Slow It Down

Uh

Some romance **** right here

Uh, yeah

Listen, uh

I'm trying to man up, see what's really good with you

Gentleman's approach, not bringing hood to you

Same things that you here everyday, like

Hey ma, hey boo, baby, what's your name?

Please pull up a seat, I'm so glad you came

My mother call me Thomas, you can do the same

Damn, it's so refreshing when you calling out my name

Big Pooh for so long, it doesn't sound the same

My occupation's rapping, I make a little change

I see you not impressed with what this life brings

Finished school, got a job, girl, do your thing

It's a lot of independent women wanna be claimed

Marrying the money or marrying the fame

Or at least give birth to a check, with all due respect

Lets two-step in the name of light

Who says we gotta do the waltz all day and all night?

It's like, c'mon

If love is not enough, we don't have to rush

Come around, I'll slow it down just for you

Lady, you should be right here next to me

Come around, I'll slow it down just for you

We can go to the movies, I'll take you to the park

And promise to have you home 'fore the lights go out

Steady asking you questions, what your life about?

Oh, and me and mines, everything I scribe about

No doubt, this my life and dedicated to this writing

And sacrificing everything for it

Wasted time, I can't afford

So if it ain't you, then you know I'm cooped up to record

I'll scoop you up in my Porsche, psych, you know I got a Nissan

That I'm still paying for, still got a lease on

But it don't matter 'cause that ain't my aim to get you

I got fame, but you know that just ain't the issue

Because you looking like a woman of virtue

So well-rounded, no wonder you in my circle

And normally you probably wouldn't give me the time of day

'Cause Te got rhymes, but, no, we ain't got time to waste

Let's do it now, darling

If love is not enough, we don't have to rush

Come around, I'll slow it down just for you

Lady, you should be right here next to me

Come around, I'll slow it down just for you

Uh, give it to 'em now

Sometimes I think I'm from another world (Preach)

When I'm trying to tell a woman just exactly where I stand at (A'ight)

I want a girl when I want a girl

And when I don't want a girl, I want a girl who understands that

And that's some hard sh** to explain

To a woman that's in love with you, it's a pitiful thing

Until I had to figure that I don't wanna play around

But I don't wanna settle down, and that's a man's dilemma

'Cause every man remembers how his daddy and his uncles did it

'Cause more than likely, that's the way they gonna do it

I know it sounds ****ed up, and most won't admit it

But, yo, I gotta face it 'cause I know I'm living through it

'Cause when the party stops, that sh** get old

And the chain and the cars and the houses get sold

And that other side of the bed get cold

You don't wanna be alone so, girl, I'm trying to hold you

If love is not enough, we don't have to rush

Come around, I'll slow it down just for you

Lady, you should be right here next to me

Come around, I'll slow it down just for you

Oh, baby

(Take it slow, take it slow, take it slow, take it slow)

What you need to do is

Take it slow with me

Slow it down a little bit

(Take it slow, take it slow, take it slow, take it slow)

We don't have to rush into anything serious

(Take it slow, take it slow, take it slow, take it slow)

No we don't

Take it from me

(Take it slow, take it slow, take it slow, take it slow)

My name is Percy

And I make miracles if you take it slow with me, oh, baby

(Take it slow, take it slow, take it slow, take it slow)

(Take it slow, take it slow, take it slow, take it slow)

Hi, this is Larry D. Griffin Jr., out of Waco, Texas

Hi, this is Donald Freeman, from Cincinnati, Ohio

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