Remarks:
They just do not make songs like this anymore. It went to #1 on the US R&B chart in 1973. This is not the first song to appear here that she co-wrote: she and Melle Mel wrote “White Lines” (1983).
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Lyrics:
Ay… ay… ay… yi!
Hey, baby, let me stay;
I don’t care what your friends are ’bout to say… ah-ah…
What your friends all say is fine
But it can’t compete with this pillow talk of mine…
Ooh, you can’t find love on a one-way street;
It takes two to tango, takes two to even compete… oh, yeah…
So boy, just put that stop sign down
And let’s get together before the day runs us down…
I’m pleading to you now:
Hey, baby, let me try
To be the one who’s gonna light your fire… ha-ha…
What your friends all say is fine
But it can’t compete with this pillow talk of mine…
Ooh, I don’t wanna see you be no fool;
What I’m teachin’ you tonight, boy, you’ll never learn it in school… oh, no…
So friends who tell me wrong from right
I’ll ask to borrow their man some cold and lonely night…
Ooh… hey, baby, let me be
The one who turns you on from A to Z… ha-ha…
What your friends all say is fine
But it can’t compete with this pillow talk of mine…
Ooh, baby…
Ooh, baby, la-la-la, la-la-la-la…
Ah… would you, baby?
Would you, baby? La-la-la, la-la-la-la…
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay-ay-ay-ay…
Uno momento poquito…
Uno momento poquito! Ay-ay-ay-ay…
Nice, daddy… nice, daddy… nice, daddy…
Ay-ay-ay-ay…
Oh, my God…
Source: Genius Lyrics.
She was a breathy, whisper singer. I was a kid when this song was popular. I couldn’t appreciate it then. I was supposed to be seductive and sensual, thus the name.
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It was ^^^^
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White Lines is a good song.
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I wish I was her, lol.
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She originally wrote the song for Al Green. But he turned it down, because he thought it was too risqué and against his religious beliefs.
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