Released: May 6, 1987
Songwriter: Prince
Producer: Prince
[Intro]
Ooh, woah
Ooh-hoo
Oh yeah
Ooh-hoo
[Verse 1]
If I was your girlfriend
Would you remember
To tell me all the things you forgot when I was your man?
Hey, hey, when I was your man
If I was your best friend
Would you let me take care of you
And do all the things that only a best friend can, oh, oh
Only best friends can (Ooh)
[Refrain]
If I was your girlfriend
Ooh, ooh
If I was your girlfriend
[Verse 2]
If I was your girlfriend
Would you let me dress you?
I mean, help you pick out your clothes
Before we go out
Not that you're helpless
But sometimes, sometimes
Those are the things that bein' in love's about
And if I was your one and only friend
Would you run to me if somebody hurt you
Even if that somebody was me?
Yeah
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be
Please
[Refrain]
If I was your girlfriend
Ooh, oh
Ooh-ooh-ooh
If I was your girlfriend
[Breakdown]
Would you let me wash your hair?
Could I make you breakfast sometime?
Or then, could we just hang out? I mean
Could we go to a movie and cry together
'Cause to me, baby, that would be so fine
Woo-hoo
[Verse 3]
(If I was your girlfriend)
Baby, can I dress you?
I mean, help you pick out your clothes before we go out
(If I was your girlfriend)
Listen girl, I ain't sayin you're helpless
But sometimes, sometimes
Those are the things that bein' in love's about (Sugar)
[Breakdown]
Sugar, do you know what I'm saying to you this evening? (Sugar)
Maybe you think I'm being a little self-centered (If I was your girlfriend)
But I, I said I want to be (Sugar)
All of the things (Sugar)
You are to me (If I was your girlfriend)
Surely, surely you can see
[Spoken Outro]
Is it really necessary for me to go out of the room
Just because you wanna undress? (If I was your girlfriend)
We don't have to make children to make love
And we don't have to make love to have an orgasm (If I was your girlfriend)
Your body's what I'm all about (If I was your girlfriend)
Ooh, woah
Ooh-hoo
Oh yeah
Ooh-hoo
[Verse 1]
If I was your girlfriend
Would you remember
To tell me all the things you forgot when I was your man?
Hey, hey, when I was your man
If I was your best friend
Would you let me take care of you
And do all the things that only a best friend can, oh, oh
Only best friends can (Ooh)
[Refrain]
If I was your girlfriend
Ooh, ooh
If I was your girlfriend
[Verse 2]
If I was your girlfriend
Would you let me dress you?
I mean, help you pick out your clothes
Before we go out
Not that you're helpless
But sometimes, sometimes
Those are the things that bein' in love's about
And if I was your one and only friend
Would you run to me if somebody hurt you
Even if that somebody was me?
Yeah
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be
Please
[Refrain]
If I was your girlfriend
Ooh, oh
Ooh-ooh-ooh
If I was your girlfriend
[Breakdown]
Would you let me wash your hair?
Could I make you breakfast sometime?
Or then, could we just hang out? I mean
Could we go to a movie and cry together
'Cause to me, baby, that would be so fine
Woo-hoo
[Verse 3]
(If I was your girlfriend)
Baby, can I dress you?
I mean, help you pick out your clothes before we go out
(If I was your girlfriend)
Listen girl, I ain't sayin you're helpless
But sometimes, sometimes
Those are the things that bein' in love's about (Sugar)
[Breakdown]
Sugar, do you know what I'm saying to you this evening? (Sugar)
Maybe you think I'm being a little self-centered (If I was your girlfriend)
But I, I said I want to be (Sugar)
All of the things (Sugar)
You are to me (If I was your girlfriend)
Surely, surely you can see
[Spoken Outro]
Is it really necessary for me to go out of the room
Just because you wanna undress? (If I was your girlfriend)
We don't have to make children to make love
And we don't have to make love to have an orgasm (If I was your girlfriend)
Your body's what I'm all about (If I was your girlfriend)
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- Feel U Up
- Pope
- 200 Balloons
- I Love U In Me
- Irresistible Bitch
- Girl
- God
- 17 Days
- Gotta Stop (Messin’ About)
- La, La, La, He, He, Hee
- Scarlet Pussy
- Peach
- Hello
- Power Fantastic
- I Would Die 4 U (7" Single Version)
- When Doves Cry (7" Single Edit)
- I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man (Fade 7” Edit)
- If I Was Your Girlfriend (7" Single Edit)
- Sign O’ the Times (7" Single Edit)
- 4 The Tears In Your Eyes [Live]
- Nothing Compares 2 U
- Escape
- Horny Toad
- Shockadelica
- Pink Cashmere
- Another Lonely Christmas
- How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore?
- She’s Always in My Hair
- Diamonds and Pearls
- U Got the Look
- Controversy
- When You Were Mine
- Head
- Let’s Go Crazy
- I Wanna Be Your Lover
- 7
- Purple Rain
- Kiss
- Little Red Corvette
- Erotic City
- Sexy M.F.
- Soft and Wet
- Gett Off
- Cream
- Thieves In The Temple
- I Feel for You
- Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?
- Alphabet St.
- Delirious
- Pop Life
- Uptown
- Dirty Mind
- Do Me, Baby
- Raspberry Beret
- The Hits/The B-Sides (1993)
- Prince 4Ever (2016)
- Sign O’ the Times (Super Deluxe) (2020)
- 1999
- Little Red Corvette
- Adore
- Sign O’ the Times
- If I Was Your Girlfriend
- P. Control
- I Wanna Be Your Lover
- Nothing Compares 2 U
- The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
- Head
- Controversy
- When You Were Mine
- Do Me, Baby
- Sister
- Starfish and Coffee
- Soft and Wet
- 1000 X’s & O’S
- The Ballad of Dorothy Parker
- U Got the Look
- Call My Name
- I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
- How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore?
- Dirty Mind
- Gold