NAVIGATION:Index of Petrarchan Love Poetry

Keri Hilson, "Knock You Down"
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Lecture Topics:
  • "Oh this ain't supposed to happen to me"
  • "You was always the cheerleader of my dreams"
  • "You got me thinking about our life, our house and kids (Yeah)" -- Domestication of the Love Dream
           [Keri Hilson:]
1          Not again
2          Oh this ain't supposed to happen to me
           
           [Kanye West:]
3          Keep rockin and keep knockin'
4          Whether you're Louie Vuittonin' it up, or Reebokin'
5          You see the hate that they serving on a platter
6          So what we gon have dessert or disaster?
           
           [Keri Hilson:]
7          I never thought I'd be in love like this
8          When I look at you my mind goes on a trip
9          Then you came in and knocked me on my face
10         Feels like I'm in a race but I already won first place
           
11         I never thought I fall for you as hard as I did (as hard as I did, yeah)
12         You got me thinking about our life, our house and kids (Yeah)
13         Every morning I look at you and smile
14         Cause boy you came around and you knocked me down (knocked me down)
           
           [Chorus:]
15         Sometimes love comes around (love comes around, love comes around)
16         And it knocks you down
17         Just get back up
18         When it knocks you down (knocks you down)
19         Sometimes love comes around
20         And it knocks you down
21         Just get back up
22         When it knocks you down (knocks you down)
           
           [Ne-Yo:]
23         I never thought I hear myself say
24         Ya'll gon hate
25         I think I'm going to kick it with my girl today
26         I used to be commander-in-chief for my pimp ship flying high
27         Till I met this pretty little missile, who shot me out the sky
           
28         So now I'm crashing don't know how it happened
29         But I know it feels so damn good
30         Said if I could go back and make it happen faster
31         Don't you know I would baby if I could
32         Miss independent, to the fullest, the load never too much
33         She helping me pull it, she shot bullet that ended that life
34         I swear to you the pimp in me just died tonight girl sometimes love
           
35         Sometimes love comes around (love comes around, love comes around)
36         And it knocks you down
37         Just get back up
38         When it knocks you down (knocks you down)
39         Sometimes love comes around
40         And it knocks you down
41         Just get back up
42         When it knocks you down (knocks you down)
           
           [Kanye West:]
43         Tell me now can you make past your caspers
44         So we could finally fly off into NASA
45         You was always the cheerleader of my dreams
46         To seem to only date the head of football teams,
47         And I was the class clown that always kept you laughing
48         We were never meant to be, baby we just happened
49         So please don't mess up the trick,
50         Hey young world, I'm the new slick rick,
51         They say I move too quick but we can't let this moment past us,
52         Let the hour glass pass right into ashes
53         Let the wind blow the ashes right before my glasses
54         So I wrote this love letter right before my classes
55         how could a goddess ask someone that's only average, for advice
56         O-M-G you listen to that bitch?
57         Woah is me, baby this is tragic
58         Cause we had it, we was magic
59         I was flying, now I'm crashing
60         This is bad, real bad, Michael Jackson
61         Now I'm mad, real mad, Joe Jackson
62         You should leave your boyfriend now, I'ma ask him
           
           [Keri Hilson:]
62         So you gotta take the good with the bad, the happy and the sad
63         Or will you bring the better future than I had in the past
64         Cause I don't want to make the same mistakes I did
65         I don't wanna fall back on my face again
66         Woah, woah
67         I'll admit it, I was scared to answer love's call
68         Woah, woah
69         And if it hits, better make it worth the fall
           
70         (When it comes around)
           
71         Sometimes love comes around (love comes around, love comes around)
72         And it knocks you down
73         Just get back up
74         When it knocks you down (knocks you down)
75         Sometimes love comes around (comes around)
76         And it knocks you down
77         Just get back up
78         When it knocks you down (knocks you down)
           
79         Won’t see it coming when it happens
80         But when it happens you’re gonna feel it, let me tell you now
81         You see when love comes knocks you down
           
82         Won’t see it coming when it happens
83         But when it happens you’re gonna feel it, let me tell you now
84         You see when love knocks you down