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My Mistake Lyrics

Artist: Marvin Gaye
Album: My Mistake

My Mistake (Was To Love You)
Diana Ross
(P. Sawyer/G. Jones)

My mistake was to love you, girl
Love you, girl
My mistake was to give you all
Tell the world

First I had you
In the palm of my hand
But I let you slip through
Like rain to sand
At the beginning
When I didn't care
Like my own reflection
You were always there

My mistake was to love you, girl
Love you, girl
My mistake was to give you all
Tell the world

You were sweeter
Then my very own skin
But what did I do for you
Not a thing
In front of my friends
You broke me down
Since then darling
It's hard to track you down

My mistake was to love you, boy
Love you, boy
My mistake was to give my all
Tell the world

Many a smile
You put om ny face
But I paid dearly
With the tears I taste

My tenderness
Made you cold, not sweet
'Cause if a girl loves you
You only call her weak

My mistake was to love you, boy
Love you, boy
My mistake was to give my all
Tell the world

My mistake was to love you, girl
Love you, girl
My mistake was to give you all
Tell the world

Comments/Interpretations

by cammy on 6/30/2008 3:32pm
wot a song

by Tonya on 1/8/2009 11:04pm
NOT rain to sand
IT'S grains of sand

AND

NOT sweeter than my very own skin
IT'S sweeter than my very own kin

by anastasia on 10/13/2010 2:37pm
this song is soooo moving
it makes me cry

by Maxine on 9/27/2011 10:21am
One of my Marvin favorites.

by marie Teixeira on 1/6/2012 12:57pm
Love this song...

by matt mascarelli @ facebook on 8/29/2015 6:27pm
Like grains of sand.. listen to the man(Marvin) and tell all the other lyric dummies to change their mistakes also.. like rain to sand.. That doesn't even make sense.... So please change asap!! Thank You