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Artist: Ashanti
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Why
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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Why
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Another night
Have you been where you say you been?
So tell me why in the hell you just strolling in?
Now I ain't got the patience to be playing boy
I've been waiting by the phone to hear your story
Getting tired of them same lame excuses coming
Now tell me do you have the answers to my questions
Why you can't love me enough not to cheat?
And why ain't my heart strong enough not to leave?
And why do I stay knowing all that you do?
And why am I so much in love with you baby?
Honey, you all of me
You were my story, my future, my everything
How could you betray me
All I did was love you, all I did was trust you
Thought that it was us two [x2]
It seems like you think it's cool
to run around with other chicks
while I'm sitting home trying
to figure out why
it's you I'm with
What's a girl to do
Cause I didn't have enough of you
I don't want to stay another day
waiting like a fool
It ain't like I ain't fly
and can't find another guy
It's bad cause the heart
got me staying
and I don't know why
Cause I love you like no other
I touch you like no other
even uh like no other
got your back like no other
Now I ain't got the patience to be playing boy
I've been waiting by the phone to hear your story
Getting tired of them same lame excuses coming
Now tell me do you have the answers to my questions
Why you can't love me enough not to cheat?
And why ain't my heart strong enough not to leave?
And why do I stay knowing all that you do?
And why am I so much in love with you baby?
Honey, you all of me
You were my story, my future, my everything
How could you betray me
All I did was love you, all I did was trust you
Thought that it was us two [x2]
Said I don't know
what it is that you're thinking
Cause what you did to me
is coming back to get you babe
Hey, you better be careful out there
Cause you ain't never gonna find another like me
Why you can't love me enough not to cheat?
And why ain't my heart strong enough not to leave?
Said why do I stay knowing all that you do?
And why am I so much in love with you baby?
Honey, you all of me
You were my story, my future, my everything
How could you betray me
All I did was love you, all I did was trust you
Thought that it was us two [x2]
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