If You Would Love Me

(album: Zapp VI: Back By Popular Demand - 2002)

(Love me, ooh...)
Yeah, I had to write this for my baby
We've been going through some changes
A brother going through changes with his ol' lady
Y'all know how relationships are (oh, yeah)
I guess it's just the vicissitudes of life (mhm)
You know, the unpredictability, changes
But to my special one, this is for you

Peanut butter and jelly, and an ice-cold glass of milk
You are that to me, a special spack
And no matter what happens
Girl, you're just like watermelon on a hot sunshiny day
You're like gasoline to a car that's me, that's on E
And with you, I just feel like I can just do anything
But every time I try to get you to commit
Girl, you just seem to back away

If you would love me (love me)
Just the way you say that you do (just the way you say you do)
I would be happy giving all my love to you (I'd give my love to you)
If you would love me (oh yeah)
Just the way you say that you do (just the way you say you do)
I would be happy giving all my love to you

Don't you understand that the virility of this man
Needs you, the essence of female
'Cause pound for pound
And you know there's a whole lot of pounds in me
But they are nothing without you by my side
So tell me what it is that I must do
To make you feel like reverberating
Under the hot sun on the Cancun sands
What is it that I must do to keep you by my side
Oh my precious, most loving, devoted woman

If you would love me
Just the way you say that you do (just the way you say you do)
I would be happy giving all my love to you (oh, oh...)
If you would love me
Just the way you say that you do (you gotta tell me)
I would be happy (you gotta show me, baby)
Giving all my love to you

It's only one thing I need, only one thing this relationship is lacking
And that's the commitment, you committed to me physically
We need to stand before God and be committed forever
You say you will, then you won't, you say you do, then you don't
Oh, sometimes I think I'm suffering from a heartbreak
When I toss and turn alone on those nights
That you can't be with me
You don't see the tears that fall from my eyes
But you just see the stains, that are going down my cheeks
You say you will, but then you don't, you say you won't
I don't understand, it's blowing my mind
Because you are just starting to be completely
Oh my precious, most loving, devoted woman

If you would love me
Just the way you say that you do (mm-mm)
I would be happy giving all my love to you

Listen: you got to walk with me, you got to talk with me
You got to make me see, just what you mean
(I would be happy) mm-mm, yea-hey... ow!
(If you would love me) love me
(Just the way you say that you do)
(I would be happy) I wanna be your man
(Giving all my love to you) I'd give my love to you
(If you would love me) oh, yeah
(Just the way you say that you do) I wanna be your man
(I would be happy giving all my love to you...)