I need love, love
Ooh, ease my mind
And I need to find time
Someone to call mine

My mama said
You can't hurry love
No, you'll just have to wait
She said love don't come easy
But it's a game of give and take
You can't hurry love (huh...)
No, you'll just have to wait
Just trust in a good time
No matter how long it takes

How many heartaches
Must I stand
Before I find the love
To let me live again
Right now the only thing
That keeps me hanging on
When I feel my strength
Ooh, it's almost gone

I remember mama said
You can't hurry love
No you'll just have to wait
She said love don't come easy
It's a game of give and take
How long must I wait (huh...)
How muck more must I take
Before loneliness
Will cause my heart, heart to break?

No, I can't bear
To live my life alone
I grow impatient for a love
To call my own
I can't go on
Well these precious words
Keep me hanging on

I remember mama said
You can't hurry love
No, you'll just have to wait
She said love don't come easy
Well, it's a game of give and take
You can't hurry love (huh...)
No, you'll just have to wait
Just trust in a good time
No matter how long it takes, now break!

Now love, love
Don't come easy
But I keep on waiting
Anticipating for that soft voice
To talk to me at night
For some tender arms
Hold me tight
I keep waiting
Ooh, till that day
But it ain't easy (love don't come easy)
No, you know it ain't easy

And my mama said
You can't hurry love
No, you'll just have to wait
She said love don't come easy
It's a game of give and take
You can't hurry love (huh...)
No, you'll just have to wait
She said love don't come easy
But it's a game of give and take
You can't hurry love
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