Jody Watley

Something in the way you love me
Just won't let me be
I don't want to be your prisoner
So baby, won't you set me free?

Stop playing with my heart, finish what you start
When you make my love come down
If you want me let it show, baby, let me know
Honey, don't you fool around

Just try to understand
I've given all I can
But you've got the best of me

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It feels like I'm going to lose my mind
You keep pushing my love
Over the borderline

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It feels like I'm going to lose my mind
You keep pushing my love
Over the borderline, yeah, yeah

Something in your eyes
Is making such a fool of me
When you hold me in your arms
You love me till I just can't see

But then you let me down when I look around
Baby, you just can't be found
Stop driving me away, I just wanna stay
And there's something I just got to say

Just try to understand
I've given all I can
And you've got the best of me

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It feels like I'm going to lose my mind
You keep pushing my love
Over the borderline

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Feels like I'm going to lose my mind
Keep pushing my love
Over the borderline

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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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