I need love, love to ease my mind; I need to find, find someone to call mine; but mama said 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, you gotta 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 hanging on, when I feel my strength, yeah, it's almost gone, I remember mama said, 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. 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 keeps me hanging on; I remember mama said, 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 love don't come easy, it's a game of give and take no matter how long it takes. No love, love don't come easy, but I keep on waiting, anticipating for that soft voice to talk to me at night, for some tender arms to hold me tight. I keep waiting; I keep on waiting, but it ain't easy, it ain't easy when mama said you can't hurry love no, you just have to wait; she said trust, give it time no matter how long it takes. 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.