{"id":90398,"created_at":"2019-08-10 06:54:05","updated_at":"2021-04-21 07:41:13","deleted_at":null,"published_at":"2019-08-10 06:54:05","original_id":null,"artist_id":12962,"title":"Good Things (Like Winnie & Tata)","slug":"good-things-like-winnie-tata","status":"published","description":null,"album_id":null,"streets":1,"source_type":"s3","source":"file","lyrics":"Song 1: Good Things (Like Winnie & Tata)\r\nLesson: This song is about celebrating a past relationship with gratitude years later and thanking somebody who loved you when things were bad. The comparison to the Mandela\u2019s is made, with due respect, because even seemingly unbreakable couples sometimes do not make it.\r\n\r\n(verse 1)\r\nSymphonies are composed of people \r\nlike you who make others\u2019 spirits soar like an eagle\r\nAt a time when they are feeble\r\nI met you at the university \r\nLooking like adversity\r\nAnd if I approached you you would damn near murder me\r\nLooking so gorgeous \r\nLike a porpoise\r\nIn the blue waters\r\nGraceful like an Emperor\u2019s daughters\r\nCausing rigor mortis\r\nTo the player in me; l took it slower than a tortoise\r\nMy confidence wavered like my game was the shortest\r\nI saw happiness was imminent \r\nAround girls I\u2019d act impotent\r\nAround other players militant\r\n\u2018Cause this one I wouldn\u2019t wanna lose; you\u2019re the kind I like\r\nBesides the mic\r\nI want you by my side for life; yeah, like a wife\r\nI got problems only time can solve \u2018em, understand?\r\nEvery time I\u2019m hurting you\u2019re the one who holds my hand\r\nThe sanity in my insanity\r\nI promise you you got the best and that ain\u2019t vanity\r\n\r\n(chorus 2x)\r\nKnow that ngiyakuthanda kea orata\r\nMe and you was like Winnie and Tata\r\nCentless but you loved me; it is senseless \r\nGood things can never be endless\r\n\r\n(verse 2)\r\nYou\u2019re sunshine in the human form\r\nChase away the quiet storm\r\nBrewing in me breeding coldness now I\u2019m feeling warm\r\nCarry me like a wave even though I\u2019m dense\r\nMake me wanna say marry me because it\u2019s common sense\r\n\u201cMatch made in heaven\u201d so they yell\r\nBut I prefer, \u201cmade on earth, approved in heaven, would prevail in hell\u201d\r\nYou\u2019re no decoy, my top choice, tears of joy\r\nPromise not to ever play with your heart like a toy\r\nBecame a player when I needed to \r\nHeeded to\r\nFate\u2019s calling, needed you\r\nI saw you and I greeted you\r\nTo be with you\r\nIs mirth\u2019s epitome, believe it you\r\nHey you, my love\u2019s magnitude\u2019s God\u2019s secret you\r\nYou\u2019re my pal \r\nYou\u2019re my gal\r\nYou\u2019re my everything in one\r\nMy future wife if love\u2019s a melody I\u2019m singin\u2019 one\r\nYou\u2019re the reason I don\u2019t wanna die wifeless\r\n\u2018Til I\u2019m lifeless\r\nI\u2019m gonna treasure because you\u2019re priceless\r\n\r\n(chorus 2x)\r\nKnow that ngiyakuthanda kea orata\r\nMe and you was like Winnie and Tata\r\nCentless but you loved me; it is senseless \r\nGood things can never be endless\r\n\r\n(verse 3)\r\nIt\u2019s over now I\u2019m reminiscin\u2019\r\nSh.. Mrs Play Dirty what you cooking in your kitchen?\r\nMe I\u2019m back in the game, mackin\u2019 a dame a week\r\nPackin\u2019 a blade, rappin\u2019 the game for keeps\r\nYou and me made history no doubt\r\nShot for standing by a brother when I had to drop out\r\nI suggested that you leave me, babygirl, you nearly died\r\nJa Rule- style, you cried I cried\r\nThat one moment shed five years of pain\r\nNow I can\u2019t shed a drop guess I\u2019m back to cold again\r\nAgainst all odds we had something to prove\r\nWe lost focus my friends didn\u2019t approve\r\nAlways thought we\u2019d get back if we ever broke up\r\nIt was a dream I woke up\r\nNow I\u2019ll wrap this note up\r\nThanks for the love I would have died without you\r\nI was down and out; I hope I didn\u2019t crowd you\r\n \r\n(chorus repeatedly)\r\nKnow that ngiyakuthanda kea orata\r\nMe and you was like Winnie and Tata\r\nCentless but you loved me; it is senseless \r\nGood things can never be endless\r\n\r\n\r\n(monologue)\r\nDear Mrs Play Dirty\r\nI\u2019m not Play Dirty no more\r\nBut you know\r\nEvery now and then I fall back into it, you know?\r\nJust a big thank you \u2018cause you know\r\nWhen you came into my life it was like a very important time and uh\r\nYou changed my life!\r\nI\u2019m a much better person now\r\nI promise, haha\r\nI am!\r\nYou know?\r\n(beep sound as phone cuts off)\r\n\r\nTitle: Good Things (Like Winnie & Tata)\r\nLyrics: Brian dot Khoza (2002)\r\nComposer: Mfanelo Mchunu (2009)\r\nRecording, Mixing and Mastering: Mbongeni Mhlongo (2010), Luke Wyngard (remastered in 2014)","download_count":105,"play_count":0,"restrict_download":0,"generated_thumbnail":null,"flag_count":0,"download_count_24":1,"download_count_24_at":"2021-04-21","reupload_sent":0,"thumb_path":"https:\/\/s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com\/sol-assets\/uploads\/public\/5d4\/e4c\/7d3\/thumb_266003_300_300_0_0_crop.jpg","status_reason":null,"status_reason_alt":null,"tags":[]}