Discography

Better Part Of Me - 2000

 
Date of Release July 18, 2000
Styles Latin Pop, R&B, Salsa, Adult Contemporary, Urban, Dance-Pop
Label Sony
Time 60:25

  Here is the only place to find Jon Secada's last album lyrics. Enjoy it.

Click On the Name of Each Songs for Its Lyrics

 1

Stop

Secada/Estefan/Mitchell/Noriega 4:22
 2 Love's About to Change My Mind Dahlgaard/Jay/Pedersen 3:53
 3 Break the Walls Secada/Coluccio/Moran 5:11
 4 Better Part of Me Secada/Coluccio/Moran 3:51
 5 There's No Sunshine Anymore Marvel/Roman 4:11
 6 You Should Be Mine Secada/Machicote/Morales/Siegel 4:15
 7 Papi Secada/Morales/Siegel 3:24
 8 When You're Gone Casas/Estefan/Mebarak/Mitchell 3:38
 9 Speak to the Wind Secada/Coluccio/Moran 4:50
10 Lost Inside of You Secada/Morales/Seigel 4:29
11 Asi ("Stop" Spanish) Secada/Chirino/Estefan/Mitchell/Noriega 4:23
12 Papi ["Tropical Mix"] (Spanish) Secada/Blades/Estefan/Gaitan/Gaitan/Morales/Siegel 4:59
13 Dentro de Ti ("Lost Inside Of You" Spanish) Secada/López/Morales/Siegel 4:29
14 Stop/Asi ["Tropical Mix-Hidden Track"]  - 4:30

 

 

 

 

Stop (Jon Secada / Emilio Estefan,Jr./ Geroge Noriega / Tim Mitchell )

 

Chorus

Stop

Tell me what you're thinking

I can read your body

Sex me with your mind

I, I know what you're feeling

Let me be your shelter

Stay with you tonight

 

I wanna take you to another place and time

So I can feel you

Move and breath all

Over me inside

Don't be afraid to

Tell me how you wanna feel

Tell me what you want

And baby I will make it real

 

Chorus

Stop

Tell me what you're thinking

I can read your body

Sex me with your mind

I, I know what you're feeling

Let me be your shelter

Stay with you tonight

 

Chorus

I wanna give you todo mi amor

You are my love, mi corazon

Dame tu amor, I'll never let it go

Don't let it slip away

I wanna give you todo mi amor

You are my love, mi corazon

Dame tu amor, I'll never let it go

Don't let it slip away

 

Look into my eyes 

And tell me what you wanna see

I promise I will make your

Wish come true if you believe

When I look at you

I know exactly what I need

If you tell me what you want

I'll show you what I got in me

 

Chorus

Stop

Tell me what you're thinking

I can read your body

Sex me with your mind

I, I know what you're feeling

Let me be your shelter

Stay with you tonight

 

Chorus

I wanna give you todo mi amor

You are my love, mi corazon

Dame tu amor, I'll never let it go

Don't let it slip away

I wanna give you todo mi amor

You are my love, mi corazon

Dame tu amor, I'll never let it go

Don't let it slip away

 

 

 

Love's About To Change My Mind

( J.M. Pedersen / K. Dahigaard / M.Jay)

I'm in love with you baby

Yeah

One touch, I feel the hunger

What is this spell I'm wonder

My head's in my heart

I should walk away

But I wanna stay

My feelings are closely guarded

No risk, no broken heart and

No way this emotion

Can sweep me away

Then I see your face

My weakness is growing stronger

Thought I could hold out longer

 

Chorus

Love's about to change to my mind

Make me blind

And dive into the deep and

Love's about to change to my mind

I see the signs

I'm falling in love again

(Falling in love again)

I'm in love with you baby

 

I thought I knew this power

Lived through my finest hour

Experienced all

But I found I was wrong

When you came along

Sure as the wind is blowing

I know where this is going

 

Chorus

Love's about to change to my mind

Re-define

And finally make some sense

Love's about to change to my mind

You're the reason why

I'm falling in love again

(Falling in love again)

I'm in love with you, baby

 

'Cause you're the reason

You're the reason why

 

Chorus

Love's about to change to my mind

Re-define

And finally make some sense

Love's about to change to my mind

You're the reason why

I'm falling in love again

(Falling in love again)

I'm in love with you, baby

Fade

 

 

Break The Walls ( Jon Secada / Tony Moran / Tony Coluccio)

Say whatever comes our way

You'll always feel the same

Through my eyes, my eyes

Only colors of love

Whenever you're around

The things I've lost I've found

I found in you

Under the stars

I walk with you

Bright as the moon

Your face is like an angel shining

 

Chorus

Break the walls around my heart

'Cause I believe you're the only one

To set me free

Break the walls

The walls around my heart

 

Take the sadness from my soul

No stranger to pain

It's like rain so cold

And now you fill my thoughts with love

A love that rises above

And when you look to the sky I know why I believe

 

Under the stars

I walk with you

Bright as the moon

Your face is like an angel shining

 

Chorus

Break the walls around my heart

'Cause I believe you're the only one

I'll ever need

Break the walls

The walls around my heart

The walls around my heart

The walls around my heart

The walls around my heart

The walls around my heart

 

Chorus

Break the walls around my heart

'Cause I believe you're the only one

I'll ever need to set me free

Break the walls

The walls around my heart

And never be apart

The walls around my heart

The walls around my heart

The walls around my heart

The walls around my heart

 

 

 

Better Part Of Me (  Jon Secada / Tony Moran / Tony Coluccio)

Heart to Heart

Now we're alone

And I just got to let you know

There is so much I've been holding in

Afraid that you won't understand

Afraid tht you don't

Feel the same way too

 

'Cause I've always wondered

What I look like through your eyes

If you'll ever reach to find the love

I have inside

Then you would see

You make my life complete

You are the better part of me

 

Time to time

The heart sees clear

I have no doubts I have no fear

'Cause when I look at you I see

Everything I want to be

It's you that makes my world a brighter place

 

And I've always wondered

What I looked like through your eyes

Have you ever reached to find the love I have inside

If you see the same things

That I've seen 

It's through my eyes

Then you would see

You make my life complete

You are the better part of me

 

 

 

There's No Sunshine Anymore ( Andy Marvel / A.Roman)

How can meant to be

Turn into a memory

When just yesterday

We said love was here to stay

How does love so strong

Go from right to wrong

We don't have to share this fate

There's another road to take

It's not too late

 

Chorus

There's no sunshine anymore

Now that you walked out my door

And I can't go on

If we can't be together

Just the rain

'Till you take me back again

But if I have to wait forever

Forever, I'll wait forever

 

I lay in the dark

Wondering where you are

Can't help imagining

Baby, what you're doing

Tell me what you need

And I will give it gladly

Just to know it's not the end

It's not the end

 

Chorus

There's no sunshine anymore

Just the rain

'Till you take me back again

But if I have to wait forever

Forever, I'll wait forever

 

Baby, I know you told me

The seasons have to change

But you know they always

Will come back again

But baby if that's what it takes

For our love to grow

I'll wait for you baby (yes I will)

Just don't leave me here alone

 

Chorus

I will stand out the rain

'Till you take me back again

And if I have to

I'll wait for you, forever

 

 

 

You Should Be Mine 

( Jon Secada / Steve Morales / David Siegel / K.Machicote)

It was only last night

When noticed something wasn't write

Then she looked in to my eyes

Left me wondering

Feeling like

Such a fool

This can't be true

Why is this happening to me

I really want you like you can't believe

I guess I'm gonna play the game

So before you go

There's something you should've known

 

Chorus

I've been thinking

That you should be mine

Even though you got a man, I'm sure you can

Tell him goodbye

I've been thinking

That you should be mine

Even though you got a man, I'm sure you can

Tell him goodbye

 

I keep on trying to forget

Sometimes I wish that we had never met

I wouldn't know how to explain

'Cause there's no excuse for loving you

There's so much Icould lose

'Cause there's no easy way

It's not my place to make you wanna say

But I know you want me to

Are you ready now

It's up to you

What do you wanna do

 

Chorus

So now that we both understand

What's really going on

Make no mistake girl

Say what you really want

Don't be afraid of what you feel

'Cause I'll be here for you

But you gotta let him knwo

It's time that he should go

If you want me girl, you gotta show me

 

Chorus

 

 

Papi ( Jon Secada / Steve Morales / David Siegel)

I will call you mami

Only if you call me papi

Tell me what it is

Tell me what you need

I'm gonna give it to you

I will call you mami

Only if you call me papi

What's it gonna be

What's it gonna be

So I can give it to you

I will call you mami

Only if you call me papi

Let me hear

Let me hear you say

Come to me papi

 

I know you know

Just what you need

'Cause tonight is just for you and me

This will be a night we won't forget

Destiny can not change it

All I want to do

Is hear to say

Come to me papi

Come to me papi

 

Chorus

I will call you mami

Only if you call me papi

Let me hear

Let me hear you say

Come to me papi

 

I'll always be right here for you

Just tell me what you wanna do

'Cause I'll do anything you want me to

Nena I'm feeling you

All I wanna do is hear to say

Come to me papi

Come to me papi

 

Chorus

I will call you mami

Only if you call me papi

Let me hear

Let me hear you say

Come to me papi

Repeat and fade

 

 

When You're Gone 

( Emilio Estefan Jr. / Jorge Casas / Tim Mitchell / S.Mebarak )

What will I do when you're gone

When my word has been you for so long

How can I lie to my heart and go on pretending

Nothing has changed

I'm alone again without understanding

Why all my life waiting for the day

That a dream would come true just to slip away

The sun won't shine again and time could never mend

A heart that's been loved and then

Broken in two

Has nothing to live for 'cause nothing will do

 

So what will I do when you're gone

When my world has been you for so long

You're the Island I swim to when

Drowning in hope

You're the last thing I reach for at the end of my hope

So what will I do when you're gone

 

The sun won't shine again

And time could never mend

A heart that's been loved and then broken in two

Has nothing to live for 'cause nothing will do

 

So what will I do when you're gone

When my world has been you for so long

You're the Island I swim to when

Drowning in hope

You're the last thing I reach for at the end of my hope

So what will I do 

What will I do

What will I do when you're gone

When you're gone

 

 

Speak To The Wind ( Jon Secada / Tony Moran / Tony Coluccio )

Feel your skin

Taste your lips

The love we made

Seems like yesterday

Walk with me

It hurt so much to let you go

Come to me

I let you slip away

With so much to say (so much)

 

I speak to the wind

Whisper your name in the dark

Waiting to find the answers

Hoping to wash away your tears

I speak to the wind

Closing my eyes for a moment

Imagine your face in the morning light

Girl, you light up my life (you light up my life)

 

Fell so deep

Did so wrong

Turn back time

And be where you belong

'Cause I need you now

Make it right somehow

To hold you close

Live out the dream (live out the dream)

 

I speak to the wind

Whisper your name in the dark

Waiting to find the answers

Hoping to wash away your tears

I speak to the wind

Closing my eyes for a moment

Imagine your face in the morning light

Girl, you light up my life (you light up my life)

 

'Cause I need you now

Make it right somehow

To hold you close

Live out the dream (live out the dream)

 

I speak to the wind

Whisper your name in the dark

Waiting to find the answers

Hoping to wash away your tears

I speak to the wind

Closing my eyes for a moment

Imagine your face in the morning light

Girl, you light up my life (you light up my life)

 

 

Lost Inside Of You ( Jon Secada / Steve Morales / David Siegel )

I'm living lost inside of you

And that's exactly where I want to be

Girl, I finally realized

You give meaning to my life

And it's the way you've always loved me

And when I look into your eyes

I see the man I really want to be

Living lost inside a dream

A dream that just came true

I'm living lost inside of you

 

If you could only read my mind

You'd see the vision of my heart and soul

No, no, no, no

I just got to let you know

That no matter where I go

You will always be inside of me

'Cause you're the reason I believe

You and I were always meant to be

For what no one else can see

Is a dream that just came true

I'm living lost inside of you

 

Tell me

How can it be

No matter where you are, girl

I always feel you here with me

Well it's something that I just can't explain

But my life will never be the same

 

'Cause when I look into your eyes

I see the man I really want to be

 

Living lost inside a dream

A dream that just came true

I'm living lost inside of you

 

 

Asi "Stop-Spanish"  

( Jon Secada / Emilio Estefan,Jr./ Geroge Noriega / Tim Mitchell / A.Chirino )

Chorus

Asi

Rodeado de tucuerpo

Sentir cada noche

Toda tu pasion

Asi

Sin una palabra

Solo con tu mirada

Pierdo la razon

 

Quiero llevarte hasta lacima del placer

Y sentir tu allento navegar sobre mi piel

Yo solo pienso en la posibilidad

Dime como hacer tu sueno realidad

 

Chorus

Yo quiero darte todo mi amor

Entregame tu corazon, Asi

Yo quiero mas de tu carino

Ya mi piel no aguanta mas

 

Mirame a los ojos

Dime lo que quieras ver

Todos tus deseos te pormpto complacer

Se que necesito tus encantos probar

Solo pide amor,todo te lo voy a dar

 

Chorus

Yo quiero darte todo mi amor

Entregame tu corazon, Asi

Yo quiero mas de tu carino

Ya mi piel no aguanta mas

 

 

Papi "Tropical Mix"

( Jon Secada / Steve Morales / David Siegel / Emilio Estefan Jr. / Robert Blades / Alberto Gaitan / Ricardo Gaitan )

Ay papi

Yo te digo mami

Solo si me dices papi

Yo te digo mami

Si tu me dices que soy tu papi

Yo te digo mami

Solo si me dices papi

Solo te dire que tu eres mi miami

Digame papi

Es la razon

De mi existir

Es el deseo

Que vive en mi

Pierdo el control

Solo quiero su amor

Mi unico anhelo

Es que mi digas

Yo estoy caliente

Dimelo mami

Yo te digo mami

Solo si me dices papi

Solo si tu me dices que tu eres mi mami

Yo te digo mami

Solo si me dices papi

Que yo quiero tenerte caliente

Ay mamita de frenet

Yo te digo mami

Solo si me dices papi, digame papi

Tu caminar

Me da placer

Y de tus aguas

Quiero beber

Como yo te hago entender

Me muero por tu querer

Si como caminas lo bates

Que rico el chocolate

Yo quiero chocolate

I will call you mami

Only if you call me papi

Que me tienes caliente

Yo te digo mami

Solo si me dices papi

Esa chica me arrebata, papi

Yo no se lo que me pasa

Esa mujor me tieno loco, digale papi

Mira que me da en el coco

Papi ay que rico

Pa'que lo goze conmigo

Pegate poquito a poco

I will call you

I will call you

I will call you mami

Only if you call me papi

Yo te digo mami

Solo si me dices papi

I will call you mami

Only if you call me papi

Yo te digo mami

Solo si me dices papi

I will call you mami

Si tu me dices papi

Mira yo te digo mami

Digame papi

Asi te quiero de cerquita

No te vayas tan lijito mujer

Para darte mi querer

Que se entere todo el mundo

Que se entere la gente

Tu eres mi mujer

Mira como se esta moviendo

De lado a lado, ladito

Esa chica me alborota

Con su cinturita y sus piemotas

Mirala, mira esa nina

Como se menea, se menea

Como lo mueve pa' que la vean

Como lo mueve bonita

Esa chica me alborota

Con su cinturita y sus piemotas

Mira esa nina

Como se menea, se menea, se menea

Esa nina que me esta matando

Mami

 

 

Dentro De Ti "Lost Inside Of You-Spanish"

( Jon Secada / Steve Morales / David Siegel / J. E. Lopez )

Perdido estoy dentro de ti

Y es alli donde quero vivir

Lo que tu me haces sentir

Es lo que me une a ti

Es tu forma de amarme

Y muy profundo en tu mirar

Veo ol hombre

que yo quiero ser

Entregado a lu llusion

Atado a tu verdad

Perdido estoy dentro de ti

Si ves el fondo de mi ser

Conoceras mi alma y mi corazon

No, no, no, no

Y solo asi podras saber

Que no importa donde este

Siempre te llevare dentro de me

Porque tu eres la razon

Que da sentido a todo nuestro amor

A ese mundo de los dos

Mi unica verdad

Mi corazon es para ti

Dime

Dime como fue

Como me enamore asi

Perdidamente yo de ti

Y aunque no lo puedo comprender

En tu amor he vuelto yo a nacer

Porque tu eres la razon

Que da sentido a todo nuestro amor

A ese mundo de los dos

Mi unica verdad

Mi corazon es para ti

 

Jon Secada  - Vocals (bckgr), Producer, Arranger
Willy Perez Feria - Arranger, Lyricist
Bob Brockman  - Mixing Engineer
Everett Bradley  - Vocals (bckgr)
Edwin Bonilla  - Percussion
Earl Robinson  - Vocals (bckgr)
Nicki Richards  - Vocals (bckgr)
Rene Toledo  - Guitar (12 String)
Jorge Calandrelli  - String Arrangements, String Conductor
Emilio Estefan, Jr.  - Arranger, Producer
Joel Derouin  - Violin
Ian Cutler  - Art Direction
Sal Cuevas  - Guitar (Acoustic), Bass, Bass (Electric)
Deborah Cooper  - Vocals (bckgr)
Scott Canto  - Engineer
Kirstin Fife  - Violin
Paulette McWilliams  - Vocals (bckgr)
Bob Ludwig  - Mastering
Manny Lopez  - Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric)
Lee Levin  - Drums
Gina Kronstadt  - Concert Master
Mick Guzauski  - Mixing Engineer
Peter Kent  - Violin
Audrey Martells  - Vocals (bckgr)
Eddie Stockley  - Vocals (bckgr)
Bernd Schoenhart  - Guitar
Vladimir Polimatidi  - Violin
Don Palmer  - Violin
Tony Moran  - Arranger, Producer
Cindy Mizelle  - Vocals (bckgr)
Tim Mitchell  - Arranger, Guitar (Electric), Producer
Andy Marvel  - Arranger, Drum Programming, Keyboard Programming
Ric Wake  - Producer
Sebastian Krys  - Mixing Engineer
Tom Bender - Assistant Engineer
Leslie Woodbury  - Violin
David Barrett - Production Coordination
John Wittenberg  - Violin
Helain Wittenberg  - Viola
Richard Oliver - Vocals (bckgr)
Tony Coluccio  - Keyboards, Programming, Engineer
Javier Garza  - Mixing Engineer
Mauricio Guerrero  - String Engineer
George Noriega - Arranger, Guitar (Steel), Programming, Producer, Guitar (Nylon String)
Randall Barlow  - Trumpet, Programming, Engineer
Carlos Nieto  - Engineer
Freddy Piñero, Jr.  - Engineer
Steve Menezes  - Studio Coordinator
Johnny Jam  - Keyboards, Programming, Producer, Engineer
Tom Chianti  - Engineer
Giuseppe D.  - Keyboards
Dave Saronson  - Mixing Engineer
Chris Wiggins  - Assistant Engineer
Dave Scheuer  - Engineer
Steve Morales  - Arranger, Keyboards, Programming, Producer
Ken Theis  - Assistant Engineer
Tony Mardini  - Mixing Assistant
Gustavo Bonnet - Mixing Assistant
Shane Stoner  - Engineer
Robert Blades  - Percussion, Arranger, Vocals (bckgr), Producer, Horn Arrangements
Jeff Damo  - Assistant Engineer
Alfred Figueroa  - Engineer
Ricardo Gaitan  - Piano, Vocals (bckgr), Drum Programming
Alberto Gaitan  - Vocals (bckgr)
José Antonio Molina  - String Arrangements

* This is my idea about this album :

  Long expectation for us finished ,when we heard the news of this album. He returned powerful. He said that he wrote 70 songs for this album. "Jon Secada-1992" and this one have lots of wonderful music styles. Sony didn't act well for his return. It deserved something like the first album.
"Stop" is very cool with Latin, Pop, dance, salsa rhythm. It is a good opening song for this album.
"Love is about to change my mind" reminds "Do You Believe In Us" for me.
"Break The walls" ,"When You're Gone", "Lost Inside Of You", "There's no sunshine anymore" are ballad and slow pop songs of this album.

 

"Speak To The Wind" and "You should be mine" are newest rhythms in Jon career. Both of them are very good songs.
Piano of "Papi" makes you dancing, what a great salsa!!!. One of the most favorite songs of me is "Better Part Of Me", I 
think that it is better part of this great album, a very cool dance song and his voice is in his best way.

 

* An article from :

   The vogue for English-sung Latin pop that swept the U.S. in 1999 may bode well for a comeback by Jon Secada who contributed to it by writing songs for the hit albums by Ricky Martin and Jennifer Lopez. But, of course, things don't always work out that way; often, it's only the newly emerged artists who benefit from such a trend. Secada broke big in 1992 with his self-titled debut album and made a successful follow-up with 1994's Heart, Soul & a Voice, but then he suffered a relative failure with 1997's Secada, at least in part because his record label, the since-shuttered SBK division of EMI, was already falling apart and failed to support it. He jumped to Epic, the label home of Gloria Estefan who gave him his start in the business, and clearly has spent a lot of time and money constructing his fourth English-language album, Better Part of Me. It's one of those massive efforts, employing nine producers in an attempt to construct ten possible singles. (There are also four Spanish-language versions and remixes at the end of the disc.) Although Secada has in the past succeeded with ballads that scaled the adult contemporary charts even when they only performed modestly on pop radio, half of Better Part of Me consists of dance songs, several of them, notably the first single and lead-off track "Stop" and "Papi," in a percussive Latin style that strongly recalls Ricky Martin and Marc Anthony's English-language hits of 1999. Though the instrumental tracks are convincing, Secada's voice is too smooth (at least when he's singing in English) to give the songs the requisite excitement. He remains more convincing on the mid-tempo rhythm ballads like "Break the Walls" and "Speak to the Wind," and he is at his best on the slow, heartbreaking love songs "There's No Sunshine Anymore" and "When You're Gone."

   By its very nature, this kind of attempted blockbuster, like its counterpart in the movie business, requires an expensive, well-constructed publicity campaign to support it. It is in some ways easier to break a brand-new recording artist than it is to re-launch a faded veteran, and even if Secada has made an album that measures up to those of the Latin pop stars who broke through in 1999, his best chance for success still may be with the faithful audience that bought his ballads at the start of his career rather than in competing directly with the young Turks. By the time of the album's release, "Stop," issued as a single several weeks earlier, had not made an impression commercially. The next step seemed to be come with a ballad (perhaps "Lost Inside of You") and try to reacquaint the adult contemporary radio audience with an old friend.

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