Words like love and happiness   Never seem to stand up baby   When you put them to the test, yeah   You say that you're a poet   That your life's a work of art   But you can't play love by numbers baby   You gotta play it all by heart      Baby, baby, baby, baby   It happens all the time   How you play me, play me, play me   Playing with my mind   Baby, baby, baby, baby   You're making me go crazy   And if you call that love   Then love should be a crime      Honesty bites the dust   Every time I hear you saying   That love is never lust yeah   Did you read it in a book?   Did you see it in a magazine?   Do you think that I'm some new age fool?   Do you think I'm so naive?      Baby, baby, baby, baby   It happens all the time   How you play me, play me, play me   Playing with my mind   Baby, baby, baby, baby   You're making me go crazy   And if you call that love   Then love should be a crime      Love should be   Love should be   Love should be a crime   You and me   Suddenly we got nothing to say   But the words get in the way      Baby, baby, baby, baby   It happens all the time   How you play me, play me, play me   Playing with my mind   Baby, baby, baby, baby   You're making me go crazy      And if you call that love   Then all it was   Was a pocketful of nothing   But a suicidal gun   If you call that love   Then love should be a crime