i know you're not the only woman in the world there's a lot of people baby more than half of them are girls i hear you sayin' you'll be doin' me a favor to eliminate our problems and be goin' your way well i've been walkin' in the cool, cool light the day is over but it isn't quite night i've been thinkin' about the meanin' of real love hey girl i would be half a man if i gave you up half a man if i said i'd had enough half a man to take the easy way out half the men in the world would do it but girl that's not what love's about ain't nothin' easy about this growin' up but we're gonna have to do it, girl, if we're lucky that don't mean that we can't have a little fun it doesn't mean that we renounce the joy of bein' young it only means that there's a new set of rules you can't just run off when you're hurt and confused when we were children we were free to act like a child but now you wanna run and i wanna fight on for your love, for your precious love because you're worth it baby