TLC - Waterfalls (Official HD Video)
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Watch the official music video for "Waterfalls" by TLC
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Lyrics:
A lonely mother gazing out of her window
Staring at a son that she just can't touch
If at any time he's in a jam she'll be by his side
But he doesn't realize he hurts her so much
But all the praying just ain't helping at all
'Cause he can't seem to keep his self out of trouble
So he goes out and he makes his money the best way he knows how
Another body laying cold in the gutter
Listen to me
Don't go chasing waterfalls
Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to
I know that you're gonna have it your way or nothing at all
But I think you're moving too fast
#TLC #Waterfalls #Remastered
Its 2024, let's see how many legends are listening to this incredible song💙
Me
Yo
love this song
Her
you post in every song i guess?
Long Live the memory of guitarist Ed Stroud who played on this sound and many more. He passed away yesterday.
bless him.
Hope TLC came to see him out
I heard he's back now though.
Sometimes I just feel like typing something offensive just to piss someone off and attract hate to me
@@buggs6608 why's that? Do you hate yourself and the world? Life is shit a lot of the time.
It is truly amazing how we all loved this song as kids, without realizing the true meaning until we were older.
Woke
nice
Unfortunately I understood this at a young age. It was myself though.
@@tracypounders2358 I've always been a very sensitive person. I, personally, heard those words and knew what they meant. I got emotional for the mother referenced in the video. Such a sad situation that I'm sure so many have and will have to go through. A beautiful song for grief and reality.
True that! I have tears in my eyes now as I just sent shared this with my son of 35 years. Deep..
Show ME that you know me ME
A waterfall fall represents temptation, it’s beautiful but if you get to close you fall to your end.
Let's all admit. This wasn't in our recommendations. We all searched for it
I remember when this video came out I must have been 10 (I’m now 33) and it was a shock that I needed. ❤️
Yuhp
Im 28 so i must have been 5 wow, i miss being 5 my mom played them all the time, i miss my mom
I'm a metalhead but grew up with this song, and yes, I searched it and headbanging to it LOL :P
rightt😅😭
This song is so powerful, raw, and real. T- Boz did exactly as they said and "got the message across without seeming like we were preaching." It also dispelled the myth back then that you couldn't get HIV/AIDS from a woman and the fact that they showed a white, heterosexual couple with the disease shows that it wasn't just a "gay and/or African American only" disease. The purpose of rap and hip hop is to spread awareness of social issues and give lessons as well as being entertainment. They did a great job.
eye love you goodbyes and I used and the new one more about it was the way of this message and then I have I am not the way you are not be able to be in a bit more information contained in a goodbye to see the way of God bless me w read the way of a bit and then you a lot of a lot yesterday I am going to be in a few that the new York and I am so that will not have any attachments is a lot
HIV can be healed by taking shitake, reishi, kombucha or maitake tea for 3 months, plus eating healthy non sugared food (nothing processed), taking Sea Salt Baths w/ a handful of lemon or lime to neurtralize the water and eating non sugared yogurt that is Organic...to balance out the energy in your body as well as your stomach acids - flora and fauna...
Fucking bullshit.
+MaverickAshley Lenartson
And don't forget to pray to the stone god on wednesdays and the moon god every second saturday. Much cleanse. Big heal
Bloombaby99kiiiijj
The message in this song is still relevant.
I like it😃😂
*irrelevant
@@solvingmeat2499 relevant *********.
Too relevant, homebody got shot in his own yard and i still remember his mama telling me to keep him away from pills
Yes it is
Cant believe RnB was so classy just not so long ago. So jazzy, so poetic❤
It was mainstream at the time (even with Organized Noize production and Left Eye on rhymes). Check out the Soulquarians stuff.
Waterfalls is one of the greatest and most meaningful songs of all time. Its basically about not taking life for granted and not giving into temptation. Lisa's part is so poignant and iconic! Nearly 30 years later its message is still relevant in 2022. Their will never be an era of music like the 90s! Long live the 90s and TLC! Rest in peace Left-eye.
Finally
Hey listen to the song "In Jesus Name by Katy hill" you feel something when you hear it,
I really hope everyone who reads this does listen to that song.
the true message of the song is that waterfalls may be beautiful, but they also end in a crash. so dont be chasing something beautiful but deadly.
+1
Every era had an important message of people choose to listen.
Chasing Waterfalls" is TLC's way of expressing how people chase intangible dreams with no thought of the consequences. The first verse is talking about an inner city mother-and-son relationship. He is chasing "waterfalls" (money and respect by dealing drugs), but his mother knows this cannot end well. The second verse deals with a man's relationship with a woman. His "waterfall" is casual sex - he has a "natural obsession for temptation." This could mean he is cheating on someone or the woman he is seeing is cheating on someone. Either way, he contracts HIV and dies ("three letters took him to his final resting place"). TLC were big on AIDS awareness - Left Eye would often wear condoms attached to her clothes and in her glasses to promote safe sex.
Actually the girl has a "natural obsession for temptation". She is the one who slept with so many guys and she had HIV and the boy got sick by HIV thanks to her.
Sex. Schmex. What difference does THAT make?
@@brianjude6789 This guy made a wrong interpretation of the second verse. It's not the boy who had HIV, it's the girl who had slept with so many men, the scene where it shows the pictures of all guys she had slept with describes it. And because of her being infected, he got HIV and both die.
No kidding about THAT one, @@miloseviczarko45. I believe you.
@@miloseviczarko45 That was their point 🙄
At 3:50 Lyrics by Left Eye: Ah c'mon
I seen a rainbow yesterday
But too many storms have come and joined
Leavin' a trace of not one God-given ray
Is it because my life is ten shades of gray
I pray, all ten fade away seldom praise Him for the sunny days
And like His promise is true only my faith can undo
The many chances I blew to bring my life to anew
Clear and blue and unconditional
Skies have dried the tears from my eyes, no more lonely cries
My only bleedin' hope is for the folk who can't cope
With such an endurin' pain that it keeps them in the pourin' rain
Who's to blame for tootin' caine into your own vein
What a shame, you shoot and aim for someone else's brain
You claim the insane and ain't this day and time for fallin'
Prey to crime I say the system got you victim to your mind
Dreams are hopeless aspirations in hopes of coming true
Believe in yourself, the rest is up to me and you
She killed it in this song.
Thanks 😊
I know! I also can't believe that Will Poulter managed to memorize this and sing it so well for the movie "We're The Millers"!🤣
Video came to me while watching peaceful protesters. Crank Lisa! *Thx Dusty*
register online vote.org the MF and corrupt admin outta office. #EnoughisEnough
Dusty the 2nd : #PuertoRican from a musical Family. Miss her.❤️
I’ll never forget the first time I heard this when it came out... i was in awwww of these girls always and especially how deep some of their lyrics are..... this rap is so powerful !!
Ich bin hier im Februar 25. Ich liebe diesen Song.
Same!
Lisa’s part meant so much to her with everything that she was dealing with at the time of this video RIP QUEEN LISA
....whose Lisa...
@@juahnyanti2720 left eye
Kenny lopes
Yeah extremely true I miss her so much Legend
oh,yeah she is the only person to go through things in life! Great job
On this day, 18 years ago, the world lost Left Eye. Lisa, wherever you are, your voice will never be forgotten. Keep resting in peace angel✨💙
FRANK?!! FASILGESIR Beautiful
ii can’t believe it’s been 18 years 😔feels lyk it was yesterday tbh. Rest in peace beautiful ❤️🙏🏾🕊.
25 not 18 this song is from 1995
@@gabrielaquino3252 Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes *DIED* 18 years ago, it's sad even tho I'm too young to know about this
*peace.
I miss songs like this 😭 my generation is so messed up.
same😒
hell yeah it's a damn shame
so agree great music
how are we messed up lol.
compare our music like " work" to this lol this is real music
2025 and this is still one of the most REAL, DEEP & MEANINGFUL songs and videos ever.
this song is a lot darker than I realised it was when I was younger
Well, it is a lot darker today.
Realized...have to use a zed when speaking about American stuff. Sorry...I don't make the rules.
I think its real, not dark, on the other hand I guess life in general is pretty dark.
whats this song about?
@@DeezHairyYteNutz I’m not American 😂
Rest In Peace Left Eye. She woulda been 50 today. Taken way too soon 😢
Even worse when you watch the video where they talk about being one of the best selling girl groups but being broke af because of their greedy managers.
🌼Rest in Peace
Overloaded plane so use less way to Die she wuz so sweet just because of a the plane wuz to hevy thats evil
@@JuanCastro-qo6vx I think that was Aaliyah, Left eye died in a car accident
No
We need more positive music like this in the mainstream
They don't want that, they want to break down the family, so your stuck to hedonism and materialsm, but.... good music exists you just have to go looking for it and not be influenced by what's "popular" Because it's sponsored by special interests groups. Strategically selected for nefarious undisclosed purposes, sorry folks your idols are all curated because they are willing to play ball with the master Architects plans.
@@germanikolaas you got that right
@@germanikolaas Great rant i would like to respond but who are they? and nefarious purposes? Master architects?You are painting things with a broad brush you need to be a little more specific.
@@germanikolaas deep
@@germanikolaas Because you've really seen the truth.
My grandmother is close to passing, she always said this song reminded her of me. Now? It’s going to remind me of her. I love you grandma. I’ll see you on the other side when it’s my time. Thank you TLC for this song, it means everything to me.
This song is timeless. And the lyrics are still relevant.. RIP Left Eye
Lisa Nicole "Left Eye" Lopes 1971 - 2002
@@zainabtouray7681 yes I know.
@@taleinz1 I did, it gave me goosebumps.
These nuts were timeless on your chin.
top music
I think metaphorically this song is about not taking risks so fast, especially when you don't know what you're getting into. The lakes and rivers is safety, and the waterfalls are risks. Like that old saying think before you act, that's the same for living in extremes, the more you get in to it, the more it'll cost you your life. We need more songs like this that gives you a message about how to live a balanced life.
Its about HIV/AIDS
solamente the person is not wrong, you are neither its also about drugs. It has multiple meanings.
@@solotm2259 no it's not just about HIV. It's about how taking risks (such as having unprotected sex or dealing drugs) could cost you your life.
Look at you guys being all analytical...I like it ❤
Be yourself. Don't try to be someone you're not. Don't fall for peer pressure! Just because others do it, don't mean you should. There's only 1 life!
RIP Lisa, we still love you in 2024! ❤❤❤😍😍
Your Right 👍🏾
Love for Lisa, Love for TC, Love for all of TLC.
Absolutely what a Lost RIP 😢😢❤❤
Literally
🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽
My Mother Loved This song...I miss her....❤❤❤❤
Left Eye's is literally the best verse any female rapper has ever spit. Period
Way ahead of her time!!
Wut im 9 now so who is who
@k c ok
she reminds me of female 3 stacks
u only say that cause she dead...
Left Eye's flow was so unique. RIP beauty.
Lisa Left Eye one of the prettiest girls I've ever layed eyes on.....omg ! My heart was so broken when she passed. I only wished she had lived long enough to claim her throne as Queen of R&B.
The saddest part is I'm not sure Lisa knew how special she was, and influential.
Unreleased/Underrated R&B Grooves Lisa left eye Lopez had the best voice in my opinion she was the greatest women rapper ever and she was so so hot what a sexy girl she had it all the full package RIP ANGEL
TLC just made us all happy to be women. God Bless
Her delivery n charisma too. Rip to an amazing talent
I can't belive there are humans that don't know TLC exist.
When I said I love TLC, this girl said “the tv show”?
I was so disappointed
Who ever does not know tlc truly does not know thier music these ladies worked hard to get as far as they did left eye will forever be missed
Right I talk about them at school and people litterly be like who that like omg
lifeofaaron it’s not even a TV show, it’s an entire channel... making that reply even more derp
Luhan Lufawn I’m one of them😁😁😁
These women were some and are some of the most talented female artists the planet has ever been blessed to hear.
*talented artist
[Verse 3: Left Eye]
I seen a rainbow yesterday, but too many storms have come and gone
Leaving a trace of not one God-given ray
Is it because my life is ten shades of gray
I pray, all ten fade away
Seldom praise Him for the sunny days
And like his promise is true
Only my faith can undo the many chances I blew to bring my life to anew
Clear and blue and unconditional skies
Have dried the tears from my eyes
No more lonely cries
My only bleeding hope
Is for the folk who can't cope with such an enduring pain
That it keeps them in the pouring rain
Who's to blame for tooting 'caine into your own vein
What a shame, you shoot and aim for someone else's brain
You claim the insane
And name this day in time
For falling prey to crime
I say the system's got you victim to your own mind
Dreams are hopeless aspirations in hopes of coming true
Believe in yourself, the rest is up to me and you
Wonder Women That is a wonderful flow from Left Eye. 😘 #LeftEye4Eva
No other female rapper can flow like this. None!
Wonder Women my favorite verse from the song. Thanks for the post
sad
Wonder Women thanks
Even at 51 years old, this song still gives me the chills. I was living life like every character in this video. Been with over 200 women, sold drugs in Baltimore throughout the 80s and 90s, got shot and went to prison for years. This was all after dealing with a dysfunctional family inside of the house and bullied outside of the house. But I'm thankful to still be alive.
I am impressed with your insight. You seem like someone that really rode the roller coaster of life and survived. I respect you for being honest you are truly blessed.
P.s I am 55 and survived a lot of abuse in my life too.
@@leslieosman363 I appreciate that 🙏
@@j13741374 your welcome 🤗. You actually made me feel better 😌
Yeap, absolutely fab song, I'm 46❤❤❤
52 year old white guy here. I love this song. And yes, I searched for it.
I told my wife, oh girl this is my jam. Cause it is. Great song. RIP left eye.
#1, stop apologizing for being white and 52; #2, please don't say "oh girl this is my jam."
@@8angst8 he just gave a description of who he is. I see nothing resembling an "apology" here so wtf are you talking about?
@@lawrencelawrence8553 yeah, I'm not sorry for none of it.
@@ZombasticRex and you shouldn't because you didn't even hint at that. I'm a 33 y.o black guy but I understand simple descriptors and that's all that it is
☺️☺️☺️☺️
Their poetic music will forever be iconic
This song is deeper than 9 year old me realized...
I once did a facebook test about what was popular when my i was conceived, and this song came up. So i guess i could say this song is deeper than my dad was in my mom that day.
i know right!
Yep!
Joni Velat lmao
It’s deeper than 23 year old me realized. Yep, just found out 5 minutes ago.
Who's listening during the 2020 Quarantine?
My wife.....
Me
YOOO
well hello there lol
Omg😂 I dont know why?
....because i promise the childhout?
There my life was safe?🤔 and free from corona? I was free...and happy
This is when music had a REAL MEANING
Alexandria Victoria This really caught me not a lot of music does that these days only some
@Astuteous Maximus agreed. Lyrics that had a message.
@Astuteous Maximus yes!! I click on and it's more of the same repetitive sh1t.... So l click out again 😔. As l kid l loves the lyrics and listened to the message. Chasing water falls was chilling yo me "three letters took him to his final resting place".
Phil Collins did the same thing a strong message or real talk..
I guess you never heard of J cole.
@@youngwar1335 or Kendrick or xxxtentacion
this is probably the coolest R&B music video ever
I'm 65, a rocker yet I've loved this song since I first heard when it came out. The lyrics are great and the production is too.
Love the horns and other instruments. Great melody too.
@@chelsloveea58 Agree!
Mee too😘🤗
Man they were a force at this time.
R.I.P. Lisa Left-Eye
something in me is just screaming at me and telling me she isn't gone for a while i have held on to hope that just shouldn't be there anymore i really do feel like she could still be alive i know i'm crazy but i just want her to come back
Hard to imagine she would've turned 50 this year
Tragedy, wasn’t it?💔
Still are a force if we let them be and keep their music and legacy behind 💖
TLC was underrated as big as they were. Their lyrics were special too.
I don’t think they were underrated at all. Maybe these days, but back then they were da GIRLS. You need to hear more of their hits, it’s not just Waterfalls, No Scrubs or Creep.
@@jmontenegro1124 you should get the
@@jmontenegro1124 you should get the
@@jmontenegro1124 . Don't go chasing water falls,
Don't go chasing water falls
Who still dance to this great song? Lya TLC
Who's here because you've just always loved TLC and you came on your own?
hi mj
Im77 mixed and I have always loved those girl..God has here giving her the love she deserves. Amen
Me
I am! And i searched for this specific song, too... listening to it many times over many days.
I'm here. Loved this group then till now❤
I think people tend to overlook at how monumental this song/video was and is. Not only for the message but the overall impact it made when it premiered. TLC as a group brought urban and social awareness to the forefront of pop culture at a time when soceity was plagued by stigma. They literally made the world stop and pay attention to the relevance of African American youth and the hiv/aids epidemic. No female group has ever dominated in the many ways TLC has. They were the first.
Back in the 16th century no matter what happened people always blamed god for it and they prayed every day, the beliefs in god back then were really strong/I was just trying to give people a different perspective on the belie very in god
Tee Mee was thinking this after just watching. haven't seen this since it was on MTV. there's really nothing anymore like this in the rap and rnb genres. it's like they really did this song for the people/fans, not for themselves so fans just buy their music.
on a side note, I really think after 9/11 all this went away. we became scared as a nation and focus is more on ourselves. making sure we're secure at the price of dismissing our community and surroundings. the 90's weren't perfect, but it was on a decent track for community until it was completely derailed in 2001. lots of things changed, and even though it's not a sharp line, there's a major split from music pre and post 9/11. more than the usual contemporary progression. genuine useful messages in a song are a sad rarity these days. damn.
Tee Mee this was a great song as a young kid I didn't appreciate how good this song was it had a great message and also displayed great musicianship with the band in the background this song touched so.many people's lives and so many people could relate to this song my mom is another generation obviously but u know when this song comes on she jams to it any song from my Era that my parents jam too I know is good music
Tee Mee facts 💯💯💯
Tee Mee true
Lefteye's verse ain't nothing but the truth. Even in today's society. That girl was pure genius with her lyrical content. There will never be another!❤
Amen to that! 🙏❤
This music brings a lot of memories back to me this song goes way back and it has a lot of meaning to it's lyric's
So awesome. So true
Wow did u remember that 🤩😍👍
Some people can’t handle the truth and Left-Eye dropped bombs in all her raps 💣🔥 I would love to hear what she thinks of our current situation
We’re The Millers!🔥
Left Eye’s rap still sounds so dope many years later!!! RIP baby girl
ruining ur 69 likes lol
@@lixx0376 looool thanks
It is fantastic.
She's better than alot of female rappers now.
Today is the anniversary.
If you listening this during corona quarantine your taste of music is immaculate
Thanks
Ik🤭
Tell me something I don't know 👀
why thank you
was listening before i was 10
I never realized how sad this song was...
I really like your channel
@@CandyTok thank you?
@@jordanwasper6729 lol
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Lol, me... just realize now after years
This was my JAM in 4th grade when it came out! All truth, no fake lips, nails, lashes, just straight NATURAL TALENT and depth. Miss you Lisa
Feel it came out around Aladdin cartoon bc i LOVED their pants and everyone was obsessed w Jasmine (maybe was a year later )
This song has the benefit of both being catchy and meaningful. RIP Lisa, We’ll stick to the rivers and lakes
@@Misunderstood707 not everyone
Airs literally don’t go chasing waterfalls how do I forget
In my opinion, the people who don't find this music-video should search a lot as I did: is a question of preseverance untill we reach what we desire in find...and not a brilliant mind on the net or informatic...only try to say that, like in our lifes, we must try to reach at least, the less that we wish for🧏♀️🇵🇹
I jz Woke up with this song on mind for some reason smh
@@treymon3y208 For those entering the comment section, yes I edited the comment so it wasn’t as bland as it was before
It's about to be 2023 and this still sounds better than anything they play on the radio.
Lol
Yup.. true
17-1-23❤❤
100%
Mom and dad are goin' out for the evening
And you're stuck inside the house all alone
That's when you decided it might be fun to harass someone
Dial a random number up on your telephone
You ask if their refrigerator is running
Then you tell 'em they should go out and catch it
Buddy, if they ever figured out where you were callin' 'em from
They'd come and bust your head right in with a ratchet
Listen to me
Don't go makin' phony calls
Please stick to the seven-digit numbers you're used to
I know that you think it's funny drivin' folks up the wall
But it's really gettin' old fast
Little Melvin has a natural obsession
Askin' for Prince Albert in a can
He gets a kick each time he makes a collect call
To some guy he doesn't know who lives in Japan
He's callin' strangers up at three in the morning
Gives 'em pizza pie delivery at four
He won't be laughin when they're tracin' his line
One day the phone police will be there at his door
Yo, hear me
Don't go makin' phony calls
We were too young to understand the deep message of this masterpiece... Now that we're older it hits harder. 😭 😭
I was 12 when i got my TLC album. I knew what this song meant, its pretty clear in its verbage. I think what hits harder now is fully understanding the implications(side effects) of the stories and everyone it effects and how. Wisdom over knowledge in this situation, its pretty clear the subjects they are talking about, the actual impacts on life around the stories is something you have to actually live to understand.
I grew up a bad kid, got into a lot of trouble and saw my parents frustration and sadness. Two people i knew got shot and killed at that time, one died in jail. Later on two more got dead living the game... that i had left by that point. Its just fucking sad. Then you have AIDS and it was something that even 12 year old me knew about, from school and the news. The AIDS epidemic was brutal back then, i met someone years back that got it from being drugged and raped. Luckily hes still around thanks to advancements in medicine but... fuck man. So many people died. Of course, another big factor in knowing about the AIDS part was that Forest Gump also came out in the same year.
Too hard
Hey
I always knew what it meant, but agreed!!
Ok
2025 anyone?
Meee
T bozz.. Left eye.....chillie.
Of course 😊😊
Meee
Me
One of my favorites! 70 y/o White boy here!!! RIP Left Eye.
What purpose was served by you mentioning that YOU’RE WHITE? That was super WEIRD. Are you ok? 😩
He’s basically saying how powerful music is by expressing how far he is from the culture. Like when someone from Africa say “love from Kenya 🇰🇪” under an American artist post. Just say you racist 💀
@@JustLettuceBeeare you okay? That really got your panties in a bunch.
I am a 60 year old woman and still love this song,i love all theirmusic,keeps me young
One of my favorites also
The moment when the boy's spirit tried to hug his mother. I FELT that...😢
skinger skanger Shyheim
Bro that shit hit home 😔
I felt a need to pop the guy with the gun
Yes
Yeah, so sad. :( :( :(
Looks like we’re getting older but this song will never get old.
its funny how day by day nothing changes but when you look back everything is different
lol my very first cd that wasn't country! I am 40 and still listen to this cd!
You right !!! I'm 42 and remember it word for word .. remember carefree me and didn't know how right my momma was when she said stop trying to grow up so fast ...
I miss being home with my momma protected from the stresses of adulting .
Yup
@@stephaniecalhoun804💜 expand your mind. ☮️🙂🙂🙂 I'm 65. I love a variety of music, from all genres.
R.I.P Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes 1971-2002 😔😭 A real legend🙏
So many yars later and i wanted to hear her voice. And here I am..
She overdosed or what?
Thoed Essay813 She died in a car accident on April 25, 2002. She lost control of her car, was thrown from it, and died instantly from severe head and neck trauma.
@@nathanfarmer4632 That's tragic.. Thanks for the info
@@gookawild5543 No problem. You're welcome.
It's crazy how good left eye was. Her flow and her tone of voice was unbelievable and effortless. She would be a mega star to this day topping the charts.
Have to disagree, I think her voice was ridiculous, she had flow fo sho but yea nowadays rap and r&b is dead.
@@showmeclips9031 why is it dead? Also rock seems to be flat lining
@@showmeclips9031it rlly isn’t dead just not much in mainstream music. Bruh 🫥
@@lycheelatte6790 yeah but what's replacing it has no soul. It's awful 😖
@@Raddrizz valid
First Verse: Gang Life
Second Verse: AIDS
Lefteye Rap: Drug Addiction and Recovery
Chorus: If you think your life is rough, it could be far worse chasing after things that are no good for you! Don't be a pinhead! Stay safe!
sheesh
I actually do follow God and have a great faith in Jesus. I justify nothing. I was only translating the song into simple terminology.
Ps 32:8
I didn't understand the lyrics until you broke it down. Thanks
Gangs are sexy like black magic is to a black cat
5lan alone to believe that all animals crawl on there hands and feet
In there hands and feet too
They still kept the flow and melody right up to 90's.Whats happened its wall to wall rap.
TLC's song "Waterfalls" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in July 1995 and stayed there for seven weeks.
Very impressive!
She says y'all don't hear me but obviously many did.
TLC is iconic. I’m slapping anyone who don’t know who they are
😂😂😂😂
Tobias Macivey Turn the other cheek
Tobias Macivey lol no need - if you don’t know you don’t know - this was just never your music but even then it’s hard to believe someone never heard of TLC - I hate Rock but it’s like me never hearing of ACDC
@@jblack8149 Oh well I guess my family was never brought up listen to TLC
Tobias Macivey I see your serious. Well don’t feel bad. It is what it is.
Who else agrees that the three singers are absolutely beautiful?
Me!!!
Me baybee
😍💗💗💗 miss left eye 😞💔
Gorgeous indeed❤️
Who else agrees that they sound like an asthmatic cat being tortured?
Devil couldn’t take these women…what pure souls
Left Eye killed it with the rap, R.I.P mama 🙏🏽
RIP Left Eye 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
Yes She Absolutely Did!!!
Wait your moms dead because R.I.P mama?
i'm not missing waterfalls for this, WATERFALLS IS MY JAM!
Scream Queens😍
+ordinarydannyboy i was lowkey waiting for the rap
+ordinarydannyboy it is a song about getting AID and HIV
"she gives him loveing his body can't handle" to a derict reference to her son getting AIDS
Emily Savrin I think it's deeper than aids and HIV... its about him prioritsing the wrong things in life and he should have stuck to the safer things 'the things hes used to'. so because he went chasing waterfalls he died
Klaus Hargreeves words of wisdom
just watched it rn and had to show it to my friend lmao
oh the prophet 🙌🏻
🤣🤣🤣
Damnnn , just watched it hahaha genius klaus
I am a fraud!😅
30 years later and is still a hit and I wasn’t even born in the 90’s 🥲
"Don't go chasing waterfalls
Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to" - Klaus Hargreeves - 1963
Lol. Love that show.
was just re watching that episode, lol
Harriet Tubman seeing a fictional character take credit for her work:
DESTINY'S CHILDREN
klaus the prophet 🙌
TLC has been the best female group ever till date
so well behaving, even the condoms and the political correctniess are mentioned, no smoking, drake,
the supremes
Yeah, so good, that they ripped off Paul McCartneys song "Waterfalls".
AFTER SPICE GIRLS YES....
@@Lot_2023know YOUR FACTS, they did not rip him off, Paul said it himself they sung this better than him and he loves this song. Smh
Lisa left eye was TALENTED. SHE WROTE THIS WHOLE SONG
I believe she was not perfect but her soul was too kind and too sensitive for this world.
She also named all their albums
Not the whole song, she was helped by Brandon Bennett and Marqueze Etheridge. It shows it in UA-cam Music, correct me if I’m wrong, though.
@@euricequeen842she burnt down her man's mansion bro 😂😂 she was insane fr but it happens fuck it
With help from Paul McCartney.
One of the greatest songs of the 1990s. Growing up and understanding the realism make it even better than it was as a child
Left Eye was one of the coolest 90s chicks. She hosted that rap competition on MTV too, which really showcased her killer personality. RIP Lisa!
Lisa left eye I miss her
she cant be gone i swear it the whole thing doesnt sit right with me if she is dead and i do mean if because i have my douts and i knows its crazy but if she is dead she is with all the other kings and queens we have. lost along the way i still have this fantasy that one day she just gonna show up and be fine i know its unrealistic but i wont let go she isnt dead until she has been thought of for the last time and i will never forget her
"Three letters took him to his final resting place"
Jesus that shit is too sad and too real. The 90's were a hell of a time both good and bad. Still wish I could go back, it's better than now even ignoring the pandemic and widespread panic. So many things that I miss.
Brownie Amanteigado girl WHAT? people still died and it was awful regardless
gurl fix your eyebrows
Each time period is good in it's own way, if someone doesn't like nowadays it means his/her best days are gone, they didnt succeed eventually, its okey to have a nostalgia, but c'mon, people, stop complaining and do something if this time/generation is so bad...
True
any decade seems better when you see the world with the eyes of a child
Like 2pac and Aaliyah, Left Eye was one of those talented artists that left this world too early with such an amazing talent. RIP to all the fallen artists of the music industry.
Left eye’s rapping is my favorite part of the song. Anyone else? RIP girl. Miss you so much and would’ve loved to see where you’d be today.🥹💕
I remember seeing Tlc perform this song as an opening act just a few years ago or so and when it got to Left eye's rapping part, I got very emotional 😢😢😢!!!
To the younger people, just know that this song was Huge back in the day
I saw it being ranked as the second biggest RnB song of the 90s, being hailed for addressing the stigma around HIV at the time. I had to come see the full video. Love it
Love the 90's
Unfortunately the 90' s style took a dive from the evolution rock
Tlc
Haha it feels weird that people say back in the day when referring to the 90s. People are growing up I guess
To this day I've never heard a song that was more overplayed than this
Left Eye did all the Rap and wrote most of the songs for TLC.
She was amazing !! What a horrible loss to the fans and the music industry!! I’m 51 and still LOVE watching and listening to these crazy talented girls !!!!
I'm 15 and somehow I'm listening to this
@@janarn6887 Who knows how big TLC could have been if Left Eye had lived?
No lol! Dallas Austin wrote most of thier songs. They wrote a few gether but Left eye write her own raps.
@@Tom-mv1op Music is timeless and amazing. The more meaning the better.
90's = Best music videos
Truth! 😀🖒💯
true
Yea
true 👌
Haha almost every 90s music video has a random desert scene thrown in 😂 the good ole days
3:50 One of the greatest verses in music history! I heard it for the first time on the school bus the week it came out. It still gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.
I miss being able to turn on the radio and hearing real music
Yep, real music with not much autotune.
Man0 That's Truu! I do too!
Man0 Ikr
Man0 I'd say, Taylor Swift songs are not music. The lyrics are so girly and it's like she's talking to herself.
im retarded? how? the point was that they dont make music like this anymore... dumbass
man I miss this style of music, todays music is so different
RobloxBoss yea😳
Hi from 2024
I don't believe they ever got the credit they deserved, especially this song, made too many people think and people don't like to think
Graduation anthem for all that year ❤
Beautiful song needs no attention
❤❤
They got credit and still getting credit for this song.
Their album Crazy Sexy Cool won a Grammy and it had this song on there
One of the best songs ever. Last time I heard this, I was in the passenger seat of my friend's old Ford. We were going way too fast but we were having fun. This friend had a wife and a little boy. When the baby turned two, he decided to take his family down to Miami and vacation. They were eating at an outdoor cafe and a guy with a gun approached the table. The guy pointed the gun at the baby and so my friend stood up and protected his son, and was killed. He was 21 years old. RIP Dustin.
A true modern classic, yet still relevant to today's youth. Silky, smooth style...simply fantastic.
This song takes me way back
Makes me grateful my son finally sought help for his addiction. The night I found his car at the hospital I was at rock bottom, too and didn't care if he took his own life because I was so tired of fear. Today, years later, he is doing so well; new wife, nice home with a pool even, job for a long time only he started smoking cigarettes along with his wife.
Thank you for that
I find you everywhere
@@ash.lak14 then you have amazing taste in music it seems lol
@@NostalgiaMan I came here from a scrubby video actually 😂 I saw you in digital nexes video and something else
Everyone who was born 1985-2005 heard this song on the radio constantly and let me tell u something. . .
IT NEVER GOT OLD❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
*Edit* :
Would you people stop being rude to this comment. Like I was literally saying if you were born from those years, you heard it for the first years of your life . NOT when it came out or what your generation is. Smh.
You mean 1995-2005
1980. I was actually a teenager when it came out so it's pretty much from my generation.
Heard this song on the radio in 2015 or 2016
I was born in 2005
Ayy i was born in 2005
This song never gets old, its message is unfortunately still relevant😒
Moral of the story, Don't do drugs, always wear a condom. Always. Rip Left Eye :( I don't give a frack what people say. You were and still are the Queen of Rap
What about when im trying to get my wife pregnant? Can I bust a nut in her then?
also drugs are a lot of fun until they arent. Always stop using drugs before they start to suck.
Noise Technician I dunno, CAN you?
@@noisetechnician2711 Wtf
@@noisetechnician2711 you are just blowing my mind
Beautiful song sung by three beautiful black beauties.
3:46
[Verse 3: Left Eye]
Come on!
I seen a rainbow yesterday, but too many storms
Have come and gone, leaving a trace of not one God-given ray
Is it because my life is ten shades of gray, I pray
All ten fade away, seldom praise Him for the sunny days
And like His promise is true, only my faith can undo
The many chances I blew to bring my life to anew
Clear blue and unconditional skies
Have dried the tears from my eyes, no more lonely cries
My only bleeding hope is for the folk who can't cope
With such an endurin' pain that it keeps 'em in the pourin' rain
Who's to blame for tooting 'caine into your own vein?
What a shame, you shoot and aim for someone else's brain
You claim the insane, and name this day in time
For falling prey to crime
I say the system's got you victim to your own mind
Dreams are hopeless aspirations in hopes of coming true
Believe in yourself, the rest is up to me and you
For years I thought she said “ grandma “
It’s a real bummer that they always cut Lisa’s rap out of the radio edit. It’s probably for time restrictions. But l really wish that they left it in. Because it’s part of the song.
@@Timothyojohnson it's the best part
I’ve always thought this was the best part of the whole song
@@justmart4455 Yes I agree with you. This is one of the best parts of the song. That’s why I’m so bummed that they cut it out.
Who misses left eye because every time i see a video of her bust out into to tears she was beautful she didnt desurve the pain she faced in the car crash she was a beautiful singer Rip lefteye and also who is here after the whole P DIDDY Thing ? But anyways lefteye was was a ledend of tlc rip left you will always be loved by chrisha your fan her soul is in heaven love you left eye im sure your family still thinks about all day and every you were the best singer inculding ALIYAH the princess of R&B! Thank you for everything you have done!
TLC is an iconic girl group from the 90s. Their music is as poignant and relevant today as the day it was first released. Love them. ♥ 🎶 🎤 🎹
TNT
Left Eye Lopez
acho uma boa
dead@@Geraldbux-411
One hit and fading into complete irrelevancy isn't exactly the qualities of "iconic" but sure I guess..
Waterfalls Lyrics 🌊
A lonely mother gazing out of her window
Staring at a son that she just can't touch
If at any time he's in a jam she'll be by his side
But he doesn't realize he hurts her so much
But all the praying just ain't helping at all
'Cause he can't seem to keep his self out of trouble
So, he goes out and he makes his money the best way he know how
Another body laying cold in the gutter
Listen to me
Don't go chasing waterfalls
Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to
I know that you're gonna have it your way or nothing at all
But I think you're moving too fast
Little precious has a natural obsession for temptation
But he just can't see
She give him loving that his body can't handle
But all he can say is, "Baby, it's good to me"
One day he goes and takes a glimpse in the mirror
But he doesn't recognize his own face
His health is fading and he doesn't know why
Three letters took him to his final resting place
Y'all don't hear me
Don't go chasing waterfalls
Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to
I know that you're gonna have it your way or nothing at all
But I think you're moving too fast
I seen a rainbow yesterday
But too many storms have come and gone
Leavin' a trace of not on God-given ray
Is it because my life is ten shades of gray
I pray all ten fade away
Seldom praise Him for the sunny days
And like his promise is true
Only my faith can undo
The many chances I blew
To bring my life to anew
Clear blue and unconditional skies
Have dried the tears from my eyes
No more lonely cries
My only bleedin' hope
Is for the folk who can't cope
Wit such an endurin' pain
That it keeps 'em in the pourin' rain
Who's to blame
For tootin' caine in your own vein
What a shame
You shoot and aim for someone else's brain
You claim the insane
And name this day in time
For fallin prey to crime
I say the system got you victim to your own mind
Dreams are hopeless aspirations
In hopes of comin' true
Believe in yourself
The rest is up to me and you
Don't go chasing waterfalls
Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to
I know that you're gonna have it your way or nothing at all
But I think you're moving too fast
Don't go chasing waterfalls
Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to
I know that you're gonna have it your way or nothing at all
But I think you're moving too fast
Thank you, TRUE!
Left eye would’ve still been one of the best female rappers if she were alive today.
well said
Yeah, a lot better than Nicki Minaj 😔
no doubt
Her and Nicki would be beefing and Lisa wasn’t the one to play with
Lisa’s verse in this song is legendary
A lonely mother gazing out of her window
Staring at a son that she just can't touch
If at any time he's in a jam she'll be by his side
But he doesn't realize he hurts her so much
But all the praying just ain't helping at all
'Cause he can't seem to keep his self out of trouble
So, he goes out and he makes his money the best way he know how
Another body laying cold in the gutter
Listen to me
Don't go chasing waterfalls
Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to
I know that you're gonna have it your way or nothing at all
But I think you're moving too fast
Little precious has a natural obsession for temptation
But he just can't see
She give him loving that his body can't handle
But all he can say is, "Baby, it's good to me"
One day he goes and takes a glimpse in the mirror
But he doesn't recognize his own face
His health is fading and he doesn't know why
Three letters took him to his final resting place
Y'all don't hear me
Don't go chasing waterfalls
Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to
I know that you're gonna have it your way or nothing at all
But I think you're moving too fast
I seen rainbow yesterday
But too many storms have come and gone
Leavin' a trace of not on God-given ray
Is it because my life is ten shades of gray
I pray all ten fade away
Seldom praise Him for the sunny days
And like his promise is true
Only my faith can undo
The many chances I blew
To bring my life to anew
Clear blue and unconditional skies
Have dried the tears from my eyes
No more lonely cries
My only bleedin' hope
Is for the folk who can't cope
Wit such an endurin' pain
That it keeps 'em in the pourin' rain
Who's to blame
For tootin' caine in your own vein
What a shame
You shoot and aim for someone else's brain
You claim the insane
And name this day in time
For fallin prey to crime
I say the system got you victim to your own mind
Dreams are hopeless aspirations
In hopes of comin' true
Believe in yourself
The rest is up to me and you
Don't go chasing waterfalls
Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to
I know that you're gonna have it your way or nothing at all
But I think you're moving too fast
Don't go chasing waterfalls
Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to
I know that you're gonna have it your way or nothing at all
But I think you're moving too fast
Lmao this deserve more likes
@@itzelromero6747 truth no cap
Lyrics seems Waterfalls by Paul Mc Cartney song in 1980
Tq tq tq
Left Eye was an exceptional lyricist.
Has a good message to take life slow don’t rush into anything 💕 TLC
U got that shit right
Jazmyne Jones AMEN!
this was a great song, lets be honest.
*is
Yeah I love it, but I feel sad about Lisa for the others especially.
Yeah I love it, but I feel sad about Lisa for the others especially.
It still is
was, is, and forever will be.
they don't make music like this no more
R.I.P. Lisa!! :'( I hate it when they play this song on the radio and they skip your rap part. So fckn hate it!!
That'S
Cold
+Kyle Jenner Exactly! I don't wanna call racist, but to me it's like saying, 'This part is too ghetto for this station, so we're just gonna cut it'. I mean she's not swearing or anything so why cut it? BTW, same thing happens with the song Scrubs, they cut Lisa's rap part too.
dat f**ked up
Why do they do that
What the hell is wrong with them. Left Eye's lyrics is the much awaited part in this song