BeforReal

Be for Real - Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes/Teddy Pendergrass

Written by：Cary Gilber

Hey lady can I say something to

You for a minute

Please no now before you

Take your coat off

That's it

I got something to tell you

See what I have to say is so

Very important to our relationship

Why is it that every time we go

Out on the town

We get around our friends

Man you're always talking

About what you got huh

Went out and bought for you

How much money I make

And what school our children go to

And all the fancy clothes

And big pretty cars

The big diamond rings

And them fantastic mink coats

Is you for real

No I don't think you are

Sit down no no sit down

Now don't say nothing you see

Wait a minute

That is 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 this 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 said the same people

That you meet going up

They make the same old faces coming down

Heh tell the truth

You see people today

They come out there 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 in the corner

With a bottle of champagne taking 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 'em a drink

Is that any way to meet them

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 and crying