Dionne Farris

The reality of it all is that reality is
What it is or what we think it is
Why are things the way they are?
Who said that the sky was in fact the sky
And not the ground that we should walk upon?
Makes you wonder, hmm?

Why is green green?
What if it's really blue?
And is what we think we think really true?
It is said that "I think, therefore I am,"
Are we really thinking?

There's something going on
And I don't know what it is
There's a change taking place in my mind
And I don't know how I lived
Before the doors were opened
To the house of wisdom

What do you know about the chosen man?
And where in fact is the promised land?
It is said that "I think, therefore I am,"
Are we really thinking?

If we are here, then where is there?
And if in fact we're here, then why aren't we there?
It is said "I think, therefore I am,"
Are we really thinking?

The reality of it all is that reality is
What it is or what we think it is
Why are things the way they are?
Who has taught us all that we know now?
And is it for real?
Makes you wonder
Makes me wonder
Makes us wonder
Yeah...

Alternative R&B singer Dionne Farris was born in Plainfield, New Jersey on December 4, 1969. She got her start performing lead vocals for Atlanta-based hip-hop group Arrested Development, most notably appearing on the group’s top Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop chart hit, “Tennessee,” featured on the group’s critically acclaimed debut album, March 1992’s 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of…, Farris eventually parted ways with the group’s leader Speech toward the end of 1992, due to reported tensions and creative differences. She was sought out by American Idol’s Randy Jackson and accepted his offer to sign with Columbia Records.

She released her debut album, October 1994’s Wild Seed – Wild Flower, which featured the 1995 huge hit, “I Know,” the single charted at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and earned her a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1996. Her follow-up, For Truth if Not Love, was delayed by ongoing record company problems and Farris wanting out of her Columbia contract. The album was eventually released on December 18, 2007 by Music World.

Subsequent follow-up albums, April 2011’s Signs of Life, February 2013’s Dionne Get Your Gunn, November 2012’s Lady Dy, The Mixtape pt. 1, and her latest effort, February 2014’s Dionne Dionne, an album of Dionne Warwick covers with Charlie Hunter released independently on Free & Clear Records.

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