Ain't no way for me to love you
If you won't let me
It ain't no way for me to give you all you need
If you won't let me give all of me

I know that a woman's duty
Is to help and love a man
And that's the way it was planned

Oh, how can I, how can I, how can I
Give you all those things I can
If you're tying both of my hands
It ain't no way, ain't no way

Just ain't no way, baby
Ain't no way, baby
It ain't no way for me to love you
If you won't let me

Stop trying to be
Someone you're not
Hard, cold and cruel is a man
Who paid too much for what he got

And if you need me
Like you say, say, yeah, you do
Oh, then babe, babe, baby
Don't you know that I need you? oh

It ain't no way
I tell you that it ain't no way
It ain't no way, it ain't no way, baby, no
Just ain't no way, sure ain't no way, baby

It ain't no way for me to love you
If you won't let me
If you won't let me, no way

If you won't let me
No way