The Rap - Millie Jackson

You see, the terrible thing about being in love with a married man is the fact

that you can’t see him when you really want to and that can get to you

sometimes

Late in the midnight hour, when you really feel like you need a little loving,

the man ain’t nowhere around and that can get to you sometimes

Early in the morning, when you really feel like you need someone to hold on to,

the man ain’t nowhere around and that can really get to you sometimes

But what gets to you most of all is when the holidays roll around

You gotta always be by yourself, 'cause that’s the time when the families get

together

All the in-laws come to visit, so he has to stay home and play the part of the

good and faithful husband

But I ain’t worried about it, 'cause I found out that when a man starts tipping

away from home, somebody at home has fallen down on the homefront

That’s because when those women marry these men, they have a tendency to take

advantage of them

They forget about all the sweet things they say to get them, that they have to

keep on saying them to keep them

'Cause you got a whole lot of women out there these days just like me who will

tell a man anything in the world he feel like he might wanna hear

I know, 'cause I’m going with a married man and last New Year’s Eve,

I was lonesome as a micky ficky

But J1, the man came on in like he was supposed to

And I don’t mind waiting that one day, 'cause anything worth having is worth

waiting on

So when the man came in, J1, I was right there waiting on him to tell him them

sweet things his wife haven’t told him over the holidays

And you can think of a whole lot of good stuff to tell a nigga when you’re by

yourself

So the minute my man came in the door, J1, I start laying it on him

I said oooh, baby

Ooh, baby

Ooh, baby

My baby

You’re the sweetest thing I know, yes you are

You dim the rainbow’s glow, yes you do, baby

There ain’t no power, no power, no power on this earth

To ever, oh, oh Lord, separate us, baby

'Cause you are my sunshine, my only little sunshine

You are my sunshine, my sunshine

And I love you, baby

I can’t help but love you, baby

I love you, baby

I couldn’t give up if I wanted to

You know I don’t wanna leave you with a one-sided conception over this thing

Anyone out there in my shoes this evening, I want you to know what I’m talking

about

I want you to know there’s two sides to this thing

There’s a good side to being in love with a married man and I like it,

'cause you see

When you’re going with a married man, he can come over two or three times a

week and give you a little bit

That means you’re two up on the wife already, 'cause once you marry one,

you don’t get it but once a week

Another sweet thing is on pay day, he can come over and give you a little bread

and I like that

But the sweetest thing about the whole situation is the fact that when you go

to the Laundromat

You don’t have to wash nobody’s funky drawers but your own and I like it like

that

I wanna keep my situation just the way it is

And to make sure it stays like that, when my man comes over here two or three

times a week to give me my piece

I set the clock so he can get up and go home on time, don’t want him to be late

Sometimes it’d be kind of hard for me to do, but I’ll force myself anyway.

I tell him…

Listen to the clock on the wall

Hey, hey

Listen to the clock on the wall right now, baby

Tick on, clock

Listen to the clock on the wall

Hey, hey

Oh, forget about the clock on the wall

I don’t wanna be right this morning