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I Don't Know Why

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PERFORMING ARTISTS

Stevie Wonder

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COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Stevie Wonder

Songwriter

Paul Riser

Songwriter

Don Hunter

Songwriter

Lula Mae Hardaway

Lula Mae Hardaway

Songwriter

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Henry Cosby

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Lyrics

[Verse 1]

I don't know why I love you

I don't know why I love you

I don't know why I love you

But I love you

[Verse 2]

Always treat me like a fool

Kick me when I'm down, that's your rule

I don't know why I love you

But I love you

[Verse 3]

Oh, you never stop your cheating ways

With another guy, you laugh in my face

Lord, how long must I be disgraced?

[Verse 4]

'Cause I love you

Oh, baby, baby, baby

I don't know why I love you

I don't know

You and me, baby, oh

I don't know why I love you, baby

But I love you, baby

Oh, darling, darling, darling

[Verse 5]

You throw my heart down in the dirt

Oh, you made me crawl on this cold black earth, baby

No, I never, I never knew how much love could hurt

Oh, till I loved you, baby, till I loved you, baby, baby

Oh, baby

[Verse 6]

I can't stop, I can't stop crying, can't you see?

Ah, here I'm pleading on my knees, I'm on my knees

Won't you help me, help me please?

'Cause I love you, I love you, baby

Whoo, sure enough, baby

[Verse 7]

I don't know, you don't know

We don't know nothing about it

Can't do nothing about it

I don't know, baby, I don't know

Oh, baby, lemme show my love

I don't know, I don't know

You don't know nothing about it

Nobody can do nothing about it

Oh, I don't know, baby

Written by: Don Hunter, Lula Mae Hardaway, Paul Riser, Stevie Wonder