the fact is (i need you)

i can pay my own light bill baby

pump my own gas in my own car

i can buy my own shoe collection

i've been blessed thus far

i can kill the spider above my bed

although it's hard because i'm scared

i can even stain and polyurethane

but some things just don't change

i need you yeah

sometimes so hard to say oh

i need you

some things remain

i could buy my own groceries baby

get my hair tight

my nails right

i can floss my own bling bling

write the words to the songs i sing

i can even raise the child we'll make

make sure he's loved and knows what god gave us

i can teach him how to walk and stand

but he needs you to help him be a man

we need you

so hard to say

we need you

some things don't change

i could be congresswoman

or a garbage woman or

police officer

or a carpenter

i could be a doctor and a lawyer and a mother and a good girl

god what you've done to me

kind of lover i could be

i could be a computer analyst

the queen with the nappy hair raising her fist

or i could be much more and a myriad of this

hot as the summer

sweet as the first kiss

and even though i can do all these things

i need you

and even though i can do all these things

we need you

we need you

we need you

and even though i can do all these things by my damn self

i need you

i do

i do

i do

i do

and even though i can do all these things

i need you

we need you

we do

we need you yeah

we need you