Love Of My Life
Erykah Badu Lyrics

Right here what we gon' do is go back
Let's take a trip down memory lane

Way back
To a long time ago

Way back, yeah
Yeah, way back

I met him when I was a
I met him when I was just a little girl

Little girl, he gave me
He gave me poetry when I was young

He gave me poetry
He expressed himself through words and gave me his art

And he was my first
He was my first love

But in my heart I knew I
But deep down, I knew

Wasn't the only one
That I wasn't the only woman in his life

Cause when the tables turned
When the situation changed

He had to break up
He had to end our relationship

Whenever I got lonely
Whenever I felt alone

Or needed some advice
Or needed someone to talk to

He gave me his shoulder
He was there for me to cry on

His words were very nice
His words were always kind and comforting

But that is all behind me
But those days are over

Cause now there is no other
Because now I have no one else

My love is his and his is mine
We love each other and are each other's

A friend became the
We started as friends and grew into something more

Love of my life
The person I love the most

You are my friend
You are my companion and confidant

I can depend
I can rely on you

Without you, baby
Without you, I feel incomplete

It feels like a simple true love
Our love is pure and uncomplicated

Hope this shit ain't clear
I hope this is still unclear to you

A freak-freak ya'll, and ya don't stop
A funky and unconventional vibe that won't quit

To the beat ya'll and ya don't stop
We keep grooving to the rhythm

Or could it be that it was
Or maybe it all was

All just so simple then
All just so easy at that time

A teenage lover who said
A lover from my teenage years who told me

He's just a friend
That he was only a friend

He moved around and we kept
He moved around but we stayed in touch

In touch through his friend Mike
We kept in contact through his friend, Mike

The world was young and he knew
We were young and he understood

We couldn't rush but
We couldn't rush our relationship but

Feels like a simple true love, yeah
Our love is pure and uncomplicated

Y'all know how I met her
Let me tell you how I met her

We broke up and got back together
We ended things and then rekindled our relationship

To get her back I had to sweat her (sweat her)
I had to work hard to win her back

Thought she roll wit bad boys forever
I thought she would always be with bad boys

In many ways them boys made her better
In some ways, those boys improved her life

To grow I had to let her (let her)
I knew that to grow, I had to let her go

She needed cheddar and I understood that (that)
She needed money and I understood that

Lookin' for cheese that don't make her a hood rat (rat)
But seeking money doesn't make her a hoodlum

In fact she's a queen to me, her light beams on me
Actually, she's a queen to me and brightens up my life

I love it when she sings to me
I love when she serenades me with her voice

It's like that and a
That's just how it is

Ooh you know you rock my world
Oh, you know you make my world go round

And you be boy and I'll be girl
You play the male role and I'll play the female role

And we don't stop until the break of dawn
We won't stop until the sun comes up

Ooh you know you rock my world
Oh, you know you make my world go round

And you be boy and I'll be girl
You play the male role and I'll play the female role

And we don't stop until the break of oohhh
And we won't stop until we're spent