Released: December 30, 1981
Songwriter: Stevie Wonder
Producer: Stevie Wonder
[Verse 1]
That girl thinks that she's so fine
That soon she'll have my mind
That girl thinks that she's so smart
That soon she'll have my heart
She thinks in no time flat
That she'll be free and clear to start
With her emotional rescue of love that you'll leave torn apart
That girl thinks that she's so bad
She'll change my tears to joy from sad
She says she keeps the upper hand
Cause she can please her man
She doesn't use her love to make him weak
She uses love to keep him strong
And inside me there's no room for doubt
That it won't be too long
[Chorus]
Before I tell her that I love her
That I want her
That my mind and soul and body needs her
Tell her that I'd love to, that I want to
That I need to do all that I have to
To be in her love
[Verse 2]
I've been hurting for a long time
And you've been playing for a long time
You know it's true
I've been holding for a long time
And you've been running for a long time
It's time to do what we have to do
That girl, That girl
That girl knows every single man
Would ask her for her hand
But she says her love is much too deep
For them to understand
She says her love has been crying out
But her lover hasn't heard
But what she doesn't realize is that I've listened to every word
[Chorus][x4]
[Outro]
That girl, that girl, that girl
Oh, That girl, that girl, that girl, that girl
That girl thinks that she's so fine
That soon she'll have my mind
That girl thinks that she's so smart
That soon she'll have my heart
She thinks in no time flat
That she'll be free and clear to start
With her emotional rescue of love that you'll leave torn apart
That girl thinks that she's so bad
She'll change my tears to joy from sad
She says she keeps the upper hand
Cause she can please her man
She doesn't use her love to make him weak
She uses love to keep him strong
And inside me there's no room for doubt
That it won't be too long
[Chorus]
Before I tell her that I love her
That I want her
That my mind and soul and body needs her
Tell her that I'd love to, that I want to
That I need to do all that I have to
To be in her love
[Verse 2]
I've been hurting for a long time
And you've been playing for a long time
You know it's true
I've been holding for a long time
And you've been running for a long time
It's time to do what we have to do
That girl, That girl
That girl knows every single man
Would ask her for her hand
But she says her love is much too deep
For them to understand
She says her love has been crying out
But her lover hasn't heard
But what she doesn't realize is that I've listened to every word
[Chorus][x4]
[Outro]
That girl, that girl, that girl
Oh, That girl, that girl, that girl, that girl
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Stevie Wonder: The Definitive Collection
- Superstition
- Hey Love
- Uptight (Everything’s Alright)
- I Was Made to Love Her
- Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours
- Part-Time Lover
- Overjoyed
- That Girl
- Fingertips (Part 2) (Second Pressing)
- Do I Do
- Sir Duke
- Higher Ground
- My Cherie Amour
- Master Blaster (Jammin’)
- I Wish
- You Are the Sunshine of My Life
- Boogie On Reggae Woman
- Living for the City
- I Just Called to Say I Love You
- For Once in My Life
- You Haven’t Done Nothin’
From the albums
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- Superstition
- Isn’t She Lovely?
- I Just Called to Say I Love You
- Sir Duke
- I Wish
- Don’t You Worry ’Bout a Thing
- Living for the City
- Higher Ground
- Happy Birthday
- Master Blaster (Jammin’)
- Ribbon in the Sky
- Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours
- All I Do
- Overjoyed
- Faith
- Part-Time Lover
- My Cherie Amour
- Love’s in Need of Love Today
- Do I Do
- For Once in My Life
- Knocks Me Off My Feet
- Pastime Paradise
- Lately