Lyrics If I Was Your Girlfriend (7" Single Edit) by Prince

If I was your girlfriend
Would you remember
To tell me all the things you forgot when I was your man?
Hey, hey, when I was your man

If I was your best friend
Would you let me take care of you
And do all the things that only a best friend can, oh, oh
Only best friends can

If I was your girlfriend
If I was your girlfriend

If I was your girlfriend
Would you let me dress you
I mean, help you pick out your clothes
Before we go out
Not that you're helpless
But sometimes, sometimes
Those are the things that bein' in love's about

And if I was your one and only friend
Would you run to me if somebody hurt you
Even if that somebody was me?
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be
Please

If I was your girlfriend
If I was your girlfriend

[Breakdown]
Would you let me wash your hair
Could I make you breakfast sometime
Or then, could we just hang out, I mean
Could we go to a movie and cry together
'Cause to me baby that would be so fine

If I was your girlfriend
Baby can I dress you
I mean, help you pick out your clothes before we go out
(If I was your girlfriend)
Listen girl, I ain't sayin you're helpless
But sometimes, sometimes
Those are the things that bein' in love's about
(Sugar)

[Breakdown]
Sugar do you know what I'm saying to you this evening?
(Sugar)
Maybe you think I'm being
A little self-centered
(if I was your girlfriend)
But I, I said I want to be
(Sugar)
All of the things you are to me
(Sugar)
Surely, surely you can see

[Spoken Outro]
Is it really necessary for me to go out of the room just because you wanna undress?
(if I was your girlfriend)
I mean, we don't have to make children to make love
And we don't have to make love to have an orgasm
(if I was your girlfriend)
Your body's what I'm all about
(if I was your girlfriend)