Lady Lyrics
You're my lady
You're my lady
You're my lady (My, oh, baby)
You're my lady (Yeah)
[Verse 1]
Don't think I don't see them lookin' at ya
All of 'em wishin' they could have ya
And as a matter of fact, uh
A bunch of them are itchin' for you to scratch them
I'm tired of hidin' what we feel
I'm tryna come with the real
And I'm gonna make it known
'Cause I want them to know
[Chorus]
You're my lady (You're my lady, yeah, yeah)
You're my lady (You're, oh)
You're my lady (Lady, yeah, my divine, my divine lady)
You're my lady (Oh, oh, yeah)
[Verse 2]
You're my little baby (Baby), my darling baby (Baby)
I swear you're the talk of the town
And everybody wants to know what's goin' down
Babe, I know they've seen us before
Maybe at the liquor store (Maybe at the liquor store)
Maybe at the health food stand (Yeah)
They don't know that I'm your man (Yeah)
You're my lady (You're mine, you're mine, hey)
You're my lady (Baby, ooh, you're my lady)
You're my lady (Oh, my divine, my divine)
You're my lady (Yeah, yeah, oh)
I can tell they're lookin' at us
[Bridge]
I pick you up every day from your job (You're my lady)
Every guy in the parking lot wants to rob me of my girl
And my heart and soul, and everybody wants to treat me so cold
But I know I love you and you love me (Yeah)
There's no other lover for you or me (You're my lady)
[Vamp]
I can tell they're lookin' at us
I can tell they're lookin' at us
I can tell they're lookin' at us
[Outro]
You're my lady
My divine lady
You're my lady
Such a wonderful lady
I can tell they're lookin' at us
You're my lady (You're my lady)
Oh, oh, oh (You're my lady)
My divine lady
Yeah, yeah, oh, yeah, oh, yeah (Oh, yeah)
You're my lady (You're my lady)
Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, oh, yeah
You're my lady (Such a wonderful lady)
I can tell they're lookin' at us (You're my lady)
Everybody, everybody wants to know, baby, oh (You're my lady)
Oh, everybody wants to know what's goin' down, sugar (You're my lady)
Ayy, ooh, yeah, hey, oh (You're my lady)
(Such a beautiful lady)
I can tell they're lookin' at us (You're my lady)
Lookin' at us (You're my lady)
You're my lady (My divine lady)
Yeah, my, my divine, my divine lady (You're my lady)
You're my lady
(Such a beautiful lady)
I can tell they're lookin' at us (Oh, baby)
You're my lady (Oh, baby, oh, you're my)
You're my lady (My divine lady)
My divine, my divine baby (You're my lady)
(You're my lady)
Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh (You're my lady)
(Such a beautiful lady)
I can tell they're lookin' at us (You're my lady)
My divine lady
(You're my lady)
(My divine lady)
About
“Lady” is a collaboration between soul men D'Angelo and Raphael Saadiq that was released as the third single from Brown Sugar. The gold single peaked at #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #2 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The song was later remixed by DJ Premier and featured D'Angelo’s EMI labelmate AZ, while the remix video featured cameos from fellow neo-soul star Erykah Badu and singer Faith Evans, who D'Angelo worked with on a remix of her single “You Used to Love Me.”
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
I wrote ‘Lady’ in a Marriott Hotel lobby in Connecticut. There was a piano sitting there, and I just sat down and started writing this song about a girl I knew who lived in Long Island. I originally played it for the members of Tony! Toni! Toné!, but they didn’t like it. I remember them saying, ‘Everything you write is not a hit.’ So, I put it away.
Four years later, D’Angelo ended up coming to my house. This lady who was our music publisher at the time introduced us, and he came over to [Pookie Lab] and heard the song. He said he liked it a lot, and we started working on it. When we worked, we just goofed around, ordered food, and played. It wasn’t really work; it was more like playing a pickup game with your boy.
I had my back turned to him when he started playing keyboards. I just turned around and was like, ‘Wow!’ I was blown away. Later, I remember D’Angelo wanted to sing the backgrounds himself. At the time, the studio was in my garage in Sacramento, so I left; by the time I came back, I couldn’t believe what he had done to the backgrounds. It was crazy how good it sounded.
D was trying to be very complex. But when people started telling him how they had made babies to that track, he appreciated it more.
Yes!
- 1.Brown Sugar
- 2.Alright
- 6.Smooth
- 7.Cruisin’
- 9.Lady
- 10.Higher
