chauncey Hollis aka Hit-Boy, who also who has also worked on tracks by the likes of Eminem, Jennifer Lopez, Lil Wayne and Rihanna.

The single version of the song features a guest verse by Atlanta rapper Rich Homie Quan ("Type Of Way").

Mariah Carey - You Don't Know What to Do

Mariah Carey - You Don't Know What to Do Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Me. I Am Mariah…The Elusive Chanteuse
Released: 2014

You Don't Know What to Do Lyrics

You need to go
Don't look so surprised (You better sing girl, sing, sing, sing)
'Cause we had love
That will be immortalized
Say you need me now
So alone without me now
But our little romance is through
Because basically boy, you
You just don't know what to do oh

I can give it to you, but what you gonna do
With it, if I hit it? I bet you stuck stupid
Sucking your teeth, don't fuck up my mood
I'm trying to give it all to you
I can understand it's things we go through
Put C's on your bag, let see this here through
And we can be a size receipts from Nobul
But I gotta get it out of you
She said "'Le throw a ring on it!"
She don't love you unless she put your whole name on it
Gettin' money, yea this age is hard
Not the datin', I act a way
When all the pretty bitches love you but you'll stay precious

I miss you almost half as much as you miss me
You used to act so tough, bringing insecurity
Now that I found myself, your eggin' to be mine
Can't even help yourself from playing the fool each night

Ooh, how I loved you
Ooh, how I needed you
Ooh, boy I feel brand new
Ooh, since you turned me lose

Baby, you don't know what
You don't know what
You Don't Know What to Do

You don't know what
You don't know what
You don't know what to do

'Cause you wanna leave
And you never go
I'ma set you free boy
Baby, you don't know

You don't know what
You don't know what
You don't know what to do

You don't know what
You don't know what
You don't know what to do

You love me more than you love sunny summer days
And even more than you love floating in a haze
Boy when you lost my heart, you lost everything
Now all that you can do is listen to me sing

Ooh, how I loved you (how I loved you boy)
Ooh, how I needed you
Ooh, boy I feel brand new
Ooh, since you turned me lose boy

You don't know what
You don't know what
You don't know what to do

You don't know what
You don't know what
You don't know what to do

She wanna leave (She said she wanna leave)
Then you never go (Then you never go)
I'm a set you free (I'm a set you free)
'Cause baby you don't know

You don't know what
You don't know what
You don't know what to do

You don't know what
You don't know what
You don't know what to do

I can give it to you, but what you gon' do
Win it, if I hit it, I bet you stuck stupid
A model that I got, no class in this school
Take your bags and go boo
Never mind all of the flexin' I do
Balenciagas, got me two steppin' on a smooth
Never will I lower my standards my boo
I could show you we're attendants like Sampras on Que
That's kinda funny 'cause love still mean lose
Unless we kill the record and back-and-forth moves
Somehow you keep showing you act I see through it
Um, did you catch it? Ah screw it
All the girls need is respect and I do it
Never catch feelings 'cause Jet's is my fuel
Giuseppe my foot, my sweats be D'Honneur
Success is sweatin' me bet you ain't know her!

You don't know what
You don't know what
You don't know what to do

You don't know what
You don't know what
You don't know what to do

She wanna leave (She said she wanna leave)
Then you never go (Then you never go)
I'm a set you free (I'm a set you free)
Baby you don't know

You don't know what you do to me
You don't know what you do to me
You don't know
You don't know
You don't know what you do to me
You don't know what you do to me
You don't know
You don't know
Said ou don't know
You don't know

Writer/s: DUPRI, JERMAINE / CAREY, MARIAH / COX, BRYAN-MICHAEL / ADAMS, PATRICK / FOLERIN, WALE / GONZALEZ, TERRI
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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You Don't Know What to Do

This upbeat, emancipating song finds Carey leaving her lover and feeling good. Rapper Wale adds a couple of verses in which he tells his girl that he thinks they should stay together and work through their problems. Carey debuted the song on the Today show during the show's summer concert series.

Carey wrote the song in Atlanta with co-manager and longtime collaborator Jermaine Dupri ("We Belong Together," "Always Be My Baby").

The song interpolates Inner Life's 1979 disco rave up "I'm Caught Up (In a One Night Love Affair)."

Mariah Carey - Meteorite

Mariah Carey - Meteorite Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Me. I Am Mariah…The Elusive Chanteuse
Released: 2014

Meteorite Lyrics

Gotta get her
Did you know the world is waiting
Can you keep up
Everyone you see is racing
And you
You know what you are
It’s true
You will go find

'Cause you got the night
To light up the sky
Meteorite in front of every eye
A shooting star
Your fame is a flame
As they watch you burn up
Turn up, turned up all the way

Meteorite
Meteorite
Meteorite
Meteorite
Meteorite
Meteorite
Meteorite
Meteorite

So here we go
Wasn’t it what all you saying
Put on your show
Oh try to make it entertaining
And you
Know what you are
It’s true
You will go find

'Cause you got the night
To light up the sky
Meteorite in front of every eye
A shooting star
Your fame is a flame
As they watch you burn up
Turn up, turned up all the way

Meteorite
Meteorite
Meteorite
Meteorite
Meteorite
Meteorite
Meteorite
Meteorite

Meteorite
Meteorite
Meteorite
Meteorite
Meteorite
Meteorite
Meteorite
Meteorite

'Cause you got the night
To light up the sky
A meteorite in front of every eye
A shooting star
Your fame is a flame
As they watch you burn up
Turn up, turned up all the way

Yeah you have to turn up all the way
Yeah you have to turn up all the way
Yeah you have to turn up all the way
Yeah you have to turn up all the way
Yeah you have to turn up all the way

Writer/s: FELDER, ALLAN / CAREY, MARIAH / FAREED, KAMAAL / HARRIS, NORMAN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, SONGS MUSIC PUBLISHING
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Meteorite

This commentary on celebrity culture finds Carey working with an old collaborator, Q-Tip. She previously worked with the rapper and record producer on her 1997 single "Honey." Speaking to Radio.com prior to mixing the song, Carey admitted. "He's angry with me because he thinks that I didn't allow him to do his mix, but really it's okay. He loves me, we're going to make this work. And that's good because it's one of my favorite songs. I'm going to call him soon…I think we need to get that ready."

This contains a sample from "Goin' Up in Smoke," which was the title track of former Temptations vocalist Eddie Kendricks' 1976 solo album.

Mariah Carey - Me. I Am Mariah…The Elusive Chanteuse

Mariah Carey - Me. I Am Mariah…The Elusive Chanteuse Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Me. I Am Mariah…The Elusive Chanteuse
Released: 2014

Me. I Am Mariah…The Elusive Chanteuse Lyrics

On the back cover of this album is a personal treasure
This is my first and only self-portrait
I drew it when I was three and a half and entitled it
"Me. I Am Mariah."
Please don't judge me for such a simplistic title
Come on, I was only three and a half

It was a creative visualisation of how I saw myself
With the purity of a child's heart before it was ever broken
I've kept this drawing private for so long
But because this album is a reflection
of some of the peaks and valleys that have made me who I am today
I've decided to share it with those of you who actually care
And have been here for me through it all
I've been through a lot, but I've always known me
I am Mariah

Along the way there have been a couple of nicknames
And I've inadvertently embodied many personas
Lately, they've been calling me
"The Elusive Chanteuse"
I like it

Writer/s: Mariah Carey
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Me. I Am Mariah…The Elusive Chanteuse

This is the title track of Carey's fourteenth studio album. The singer explained in a YouTube clip that the first half of its name is based on her "first and only self-portrait," which she drew when she was a child. "Please don't judge me for such a simplistic title. Come on, I was only three and a half," she chuckles in the clip. Her drawing is featured on the album's back cover.

Carey added that the second half of the album's title, "The Elusive Chanteuse," is a nickname she's adopted recently, following other personas like "Mimi" and "MC."

Summarizing the record's concept, Carey said: "This album is a reflection of some of the peaks and valleys that made me who I am today. I've always known me. I am Mariah."

Mariah Carey - Money

Mariah Carey - Money Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Me. I Am Mariah…The Elusive Chanteuse
Released: 2014

Money Lyrics

I can’t leave it like that
M-C
F-A-B (nice)
H-B, Money, this, that, the other
Don’t mean nothing other than
Jets on holidays and
Chefs with hollandaise
Expensive lingerie, 'cause I come home to you

Money, this, that, the other
Don’t mean nothing other than
Jets on holidays and
Chefs with hollandaise
Expensive lingerie
'Cause I come home to you

Come on Mariah and let’s get higher
Come on Mariah and let’s get higher
Hit Boy on the beat, oh yeah that’s timeless
Oh you know that’s timeless

Baby 'cause your love is good
That’s why I be on it
Zoning, calling, phoning for you babe
And I dream
the impossible dream
When you and I alone, ooh

Money, this, that, the other
Don’t mean nothing other than
Jets on holidays and
Chefs with hollandaise
Expensive lingerie, 'cause I come home to you

Money, this, that, the other
Don’t mean nothing other than
Jets on holidays and
Chefs with hollandaise
Expensive lingerie, 'cause I come home to you

Shorty like to vacay, do it with the hood here
Shorty like a bad boy, ask em what’s good with her
Shorty like a good shoe, shorty like a nice bag
Shorty be expensive, it shows like a price tag
Shorty swole back there, I’ma need to ice that
Shorty got the cake though, you niggas never slice that
Shorty like them Roleys, shorty know what time it is
Met a few gayzees, I showed her what a diamond is

Money, this, that, the other
Don’t mean nothing other than
Jets on holidays and
Chefs with hollandaise
Expensive lingerie, 'cause I come home to you

Money, this, that, the other
Don’t mean nothing other than
Jets on holidays and
Chefs with hollandaise
Expensive lingerie, 'cause I come home to you

Baby 'cause your love is good
That’s why I be on it
Zoning, calling, phoning for you babe
And I dream
the impossible dream
When you and I alone, oh

Money, this, that, the other
Don’t mean nothing other than
Jets on holidays and
Chefs with hollandaise
Expensive lingerie, 'cause I come home to you

Money, this, that, the other
Don’t mean nothing other than
Jets on holidays and
Chefs with hollandaise
Expensive lingerie, 'cause I come home to you

Money over here, we ain’t even gotta say it
Just know I’m getting money every time they play it
I ain’t got no beef but when I do I’m gon’ filet it
And it costs to be the boss so I go ahead and pay it
'Cause that’s just who I am
Eating like it’s thanksgiving, not just for the fam
Picture me rolling 2 Pac and for the gram
With my Roley in the sky, do it big baby baby

Money, this, that, the other
Don’t mean nothing other than
Jets on holidays and
Chefs with hollandaise
Expensive lingerie, 'cause I come home to you

Money, this, that, the other
Don’t mean nothing other than
Jets on holidays and
Chefs with hollandaise
Expensive lingerie, 'cause I come home to you

They don’t mean nothing
They don’t mean nothing
They don’t mean nothing, oh

They don’t mean nothing (come on Mariah and let’s get higher)
They don’t mean nothing (come on Mariah and let’s get higher=
They don’t mean nothing (Hit Boy on the beat, oh yeah that’s timeless)
Baby, ay

Money, this, that, the other
Don’t mean nothing other than (money over here, we don't even gotta say it)
Jets on holidays and
Chefs with hollandaise
Expensive lingerie, 'cause I come home to you

Money, this, that, the other (money over here, we don't even gotta say it)
Don’t mean nothing other than (at the end of the day)
Jets on holidays and
Chefs with hollandaise
Expensive lingerie, 'cause I come home to you

Money, this, that, the other
Don’t mean nothing other than
Jets on holidays and
Chefs with hollandaise
Expensive lingerie, 'cause I come home to you

Money, this, that, the other
Don’t mean nothing other than
Jets on holidays and
Chefs with hollandaise
Expensive lingerie, 'cause I come home to you

Money, M-C
Money, F-A-B
Money

Writer/s: ROGER WATERS
Publisher: T.R.O. INC.
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Money

Over a thumping Hit-Boy beat, this song finds Mariah singing about how money isn't that important to her. "He is a favorite of mine," Carey told MTV News of Hit-Boy (Kanye West and Jay Z's "Niggas in Paris"). "We really got it together and had philosophical conversations about music in general."

Mariah is joined by rapper Fabolous on this anti-materialistic R&B jam.

Mariah Carey - Outside

Mariah Carey - Outside Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Butterfly
Released: 1997

Outside Lyrics

[Verse: 1]
It's hard to explain
Inherently it's just always been strange
Neither here or there
Always somewhat out of place everywhere
Ambiguous
Without a sense of belonging to touch
Somewhere halfway
Feeling there's no one completely the same

[Chorus:]
Standing alone
Eager to just
Believe it's good enough to be what
You really are
But in your heart
Uncertainty forever lies
And you'll always be
Somewhere on the
Outside

[Verse: 2]
Early on, you face
The realization you don't
have a space
Where you fit in
And recognize you
Were born to exist

[Chorus]
Standing alone
Eager to just
Believe it's good enough to be what
You really are
But in your heart
Uncertainty forever lies
And you'll always be
Somewhere on the
Outside

And it's hard [Repeat: x2]

[Bridge:]
Irreversibly
Falling in between
And it's hard [Repeat: 1]
To be understood
As you are [Repeat: 1]

Oh, and God knows
That you're standing on your own
Blind and unguided
Into a world divided
You're thrown
Where you're never quite the same
Although you try,try and try
To tell yourself
You really are
But in your heart-uncertainty forever lies
And you'll always be
Somewhere on the outside

Writer/s: CAREY, MARIAH / AFANASIEFF, WALTER N.
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Outside

This is about her being biracial and not having a place in the world. The song is very close to her. (thanks, Angie - Marengo, IA)

Carey's mother is Irish, her father is black and Venezuelan. That would make her biracial.

Mariah Carey - Hero

Mariah Carey - Hero Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Music Box
Released: 1993

Hero Lyrics

There's a Hero
If you look inside your heart
You don't have to be afraid
Of what you are
There's an answer
If you reach into your soul
And the sorrow that you know
Will melt away

[Chorus]
And then a hero comes along
With the strength to carry on
And you cast your fears aside
And you know you can survive
So when you feel like hope is gone
Look inside you and be strong
And you'll finally see the truth
That a hero lies in you

It's a long, road
When you face the world alone
No one reaches out a hand
For you to hold
You can find love
If you search within yourself
And the emptiness you felt
Will disappear

[Chorus]

Lord knows
Dreams are hard to follow
But don't let anyone
Tear them away
Hold on
There will be tomorrow
In time you'll find the way

And then a hero comes along
With the strength to carry on
And you cast your fears aside
And you know you can survive
So when you feel like hope is gone
Look inside you and be strong
And you'll finally see the truth
That a hero lies in you
That a hero lies in you
That a hero lies in you

Writer/s: AFANASIEFF, WALTER/CAREY, MARIAH
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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Hero Song Chart

Carey claims this was intended for the 1992 Dustin Hoffman movie, also called Hero. The producers of the movie used Luther Vandross' "Heart Of A Hero" instead. Walter Afanasieff explained in Fred Bronson's Book of Billboard #1s that the original intention was that Gloria Estefan would be asked to sing the title theme. He was recording the Music Box album with Carey at the time, and during a break he, "was sitting at the piano and told Mariah about this movie. Within two hours, we had this incredible seed for this song, 'Hero.'" Afanasieff added: "It was never meant for Mariah to sing. In her mind, we were writing a song for Gloria Estefan for this movie. And we went into an area that Mariah didn't really go into - in her words, it was a little bit too schmaltzy or too pop ballady or too old-fashioned as far as melody and lyrics."

When it was nearly finished, they played the song to the president and COO of Sony Music Entertainment and Carey's fiancé Tommy Mottola, (later her husband), explaining that it was a song for the film Hero. Afanasieff recalled that Mottola responded, "Are you kidding me? You can't give this song to this movie. This is too good. Mariah, you have to take this song. You have to do it."

A limo driver named Chris Selletti sued Carey, claiming he wrote the lyrics and has them in an envelope he mailed to himself in 1990. His suit was dismissed in court, but Selletti claimed he would open the envelope on live TV to prove his case.

Carey sang this with opera singer Luciano Pavarotti at the 1999 benefit concert, "Pavarotti and Friends For Guatemala and Kosovo."

Carey recorded a live version for the album Diana, Princess of Wales: Tribute

This was produced and arranged by Walter Afanasieff, who also wrote the music. Carey wrote the lyrics.

This was released shortly after Carey married Sony Music President Tommy Mottola. They divorced four years later.

Carey didn't like this song at first, feeling it was too sappy. After receiving letters from fans claiming it touched their lives, she came to realize that it was a very powerful song and appreciate it for the feelings it brings out in people.

On December 7, 1993, Colin Ferguson started shooing people on a Long Island Railroad train, killing six and injuring 19. Carey, who grew up in Long Island and rode that train often, dedicated this song to the victims.

Carey performed this on the 2001 "Tribute To Heroes" telethon for the victims of the terrorist attacks in the US. It was Carey's first public appearance since her nervous breakdown a month earlier.

Included on the 2001 benefit album God Bless America, which helped the Twin Towers Fund.

This was covered by the 12 finalists of the fifth series of the United Kingdom music talent show The X-Factor for a charity single. Each contestant took it in turns to section of the track. All proceeds went to the British Legion charity Help for Heroes. The song leapt to the top of the UK chart and 313,244 copies were sold in its first week of release, more than the remainder of the top 10 combined.

In 2015, this was used in a commercial for the video game Game of War: Fire Age. In the spot, a battle rages and a knight pulls out his smartphone to summon help, which arrives in the form of reinforcements accompanied by this song. A dragon enters, and is shot from they sky by... Mariah Carey, who puts down her crossbow and delivers the line, "Time to be heroes, guys."

Mariah Carey - Loverboy

Mariah Carey - Loverboy Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Glitter
Released: 2001

Loverboy Lyrics

(Ah) My girl
Got a new boyfriend
Yeah, yeah (Oh)
K-I-S-S-I-N-G

(Ah) Uh huh uh huh baby
(Ah) Uh huh uh huh baby
(Ah) Uh huh uh huh baby (Woo)

I want to, I want to, I want to, I want to
I need a, I need a, I need a, I need a

A lover, a lover, a lover, a lover
A lover, a lover, a lover, a Loverboy for me

I got myself a lover
Who loves what I like
When he invites me over
I come every time

Oh my sugar daddy
Takes me for a ride
Whatever way we're going
I expect to leave on time

He's all mine
And his loving makes me high
Like a taste of ecstasy
All I need is him to be my loverboy

Loverboy
Come on and love me
Give me more
Touch me and touch me
I enjoy the way you rock me all night long (Baby all night long)

Loverboy come on and take me
Only you know how to make me
Shudder with anticipation
All night long (All night long)

I got myself a lover
And he's so sublime
He's quite a bit of heaven
When he comes inside

So come on sugar daddy
Take me for a ride
Whatever way we're going next
I expect to leave on time

I get weak
And his candy's just so sweet
When he caressed my whole body
All I need is him to be my loverboy

Loverboy
Come on and love me
Give me more
Touch me and touch me
I enjoy the way you rock me all night long (I enjoy the way you rock me)

Loverboy come on and take me
Only you know how to make me
Shudder with anticipation
All night long

This stuff is starting now
This stuff is starting now
It's the same feeling
I always seem to get around you (Yes I do)

'Cause you affect me
Fascinate me
I thank heaven for the things that you do
This stuff is starting now
This stuff is starting now
This stuff is starting now (Woo)

My thoughts flow in my head
I toss and turn in my bed
In the morning when I think about you (Candy)
Simply put, you're the reason why
Even though I'm real shy
It's like candy
I attempt to look my best for you (Indeed I do)

Loverboy, loverboy
Come on and love me
Give me more
Touch me and touch me
I enjoy the way you rock me all night long (I enjoy the way you rock me)

Loverboy come on and take me
Only you know how to make me
Shudder with anticipation
All night long (Strawberry)

Loverboy come on and take me (Raspberry)
Only you know how to make me (All those good things)
Shudder with anticipation (Diamonds and gumdrops)
All night long (That's what you seem to me)

Oh loverboy, loverboy
Come on and love me
Give me more
Touch me and touch me
I enjoy the way you rock me all night long

Loverboy come on and take me
Only you know how to make me
Shudder with anticipation
All night long

Writer/s: HARRIS, SHAWNTAE/BRIDGES, CHRISTOPHER BRIAN/SHAWNNA
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Loverboy Song Chart

Carey wrote the lyrics, in which she sings about a guy who takes care of her - a "Sugar Daddy." Carey was married to Sony executive Tommy Mottola from 1993-1998.

This was Carey's first single released by Virgin Records. She left Sony in 2001 and signed a 5 album deal with Virgin for $80 million. It didn't work out well, and in early 2002, Virgin paid Carey $28 million to break the contract and leave the label. Later that year, she signed with Island/Def Jam, where she released her next album, Charmbracelet.

When it was first released, this didn't chart, so Virgin Records responded by cutting the price of the single to 49 cents, which ensured its chart success. They did not want their first single with Carey to be a flop.

Carey had a nervous breakdown a few weeks after this was released. She had just finished a tour to promote her first movie, Glitter, when she had to be hospitalized.

A remix featuring rappers Ludacris and Da Brat is included on the album.

This samples the 1984 Cameo hit, "Candy." Larry Blackmon, the lead singer of Cameo, is in the video. Carey wanted to sample "Firecracker" by The Yellow Magic Orchestra on this, but her label couldn't get the rights to it in time and "Candy" was used instead.