Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing - Michael McDonald

Ain’t nothing like the real thing, baby

Ain’t nothing like the real thing

Ain’t nothing like the real thing, baby

Ain’t nothing like the real thing

I got your picture hangin' on the wall

But it can’t see or come to me when I call your name

I realize it’s just a picture in a frame

I read your letters when you’re not near

But they don’t move me

They don’t groove me like when I hear

Your sweet voice whisperin' in my ear, ooh

Ain’t nothing like the real thing, baby

Ain’t nothing like the real thing

I play my game, a fantasy, I pretend but I’m not in reality

I need the shelter of your arms to comfort me

No other sound is quite the same as your name

No touch can do half as much to make me feel better

I got some memories to look back on

Though they help me when you’re gone I’m well aware

Nothin' can take the place of you bein' there

So glad we got the real thing, baby

So glad we got the real thing, no, no

Ain’t nothing like the real thing, baby

Ain’t nothing like the real thing

Ain’t nothing like the real thing, baby

Ain’t nothing like the real thing