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Boy (I Need You)

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Boy (I Need You)

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(Boy, boy, boy, boy)

I can't help it

When I'm not around you (Boy)

'Cause all I ever seem to do is drift away

In dreams about you

'Cause when I'm without you (Boy)

It always seems like part of me is missing baby

Sometimes I don't call

Like I don't care at all

But secretly

You're the only thing that lifts me up

And makes me smile

When I'm unhappy

All you gotta do is call

And suddenly

Things don't really seem so bad at all

(Boy) I need you

(Boy) Adore you

(Boy) Gotta have you

(Oh boy) I wanna feel your touch

This ain't no little crush

So come and get my love

Baby anything you want

Feeling you (Boy)

Fiending for you (Boy)

Just waiting on you (Boy)

When I see you (Oh boy)

I'm gonna wrap you up

Inside my love

And never let you go boy

Never let you go boy

My heart races when

My Motorolla beeps

Or my cell rings

I just make a wish and if it's you

My whole day changes

'Cause when I know

You're thinking of me (Boy)

Heaven knows

Suddenly it's not so dismal baby

Sometimes I don't call

Like I don't care at all

But secretly

You're the only thing that lifts me up

And makes me smile

When I'm unhappy (Oh boy)

All you gotta do is call

And suddenly

Things don't really seem so bad at all

(Boy) I need you

(Boy) Adore you

(Boy) Gotta have you

(Oh boy) I wanna feel your touch

This ain't no little crush

So come and get my love

Baby anything you want

Feeling you (Boy)

Fiending for you (Boy)

Just waiting on you (Boy)

When I see you (Oh boy)

I'm gonna wrap you up

Inside my love

And never let you go boy

Never let you go boy

Uh mami feelin' my gangsta

Cause usually I stay on the block

But the girl went world jet straight to the yacht

Eight in the shock jewellery, chrome and stones

It's Giles, Liles, Combs and Jones

Go to Capri and see my mami Mariah

Chanel glasses, hottie and fire, mami's a rider

She wants the (Boy)

So I give her the (Boy)

Now she screamin' out (Boy, boy, boy, boy)

She want the hundred carat (Boy)

The Harlem World (Boy)

Ma I'm a savage better guard ya girl (Boy)

So ca-ca-ca-call me

And we'll start to cake up

Mark Jacob you're a heartbreaker

Good (Boy)

I'm a mobster and pimp

Eight keys, two hammers, lobster and shrimp

Look at my limp

Mami we could be a couple still (Boy, boy, boy, boy)

Say ma hook

Help me sell a couple mill

Now sing (Boy)

I (What?)

Need (Who?)

You (Uh uhum uhum)

I wanna feel your touch

(Why wouldn't you?)

So come and get my love

(Show me where it's at)

(Now sing)

I (What?)

Need (Who?)

You (Uh uhum uhum)

I'm gonna wrap you up

(Wrap me up?)

And never let you go boy

Never let you go boy

(Never let me go girl)

(Boy) I need you

(Boy) Adore you

(Boy) Gotta have you

(Oh boy) I wanna feel your touch

This ain't no little crush

So come and get my love

Baby anything you want

Feeling you (Boy)

Fiending for you (Boy)

Just waiting on you (Boy)

When I see you (Oh boy)

I'm gonna wrap you up

Inside my love

And never let you go boy

Never let you go boy

(Boy) I need you

(Boy) Adore you

(Boy) Gotta have you

(Oh boy) I wanna feel your touch

This ain't no little crush

So come and get my love

Baby anything you want

Feeling you (Boy)

Fiending for you (Boy)

Just waiting on you (Boy)

When I see you (Oh boy)

I'm gonna wrap you up

Inside my love

And never let you go boy

Never let you go boy

I (What?)

Need (Who?)

You (Uh uhum uhum)

I wanna feel your touch

(Why wouldn't you?)

So come and get my love

(Show me where it's at)

(Now sing)

I (What?)

Need (Who?)

You (Uh uhum uhum)

I'm gonna wrap you up

(Wrap me up?)

And never let you go boy

Never let you go boy

(Never let me go girl)

(Boy) I need you

(Baby I need you)

(Boy) Adore you

(Boy) Gotta have you

(Oh boy) I wanna feel your touch

This ain't no little crush

So come and get my love

Baby anything you want

Feeling you (Boy)

Fiending for you (Boy)

Just waiting on you (Boy)

When I see you (Oh boy)

I'm gonna wrap you up

Inside my love

And never let you go boy

Never let you go boy

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