[00:00.55]ERYKAH BADU
[00:00.93]"Love Of My Life"
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[00:01.71](feat. Common)
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[00:03.44]Bring it over here and let's go back
[00:05.89]Way back
[00:10.02]Ooh...
[00:11.19]Way back, yeah
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[00:17.00]I met him when I was a
[00:19.36]Little girl, he gave me
[00:22.53]He gave me poetry
[00:25.27]And he was my first
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[00:27.97]But in my heart I knew I
[00:30.44]Wasn't the only one
[00:33.38]'Cause when the tables turned
[00:36.32]He had to break up
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[00:38.66]Whenever I got lonely
[00:41.05]Or needed some advice
[00:43.88]He gave me his shoulder
[00:46.55]His words were very nice
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[00:49.60]But that is all behind me
[00:52.10]'Cause now there is no other
[00:54.79]My love is his and his is mine
[00:57.51]A friend became the
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[00:59.56]Love of my life
[01:01.41]You are my friend
[01:04.69]Love of my life
[01:06.71]I can depend
[01:10.05]Love of my life
[01:12.00]Without you, baby
[01:15.83]It feels like a simple true love
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[01:23.28]A freak-freak, y'all, and ya don't stop
[01:24.71]To the beat y'all and ya don't stop
[01:27.42]A freak-freak
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[01:28.79]Or could it be that it was
[01:30.95]All just so simple then
[01:33.70]A teenage lover who said
[01:36.38]He's just a friend
[01:37.94]
[01:38.86]He moved around and we kept
[01:41.90]In touch through his friend Mike
[01:44.47]The world was young and he knew
[01:47.27]We couldn't rush but
[01:49.27]
[01:49.71]Whenever I got lonely
[01:52.16]Or needed some advice
[01:54.92]He gave me his shoulder
[01:57.66]His words were very nice
[01:59.60]
[02:00.25]But that is all behind me
[02:03.19]'Cause now there is no other
[02:05.80]My love is his and his is mine
[02:08.86]A friend became the
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[02:10.58]Love of my life
[02:12.40]You are my friend
[02:15.87]Love of my life
[02:18.44]A dude I can depend, yeah, yeah
[02:21.64]Love of my life
[02:23.22]Feels like a simple true love, yeah
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[02:34.18]Y'all know how I met her
[02:36.18]We broke up and got back together
[02:37.40]To get her back I had to sweat her
[02:39.26]Thought she roll with bad boys forever in many ways
[02:41.94]Them boys may be better, to I had to let her (Never)
[02:44.73]She needed cheddar and I understood that
[02:47.22]Lookin' for cheese, that don't make her a hood rat (Rat)
[02:50.01]In fact she's a queen to me, her light beams on me
[02:52.32]I love it when she sings to me
[02:55.11]It's like that now
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[02:56.11]Love of my life
[02:56.86]Ooh, you know you rock my world and
[03:00.08]Love of my life
[03:00.90]You be boy and I'll be girl and
[03:03.43]Love of my life
[03:06.60]We don't stop until the break of dawn, ooh...
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[03:15.98]Love of my life
[03:18.03]Ooh, you know you rock my world and
[03:20.01]Love of my life
[03:25.36]You be boy and I'll be girl and
[03:28.10]Love of my life
[03:29.86]Yeah...
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