Beyoncé | Lyrics

"History in the making!" rapper Jay-Z announces on "Crazy in Love," the first track on Beyonce Knowles' 2003 solo debut, Dangerously in Love. And while that may be overselling the appeal of the ex-Destiny's Child beauty and her...

Song Lyrics Album Video Year
Deja Vu B'day   2006
Upgrade U B'day   2006
Resentment B'day   2006
Green Light B'day   2006
Ring the Alarm B'day   2006
Get Me Bodied B'day   2006
Freakum Dress B'day   2006
Suga Mama B'day   2006
Kitty Kat B'day   2006
Irreplaceable B'day   2006
Hip Hop Star Dangerously in Love   2003
That's How You Like It Dangerously in Love   2003
Signs Dangerously in Love   2003
Naughty Girl Dangerously in Love   2003
Baby Boy Dangerously in Love   2003
Daddy Dangerously in Love   2003
Crazy in Love Dangerously in Love   2003
Beyoncé Interlude Dangerously in Love   2003
Gift from Virgo Dangerously in Love   2003
Me, Myself and I Dangerously in Love   2003
The Closer I Get to You Dangerously in Love   2003
Dangerously in Love 2 Dangerously in Love   2003
Speechless Dangerously in Love   2003
Be with You Dangerously in Love   2003
Beautiful Liar [Bello Embustero] Irremplazable   2007
Irreplaceable [Irreemplazable][Mix] Irremplazable   2007
Irreplaceable [Irreemplazable] Irremplazable   2007
Listen [Oye] Irremplazable   2007
Amor Gitano Irremplazable   2007
Beautiful Liar [Spanglish] Irremplazable   2007
Beautiful Liar [Remix] Irremplazable   2007
Get Me Bodied [Timbaland Remix] Irremplazable   2007

Full Description

"History in the making!" rapper Jay-Z announces on "Crazy in Love," the first track on Beyonce Knowles' 2003 solo debut, Dangerously in Love. And while that may be overselling the appeal of the ex-Destiny's Child beauty and her omnipresent booty, it's not doing it by much. Beyonce's songs are dressed up with state-of-the-art production, guest stars aplenty and the singer"s undeniable fabulousness, but when you analyze them lyrically, they're almost all about pop music's No. 1 topic: love.

But Beyonce -- who in Destiny's Child used her lyrics to thump the drum for "Independent Women" -- intrigues by straddling the line between coy ingénue and down-and-dirty temptress. On Dangerously and its follow-up, 2006's B'Day, she's both, delivering direct come-ons such as "Naughty Girl," "Freakum Dress" and "Hip Hop Star," on which she boldly asks/demands, "Do you want to get nasty? I dare you to undress me." Or "Speechless," in which she feels "your skin rubbing and touching me" with "only sweat between us." Turn on the shower!

But for someone so famous and in control of her career, there's a surprising submissive streak running through Beyonce's lyrics, too. On the song "Be With You" she coos the words "I am your woman/I belong to you," while on "Upgrade U" she offers, "I can do for you what Martin did for the people/Ran by the men but the women keep the tempo." She may prefer to let her man lead, but she does demand respect from him, making sure he knows he's not, as one title puts it, "Irreplaceable." "You must not know 'bout me," she sings on that song's independence-asserting chorus. She may be crazy in love, after all, but she"s definitely not crazy.

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