Cover art for Be With You by Mary J. Blige

Be With You

Nov. 29, 19941 viewer12.2K views

Be With You Lyrics

[Intro]
Oh, oh (Turn up, turn the music up)
(You know that I don't ever wanna leave you)
I wanna be with you
(Does he care for you? Does he want you?)
I wanna be with you
(Does he even care?)

[Verse 1]
I can't deal with the fact that
You don't want me around
Why you wanna see me down?
It's so unusual
That you don't love me no more
Why you wanna close the door?

[Pre-Chorus]
I spent all my days and all my nights with you
Just tell me what am I gonna do without you
If loving you is so right
Tell me how I'll make it through the night
(You know that I don't ever wanna leave you)

[Chorus]
(I wanna be with you)
I just wanna be with you
Nothing else I'd rather do
(I wanna be with you)
I want to spend my life with you, yeah, oh
[Verse 2]
Let's take this time to think about
What was said and done
Now tell me why you had to run
Away from me
Now I can't sleep at night
Why we have to fight?

[Pre-Chorus]
Every day from you, I look and I see something new
Now tell me what I got to do to get this through to you
It's the little things you do for me
That make me very happy
You know that I don't wanna leave you

[Chorus]
I, I, I (I wanna be with you)
I just wanna be with you
There's nothing else I'd rather do
(I wanna be with you)
Oh, I, I just wanna be with you, be with you, be with you, yeah, yeah

[Bridge]
(I wanna be with you)
It seems like each and every time I come around
You don't want me there
And it's beginning to make me so scared
(I wanna be with you)
So scared that I might lose you
All I wanna do is be with you baby, baby, baby, baby boy
[Outro]
(I wanna be with you)
Yeah-yeah, oh, oh, oh-oh-oh, yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah
(I wanna be with you)
I just wanna pick up the phone, yeah
And, oh, it's you, you, you, ooh-ooh, yeah
(I wanna be with you)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(I wanna be with you)
Oh, I wanna be with you
Oh baby, let me be with you, yeah
I need to be with you all day long, day long, yeah
(I wanna be with you)

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Genius Annotation

“Be With You” is the 12th track on Mary’s second album My Life. Mary has stated that the song was intended for her cousin.

“I was telling my cousin I don’t understand why every time you know I come around, everybody is angry, nobody wants me around, everybody treats me so bad, everybody is so jealous and mad because you know God is blessing me too”

   - Mary J Blige speaks about the song.

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Recorded At
Daddy's House & Axis Studios (New York City)
Release Date
November 29, 1994
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