I can pay my own light bill, baby Pump my own gas in my own car I can handle my own shoe collection I've been blessed thus far I can kill the spider above my bed Although it's hard because I'm scared I can even stain and polyurethane But some things just don't change I need you, yeah Sometimes so hard to say, oh I need you Some things remain I can buy my own groceries, baby Get my hair tight, my nails right I can floss my own bling-bling Write the the words to the songs I sing I can even raise the child we'll make Make sure he's loved and knows what God gave us I can teach him how to walk and stand But he needs you to help him be a man We need you So hard to say We need you Some things don't change I could be congresswoman or a garbage woman Or police officer or a carpenter I could be a doctor and a lawyer and a mother And a good God, woman what you done to me kind of lover I can be I could be a computer analyst The queen with the nappy hair raising the fist, or I could be much more and a myriad abyss Hot as the summer, sweet as the first kiss And even though I can do all these things I need you And even though I can do all these things We need you We need you, We need you And even though I can do all these things by my damn self I need you I do, I do, I do, I do And even though I can do all these here things I need you We need you We do We need you, yeah We need you