If You Want Me to Stay (Alternate Version)

If you want me to stay, I'll be around today

To be available for you to see

If I'm about to go, and then you'll know

For me to stay here, I got to be me

You'll never be in doubt, that's what it's all about

You can't take me for granted and smile

Count the days I'm gone, forget reachin' me by phone

Because I promise I'll be gone for a while

When you see me again, I hope that you have been

The kind of person that you really are now

Got to get it straight, how could I ever be late

When you're my woman, takin' up my time?

Oh oh, how could you ever allow, I just, I wonder how

I was gettin' out of pocket for fun, ah hah

When you know that you're never number two

Number one gonna be number one

I'll be good, I wish I could

Get this message over to you now, oh

When you shake me again, I hope that you have been

The kind of person you really are now

I'll be so good, oh, I wish I could

Get the message over to you now

Oh, girl