Commodores Lyrics
Although best known for their ballads like “Three Times a Lady” and “Easy” the Commodores made a name for themselves with funky hits like “Brick House” and “Too Hot to Trot.” Having been featured in films like Boogie Nights, Looking for Mr. Goodbar and The Last American Virgin, they have become a staple reference to the 70’s and 80’s. And, according to their website, the Commodores want you to know that they are, “alive and well in the new millennium with their own label and six new albums [since Lionel Richie's departure] in stores”
“Just to be Close to You”
Just to be close to you girl
Just for a moment, well just for an hour
Just to be close to you girl
Oh well ah baby aw
You know I’ve been thru so many changes in my life girl
Aw I’ve been up real high where I thought I didn’t need anybody
Aw and then again I’ve been down real low where
There was no one in my life who needed me
Aw and I found that material things I thought had so much value
Aw girl didn’t really have any value at all
There was a lonely man
A man with no direction, with no purpose
With no one to love and no one to love me for, for me
Aw girl then you, then you came into my life
You made my jagged edges smooth
You made my direction so clear and you aw woman
You became my purpose my reason for livin’ girl
You see you’re my heart, you’re soul
You’re my stone inspiration
Baby oh that’s why I’m standin’ here singin’
And opening my arms to you
I wanna say child why don’t you
Take my hand and we’ll live in love forever
Yeah take my hand ooh, we’ll be alone you and me yeah
Take my hand girl
We’ll live our lives together yeah together
Together yeah together
Just to be close to you girl
Just for the moment baby, just for an hour
Just to be close to you girl, hey, ooh
I’ve been out there searchin’ so very long baby
Searchin’ to find somebody just like you
And for some folks it takes a lifetime sugar
To find in this world a dream come true
Why don’t you take my hand
Oh, we’ll live in love forever yeah
Take my hand girl, we’ll be alone you and me
Take my hand we’ll spend our lives together,
Together, together, together
Just to be close to you girl
Just for the moment just for the hour
Just to be close to you girl
I need you baby
To make love to be loved by you baby
To have your warm body close to mine
To whisper words that make you feel like a woman
Girl I know our love will stand the test of time
Just to be close to you girl
For the moment baby, for the moment baby
For the moment baby
For the sugar, sugar, yeah, yeah,
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Ooh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
My arms are still burnin’ girl
Ya got me yearnin’ for your love
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
“Brick House”
[Chorus:]
She’s a brick house
Mighty might just lettin’ it all hang out
She’s a brick house
The lady’s stacked and that’s a fact,
ain’t holding nothing back.
She’s a brick house
She’s the one, the only one,
who’s built like a amazon [pronounced am-a-ka-zawn]
We’re together everybody knows,
and here’s how the story goes.
She knows she got everything
a woman needs to get a man, yeah.
How can she lose with what she use
36-24-36, what a winning hand!
[Chorus]
The clothes she wears, the sexy ways,
make an old man wish for younger days
She knows she’s built and knows how to please
Sure enough to knock a man to his knees
[Chorus]
Shake it down, shake it down now (repeat)
“Easy”
Know it sounds funny
But I just can’t stand the pain
Girl I’m leaving you tomorrow
Seems to me girl
You know I’ve done all I can
You see I begged, stole
And I borrowed
Ooh, that’s why I’m easy
I’m easy like sunday morning
That’s why I’m easy
I’m easy like sunday morning
Why in the world
Would anyboddy put chains on me?
I’ve paid my dues to make it
Everbody wants me to be
What they want me to be
I’m not happy when I try to fake it!
No!
Ooh,that’s why I’m easy
I’m easy like sunday morning
That’s why I’m easy
I’m easy like sunday morning
I wanna be high, so high
I wanna be free to know
The things I do are right
I wanna be free
Just me, babe!
That’s why I’m easy
I’m easy like sunday morning
That’s why I’m easy
I’m easy like sunday morning
Because I’m easy
Easy like sunday morning
Because I’m easy
Easy like sunday morning
“Three Times a Lady”
Thanks for the times
That you’ve given me
The memories are all in my mind
And now that we’ve come
To the end of our rainbow
There’s something
I must say out loud
You’re once, twice
Three times a lady
Yes you’re once twice
Three times a lady
And I love you
When we are together
The moments I cherish
With every beat of my heart
To touch you to hold you
To feel you to need you
There’s nothing to keep us apart
You’re once twice
Three times a lady
And I love you
I love you