Why Did You Have To Be

Album: Osmosis Jones Soundtrack (2001)
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  • When I held you, it was something
    That was nothing much to me
    I was in it for the moment
    Wanted someone touching me
    And I didn't want to fall in love

    (Chorus:)
    So why did you have to be
    So beautiful, so good to me
    When I was only looking for
    Someone to hold just for a while?
    Why did I have to see your smile?
    Why did you have to be
    The one who stayed in all my dreams
    When I was needing nothing more
    Than someone to kiss, to hold in the night?
    Why did you have to be so right?

    When you touched me, it was something
    Like your touch that I hadn't known
    I could feel it in a moment
    Like your touch had, baby, touched my soul
    And I didn't want to fall in love

    (Repeat chorus)

    (Bridge:)
    Why did you have to say
    The words that took my breath away?
    I was doing good, I was doing just fine
    Being free

    (Repeat chorus)

    Oh, baby, oh
    So beautiful
    Why? Writer/s: DIANE EVE WARREN
    Publisher: Realsongs
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • R from Staten Island, NyMy favorite singer is Patrizio Buanne. He just released this third album titled Patrizio and one of the songs on it is titled Why Did You Have to Be. I'm just curious, it says on the album that the song was written for Patrizio by Diane Warren and produced by Humberto Gatica. How can that be when you say she wrote it for Debelah Morgan??
  • Chacha from Algeria, AlI really loved the song of Debolah Morgan and which is "Why did you have to be", I even used its lyrics in one of the stories I've written.
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