If Loving You Is A Crime (I'll Always Be Guilty)

If loving you is a crime, then give me time

'Cause I always be guilty

Sometimes, I feel that I'm on trial

For loving you too much, child

You're the judge and the jury of my peers

If it's time for me to talk, Lord, listen here

If you don't want me to steal your heart

Lock me up and keep us both apart

And if they let me go, I know it

I will do the same thing over again

So if loving you's a crime, then give me time

'Cause I'll always be guilty

Lord, have mercy

I stand before you, a condemned man

Because I had a deliberate plan

To steal your heart, oh, your love away

But I got caught, what can I say?

I'm guilty, so guilty

Whoo, Lord, guilty

But I know now

If they let me go, I know it

I will do the same thing over again

So, if loving you is a crime, then give me time

'Cause I'll always be guilty

So guilty, so guilty

So guilty

I'm sitting in a witness stand

I got to plead guilty

If it's a crime in this world for loving a woman

Somebody let me know

I'll serve the rest of my life

Pleading love, love