Lauryn Hill Interlude 5 Lyrics:
Interlude 5 lyrics: Lauryn Hill MTV Unplugged 2.0

You all doin' alright? You ok? I'm not
screamin at ya, I'm just askin you a question.
Y'all givin' me a clap. A yes is fine
(laughing) ok? (voice from audience "I love that
song") Thank you. Praise God. I tell you, I know
everybody's in the same mess. I'm telling you.
We all are. I know that, you know, and I'm just,
you know, I'll be the first to tell you, you
know, I'm a mess and God is dealing with me
everyday. And everyday I'm trying, you know, how
I can be less of a mess. Cuz you know, he showed
me, Look Lauryn, you know, You're the problem,
ok, I'm going to show you how you're causing
the problem, and now I want you to be the
solution. And that's what all of these songs are
about, just, problem, cause and solution. Free
your mind. It's like, we all think that the
gospel is join and church building, and that's
deception, you know. The real gospel is Repent,
which means 'let go of all that crap,'
that's killin' ya. Life was supposed to be a
pleasurable experience, not this torment, you
know. And when I realized that I was tormenting
myself, it was about my lust. It wasn't about
things that I needed it was just, you know, all
these security blankets. I mean, the more I
acquired I became more of a prisoner. I mean, you
know, forty people on staff, and you can't do
nothing, and now creativity is impossible because
all you can think about is all these folks that
you know, you're supporting and carryin' and
you know, it's not good. You know, everybody...a
friend of mine says that every tub has to stand on
it's own bottom, you know. And in that respect,
we all get to do what our passion is. See that's
what praisin God is all about, is doing your
passion. You know, it's not useless, worthless
ritual, you know, monotonous ritual, where we just
show up and can't wait to see the game, you
know. It's doing your passion and fulfilling
your passion. You know. That's how we're
thankful. That's how we say we appreciate the
opportunity to be alive. And I'm just glad that
I, you know, I don't have to slave anymore. You
know, cuz I, music was my love, and because of
everything I thought had to accompany my music it
became my burden. It just got stolen from me. I
said, What is this? How did this thing that I love
so much so easily and so quickly turn to something
I loath and hate? And so now, you know, I
understand that it was because I was measuring
myself or trying to compare myself to a standard
that wasn't reality. It wasn't the standard at
all, you know. There's a scripture in the Bible
that we, what does it say, it says 'We compare
ourselves amongst ourselves' you know. That's
not the standard. You already are the standard.
What are you trying to fit into a standard for? We
were each created to be individual standards, you
know. And we're trying to fit into a standard?
It doesn't make any sense, you know. So now
I'm just, you know, after all that, I'm just
ready to be me. And it's a lot to work through,
you know, because all of us have hidden in these
little boxes purposely, because of parts of
ourselves that we were unhappy about. And it's
because we didn't understand, you know, because
there's all this social doctrine that says, you
know, that the infinite God, with all this
expression, who created every single one of us,
absolutely different, on purpose, wants everybody
to fit into the same suit. But like, you know,
that's deception. That's deception. (Talking
to someone offstage) Ok, let me just, I think this
is the wrong one (laughing) I don't think this
is the right one. We took...we were in, um,
Florida this weekend and we took the kids to
Disneyworld, and um, you know we were going, they
gave us a tour. They escorted us through the back.
And when they escorted us through the back, we got
to see how, you know, there all these people
workin all hard, and it was like, real dirty back
there, and of course, in the front it was all
immaculately clean. And I said, I said, you know,
People need to see the reality, they need to see,
you know, how these people slave to maintain this
illusion. And it felt like my life. I said, If
people only knew what it was. It's like, you
know, a bunch of musicians, listen, bustin'
their 'mm' workin all hard to make it look
easy. What's the point? You know, Oh, uh, I just
threw this together, uh...(audience laughs). You
know, it's like, you know what I'm sayin? I
mean, you know. Slaving. Slaving to act like, you
know, I wake up like this. And none of us do, you
know, none of us do. None of us do. And reality is
good cuz that means everybody could just exhale,
let your belly out, you know, and chill. You know.
But people get mad at me when I say, Look, let's
stop frontin'. And I'm saying, you know,
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that's the blessing. Now we can go around and
look at each other and say, Oh, you got one too?!
And be free. And we want to defend the curse.
I'll tell ya, that was not fun. Did it for a
long time. Too long. (offstage) You didn't find
it? It's another white one. But you see...in my
purse. Or the, the other bag? Or the green one?
Ghetto. You know, it's reality, ok (laughing)?
One time, it came to me, you know, I was just told
very concretely. You know, it was like that voice,
the right one, said to me, he said, Lauryn, You
know the real you is more interesting than the
fake somebody else. I just want you to know that.
Because we always thought we could get, you know,
we could get reality by just putting on the
clothes and wearin' the face and you know,
lookin hard in the video. But, you know. Reality
is..it's like I've always told to my husband,
it's like, look, you know, we look at Bob
Marley, you know, and we say Ok, let's just grow
locks and wear the clothes and have the band and
we have no many idea how many years of struggle
and pain and suffering that made that content. You
see what I'm saying? You can't get it from the
outside in. Truth is from the inside out. You
know, and the way we've been trying to heal and
be healed is with these topical, surface,
superficial, temporary solution. And I'm telling
you, true healing is from the inside out. You
know, we've been told to protect our outer man
while our inner man is dying. (offstage) Oh, this
is the one. Boy I'll tell ya, God made him for
me. I'm something to put up with. And to endure
that is amazing. I'll be the first to tell you,
trust me. Y'all could clap cuz that's some
real work (more clapping). I was in there in the
room, you know, before we came out here, and he
said to me, I said, Ro should I change? And he
said, Yeah. So I looked at him, I said, Why did
you tell me to change I was comfortable, man. But
I asked him the question. So I went in the room
and I tried on all these clothes and I was like, I
feel like an idiot. So I pulled out all these
clothes and I'm sayin, ok Ro, you know, Pack the
bag neatly, you know, Could you put the clothes
back in? And he's like, Alright. So he's
trying to do this but then I'm like, No! Now
take this out! Now put that back and take that
out! Put that back, hold that, take, that, put,
The orange shoe! The orange shoe! So I'm like.
And then after awhile I just said, Ro baby, could
you leave? Please get out the room. And I just put
back on the clothes I came in. Ok, I was
like...I'm just not there anymore. Nah, I'm
telling you. It's like, uh (laughing). Hey you
know he's learned. Because before we used to
just beef and now he's like, Okay...I'm out.
It's real. God gave us a brand new relationship,
man, I mean, one in truth, you know. It's like,
we date people, like let's say, you know,
we're interested in somebody and we put on the
perfume and dress up and then we do things that we
will never ever ever do again! You understand what
I'm sayin? It's like...And that's why so
many marriages end up in divorce. It's because
people wake up next to a stranger. They say, Who
the hell are you? What are you doing in this bed?
Where's that man that used to do 'du, dua, and
du.' And I'm sayin let's give them reality
from the door because...you're going to attract
love, and the one that really loves you. And then
you don't have to pretend and falcify, and you
know, keep that posture. You know, you know, I
can't, I'm just like...I'll never forget
when I first met him I said to him, it was like,
he saw me eating in front of him, and he told me,
he was like, You eat like a man, you must not like
me. You know, because, women, usually they keep
that posture. And I said, Nah. I said it's not
even that, you know. It's but, this is reality.
This is, you know, and that's it, man, I mean,
I'm just telling you, it's so wonderful to
finally find...And trust me, it's a work in
progress, it's not something that happens
overnight. We all have to be introduced to each
other. I'm telling you, I know that I'm up
here and you see, Lauryn Hill, you came to see
Lauryn Hill. But this is the first time y'all
meet me. You see what I'm saying? Don't think
you met me before, ok. And as I grow, you're
going to meet me a little bit more. You're gonna
be exposed to the real me a little bit more. I can
tell you I had to reintroduce myself to everybody
I know. My mother my father. Listen, y'all never
knew me. I want to introduce you to me. I'm just
getting to know me. And you know what, anything
that's not growin is dead, so we better be
changing. You know, people would say to me, they
would hold me hostage. And they, seriously,
emotionally hostage, and they'd say, Uh, she's
changing. The money's changing her. And I'd
say Listen, the money's not changing me, God's
changing me. I'm changing, because that's a
natural part of life. We're all supposed to
change. Who wakes up and is the same way tomorrow
and the day after that? Nobody is. Let the
experience teach you and be real, man. And,
um..there's gonna be warfare involved. Because
there's some people who prefer deceptions, see.
They say, uh, I don't like this new expression,
and I say, what, you want two-thirds of me to stay
outside? I'm a whole person. You can't say,
you know, two-thirds of Lauryn, come in here. Only
two-thirds is acceptable. I'm a whole person.
You know. And that's everybody. You always talk
about spiritual warfare and we did n't realize
that it was in relationships. It's emotional
warfare. Being able to tell the people we love the
most the truth about ourselves. And when they say,
Hey that doesn't fit into our box for you, we
say, Well, I ain't in no box. Don't try to put
me in one. I'm going to play a little bit of
guitar with this one, but I might stop it's cuz
I really want you to listen to the words, so if I
stop, you understand why. I want you to really
hear the words...
Lyrics: Interlude 5, Lauryn Hill [end]