Fatal Attraction - Roxanne Shante

Just gather 'round, this tale is rather chillin'

What I mean is thrillin', so listen if you’re willin'

Cause Shanté has been through more than the average girl

Now I will send your mind through a twirl

Now usually I’m narrow-minded, never blinded

By any man, but some how I got binded

I mean caught up, he wasn’t all that fly

I can’t lie, he was cute in his suit and tie

But he wasn’t my type, I mean he didn’t own

A dope Benz with a rag top and a phone

He wasn’t out gettin' paid by the mile

He was a different kind of man with a different style

He didn’t sport a fat rope, and that was strange

He had a job at the New York Stock Exchange

Down on Wall Street, workin' 9 to 5

He was a man with a mind and a will to strive

He had a wife, but acted like she wasn’t there

Long hair, they really made a lovely pair

But Shanté was ready for some real action

And this is the beginning of a fatal attraction

So I saw him nearly every day, what could I say?

«Hi, I’m Shanté, and could you leave the wife, by the way?»

I wasn’t with it.

He had to take the first step

I have a rep, and good is how I want it kept

But then it happened, one day he started kickin' it

And just to think, I thought that he was chicken shit

He gave his name, he couldn’t give his number though

I gave him mine, and beat it like a drummer so

He wouldn’t think I was on it but I really was

The same night, he had the nerve to give a buzz

And I thought, «Damn, what a bad brother»

He said his wife was out of town with her grandmother

Pay him a visit—I said «Yo, I’m not a dummy»

I know that’s not the only kind of pay he wants from me

But I went, and somethin' told me not to go

But when I got there, he seduced me slow

Now I’m not the first date type

But this night Shanté was quite hype

And quite ready for all kinds of action

Soon you’ll see why this is a fatal attraction

And so it happened, boy did it ever

I never been touched like that, I mean never

The whole weekend was very romantic

Then came Sunday, and I got frantic

Cause it was time to run, and I was havin' fun

He touched my cheek, and then he said «See ya, hon»

I went home and thought it was short

Time I realized that I was caught

And for the next four months of us dating

I kept anticipating and waiting

Because he told me he and his wife were through

Finished, over, I just had to wait a few

So I waited, and time kept passin' on

Three more months, and still she wasn’t gone

I got mad, I asked him what the problem was

We sat down, and bust what the brother does

«Sorry, baby, what was I thinkin' of?

I have a wife, and that’s who I really love

And as for us—» «Please, don’t even run it

Cause if you loved her, you wouldn’t’ve never done it»

I started breakin' and he was about to see some action

And feel the pain of a fatal attraction

Well, this story has such a sad ending

And I hope these men stop pretending

As if they’re single, and try to mingle

Cause one day you might feel a tingle

Between your legs, and when you look down to check

Ha, surprise!

Go 'head and break your neck

Search high and low, look near and far

But what you’re lookin' for is somewhere in a pickle jar

Just like him, cause he’s in a hospital

He had a big one, but now it’s kind of little

So little, he can’t stick it any place

He tried to play me, and he lost the race

But that’s not that he lost

Jimmy’s gone, and that’s the cost

Of my fatal attraction