The Price
After I hung up my heart for you, darling
And I said, if you ever need me
All you had to do was call
I stood up and I told the whole wide world
That you were good for me, baby
Yes, then you laughed
And you called me your personal clown
In front of all your friends
Ha, you walked away and you left me
Standing up like a fool
I couldn't even go to my friends or my relations
All I could do was stand up
And hang my head in shame
You see what you cost me
You cost me my mother
The love of my father
Sister, my brother too
Oh, yes, you did
You see now what you've caused
And I know just what I lost
And I know what the price
I paid, I paid, I paid
For loving someone like you
Oh, all I can hear is my friends saying,
"I told you (told you) I told you"
And I can hear my mother say,
"Fool, I told you"
You see what you
(You lost) Oh, yes, you do
You look back and
You wonder sometimes
(See what you lost?)
And I see the price I payed
I payed for loving someone
Someone, someone, someone like you
Baby, I don't care
What the world might say
I'm gonna love you any old way
(Love you)
And although you let me down, baby
My, my, my, deep down in my heart
I feel for nobody else but you
(See what you lost?)
And I don't care
What my mother and my father might say
(See what you lost?)
And I don't care
If the world talk about me, darling
But, oh, sometimes, sometimes
I just sit in my lonely room
And I moan all to myself
Why don't come back home?
Now holler to me, baby
(Baby)
My, my, my, my, my baby...
(Baby)
Oh, my baby
(Baby)
I need you
And I said, if you ever need me
All you had to do was call
I stood up and I told the whole wide world
That you were good for me, baby
Yes, then you laughed
And you called me your personal clown
In front of all your friends
Ha, you walked away and you left me
Standing up like a fool
I couldn't even go to my friends or my relations
All I could do was stand up
And hang my head in shame
You see what you cost me
You cost me my mother
The love of my father
Sister, my brother too
Oh, yes, you did
You see now what you've caused
And I know just what I lost
And I know what the price
I paid, I paid, I paid
For loving someone like you
Oh, all I can hear is my friends saying,
"I told you (told you) I told you"
And I can hear my mother say,
"Fool, I told you"
You see what you
(You lost) Oh, yes, you do
You look back and
You wonder sometimes
(See what you lost?)
And I see the price I payed
I payed for loving someone
Someone, someone, someone like you
Baby, I don't care
What the world might say
I'm gonna love you any old way
(Love you)
And although you let me down, baby
My, my, my, deep down in my heart
I feel for nobody else but you
(See what you lost?)
And I don't care
What my mother and my father might say
(See what you lost?)
And I don't care
If the world talk about me, darling
But, oh, sometimes, sometimes
I just sit in my lonely room
And I moan all to myself
Why don't come back home?
Now holler to me, baby
(Baby)
My, my, my, my, my baby...
(Baby)
Oh, my baby
(Baby)
I need you
Credits
Writer(s): Sean Anthony Moore, Burke Sr., Burke Jr.
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Link
Other Album Tracks
Altri album
- Got to Get You off My Mind / Tonight's the Night (Rerecorded Version) - Single
- Solomon Burke Soul Legends
- His Best (Rerecorded Version) - Single
- I Need A Holiday
- Soul Power Music (Live)
- Apollo
- Need Your Love So Bad
- The King of Rock 'N' Soul: The Atlantic Recordings (1962-1968)
- Cry to Me: Northern Soul Sides - EP
- Cry to Me (Remastered)
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