[Verse 1] Free cause every time I turn around You're all up on me like a dog in heat And you don't hardly even know me We talk on the phone now is that a time? But that don't mean I'm all the way yours And you're all the way mine And you be sweating the jimmy As if I said I love you or something We got a hell of a friendship, so why you fronting You said it ya' self, you wanted us to be friends But you should have thought of that Before you let me in Now you keep coming back for seconds and thirds And fourths and fifths Giving me money, buying me clothes and fancy gifts I see you at the mall an take you by suprise Cause I'm with another girl Hey wait, why you roll your eyes But then you got the nerve to try to run your lip When you flirting with them gangster fools, I don't trip And I don't try to stop you from talking to someone else Cause I be tryna get free myself And I just gotta be free [Chorus] I gotta be free, I gotta be free I gotta be the beat? The way that I wanna be [Verse 2] Kicking it with the homies On sunday when I'm on the shore or the beach You be paging me like a dog on a short leash You be going through my wallet Seeing people that you don't know Assuming every girl you see is my hoe Going through my pockets For some numbers that I got last week While you was jocking in ya homegirls cherokee But yo' I won't sweat it You can do what you wanna do And just because we made love Don't mean that I'm owned by you If I wanted a relationship I would have told you from the get-go And if I want one, I'll let you know Instead of beating around the bush like a punk That tells you who wants to be with you Get ya skins then ya get dumped So don't be sweating me As if I was a phony Cause Mariah Carey says love takes time And you don't owe me Ya better stop before ya make me your enemy Come to think about it I just gotta be free [Chorus] [Verse 3] Why you sweating me You don't even know where I'm at Where I been or where I am going I ain't stopping you and your homegirls from owing And they be all up in are business If they was so concerned They would hook you up with someone you can live with The only problem i got with you Is you don't wanna take time You wanna rush before you think it through I would be like that myself But you gotta get your skeltons out the closet And your boots off the for sale shelf Maybe then we could have more to talk about But until then I'll be out Cause it take more than one ingredient To bake a cake And baby when you figure that out We can try to make Sock it to me But the way you be trippin I would bet you would just kick it Or get on somebody else can deal with it Telling me how i should be But maybe i don't wanna be Because I gotta be free [Chorus]