Aretha Franklin | Lyrics | Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing

There ain't nothin' like the real thing, baby
There ain't nothin' like the real thing
There ain't nothin' like the real thing, baby
There ain't nothin' like the real thing

I see 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

And I read your letters when you're not near
They don't move me, they don't groove me like when I hear
Your sweet voice whisperin' in my ear

There ain't nothin' like the real thing, baby
There ain't nothin' like the real thing

No other sound is quite the same as your name
No touch can do half as much to make me feel better
Let's stay together, together baby
Together yeah, together, together

I got some memories to look back on
And though they help, when you phone
I'm well aware nothing takes the place of your bein' there

There ain't nothin' baby nothin' like the real thing, baby
There ain't nothin' like the real thing
There ain't nothin' like the real thing
There ain't nothin' like the real thing

Oh, there ain't nothin' like the real thing
There ain't nothin' like the real thing
The real, real
There ain't nothin' like the real thing
The real, the real, the real, the real thing
Oh, the real thing