Justify My Love

Madonna

I want to kiss you in Paris
I want to hold your hand in Rome
I want to run naked in a rainstorm
Make love in a train cross-country
You put this in me
So now what, so now what?

Wanting, needing, waiting
For you to justify my love (my love)
Hoping, praying
For you to justify my love

I want to know you
Not like that
I don't want to be your mother
I don't want to be your sister either
I just want to be your lover
I want to be your baby
Kiss me, that's right, kiss me

Wanting, needing, waiting
For you to justify my love
Yearning, burning
For you to justify my love

What are you gonna do?
What are you gonna do?
Talk to me, tell me your dreams
Am I in them?
Tell me your fears
Are you scared?
Tell me your stories
I'm not afraid of who you are
We can fly

Poor is the man
Whose pleasures depend
On the permission of another
Love me, that's right, love me
I want to be your baby

Wanting, needing, waiting
For you to justify my love
I'm open and ready
For you to justify my love
To justify my love
Wanting, to justify
Waiting, to justify my love
Praying, to justify
To justify my love
To justify my love
I'm open, to justify my love
My love


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Justify My Love Lyrics as written by Ingrid Julia Chavez Madonna

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    Poor is the woman Whose pleasures depend On the permission of another

    thats what she's trying to hint... that she ain't poor at all, she don't depend on permit to do what she wants in bed with whoever she wants

    mandrakexon September 25, 2007   Link

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