“I need a man” by Venus Jones

I can do bad by myself.
I don’t need nobody else.
I work day and night, night and day,
to pay the bills of yesterday.

But it’s okay, and it’s all right.
You know I can make wrong right without a fight.
Just understand, I need a complete companion.
Someone who’s down for the grand haul.
I’m talking about that person who will pick me up when I fall.

What you want isn’t what you say.
Your actions speak louder than your words, on any given day.
But you go play me like the fool anyway.
When I gave you my love, and I gave you my time.

But you…you can’t spare a dime?
No, it’s not your lack of funds, but your dead spirit.
That’s what has me on the run.
And I don’t have room for dead weight.
Since day one I set it straight.

How come you can’t come real…come correct?
Is it that you’re not ready yet?
Now if you would’ve told me upfront, I would’ve understood.
That you were a boy, on the threshold of manhood.

But now I must question, if it was all just for show.
That’s right, I’m getting out this game, but it’s a shame.
It’s a shame that I no longer feel the same.
Because my baby still cries out  —
your name.

I’m a single mother.
And I’m doing all I can.
But I don’t need a boy to help me raise a son.
I need a man.

– Venus Jones