Once I Got To Know You (Couldn't Help But Love You)

(album: Time Out For Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - 1969)

Once I got to know you
Couldn't help but love you (I have to love you)
Ah, once I got to know you
Couldn't help but love you (I have to love you)

Nothing to write home about
To write a song or poem about
If you're gonna go by looks
Oh baby, cute in a peculiar way
I sneak up on you, fool your way
And before you know, you're hooked
Ah, beauty beyond the skin
Way deep down within

All of a sudden, one day, it hit me (It hit me)
If it was a snake, it would've bit me (Would've bit me)
I seem to see you for the very first time
One magic moment, I became aware
Of the happiness of your being there, ooh

Once I got to know you
Couldn't help but love you, baby
Once I got to know you
Couldn't help but love you (Baby)

So easy for me to love
So why can't it be true love
That another man could feel or say?
Love's a game of give and take
So if some guy is on the make (If he's on the make)
I can understand and I can't blame
I know how you rule a guy
Who felt the soul, even though you don't try

Oh baby, you started out as my friend
I don't know just where, I don't know just when
This feeling in me began to begin
(Once I got to know you)
And started echoing to be brought out from within
(Couldn't help, ooh)
Five will sure get you ten
(Once I got to know you)
But I am not the only man on the mend
(Couldn't help, ooh)

Who would love you if they knew what you were all about
In my mind, there's no room for doubt, ooh

Once they got to know you
Couldn't help but love you, baby
Once they got to know you
Couldn't help but love you, oh yeah
Once I got to know you
Couldn't help but love