I can pay my own light bill baby   Pump my own gas in my own car   I can buy my own shoe collection   I've been blessed thus far      I can kill the spider above my bed   Although it's hard because I'm scared   I can even stain and polyurethane   But some things just don't change      I need you, yeah   Sometimes so hard to say, oh   I need you   Somethings remain      I can buy my own groceries baby   Get my hair tight my nails right   I can floss my own bling bling   Write the the words to the songs I sing      I can even raise the child we'll make   Make sure he's loved and knows what God gave us   I can teach him how to walk and stand   But I need you to help him be a man      We need you   So hard to say   We need you   Somethings don't change      I could be congresswoman or a garbage woman   Or police officer or a carpenter   I could be a doctor and a lawyer   And a mother an good girl   Women what you've done to me, kind of lover I can be      I could be a computer analyst   The queen with the nappy hair raising her fist   Or I could be much more and a myriad of this   Hot as the summer, sweet as the first kiss   And even though I can do all these things      I need you   And even though I can do all these things   We need you, we need you, we need you   And even though I can do all these things   By my damnself      I need you   I do, I do, I do, I do   And even though I can do all these things   I need you   We need you, we do   We need you, yeah, we need you