If I Was Your Girlfriend

Album: Sign O' the Times (1987)
Charted: 20 67
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  • Look at the bargains over here, ladies

    Ooh, oh
    Ooh, hoo, oh yeah
    Ooh, hoo
    If I was your girlfriend, would you remember
    To tell me all the things you forgot when I was your man?
    Hey hey, when I was your man

    If I was your best friend, would you let me
    Take care of you and do all the things that only a best friend can?
    Oh, only best friends can

    If I was your girlfriend
    Ooh, hoo, ho ooh
    If I was your girlfriend

    If I was your girlfriend, would you let me dress you
    I mean, help you pick out your clothes before we go out?
    Not that you're helpless
    But sometime, sometime those are the things that bein' in love's about

    If I was your one and only friend
    Would you run to me if somebody hurt you even if that somebody was me, yeah
    Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be, please

    If I was your girlfriend
    Ooh, hoo, hoo
    If I was your girlfriend

    Would you let me wash your hair?
    Could I make you breakfast sometime?
    Well then, could we just hang out
    I mean, could we go to a movie and cry together?
    'Cause to me baby, that would be so fine (that would be so fine), ooh

    (If I was your girlfriend)
    Baby, can I dress you
    I mean, help you pick out your clothes before we go out? (if I was your girlfriend)
    Listen girl, I ain't sayin you're helpless
    But sometime, sometime those are the things that bein' in love's about

    Sugar
    Sugar, do you know what I'm saying to you this evening? (If I was your girlfriend)
    Maybe you think I'm being a little self-centered
    But I, I said I want to be all of the things you are to me (if I was your girlfriend)
    Surely, surely you can see

    Is it really necessary for me to go out of the room
    Just because you want to undress?
    We don't have to make children to make love

    And we don't have to make love to have an orgasm
    Your body's what I'm all about
    Can I see it?
    I'll show you
    Why not?

    You can do it because I'm your friend
    I'd do it for you
    Of course I'd undress in front of you
    And when I'm naked, what shall I do?

    How can I make you see that it's cool?
    Can't you just trust me?
    If I was your girlfriend, you could
    Oh yeah, I think so

    Listen, for you naked I would dance a ballet
    Would that get you off?
    Tell me what will
    If I was your girlfriend, would you tell me?

    Would you let me see you naked then?
    Would you let me give you a bath?
    Would you let me tickle you so hard you'd laugh and laugh

    And would you, would you let me kiss you there
    You know, down there where it counts
    I'll do it so good, I swear I'll drink every ounce
    And then I'll hold you tight and hold you long
    And together we'll stare into silence

    And we'll try to imagine what it looks like
    Yeah, we'll try to imagine what, what silence looks like
    Yeah, we'll, we'll try to imagine what silence looks like
    Yeah, we'll try Writer/s: Prince Rogers Nelson
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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