Just to be close to you girl   Just for a moment, well just for an hour   Just to be close to you girl   Oh well ah baby aw      You know I've been thru so many changes in my life girl   Aw I've been up real high where I thought I didn't need anybody   Aw and then again I've been down real low where   There was no one in my life who needed me   Aw and I found that material things I thought had so much value   Aw girl didn't really have any value at all      There was a lonely man   A man with no direction, with no purpose   With no one to love and no one to love me for, for me   Aw girl then you, then you came into my life   You made my jagged edges smooth   You made my direction so clear and you aw woman   You became my purpose my reason for livin' girl      You see you're my heart, you're soul   You're my stone inspiration   Baby oh that's why I'm standin' here singin'   And opening my arms to you   I wanna say child why don't you   Take my hand and we'll live in love forever   Yeah take my hand ooh, we'll be alone you and me yeah      Take my hand girl   We'll live our lives together yeah together   Together yeah together   Just to be close to you girl   Just for the moment baby, just for an hour   Just to be close to you girl, hey, ooh      I've been out there searchin' so very long baby   Searchin' to find somebody just like you   And for some folks it takes a lifetime sugar   To find in this world a dream come true   Why don't you take my hand   Oh, we'll live in love forever yeah   Take my hand girl, we'll be alone you and me   Take my hand we'll spend our lives together,   Together, together, together   Just to be close to you girl   Just for the moment just for the hour   Just to be close to you girl   I need you baby      To make love to be loved by you baby   To have your warm body close to mine   To whisper words that make you feel like a woman   Girl I know our love will stand the test of time   Just to be close to you girl      For the moment baby, for the moment baby   For the moment baby   For the sugar, sugar, yeah, yeah,   Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,   Ooh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,   Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,   My arms are still burnin' girl   Ya got me yearnin' for your love   Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah