For you to do something I don't like
 I keep waiting?
 But everything you do, you do all right
 You give me love when I want you;
 You leave me alone when I don't
 Something says I ought to leave you,
 But something tells me I won't

 CHORUS:
 ?Cause you keep tightening up on me, and I can't break away
 ?Cause you keep tightening up on me, with a sweeter love every day.
 It scares me just a little bit, knowing I'll never be free
 Woman, I'm at your mercy, ?cause you keep
 Tightening up, tightening up, tightening up on me

 Yeah?
 O-o-o? yeah?
 La-la-la?

 Your kind of love?
 Makes it hard for a man to say no to you
 One look at me?
 And I know I've got to go to you
 Even when I'm looking away
 In my mind I can see you
 I ain't sure that I love you, baby,
 But I know that I need you

 (chorus)

 Yeah?
 O-o-o? yeah?
 Uh-uh-uh-huh?o-o-o?

 You keep tightening up on me, and I can't break away
 You keep tightening up on me, with a sweeter love every day