SANANDA MAITREYA [TERENCE TRENT D’ARBY] – Wishing Well / Sign Your Name

Sananda Maitreya, who started his career with the stage name Terence Trent D’Arby, is an American singer and songwriter who came to fame with his debut studio album, Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D’Arby (1987). The album included the singles “If You Let Me Stay”, “Sign Your Name”, “Dance Little Sister”, and the number one hit “Wishing Well”.

D’Arby legally changed his name to Sananda Maitreya on October 4, 2001, explaining “Terence Trent D’Arby was dead… he watched his suffering as he died a noble death. After intense pain I meditated for a new spirit, a new will, a new identity”. Maitreya has said that his name change resulted from a series of dreams he had in 1995. Though the name does not have any religious significance, Maitreya explained that he understood it to mean “rebirth” in Sanskrit. Sānanda (आनन्द) means ‘possessed of happiness’, and maitreya (मैत्रेय) means ‘friendly, kind, loving, benevolent’.

WISHING WELL

Kissing like a bandit stealing time Underneath the sycamore tree Cupid by the hour sends valentines To my sweet lover and me

Slowly but surely Your appetite is more than I knew Sweetly, softly I’m falling in love with you

Wish me love a wishing well, to kiss and tell A wishing well of butterfly tears Wish me love a wishing well, to kiss and tell A wishing well of crocodile cheers, sing

Hugging like a monkey see, monkey do Right beside a riverboat gambler Erotic images float through my head Say I wanna be (I wanna be your midnight rambler) your midnight rambler

Quickly but quickly The blood races through my veins Quickly, loudly I wanna hear those sugar bells ring

Wish me love a wishing well to kiss and tell A wishing well of butterfly tears Wish me love a wishing well to kiss and tell A wishing well of crocodile cheers, get up

On the beat now C’mon

Wish me love a wishing well to kiss and tell A wishing well of butterfly tears, come on Wish me love a wishing well to kiss and tell A wishing well of crocodile cheers

I feel like going on I feel like going on (Wish me love a wishing well to kiss and tell) Come on, come on Erotic images float through my head Your midnight rambler, baby

Dig it For you anywhere I don’t know I don’t care But all I know is I gotta Gotta be your midnight rambler, baby

SIGN YOUR NAME

Fortunately you have got Someone who relies on you We started out as friends But the thought of you just caves me in The symptoms are so deep It is much too late to turn away We started out as friends

Sign you name across my heart I want you to be my baby Sign your name across my heart I want you to be my lady

Time I’m sure will bring Disappointments in so many things It seems to be the way When your gambling cards on love you play I’d rather be in Hell With you baby than in cool Heaven It seems to be the way

Sign you name across my heart I want you to be my baby Sign your name across my heart I want you to be my lady

Birds never look into the sun Before the day is done Oh the light shines brighter On a peaceful day Stranger blue leave us alone We don’t want to deal with you We’ll shed our stains showering In the room that makes the rain

All alone with you Makes the butterflies in me arise Slowly we make love And the earth rotates To our dictates Slowly we make love

Hey Sign your name across my heart (sign your name) I want you to be my baby (be my baby) Sign your name across my heart I want you to be my lady (Sign your name, sign your name)

Sign you name across my heart I want you to be my baby Sign your name across my heart I want you to be my lady

Sign you name across my heart I want you to be my baby Sign your name across my heart