Harlem

Album: A Bad Girl in Harlem (2014)
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  • I spend my money on the regular miracles
    Just like you like me like everybody else
    Up on the sun looking sad and beautiful
    Just like you like me like everybody else

    When it gets loud, I turn it up
    Shake it like a bad girl up in Harlem
    When it's too hot, I light it up
    Light it up yeah smoke em if you got em

    Here come the jets hide my money in your tube socks
    Run like me, like hell, like everybody else
    Hair metal on a Japanese boom box
    Kicks like you like me like everybody else

    When it gets loud, I turn it up
    Shake it like a bad girl up in Harlem
    When it's too hot, I light it up
    Light it up yeah smoke em if you got em
    When it gets soft, I shake it up
    Shake it like a bad girl up in Harlem
    You're so sweet, but I like it rough
    Light it up yeah smoke em if you got em

    Making a movie on the couch with a flip phone
    Just like you like I like fingers in your mouth
    Up on the sun playing drums with a bleached bone
    Just like you like me like everybody else

    When it gets loud, I turn it up
    Shake it like a bad girl up in Harlem
    When it's too hot, I light it up
    Light it up yeah smoke em if you got em Writer/s: DAVID BOYD, JACOB S. SINCLAIR, MICHAEL ANTHONY VIOLA, SOREN HANSEN
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Jim from TxWho is the girl in the video, Harlem?
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