If You Don't Know Me By Now

All the things that we've been through

You should understand me

Like I understand you

Honey, I know the difference between right and wrong

I ain't gon' do nothing to upset our happy home

You don't get so excited when I come home a little late at night

Oh, we act like children when we argue, fuss, and fight

Oh (If you don't know me by now)

If you don't you'll never, never know me

Oh, if you don't know me by now

You'll never know me

Ooh

Oh, we all got our own funny moods

Honey, I've got mine

And you got yours too

Just trust in me

Like I trust in you

As long as we've been together

That should be so easy to do

Boy, you better get yourself together

Or we might as well say goodbye, bye, bye, bye

What good is a love affair if we can't see eye to eye?

If you don't

You'll never, you'll never

You ain't gonna know me

Never

If you don't know me by now

You'll never, ever know me

Ooh

Oh, baby, I thought you

Oh, I, I thought you knew me by now

But you don't

Oh, baby, I know you

I thought you knew me by now

But you don't

Yeah, I like to do one of those, ha, ha

Sometimes you think you all knowing about 'em

I think it's kinda like your ego gets in the way

And you take for granted somebody just knows what you're all about, my dear

And they just don't

Awh shucks

I'ma try and talk to you, sugar

You break your back, you break your legs, and you break your face

Tryin' to make these people know you in line

But somehow they just don't want to try to

So you say to yourself

Is it something I said?

Is it something I done?

Is it the way I look?

Is it the way my clothes come unfastened?

And if that turns you off, baby, you ain't worth me anyway

Hey

So you fasten your clothes

You check your speech

And you check out your drag and everything else, your face

And you find out you're still in trouble

So then you say to yourself

Self, is it worth it?

Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah, no

'Cause it's been ten long years

This is the situation that I'm talking about

Ten long years

And if you don't know me

I'm not gonna try to prove myself no more

You'll never, never, never know me

You'll go on

You'll go on and find yourself someone else

Because if you think you're lonely now

Wait until tonight comes

Because I'll be somewhere

Somewhere

Somewhere, oh

I ain't gonna stop and try to prove myself to you

Because you ain't gonna

You ain't gonna

You ain't gonna know me

Know

Ay, ay, ay, ay

Ay, ay, ay, ay

Ay, ay, ay

(If you don't know me by now)

(You will never, never, never know me)