Jill Scott

Released: November 20, 2001

Songwriter: Jill Scott ?uestlove Darren Henson Q-Tip Phife Dawg Ali Shaheed Muhammad J Dilla Towa Tei Bebel Gilberto Don Thompson

Producer: Darren Henson

[Chorus]
Slowly, surely I walk away from
That old desperate and dazed love
Caught up in the maze of love, that crazy craze of love
Thought it was good
Thought it was real
Thought it was

[Verse]
I just don't know
Where I should go, no no
I just don't know know know know
Where I should go, no
Slowly, surely, I walk away from
Self-serving, undeserving, constantly hurting me love
Deserting me love
You said
I said
We said, but, but

[Chorus]
Slowly, surely I walk away from
That old desperate and dazed love
Caught up in the maze of love, that crazy craze of love
Thought it was good
Thought it was real
Thought it was
But it was not love

[Bridge]
I don't know where I should go, no
I just don't know know know know know
Where I should go, no

Slowly, surely
Slowly, surely (Surely)
Slowly, surely
Slowly, surely
Slowly, surely
(I'm gonna walk into a brand new day)
Slowly, surely
Slowly, surely
(I'm gonna walk into a brand new day)
Slowly, surely

Gonna love me, baby
I'm gonna love me, baby
I'm gonna love me, baby
I'm gonna love me, baby
I'm gonna love me, baby
I'm gonna love me, baby
I'm gonna love me, baby
I do love me, yeah

[Interlude]
*plays chorus of A Tribe Called Quest's "Find a Way"*
Now you caught my heart for the evening
Kiss my cheek, moved in, you confused things
Should I just out or come harder?
Help me find my way
Now you caught my heart for the evening
Kiss my cheek, moved in, you confused things
Should I just out or come harder?
Help me find my way

[Outro]
Now you caught my heart for the evening
Kiss my cheek, moved in, you confused things
Should I just sit back...
Should I just sit back...
Should I just sit back...
Or come harder
Well, here we go

She is an artist with an abiding, deep commitment to lyrical honesty and musical integrity. Simply put, if Jill Scott feels it, she writes and sings it. While vivid imageries, metaphor analogies are her stock in trade, there’s no pretense, no hiding. She’s upfront, in-your-face always real, using her own distinctive poetry to breathe life into words, digging inside to bring forth the accompanying emotion. It is that authenticity that has endeared Jill Scott to everyday music buyers who hear what she’s saying through her music and respond according. Folks who know the rough and tumble of life, love right, love wrong, passion misspent, passion fulfilled, lonely nights and empty days and everything in between declare, ‘Yeah, girl!,’ ‘Go ‘head on!’ and ‘I feel ya’.

So much has been said, so many lyrics sang. And Jill continues to be a mainstay on the music front and time flies.

It is hard to fathom almost 15 years have passed since the release of her debut album, the monumental and ground breaking Who Is Jill Scott?” Words & Sounds Vol. 1.

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