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Artist: New Edition
Canonical path: /new-edition/been-so-long
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Been so long
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Been so long
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[P. Diddy:]
Ladies and Gentlemen it's about that time
The newest addition to the Bad Boy Family
Ralph, Ronnie, Ricky, Mike, Johnny
New Edition
[Ricky:]
Oh baby, yeah
No, no, no, no, no
Say it's been so long
[Ralph:]
And it feels like it was yesterday but now we're here to stay
See we rock this way every time we hit the stage
Ain't nothing changed
See it's all the same when we start the show
[Ricky:]
Everywhere we go people show us love just can't get enough in 2003
It's only a new gain come around our way all we wanna do is spread love
[Chorus:]
It has been so long
And we can't let you down
It has been so long
[Johnny:]
We won't ever stop doing what we do
And that's giving you something that you can feel
So don't you ever doubt cause we gon turn it out
And bring down the house and we've only just begun
We rock from town to town we always put it down
We only wanna see you out your seats no sitting down
So people gather round to hear that NE sound
We got love for all of you
[Chorus]
[Bridge:]
How can we let y'all know, know that we
We just can't let this go
Music is our love
Can't stop it now, ain't no other way
Way for us to go
Keep on giving love
Put your hands in the sky if you wanna fly on a natural high
It's been so long since we got on
Can't you see we're in it for the long run
[Chorus 3x]
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