Released: March 11, 1997
Songwriter: Lauryn Hill
Producer: Wyclef Jean Lauryn Hill
The unexpected
Multi-dimensional
Unexpected sound of the Refugee All-Stars
The sweetest thing I've ever known
Was like the kiss on the collarbone
The soft caress of happiness
The way you walk, your style of dress
I wish I didn't get so weak
Oooh, baby, just to hear you speak
Makes me argue just to see
How much you're in love with me
[Hook]
See like the queen upon her throne
It was the sweet, sweet, sweetest thing I've known
It was the sweet, sweet, sweetest thing I've known
I get mad when you walk away (don't walk away)
So I tell you leave, when I mean stay
Warm as the sun dipped in black
Fingertips on the small of my back
More valuable than all I own
Like your precious, precious, precious, precious, precious, baby, dark skin tone
[Hook]
It was the...Ah
I tried to explain
Ah...but baby, it's in vain
Speaking on my mother's phone
The touching makes me think I'm grown, (you ain't grown)
Sweet prince of the ghetto
Your kisses taste like armaretto
Intoxicating, oh, so intoxicating
How sad, how sad that all things come to an end
But then again, I'm, I'm not alone
[Hook]
Multi-dimensional
Unexpected sound of the Refugee All-Stars
The sweetest thing I've ever known
Was like the kiss on the collarbone
The soft caress of happiness
The way you walk, your style of dress
I wish I didn't get so weak
Oooh, baby, just to hear you speak
Makes me argue just to see
How much you're in love with me
[Hook]
See like the queen upon her throne
It was the sweet, sweet, sweetest thing I've known
It was the sweet, sweet, sweetest thing I've known
I get mad when you walk away (don't walk away)
So I tell you leave, when I mean stay
Warm as the sun dipped in black
Fingertips on the small of my back
More valuable than all I own
Like your precious, precious, precious, precious, precious, baby, dark skin tone
[Hook]
It was the...Ah
I tried to explain
Ah...but baby, it's in vain
Speaking on my mother's phone
The touching makes me think I'm grown, (you ain't grown)
Sweet prince of the ghetto
Your kisses taste like armaretto
Intoxicating, oh, so intoxicating
How sad, how sad that all things come to an end
But then again, I'm, I'm not alone
[Hook]
- Promo Only Urban Series: April 1997 (1997)
- Love Jones: The Music (1997)
- Romantic Soul Power (1998)
- All Time Greatest Movie Songs (1999)
- Doo Wop (That Thing)
- Ex-Factor
- To Zion
- Lost Ones
- Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You
- Tell Him
- Nothing Even Matters
- The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
- I Gotta Find Peace of Mind
- Everything is Everything
- The Mystery of Iniquity
- I Used to Love Him
- Forgive Them Father
- Final Hour
- When It Hurts so Bad
- Superstar
- I Get Out
- The Sweetest Thing
- Every Ghetto, Every City
- War in the Mind (Freedom Time)
- Motives and Thoughts
- Consumerism
- Mr. Intentional
- Neurotic Society (Compulsory Mix)