Early in the morning just by the break of day   That's when my Patience went away      She took her bags but she left all her clothes   She took her keys & left me out in the cold   Wearing a plastic coat      & the pressures of life    Through lack of Patience   I get the pressures of love      Patience is a girl that I hate to love the way I do   But I do   She wakes me up in the morning through screaming in my dreams      She took her bags but she left all her clothes   She took her keys & left me out in the cold   All because of Patience      I get the pressures of life    Through lack of Patience   I get the pressures of love      She beat me up & left me out in the pouring rain   Without no keys, without no reason to go back again   She left me empty-handed   She left me empty-hearted   Not no money not nothing but the blues   All because of Patience      I get the pressures of life    Through lack of Patience   I get the pressures of love      She said the one thing that she needs is happiness   I don't believe that she's happy until she sees that I'm in distress   No   All because of Patience      I get the pressures of life    Through lack of Patience   I get the pressures of love      & I swoon