now, I know you’ve gone
and he’s but a phone call away
and I know he was the first one
but I beg come back and stay

I only got love for you
I never want to hurt you
Like the stars up above you
I will never desert you

Just be good to me
Like you know I’ll be to you
And you can stay free
Be free and still stay true

just depends on what you mean
when you sing a song for freedom
cause if its something obscene
you need to get back to page one

baby, I don’t want to lose you
and if there’s love in your heart
there’s no need for us to be blue
for I’ve been here since the start

Just be good to me
Like you know I’ll be to you
Give your love just to me
It can’t be that hard to stay true

that’s all I need, that’s all I want
tell me you feel, keep it turned on
yes indeed, you got me caught
my heart you steal, you can’t be done

now I understand, you had plans
and these plans involved this other man
you’ve been gone for two months and
These next two months, yeah, I can

I can keep you in my heart and mind
and remember how soft I would find
how sweet and gentle and mild and kind
I’m not afraid of these ties that will bind

Baby I can stay true to you
But you never even ask
I’ll already do anything for you
Could you ever say more than that?

never asked me to be true
never said we’d keep in touch
but we haven’t are we through?
and are you afraid to tell me as much

And he, he’s but a phone call away
To the same country you went
While I live in a different day
On a whole ‘nother continent

But ain’t no valley no mountain
or grits ain’t grocery babe
I turn around and back again
in the shadows, what’d I say

you never made me a promise
which is better than if you were to lie
I wish my lips were the last you kiss
yours were mine, and I never lie

And yeah, I think about it
Some other girls, from time to time
Sometimes, for a second, I’ll doubt it
but I don’t think I’ll find a find like mine

baby be good to me
just tell me that you care
I’m too good to you, maybe
maybe it just ain’t fair

I don’t know if you see
how good it is to share
but I don’t think its up to me
yet it’s still for me to bear

so I beg of you one more time
be good to me, be good to me
and I don’t care if it don’t rhyme
be good to me, or I’ll have to go