I Need Real

This old town runs off booze and pills and birth control
And nobody says a thing
We tune in and tune out our conversations with the TV screen
Hanging off of the end of a rope coming loose
I need to get back to my roots
To the truth, to the way it feels when I hold you

I need that down south, that soul sound
You spinnin' like a record
I need your hand in my hand
That eye-to-eye reflection
All the fights, the mad, the good, the bad
The way love hurts and heals
I need real
Yes, I need real, oh, oh, oh

I need your warm skin on my cold heart on a lonely night
Just lay it all on the line
Let it pour out and flood me 'til that dam breaks
'Til there's nothing left inside you
What you love, what you hate
I'll take the real, leave the fake
I want the sinner and the saint

Give me that down south, that soul sound
You spinnin' like a record
I need your hand in my hand
That eye-to-eye reflection
All the fights, the mad, the good, the bad
The way love hurts and heals
I need real, oh
I need real, yeah, yeah

I need that down south, that soul sound
You spinnin' like a record (oh, like a record, baby)
Your hand in my hand
That eye-to-eye reflection
All the fights, the mad, the good, the bad
The way love hurts and heals
I need real (give me that real)
I need real, oh, oh, oh

Give me that real, baby, baby, baby, baby
Baby, baby, baby, b-b-b-b-b-b-bow (come on, baby)
I need you, I need you, I need you, I need you
I need you, baby, oh, yeah
I say yeah, I say yeah, I say yeah
I say yeah, I say yeah, I say yeah
Hey, good movin'

And you plant the seed and it grows