Released: May 5, 1998

Featuring: Ronald Isley R. Kelly

Songwriter: Kelly Price R. Kelly

Producer: R. Kelly

[Intro: Mr. Biggs]
Yeah Kelly, you there?
Now, listen baby
I got your message
I'm just confused
I don't understand everything but
I'm on my way over there to you
Now you stay on the phone
And tell me everything that went down

[Verse 1: Kelly and (Mr. Biggs)]
See I was the one
Who picked her up when so called friends let her down
(Uh huh)
And I was the one
Who took her in when that fool put her out
(I know)
Yeah, a true friend indeed
You see I was there when chips was going down
(You know I know)
Um, but she betrayed me
Caught him with her coming in from out of town
(You WHAT?!)
Tell me why? (Aww, SHIT!)

[Chorus: Kelly and (Mr. Biggs)]
Why ya ya, (Whyyy?) why yah yah
Why yah yah, why yah yah
I wanna know
Why yah yah, why yah yah (Why, baby?!)
Why yah yah, why yah yah

[Verse 2: Kelly and (Mr. Biggs)]
Now I put my trust in him
I can't believe he slept with her behind my back (Oh)
I went out on a limb
I even covered up to keep his thing in tact (Yeah)
Um.. what I had in me, yeah
Was something real that's so hard to come about, Uh
(Oh, oh)
But he betrayed me
There was a photo in some laundry that I found
Tell me why

[Chorus: Kelly and (Mr. Biggs)]
Why ya ya, (Whyyy?) why yah yah
Why yah yah, why yah yah
I put all my trust in you, baby
Why yah yah, why yah yah (Ooh, why?!)
Why yah yah, why yah yah

[Bridge]
She was my best friend
(oh yeah, oh yeah)
Hung with me through thick and thin
(My homey, my homey)
Sisters to the very end
(And I)
I can't believe it
Can't believe it
Can't believe it

He was everything to me
(Everything to me, baby)
Now out the door he's history
(Oh now ya gotta go on)
We could've had everything
(And I)
I can't believe it
Can't believe it
Can't believe it

[Interlude]
[Mr. Biggs] No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

[Kelly] Why, why, why

[Mr. Biggs] Why

[Kelly] Can't believe I trusted you

[Mr. Biggs] Kelly, let me call him up

[Kelly] No, no, no, no

[Mr. Biggs] And just talk to him

[Kelly] There's nothing to say
Because it's too late, oh

[Mr. Biggs] Oh, I know it, but it's just the principle
About the whole thing, oh
I'm your Godfather
And I can't stand for nobody to hurt you, baby

[Kelly] No, no, no, no

[Mr. Biggs] So just call him up

[Kelly] I don't wanna, I don't wanna

[Mr. Biggs] Call him baby, call him right now

[Kelly] I'm callin', I'm callin', I'm callin'

[Mr. Biggs] Call him up.....

[R.Kelly] Hello? Who's this?

[Mr. Biggs] This is Mr. Biggs

[R.Kelly] How ya doin' Mr. Biggs

[Mr. Biggs] What the hell is going on?

[R.Kelly] What you mean what's goin' on?

[Mr. Biggs] Kelly's telling me
That you're sleeping with another woman

[R. Kelly] Just because she sees me wit her
Doesn't mean I'm sleeping wit her

[Mr. Biggs] Well, if you're not sleepin' with her
What the hell you doin' with her

[R. Kelly] Damn, I could be just talkin' to her

[Mr. Biggs] Or you could be just creepin' with her
Now son, man to man, we both know the game

[R. Kelly] Yeah, but what's that got to.....

[Mr. Biggs] Wait a minute
And you know all about heartache and pain
This is my Goddaughter
And I'm just trying to protect her heart

[Kelly] Don't waste your time

[Mr. Biggs] You may have been a moon to her
But to me she's the star, oh

[Chorus]
Why ya ya, why ya ya

[Outro]
[Kelly] Why, why

[Mr. Biggs] Kelly, take this phone!

[Kelly]
She was my best friend
You were my husband
Oh, but I don't want you
No, no, no more
Said I don't want you
No, no, no, no more
See you shaped and molded me
To be what you wanted me to be
She was a leaf in your life
But I was the root to your tree, oh

[Repeat Chorus til fade]

Kelly Price

Kelly Cherelle Price is a nine-time Grammy-nominated American R&B singer and songwriter from Queens, New York, formerly on the Def Soul label. She made a name for herself as a backing and guest vocalist, appearing on a number of hit singles such as Mariah Carey’s “Fantasy”, The Notorious B.I.G.’s “Mo Money Mo Problems”, Ma$e’s “Feel So Good”, and Whitney Houston’s “Heartbreak Hotel”. She has sung background vocals for Faith Evans, Aretha Franklin, Brian McKnight, SWV and R. Kelly (before the controversies).

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