Always On Time

Album: Pain is Love (2001)
Charted: 6 1
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  • Always there when you call (Buckshots, hah), always on time
    Gave you my, baby be mine
    Always there when you call, always on time
    Gave you my, baby

    Baby, I'm not always there when you call, but I'm always on time
    And I gave you my all, now baby be mine
    I'm not always there when you call, but I'm always on time
    And I gave you my all, now baby be mine

    Come on and get a piece of this late-night lover
    You know, the one that swing dick like no other (shit)
    I know, I got a lot of things I need to explain
    But baby you know the name and love is about pain
    So, stop the complaints and drop the order restraints
    Our sex life's a game so back me down in the paint
    'Cause I can't wait no more
    'Cause it's about a quarter-past three and shorty's eyein me
    I got the Bentley valeted
    And I'm just outside of Jersey, past the Palisades
    And I love to see that ass in boots and shades
    Sprawled out on the bed while I'm yankin your braids
    Thug style, you never thought I'd make you smile
    While I'm smackin your ass and fuckin you all wild
    But we share somethin so rare, but who cares, you care

    Baby, I'm not always there when you call, but I'm always on time
    And I gave you my all, now baby be mine
    I'm not always there when you call, but I'm always on time
    And I gave you my all, now baby be mine

    Girl, get a grip, come on, pull it together
    It's only a sun shower, we been through worse weather
    Like the stormy nights you wrote a "Dear Ja" letter
    And took my Benz and keyed and cut the leather
    Bitch, you know better, we live M-O-B
    Money Over Bitches, Murder, I-N-C
    I got two or three hoes for every V
    And I keep 'em drugged up off that ecstasy
    I'm a playground legend like Kirkland Pee-wee
    Name a nigga in the league got more game than me
    I play hard, there's so many women I fathered
    Meet 'em with scars and send 'em home hot and bothered
    Truth or dare, this life ain't apparently fair
    And a love with no glare is a crystal stare
    But we share, somethin so rare, but who cares, you care

    Baby, I'm not always there when you call, but I'm always on time
    And I gave you my all, now baby be mine
    I'm not always there when you call, but I'm always on time
    And I gave you my all, now baby be mine

    Oh I'm, feelin like ya livin a, double life
    'Cause you don't be comin home, sometimes
    Baby, but you're always, on time, checkin for one time
    You and I, got a special bond together
    We go back like bombers boo, in the coldest weather
    And when I play you play the same way you freak me baby I fuck you crazy
    Then I'm gone
    Baby don't really want me to get up and leave off that easy
    She'll be wakin up wet for sheezy
    Remind these bitches to mind they business
    Believe me, this pimp game is very religious
    And I'm built like the Don Bishop
    Gon' keep this money-green Benz and my hoes as my witness
    The life we share is a thug affair
    But who cares, you care

    Baby, I'm not always there when you call, but I'm always on time
    And I gave you my all, now baby be mine
    I'm not always there when you call, but I'm always on time
    And I gave you my all, now baby be mine

    Always there when you call, always on time
    Gave you my, baby be mine
    Always there when you call, always on time
    Gave you my, baby be mine Writer/s: Irving D Lorenzo, Jeffrey Atkins, Marcus Vest
    Publisher: Royalty Network, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Ira Thomas Harris from Rural Franklin County NcAlways On Time cords still hits you in the face twenty years later! If Always On Time was rereleased now some twenty years later with all the new Media Social Media and Streaming Services this song pair with Ja Rule's current current audience and new audience Always On Time would be two three or four times bigger a hit than original version!!!!
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