I need love, love   Oh, ease my mind   And I need to find time   Someone to call mine      My mama said, "You can't hurry love   No, you'll just have to wait"   She said, "Love don't come easy   But it's a game of give and take"      You can't hurry love   No, you'll just have to wait   Just trust in a good time   No matter how long it takes      How many heartaches must I stand   Before I find the love to let me live again   Right now the only thing that keeps me hanging on   When I feel my strength, oh, it's almost gone      I remember mama said, "You can't hurry love   No, you'll just have to wait"   She said, "Love don't come easy   It's a game of give and take"      How long must I wait   How much more must I take   Before loneliness   Will cause my heart, heart to break      No, I cant bear to live my life alone   I grow impatient for a love to call my own   But when I feel that I, I can't go on   Well, these precious words keep me hanging on      I remember mama said, "You can't hurry love   No, you'll just have to wait"   She said, "Love don't come easy   Well, it's a game of give and take"      You can't hurry love   No, you'll just have to wait   Just trust in a good time   No matter how long it takes, now break      Now love, love don't come easy   But I keep on waiting   Anticipating for that soft voice   To talk to me at night   For some tender arms   Hold me tight   I keep waiting   Oh, till that day   But it ain't easy   (Love don't come easy)   No, you know it ain't easy      My mama said, "You can't hurry love   No, you'll just have to wait"   She said, "Love don't come easy   But it's a game of give and take"      You can't hurry love   No, you'll just have to wait   She said, "Love don't come easy   It's a game of give and take"