I ain't
never seen a woman
look at me like that
I guess they do things different in the city
I ain't never seen a woman
shake her body that way
And manage to hold on to her dignity
Right now I ain't thinking
about those starving kids
Or catching some strange disease
And little thing, don't worry,
that nasty stuff we're saying
Kinda make you feel at ease,
and that's the way on the beat
You make me slow down
when I break into a run
That's the way on the beat
And you make people forget
about the things I ain't done
That's the way on the beat
Oh, I know we just can't stay here forever
But I'm locked up in some
wild fantasy
That's the way it ought to be
I ain't never seen a woman
put up such a fight
About so many little stupid things
I ain't never seen nobody
always do what's right
No matter what harm it brings
I don't need no woman
telling me how to run my life
But I can stand some advice for real
Those little motions,
the touch of your fingers
Kind of makes it hard on me
That's the way on the beat
You make me realize graffiti ain't so dumb
That's the way on the beat
You make me compromise
when I'm having too much fun
That's the way on the beat
I know the whole world
can't stop turnin'
And live like you and me,
that's the way it ought to be
That's the way it ought to be,
yeah
I ain't never seen a woman
talk back to the police
Guests take to things
different in the city
I ain't never seen a woman
point a finger in my face
Somehow you keep on upsetting me
I ain't thinking
about no foreclosure
on my mortgage
I don't want no MTV
Anybody talking about
some kind of love shortage
We still don't know what that means
And that's the way it ought to be
You made me come down
from my pedestal in the sun
That's the way it ought to be
You made me think about
what I don't want to become
That's the way it ought to be
I know we just can't
stay here forever
Locked up in some wild fantasy
That's the way it ought to be
That's the way it ought to be, yeah
That's the weight of the beat
That's the weight of the beat
That's the weight of the beat
Oh yeah, that's the way it
ought to be
That's the way it ought to be
That's the way it ought to be, oh
Come on, say it
That's the way it ought to be,
say it again, come on
That's the way it ought to be
That's the way it ought to be
Oh, that's the way it ought to be, yeah
That's the way it ought to be
That's the way it oughta be,
yeah
That's the way it oughta be
That's the way it oughta be