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How can I express to you the joy I felt
When I realized that I had found the perfect man for me?
A man who could, make me feel all the things I felt a woman should feel
I said darling, I want to be the perfect woman for you
I got myself a three-year subscription to essence magazine
Read it from cover to cover; you know I wanted to be perfect for him
I said black is beautiful just keep getting up together we can make it
It's gonna be alright
Forget about what society says, is, or isn't
Or what can or cannot be, keep gettin up
He quit his job, came home one day with fourteen mirrors
Some afro sheen, some afro clean
Some afro fluid, some afro do it to it
Come on and sit it up in the room and look at the black beautiful
Check out the boy, mothers love, mothers love
I said, well my darling, I hate to get in your business
You know what I mean, but, I mean, what about a job
I mean what about the gas, and the electricity
And, and, and, not that I am equating
A job with your manhood, you understand
But, I mean, you did have a choice in this
He said I got to get myself together
I'm tired of working for somebody else
I maybe take out a small business man's loan and open up a head shop
I said but that's not bringing no money in I mean
He said you working ain't you? Get off my back!
I don't know, I, I, you see I wasn't raised like that ya'll
I mean I figure if I got to get up and go to work everyday then
Every able body in the household supposed to get up and go
At least looking. I know it ain't easy out there, but
I said if for some reason you feel that you
Can no longer be the man that I thought you were
At the beginning of our relationship
Then I got this one thing to lay on you my sweet!
Go away little boy
Why don't you just go away little boy
You see, I am not supposed to sit up here alone in the dark
With some mirrors and no money and no you
I know, I understand and recognize the fact that your lips are
Ooh so sweet, ow!
It don't look like our lips shine
Ain't gone never have another chance to be
I think I can find myself another man
And I know what to do if I got somebody who can be true
So why don't you
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, away little boy
Let the door knob hit you
Where the dog should of bit you little boy
Cause you’re hurting me more, every minute that you delay
Hey! Cause when you’re near me like this, woe baby
You're getting kind of hard for me to understand so my man
Just go on away, just go on away
Just go on away little boy
Before, I do something rash
Oh, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, little boy
Find yourself another set of apron strings little boy
Cause you’re hurting me more every minute that you delay
When you're near me, when you’re near me, when you’re near me
When you’re near me, when you’re near me, when you’re near me
When you walk close uptight like this
You're getting just a little bit too hard for me to resist
So why don't you go on away little boy before I, before I
So why don't you just leave me alone
You know what I mean?
Go ahead, take your things with you
Yes, your albums, your playboy magazines
Just go on and get out my life!
Now don't stand so close
When you're trying to get that last goodbye kiss
I know your moves now
Don't do me like this!
And don't, don't kiss my eyelids like that, and
Wait, and please don't suck my ear lobes like that and
And don't, no, no, don't, don't!
Well look, you think you can get a job by Thursday? You promise?
Now you ain't gone fool me this time?
Then you might as well stay, stay, might as well stay!
Don't go away!
You can be my man one more time but this time I'm gone try harder too sweet!
This time I'm gonna be sweeter!
How can I express to you the joy I felt
When I realized that I had found the perfect man for me?
A man who could, make me feel all the things I felt a woman should feel
I said darling, I want to be the perfect woman for you
I got myself a three-year subscription to essence magazine
Read it from cover to cover; you know I wanted to be perfect for him
I said black is beautiful just keep getting up together we can make it
It's gonna be alright
Forget about what society says, is, or isn't
Or what can or cannot be, keep gettin up
He quit his job, came home one day with fourteen mirrors
Some afro sheen, some afro clean
Some afro fluid, some afro do it to it
Come on and sit it up in the room and look at the black beautiful
Check out the boy, mothers love, mothers love
I said, well my darling, I hate to get in your business
You know what I mean, but, I mean, what about a job
I mean what about the gas, and the electricity
And, and, and, not that I am equating
A job with your manhood, you understand
But, I mean, you did have a choice in this
He said I got to get myself together
I'm tired of working for somebody else
I maybe take out a small business man's loan and open up a head shop
I said but that's not bringing no money in I mean
He said you working ain't you? Get off my back!
I don't know, I, I, you see I wasn't raised like that ya'll
I mean I figure if I got to get up and go to work everyday then
Every able body in the household supposed to get up and go
At least looking. I know it ain't easy out there, but
I said if for some reason you feel that you
Can no longer be the man that I thought you were
At the beginning of our relationship
Then I got this one thing to lay on you my sweet!
Go away little boy
Why don't you just go away little boy
You see, I am not supposed to sit up here alone in the dark
With some mirrors and no money and no you
I know, I understand and recognize the fact that your lips are
Ooh so sweet, ow!
It don't look like our lips shine
Ain't gone never have another chance to be
I think I can find myself another man
And I know what to do if I got somebody who can be true
So why don't you
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, away little boy
Let the door knob hit you
Where the dog should of bit you little boy
Cause you’re hurting me more, every minute that you delay
Hey! Cause when you’re near me like this, woe baby
You're getting kind of hard for me to understand so my man
Just go on away, just go on away
Just go on away little boy
Before, I do something rash
Oh, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, little boy
Find yourself another set of apron strings little boy
Cause you’re hurting me more every minute that you delay
When you're near me, when you’re near me, when you’re near me
When you’re near me, when you’re near me, when you’re near me
When you walk close uptight like this
You're getting just a little bit too hard for me to resist
So why don't you go on away little boy before I, before I
So why don't you just leave me alone
You know what I mean?
Go ahead, take your things with you
Yes, your albums, your playboy magazines
Just go on and get out my life!
Now don't stand so close
When you're trying to get that last goodbye kiss
I know your moves now
Don't do me like this!
And don't, don't kiss my eyelids like that, and
Wait, and please don't suck my ear lobes like that and
And don't, no, no, don't, don't!
Well look, you think you can get a job by Thursday? You promise?
Now you ain't gone fool me this time?
Then you might as well stay, stay, might as well stay!
Don't go away!
You can be my man one more time but this time I'm gone try harder too sweet!
This time I'm gonna be sweeter!