Gerald: Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near?   Just like me they long to be close to you.       Tamia: Why do stars fall down from the sky every time you walk by?    Just like me they long to be close to you    Oh yeah      Gerald: On the day that you were born, the angles got together    And decided to create a dream come true    Yes they did      Tamia: So they sprinkled moon dust in you hair and sunlight in your eye    like they do    (Like they do) do    Gerald: That is why (that is why)   All the guys in town (all of the guys)   Follow you all around   Both: Just, Just, Just, Just, Just like me they long they long to be       Gerald: close to you       Tamia: close to you       Both: If only for a minute, (closer) ill settle for an hour (closer) and    if you can stay just for one day that would make me so happy,    happy baby      Gerald: See it won't hurt to give a love a try girl don't you past   me by cause I'm that kind of guy who's gonna love you    ( gonna love) and treat you like a queen      Tamia: That is why all the girls in town (they don't mean nothing baby)   follow you all around   Just like me (just like me)   They long to be close to you       Both: I can feel it when ever we touch, and whenever we talk and whenever    we walk      Background: Together,       Tamia all the time       Background: Together      Gerald: close to you      Gerald: I want to be       Tamia: I want to be       Gerald: I want to be    Come a little closer babe      Tamia: Come a little closer babe      Gerald: Lay your head up on my shoulder      Tamia: On my shoulder baby      Tamia: Boy you know I can't deny it       Gerald: Girl you know I can't deny it       Tamia: You done gone and set my soul on fire      Gerald: How I love to be closer to you baby      Gerald: Oh I can't believe      Tamia: I can't believe that were      Both: Hugging and kissing and squeezing each other   And I am the one to get close to you