Bills, Bills, Bills

Album: The Writing's On The Wall (1999)
Charted: 6 1
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  • At first we started out real cool
    Taking me places I ain't never been
    But now, you're getting comfortable
    Ain't doing those things you did no more
    You're slowly making me pay for
    Things your money should be handling
    And now you ask to use my car (car)
    Drive it all day and don't fill up the tank
    And you have the audacity to even come and step to me
    Ask to hold some money from me until
    You get your check next week

    You trifling
    Good for nothing type of brother
    Silly me
    Why haven't I found another?
    A baller, when times get hard need someone to help me out
    Instead of a scrub like you who don't know what a man's about

    Can you pay my bills?
    Can you pay my telephone bills?
    Can you pay my automo-bills?
    If you did then maybe we could chill
    I don't think you do
    So, you and me are through
    Can you pay my bills?
    Can you pay my telephone bills?
    Can you pay my automo-bills?
    If you did then maybe we could chill
    I don't think you do
    So, you and me are through

    Now you've been maxing out my cards (cards)
    Giving me bad credit buying me gifts with my
    Own ends
    Haven't paid the first bill
    But you're steady heading to the mall
    Going on shopping sprees perpetrating to your friends that you be balling
    And then you use my cell phone (phone)
    Calling whoever that you think at home
    And then when the bill comes all of a sudden you be acting dumb
    Don't know where none of these calls come from
    When your mama's number's here more than once

    You trifling
    Good for nothing type of brother
    Silly me
    Why haven't I found another?
    A baller, when times get hard need someone to help me out
    Instead of a scrub like you who don't know what a man's about

    Can you pay my bills?
    Can you pay my telephone bills?
    Can you pay my automo-bills?
    If you did then maybe we could chill
    I don't think you do
    So, you and me are through
    Can you pay my bills? (Bills)
    Can you pay my telephone bills? (Bills)
    Can you pay my automo-bills? (Bills)
    If you did then maybe we could chill
    I don't think you do
    So, you and me are through

    You trifling, good for nothing type of brother (good for nothing)
    Oh silly me, why haven't I found another? (Found another)
    You trifling, good for nothing type of brother (hey)
    Oh silly me, why haven't I found another? (Ooh)
    You trifling, good for nothing type of brother (oh no no)
    Oh silly me, why haven't I found another? (Oh no, no, no, no)
    You trifling, good for nothing type of brother (good for nothing)
    Oh silly me, why haven't I found another?

    Can you pay my bills?
    Can you pay my telephone bills?
    Can you pay my automo-bills?
    If you did then maybe we could chill
    I don't think you do
    So, you and me are through
    Can you pay my bills? (Pay my bills)
    Can you pay my telephone bills? (Pay my bills)
    Can you pay my automo-bills? (Telephone bills)
    If you did then maybe we could chill
    I don't think you do (I don't think you do)
    So, you and me are through

    Can you pay my bills?
    Can you pay my telephone bills? (Bills)
    Can you pay my automo-bills? (Bill)
    If you did then maybe we could chill
    I don't think you do
    So, you and me are through
    Can you pay my bills?
    Can you pay my telephone bills?
    Can you pay my automo-bills?
    If you did then maybe we could chill
    I don't think you do
    So, you and me are through Writer/s: Beyonce Knowles, Kandi Burruss, Kelendria Rowland, Kevin Briggs, Letoya Luckett
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 7

  • Lexi from England,leedsSad how bills , bills , bills got famous again these days because of tick tock
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyWell here's a natural; the #9 record on 9/9/99 {Sept. 9th, 1999} was "Bills, Bills, Bills" by Destiny's Child, eight weeks earlier it had peaked at #1 for one week...
    Between 1997 and 2005 the trio had fourteen records on Billboard's Top 100, ten made the Top 10 with four* reaching #1, besides "Bills, Bills, Bills", their three other #1s were "Say My Name" for 3 weeks in 2000, "Independent Women - Part One" for 11 weeks in 2000, and "Bootylicious" for 2 weeks in 2001...
    *They just missed having a fourth #1 record when "Survivor" peaked at #2 {for 7 weeks} in 2001, and for all seven weeks it was at #2, the #1 record was "All For You" by Janet Jackson...
  • Dale from Aurora, CoI'm sure Burruss would get mad when that guy would "use her cell phone while she put gas in it."
  • Danielle from Richmond, KyThese songs are really old..but its songs that you will always remember~!
  • Ronnie from Huddersfield, EnglandLead singer Pearl claims she can hold her breath underwater for three minutes
  • Alex from Gatineau, CanadaFirst #1 single for Destiny's Child, three more US #1s were to follow - Say My Name (2000, 3 weeks), Independant Women Pt. 1 (2000, 11 weeks), and Bootylicious (2001, 2 weeks)
  • Anna from Raleigh, NcGhetto, Ghetto, Ghetto
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