Just Be A Man About It         
             


hey hey hold up a minute 
let me stop up here and use this pay 
phone real quick 
hey hey toni it's me i was just calling 
you know 
just calling to let you know don't 
wait up for me tonight 
i mean i just got a lotta things on my 
mind i gotta think about you know 
just umm i'll be over brian's house 
you know just for tonight 
i mean i know things are different but 
you know 
it's not you it's me you know it's 
really me you know 
i mean basically i just think i'm gonna 
need some space 

why are you calling me on the phone 
why you not at home on time 
you say you're staying over your friends 
'cuz you got a lot on your mind 
now you're swearing up and down that it ain't me 
still you say that things have changed 
so tell me what exactly does it mean 
when you say you need your space 

just don't make no excuses no no 
why you gotta lie to me 
just be a man about it 
baby you don't gotta lie to me no 
just be a man about it 
if you wanna leave go on 
just be a man about it 
come and grab your things and go on 
right now 
just be a man about it 

i mean you gotta understand i love 
you you know what i'm saying 
and i love you enough to say that i 
think 
i think you deserve somebody better 
than me you know 
and right now i can't give you what 
you need you know 

i mean i wanna love you and i'm gonna 
love you one day but you know 
i mean you just gotta understand 
where i'm coming from 

you say right now that you're not 
what i'm looking for 
and what you really need is time to grow 
you're promising that one day you may 
come around 
and i'm supposed to let that go 
but where the hell do you get off 
telling me your mama said 
i'm not what you need 
tell you what since she knows it all 
then that's where you need to be 

just don't make no excuses no no 
why you gotta lie to me 
just be a man about it 
baby you don't gotta lie to me no 
just be a man about it 
if you wanna leave go on 
just be a man about it 
come and grab your things and go on 
right now 
just be a man about it 

can you tell me how you can 
say you're in love and then 
treat me so bad 
boy you know it just ain't right 
i cannot believe the way you handled things 
you want to lie 
if you were a man 

just don't make no excuses no no 
why you gotta lie to me 
just be a man about it 
baby you don't gotta lie to me no 
just be a man about it 
if you wanna leave go on 
just be a man about it 
come and grab your things and go on 
right now 
just be a man about it


             
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