Thank You For Sticking Around

(album: Private Property - 1985)

Thank you... I wanna, I wanna, I wanna
Ooh, I wanna thank you for, for believing in me

Everybody said I was nothing but dirty laundry
They told you, girl, that I could never come clean
They tore me down every chance they could, girl
But sometimes things ain't always the way they seem
They said my love was like a door knob
And that anyone, who really wanted to, could get a turn
But you stood right up to them and defended me
You proved it was a reputation, that I really didn't earn

Oh, thank you for sticking around
(Hanging around, sticking around, just being there)
Thank you for sticking around
(Hanging around, not putting me down)
Thank you for sticking around
(Hanging around, sticking around, just being there)
Thank you for sticking around
(Hanging around, sticking around)
Thank you for sticking, babe, ooh babe...

The same people who said that I was no good, girl
Also told you I was rude and obscene
But you said my personal life wasn't their damned business
And I was still the only man that meant anything
And oh, the things they tried to put on your head, girl
Ooh, you didn't let it – oh no – go to your heart
It takes a strong woman to bear that kind of burden
Not only do I thank you, girl, but I thank God

Oh, thank you for sticking around
(Hanging around, sticking around, just being there)
Thank you for sticking around, hanging around
(Hanging around, not putting me down)
Thank you for sticking around, ooh babe
(Hanging around, sticking around, just being there)
Thank you for sticking around
(Hanging around, hanging around)

Thank you for sticking around, you'll be there for me
(Hanging around, sticking around, just being there)
Thank you for sticking around – I'll be there, haha, uh!
(Hanging around, not putting me down)
Thank you for sticking around, satisfaction guaranteed
(Hanging around, sticking around, just being there)
Thank you for sticking around, you mean everything to me, ooh!
(Hanging around, hanging around)
Thank you, thank you...
Ow, hee-hee-hee...

Oh-oh, thank you, thank you, thank you, oh, thank you
Thank you for sticking around
(Hanging around, sticking around, just being there)
For not putting me down, thank you for sticking around
(Hanging around, not putting me down)
You hung around, thank you for sticking around
You stood around
(Hanging around, sticking around, just being there)
Thank you for sticking around
Oh... you never, never, never, never, never, never put me down
(Hanging around, sticking around)
(Thank you for sticking around) Woo! Thank you, baby
(Hanging around, sticking around, just being there)
Oh, thank you (thank you for sticking around)
Thank you (hanging around, not putting me down)
Hee... (thank you for sticking around) thank you, thank you
(Hanging around, sticking around, just being there) yeah
(Thank you for sticking around, hanging around...)