baby, i'm-a want you baby, i'm-a need you you're the only one i care enough to hurt about maybe i'm-a crazy but i just can't live without... your lovin' and affection givin' me direction like a guiding light to help me through a darkest hour lately i'm a-prayin' that you'll always be a-stayin' beside me used to be my life was just emotions passing by feeling all the while and never really knowing why lately i'm a-prayin' that you'll always be a-stayin' beside me used to be my life was just emotions passing by then you came along and made me laugh and made me cry you taught me why baby, i'm-a want you baby, i'm-a need you oh, it took so long to find you, baby baby, i'm-a want you baby, i'm-a need you