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You know, sometimes a man will |
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Cause such heartache (yes, he will) |
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That a woman feels she only take |
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He'll make all kind of mistakes |
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(Yes, he will) that cause your |
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Heart to break |
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Seems like every day |
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Is like the one before |
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The things you used to say |
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You don't say anymore |
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Bits and pieces of your time |
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Are all you can afford |
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It looks like you just can't see |
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That there's much more to love |
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Than bed and board (bed and board) |
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Bed, bed, bed, bed and board |
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(Bed and board) |
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Lying half awake |
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I hear you switch the light |
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You turn off the late news |
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Oh, I'm in luck tonight |
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You think that making love |
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Three times a week is my reward |
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Well, you can't seem to understand |
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That there's much more to love |
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Than bed and board (bed and board) |
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Ooh, baby, bed and board |
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(Bed and board) oh, don't you know |
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Don't know what happened |
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But you've changed somehow |
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And like a puppet |
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On a string, baby, oh |
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You're only going |
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Through the motions now |
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You touch me but you don't |
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Feel anything, anything |
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You're gonna say |
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That it's all in my mind |
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Lord knows how I've thought it out |
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At least a thousand times |
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I've got to try again |
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I need my faith in life restored |
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I can't wait any longer 'cause |
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There's much more to love |
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Than bed and board (bed and board) |
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Baby, bed, bed, bed and board |
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(Bed and board) so right there |
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You oughta listen cause what else |
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So much more to life |
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Than just a bed and a roof |
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Saying, I believe |
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I believe that a man |
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Will misuse a woman |
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If he's given the chance |
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And I believe |
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That he will abuse a woman |
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At the beginning of a romance |
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'Cause all they ever want is bed (bed) |
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Your bed (bed) my bed (bed) his bed |
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It don't make any difference where it is |
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See, but I don't find anything wrong |
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With making a little love |
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On an early Sunday morning |
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You oughta be in church (amen) |
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Ain't nothing wrong (amen) |
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With a little love on an early |
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Monday morning, Monday morning |
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(Monday morning) |
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When your baby's supposed |
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To be going to work |
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He can't leave you, no, no, no |
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He can't leave your side |
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And here's why |
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Because a man needs love |
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And a man needs to be hugged |
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And kissed, yes, he does |
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You know it's something when |
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We ladies start to prepare |
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Ourselves for that particular man |
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Waiting for him to come home |
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So he can just hold our hand |
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You know, I believe that all of |
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That all you do something like this |
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You might run the water |
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Putting all of those nice things |
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Into that tub |
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And when we're finished |
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We have all kinds of sweet |
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Smelling things that we put on |
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Perfumes and some of us decide to |
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Just powder ourselves all the way down |
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That's good because that's what they like |
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And when he comes through the door |
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And you're lying there in your negligee |
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Or whatever it might be |
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And he says to you |
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I'm too tired, I'm too tired |
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And you turn to him and say |
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Do you think I did all this for me |
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You can still hear that same moan from him |
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I'm too tired, I've been working all day |
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But you don't wanna hear that, do you |
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You see, because the art of making love |
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Has to be done in a certain way |
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And it can only been done when |
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Two people become totally involved |
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But sometimes a man |
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Just out of forgetfulness |
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Will not remember a woman's birthday |
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And it's not intentional |
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It's just because it's the way they're made |
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And they'll forget to call you |
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Exactly on the hour because |
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They forget that little things |
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Mean a lot |
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'Cause there's so much more to life |
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Than bed and board |
