Songwriter: Daryl Hall
Producer: Arif Mardin Daryl Hall John Oates
F-ing short the loving lasts
I can't mix the future with the past
Can I stay close to you
I wanna stay close to you
You've got yours and I've got mine
And what we have in so hard to define
Just take a look at your life line
You've got a lot to shine
Let's say baby
I wanna know you for a long long time
Ooh baby
I wanna know you for a long long time
Oh darling, lady friend
We'll see each other when it's time to show
Just for a minute or for a year
But then again, don't you and I know
A time between our time together
It doesn't exist, it grows old forever
Just take a look at your life line
Ob baby, you've got a lot to shine
I know it baby
I wanna know you for a long long time
Ob and baby
I wanna know you for a long long time
I wanna know baby, I wanna know baby
Oh you've got a lot to live girl
So I wanna know you for a long long time
I wanna know, I wanna know
I wanna know baby
So much to live for girl
So much to live for girl
So I wanna know you baby
Wanna know you for a long long time
I wanna know, wanna know
I can't mix the future with the past
Can I stay close to you
I wanna stay close to you
You've got yours and I've got mine
And what we have in so hard to define
Just take a look at your life line
You've got a lot to shine
Let's say baby
I wanna know you for a long long time
Ooh baby
I wanna know you for a long long time
Oh darling, lady friend
We'll see each other when it's time to show
Just for a minute or for a year
But then again, don't you and I know
A time between our time together
It doesn't exist, it grows old forever
Just take a look at your life line
Ob baby, you've got a lot to shine
I know it baby
I wanna know you for a long long time
Ob and baby
I wanna know you for a long long time
I wanna know baby, I wanna know baby
Oh you've got a lot to live girl
So I wanna know you for a long long time
I wanna know, I wanna know
I wanna know baby
So much to live for girl
So much to live for girl
So I wanna know you baby
Wanna know you for a long long time
I wanna know, wanna know
more tracks from the album
The Atlantic Collection
- Lady Rain
- Had I Known You Better Then
- Can’t Stop The Music (He Played It Much Too Long)
- I Want to Know You for a Long Time
- It’s Uncanny
- Lilly (Are You Happy)
- I’m Just a Kid (Don’t Make Me Feel Like a Man)
- Past Times Behind
- When The Morning Comes
- I’m Sorry
- Las Vegas Turnaround (The Stewardess Song)
- You’re Much Too Soon
- Fall In Philadelphia
- Laughing Boy
- 70's Scenario
- Is It a Star
- Goodnight And Goodmorning
- Abandoned Luncheonette
- Beanie G And The Rose Tattoo
- She’s Gone
- Waterwheel
From the albums
- Hall and Oates
- No Goodbyes (1977)
- The Atlantic Collection (1996)
Hall & Oates popular songs
- You Make My Dreams
- Rich Girl
- Maneater
- Out of Touch
- I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do)
- She’s Gone
- Sara Smile
- Private Eyes
- Kiss On My List
- Adult Education
- Wait for Me
- Family Man
- When The Morning Comes
- One on One
- Say It Isn’t So
- Method of Modern Love
- Philly Forget Me Not
- Everytime You Go Away
- Do It for Love
- So Close
- Do What You Want, Be What You Are
- Without You
- Only Love
- Nothing At All