written by Leon Ware and T-Boy Ross Time: 6:21 I, yi yi yi (repeat 3 times)
Chorus:
I want you the right way I want you, but I want you to want me too, Want you to want me baby Just like I want you
Da da, da da, da da da
I'll give you all the love I want in return But half a love is all I feel, sweet darling It's too bad, it's just too sad You don't want me no more But I'm gonna change your mind Some way, somehow
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Da da, da da, da da da
One way love is just a fantasy To share is precious, pure and fair Don't play with something you should cherish for life Oh baby, don't you wanna care? Ain't it lonely out there?
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I want you the right way I want you, but I want you to want me too, Want me baby, just like I want you. Da da, da da, da da da
(Spoken:) I want you, the right way Want me baby Don't play with something you should cherish for life
I've come up hard baby And now I'm cool Didn't make it sugar Playing by the rules I've come up hard baby But now I'm fine. In checking trouble sugar Moving down the line I've come up hard baby But that's ok 'Coz trouble man Don't get in my way I've come up hard baby I've been for real Gonna keep on moving Gonna go to town I've come up hard Come up and get down There's only three things that's for sure Taxes death and trouble This I know baby Oh I've come up hard baby With a troubled mind But then I've got my share Of what's mine Oh I've come up hard baby But that's Ok 'Coz trouble man Don't get in my way Oh I've come up hard baby I know some places And I see some faces, I've got the connections, They dig my directions, What people say That's ok They don't bother me I'm ready to make it Don't care what the weather Don't care about no trouble Got myself together Got the kind of protection It's all around me I've come up hard but now I'm cool I didn't make it baby Playing by the rules Oh I've come up hard baby But that's Ok 'Coz trouble man Don't get in my way Oh I've come up hard baby With the troubled mind But then I've got my share Of what's mine I've come up hard But now I'm fine Checking trouble sugar Moving down the line ....
You were my life, my hopes and dreams For you to understand what this means I shall explain I stood all the jealousy all the bitching too Yes I forgot all once in bed with you Ooh darling how could we end up like this Ooh baby let me reminisce
And when we ooh we stopped the hands of time You set my soul on fire my one desire was to love you And think of you with pride and to keep you satisfied Ooh baby, ooh baby We could not bear the man's astray
Leave you I never meant to Now you see how much you hurt me But if you ever need me I'll be by your side Though the many happy times we had Can never really outweigh the bad
I never loved nobody like I loved you baby Now it's time for us to say farewell Farewell my darling Maybe we'll meet down the line
It's too late for you and me It's too late for you and I Much too late for you to cry It's to late for you and me Much to late for you and I It's too late for you and me Much too late
We tried god knows we tried didn't we didn't we didn't we try God knows we tried it's too late for you and me Much too late for you to cry
We stopped the hands of time Ooh ooh Its too late for you and I