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D'Angelo

Send It On

Release date: 25th January 2000

From Voodoo
R&B/SoulMusic
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About This Track

'Send It On' opens with D'Angelo's voice suspended in space, then builds into a meditation on emotional transparency and devotion. Written with his brother Luther Archer and singer Angie Stone, the track channels themes of honesty and faith in love, its architecture both intimate and expansive. Roy Hargrove's flugel horn drifts through the arrangement like smoke, lending the song a jazz inflection that feels less ornamental than essential to its emotional logic. The song emerged from a specific moment in D'Angelo's life. Composed in 1998 at a recording studio in Virginia following the birth of his son, it became the first piece he wrote for what would become 'Voodoo'. That personal catalyst shapes the track's emotional weight: the repeated imperative to "send it on" functions as both romantic plea and spiritual practice, a way of moving feeling forward when words alone feel insufficient.

"Send It On" is a track by D'Angelo, from the album Voodoo, released 25th January 2000. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

D'Angelo

D'Angelo

Lyrics

Send It On

[Intro]

Hey, hey, baby

Oh-oh

Oh-oh

Oh, yeah

[Chorus]

Send it up

Send it through

Send it back to you

Send it up

Send it through

Send it back to you

[Verse 1]

Your inner view to me

Is something that I do desire

Struggling to see a new somethin' that I fantasize (Huh)

So I'm sending (Yeah)

[Chorus]

Send it up

Send it through (Send it)

Send it back to you (Huh)

(And if I send it all back, baby)

Send it up

Send it through

(Know I gotta send it on)

Send it back to you (Oh-oh)

[Verse 2]

You can't disguise your emotions, baby

You know that I see in your eyes (I see it)

Your soul's in me, your soul's somethin' that I (Oh-oh) feel inside (Hey)

Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run (If I run)

Lord, only knows how far that I and I (Huh) will fall behind

Gotta find a better place, find a better space

So that I, oh

So my life may be the one reason why, baby

[Interlude]

Hey

Oh

Oh-oh-oh, woah-woah-woah

Tell me what will I do, baby?

Tell me what will I do

Send it on back to you

Send it right back to you

[Bridge]

Hold on, be strong, if you're home

(Move on, yeah)

Move on, go home, you'll get home (Oh-oh-oh)

(Ah)

If you're feelin' insecure

You can be sure, it's all the way, yeah

Even if it take forever and a day for me to do

I gotta send it on to you (Ooh)

[Vamp]

What will I do, baby? (Oh-oh, oh-oh)

Tell me what will I do

Send it on

Send it right back to you (Huh)

Oh, send it on

Send it on (Mm)

Send it on

Whenever you want to

Send it on (Yeah)

When it gets cold, babe

Send it on

Cold outside

Send it on (Mm)

All your dreams (Mm)

Send it on

When you get lonely

Send it on

We all get lonely sometimes

Send it on

Pick up the phone

Send it on (Huh)

In the morning

Send it on

Or in the evening

Send it on

And in the midnight hours

Send it on

Yeah, baby

Send it on

You can send it on, baby

Send it on

Whenever you're in need, babe

Send it on (Huh)

Oh, whenever you're in need

Send it on

Just call me, baby

Send it on (Mm, oh)

Send on by-by, baby

Send it on

Oh, sometimes it make me want to stop and say (Ooh)

Mm, mm-mm (Ooh)

Mm (Ooh)

Sometimes (Ooh)

Sometimes

We don't know what else to say, but, huh (Ooh)

Mm-mm (Ooh)

And it's alright, it's alright, babe (Ooh)

You see, hey, hey

Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh (Ooh)

So you know, baby, we gotta get on, on (Ooh)

Ooh (Ooh)

[Outro]

Oh, what will I do?

Tell me what will I do

Send it on back to you, babe

Send it right back to you

Oh-oh

Oh, oh

Track details

From Voodoo

2000
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Album
Voodoo
Voodoo
D'Angelo
25th January 2000
Release year
2000
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D’Angelo — Send It On

D’Angelo — Send It On
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2000
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—Left & Right
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  • —Greatdayndamornin'/Booty
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  • Nothing Even Matters (Live)
  • Brown Suga (Mason Maynard Edit)
  • Push Pull
  • Only You
  • Unshaken
  • She's Always in My Hair (Live From Spotify NYC)
  • Sugar Daddy Jam (Made In America Festival 2012)
  • Untitled (How Does It Feel) [Made In America Festival 2012]
  • Left & Right (Part One) (Live At The Cirkus, Stockholm, Sweden, July 8, 2000)
  • Jam Jammin' (Live At The Cirkus, Stockholm, Sweden, July 8, 2000)
  • Send It On (Live At The Cirkus, Stockholm, Sweden, July 8, 2000)
  • Lady (Live At The Cirkus, Stockholm, Sweden, July 8, 2000)
  • Untitled (How Does It Feel) (Live At The Cirkus, Stockholm, Sweden, July 8, 2000)
  • Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
  • Use Me
  • To the Sky
  • I Found My Smile Again
  • Spanish Joint (Ritual Session)
  • Water No Get Enemy
  • Untitled (How Does It Feel)Voodoo
  • Playa PlayaVoodoo
  • The LineVoodoo
  • Greatdayndamornin'/BootyVoodoo
  • AfricaVoodoo
  • Marvine
  • Untitled (How Does It Feel?)
  • Pete Rock Beat
  • Hard to Earn (Speak Ya Clout)
  • Chaos
  • Ex to the Next
  • Left & Right (Instrumental)
  • Left & Right (W/O Rap Version)
  • Left & RightVoodoo
  • Your Precious Love
  • Devil's PieVoodoo
  • Lady (Live at the Jazz Café, London/1995)
  • Me and Those Dreamin’ Eyes of Mine (Live at the Jazz Café, London/1995)
  • Brown Sugar (Live at the Jazz Café, London/1995)
  • Cruisin’ (Live at the Jazz Café, London/1995)
  • Sweet Sticky Thing (Live at the Jazz Café, London/1995)
  • Shit, Damn, Motherfucker (Live at the Jazz Café, London/1995)

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    Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Angie Stone, D’Angelo, Luther Archer
    Producer
    D’Angelo
    Bass
    Pino Palladino
    Drums
    ?uestlove
    Guitar
    Spanky Alford
    Arranger
    D’Angelo
    Flugelhorn
    Roy Hargrove
    Instrumentation
    D’Angelo
    Mastering Engineer
    Tom Coyne
    Mixing Engineer
    D’Angelo, Russell Elevado
    Recording Engineer
    Russell Elevado
    Trumpet
    Roy Hargrove
    Vocal Arranger
    D’Angelo
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