Women Need Words

Good morning, dear, how are you? The breakfast tastes so good,
I ll call you from my lunch break, the way I said I would.
And I ve got one word for you that s in my vocabulary,Army, mother
And that word s forever and it s in your dictionary!

The Army wrote your mother With the deepest of regret,
And the police told your sister, We ain t found your little brother yet,
And the preacher gets the final words, upon the wind-swept hill,
But I just said I love you, and I know I always will.

Women need words, yes they do,
Women need words, sincere and true,
Women need words such as I love you.

Wedding ceremony, and somebody says I do,
And later he says, I m sorry, and the lawyers say its through,
Women need words but they don t always get the ones they need,
They get separation and visitation and liberation. Indeed!

Women need words in the morning,
And they need them in the afternoon,
Women need words at the crack of midnight, underneath the moon.
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