BE FOR REAL

Hey lady. can I say something to you for a minute, please, No now before you take your coat off, that's it. I've got something to tell you. you see, what I have to say is so very important to our relationship. Why is it every time we go out on the town and get around my friends man you're always talking About what you got. what I done bought for you, how much money I make and what school our children Go to and all the fancy clothes and big pretty cars and the big diamond rings and the fantastic mink coats. Is you for real? No, I don't think you are. Sit down now, no sit down, now don't say nothing. You see, wait a minute, Wait a minute, that's your problem, that is your problem You're always saying the wrong thing at the right time. You see, I don't, I don't know how to explain it to you, the best I can tell you is what my mother Told me as I was coming up. She used to say son, chances go round. she'd say the same people that you meet going up. You meet the same old faces coming down. Now tell the truth, you see people today they come out man to party, they come out to party man, They didn't come out to hear all that jive mess you talking about. You standing up there in the corner with a bottle of champagne talking about Harry, Joe and Dick and Bobby And what they ain't got and they live down in the lower development homes And you won't even help, you won't even buy them a drink. Is that anyway to be? If you're gonna boast, boast around somebody that has what you have. Don't make your own brothers and sisters feel bad. You see, listen I know you know what I'm talking about because From time to time I can remember you coming to me, putting your head on my shoulder crying Oh papa why, why, why don't nobody want to be my friend? You told me a long time ago, you said, papa, what am I doing? I didn't want to tell you then, I thought you had sense enough to realize what you're doing But I see you don't, sit down and listen to me, no sit down. You see, people are to sensative today, they don't want to hear all that jive you talking man. You see they don't want to hear about what you got, because they trying to get it to. Tell the truth, I can't very much blame them as much as it hurts me. It hurts to see people going around behind our backs saying that here's what we this Hear's what we that and she ain't this. she ain't that. I want to be proud of you mama, I want to be proud of you. Listen, as long as you live, as long as you live, whether you with me or not Be for real, please, be for real, be for real, be, be, be for real, be for real. You should have no attitude if you're living good, no if you're smartly dressed hey baby, hey baby. What you should be doing is getting down on your knees every night And thinking the man above for being blessed right now. If you want your friends to take a stand with a smile Be for real girl, just be, be for real, be, be for real. I can't let you go on chasing my friends away because of the silly and stupid things you say. Now baby, now baby, hey baby. You better dig yourself down woman, putting people down who have much less then you, It just don't pay, I want people to dig us not whisper. Be for real girl, right now, right now, I want you to do it, just be for real Hey lady, hey baby, hey baby, be for real honey, just be, be, be for real, I don't want you...