When I was the age of three My dear mother had a little talk with me She said: "A woman can be a contrary little thing But son, she means the whole wide world to men If I had loved your daddy this way He wouldn't be the big man that he is today" Don't you know a man needs a woman? Oh, a man, got to have a woman To carry on, to carry on Just like the fish needs the ocean Just like a volcano needs a eruption Like the window needs a pane Like the highway needs two lane Don't you know a man needs a woman? Oh, a man, got to have a woman To carry on, to carry on Just like the vampire needs blood Like a dead dog need them bugs Just like the darkness needs light Just like the fisherman, he needs, he needs A little bite now, oh yeah Don't you know a man needs a woman? Oh, a man, got to have a woman To carry on, to carry on Just like the vampire needs blood Like a dead dog need them bugs Just like the vampire needs blood.