Never seem to stand up, baby, when you put them to the test, yeah.
You say that you’re a poet,
That you’re life’s a work of art.
But you can’t play love my numbers, baby,
Gotta play it all by heart.
Baby, baby, baby, baby,
It happens all the time.
How you play me, play me, play me,
Playing with my mind.
Baby, baby, baby, baby,
You’re making me go crazy (ah, ah, ah, ah).
If you call that love, then love should be a crime.
Honesty bites the dust,
Every time I hear you saying love is never lust, yeah.
Did you read it in a book,
Did you see it in a magazine?
Do you think that I’m some new age fool,
Do you think I’m so naïve?
Baby, baby, baby, baby,
It happens all the time.
How you play me, play me, play me.
Playing with my mind.
Baby, baby, baby, baby,
You’re making me go crazy (ah, ah, ah, ah).
If you call that love, then love should be crime.
(Love, love, love should be a crime,
Love, love, love, love, love should be a crime.)
You and me suddenly,
We got nothing to say (we got nothing to say),
But the words get in the way.
Baby, baby, baby, baby,
It happens all the time.
How you play me, play me, play me,
Playing with my mind.
Baby, baby, baby, baby,
You’re making me go crazy (ah, ah, ah, ah).
And if you call that love,
And all it was was a pocketful of nothing but a suicidal note,
If you call that love, then love should be a crime.