[Verse 1]
Baby, baby, sweet baby
There's something that I've just got to say
Baby, baby, sweet baby
You left me hurtin' in a real cold way

[Pre-Chorus]
Speak your name, and I feel a thrill
You said I do, sure thing, and I said I will

[Chorus]
I told you to just be true
And give me just a little time
Wait on me, baby
I want you to be all of mine
I've just been so blue
Since you've been gone
(Why'd ya do it, why'd ya have to do it)
Since you've been gone
(Why'd ya do it, why'd ya have to do it)

[Verse 2]
Since you've been gone, I've been missin' you
Miss your good love, miss your kissin' too
What a shame
Why'd you do that? Why'd you tip on me?
Come home
Bring your love back now to rescue me, uh-huh
Baby, baby, sweet baby
(Sweet, sweet baby)
I didn't mean to run you away
It was pride on my lips
But not in my heart
To say the things that made you stray

And I mean
Hear me now (Hear me)
I don't know what I'm gonna do (Hear me)
Got to get you back somehow (Hear me now)

[Chorus]
And all I know is if you take me back
Consider me, please
If you walk in that door
I can get up off my knees
And I've just been so blue
Since you've been gone
(Why'd ya do it, why'd ya have to do it)
Since you've been gone
(Why'd ya do it, why'd ya have to do it)

I've been so lonely (Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet baby)
Since you've been gone (Sweet sweet, sweet, sweet baby)
I've been so alone since you've been gone (Since you've been gone)
Everything, everything, everything's gone wrong (Since you've been gone)
Everything's wrong, nothing else, I ain't got nobody (Since you've been gone)
I get so, I get so, I get so lonely (Since you've been gone)
Oh come home, come home, come home, come home, come home (Since you've been gone)
Try to get to, get to me, and come home (Since you've been gone)
Ooh, come home (Since you've been gone)
I ain't had time for no one since you've been gone (Since you've been gone)
I ain't act up on nothin' since you've been gone (Since you've been gone)
I don't want no one, no (Since you've been gone)
All I want, only you (Since you've been gone)
And I've been going out of my head since you've been gone (since you've been gone)
I talk to myself (Since you've been gone)
(Baby baby) (Since you've been gone)
(Sweet sweet baby) (Since you've been gone)