Writer(s): Brian Holland, Edward Holland, Lamont Dozier

I need love love to ease my mind

I need to find find someone to call mine

My mama said you can't hurry love you just have to wait

She said love don't come easy

it's a game of give and take

You can't hurry love no you just have to wait

You got to trust give it time

no matter how long it takes

But how many heartaches must

I stand before I find a love to let me live again

Right now the only thing that keeps me hangin' on

When I feel my strength yeah

it's almost gone I remember mama said

No you just have to wait

She said love don't come easy

it's a game of give and take

How long must I wait

How much more can I take

before loneliness will cause my heart heart to break

No I can't bear to live my life alone

I grow impatient for a love to call my own

But when I feel that I I can't go on

These precious words keep me hanging on

I remember mama said

No you just have to wait

She said love don't come easy

it's a game of give and take

You can't hurry love no you just have to wait

She said trust give it time

no matter how long it takes

You know love love don't come easy

but I keep on waiting antici- pating for

that soft voice to talk to me at night

For some tender ar- arms to hold me tight

I keep waiting keep on waiting

But it ain't easy it ain't easy

But mama said

you can't hurry love no you just have to wait

She said to trust give it time

no matter how long it takes

You can't hurry love no you just have to wait

She said love don't come easy

it's a game of give and take

You can't hurry love no you just have to wait

She said trust give it time no matter how long it takes