[MERCEDES]
Ain't no way for me to love you
If you won't let me
It ain't no way for me to give you all you need
If you won't let me give all of me
I know that a woman's duty is to help and love a man
And that's the way it was planned
Oh, but how can I, how can I, how can I
Give you all of the things I can
If you're tying both of my hands?

[MERCEDES & (THE CHOIR)]
Oh, it ain't no way (Ain't no way)
It ain't no way (Ain't no way)
It just ain't no way, baby (Ain't no way)
Ain't no way baby (Ain't no way)
It ain't no way for me to love you

[MERCEDES with the Choir harmonizing (MERCEDES)]
If you won't let me
(Stop trying to be someone you're not)
How cold and cruel is a man

[MERCEDES & (THE CHOIR)]
Who pay too much for what he got?
And if you need me (Oh-oh-oh) to love you, (Say) say, (Say) say you do (You do)
Oh, then (Baby) baby, baby, baby don't you know that
I (Don't you)
Need (Know that)
You (I need you)
Oh, oh, it ain't no way (Ain't no way)
I'll tell you that it ain't no way
It ain't no way
It ain't no way, baby, (Ain't no way)
No
It just ain't no way (Ain't no way)
It sure ain't no way (Ain't no way)
It ain't no way for me to love you
If you won't let me