Jody Watley

Ah-ah-ah-ah...

Ooh-ooh-ooh...

One every women who all want his time
Can't seem to make up his lusty mind
So much temptation can put a strain on love
You gotta stay strong and hold on

It's such a hard thing to give all your trust
You hate to find out, you loved him too much
It's a lot of give and a lot of take
Maybe a lifetime it'll make

I wanna know if it's real
That love you say you feel
Wanna know why, let's try
To make it last, yeah

For love's sake
Gotta stay together
For love's sake, yeah
For love's sake
Gotta stay together
For love's sake, yeah

You found true love when you found me
And no other woman can give you that, no
We made a vow and said forever
Said through thick and thin we'd stay together

It may be true I'm foolin' myself
When you say you love me and no one else
But I gotta try to make it last
Don't want our love to be in the past

No, no, no

For love's sake
Gotta stay together
For love's sake, yeah
For love's sake
Gotta stay together
For love's sake

For love's sake
(For love)
Gotta stay together
For love's sake, yeah
You and I got to stay together
(For love, for love's sake)
Let's make a house a happy home

(For love)
You and I, you and I
You and I, you and I
(For love's sake)
(For love)
For love's sake, yeah
(For love's sake)

For love's sake
(For love)
Gotta stay together
(For love's sake)
Ooh-ooh-ooh...
(For love)
Oh-oh-oh...
(For love's sake)

(For love)
Gotta stay together, yeah
You and I, you and I
(For love)
For love's sake
(For love)
Gotta stay together, yeah
Oh-oh...
(For love)
Yeah, yeah

(For love, for love's sake)
Gotta stay together, yeah
(For love, for love's sake)
You and I got to stay together
(For love, for love's sake)
Let's make a house a happy home
(For love)
For love's sake
(For love's sake...)

Jody Watley is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and producer that first danced her way to fame at 14-years-old as a dancer on Soul Train. That experience led show host Don Cornelius and booking agent Dick Griffey to place her and fellow dancer Jeffrey Daniel in the group Shalamar in 1977, with lead singer Howard Hewett added to the group in 1979. They produced the hits “Second Time Around,” “Make That Move,” “This is for the Lover in You,” and “A Night to Remember” before Watley left the group in 1983 due to conflict within the group and a lack of payment from Dick Griffey’s SOLAR Records label.

She released her self-titled debut album in 1987 featuring the #1 Dance hits “Don’t You Want Me,” “Some Kind of Lover,” and “Looking for a New Love,” which also peaked at #1 on the R&B Singles chart and #2 on the Pop chart. This album went Platinum and led to her winning the Grammy for Best New Artist in 1988. Her follow-up album Larger Than Life was released in 1989 and featured the Top 10 Pop hits “Everything,” “Friends” with Rakim, and the #1 Dance and R&B hit “Real Love.” She worked on these albums with Prince bassist André Cymone, who she would later marry in 1991 before separating in 1995.

She released nine studio albums between 1987 and 2006, and in 2008, she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Billboard Music Awards. Her last project was the 2014 EP Paradise on her own Avitone label and she made an appearance on DâM-FunK’s Invite the Light album in 2015 on the track “Virtuous Progression.” She also formed “Shalamar Reloaded” with two new members and continues to tour.

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