Since I Lost My Baby

Album: Temptin' Temptations (1965)
Charted: 17
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  • Sun a-shining, there's plenty of life
    A new day is dawning sunny and bright
    But after I've been crying all night the sun is cold
    And the new day seems old
    Since I lost my baby (since I lost my baby)
    Since I lost my baby (since I lost my baby)

    Birds are singing and the children are playing
    There's plenty of work and the bosses are paying
    Not a sad word should my young heart be saying
    But fun is a bore and with money I'm poor
    Since I lost my baby (since I lost my baby)
    Since I lost my baby (since I lost my baby)

    Next time I'll be kinder (next time I'll be kinder)
    Won't you please help me find her (won't you please help me find her)?
    Someone just remind her (someone just remind her)
    'Bout this love she left behind her ('bout this love she left behind her)
    'Til I find her I'll be tryin' now, every day I'm more inclined to find her
    Inclined to find her, inclined to find my baby
    Been a-looking everywhere, baby, I really, really care

    Oh, determination is fading fast
    Inspiration is a thing of the past
    Can't see my hope's gonna last
    Good things are bad and what's happy is sad
    Since I lost my baby (since I lost my baby)
    Since I lost my baby (since I lost my baby)
    I feel so bad
    Oh, I'll feel so sad
    Everything is wrong (since I lost my baby)
    This heart is hard to carry on
    (Since I lost my baby) I'm lost as can be
    (Since I lost my baby) what's gonna happen to me? Writer/s: Warren Moore, William Robinson Jr.
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • Kristin from Bessemer, AlI love that part of the song when David Ruffin sings "Every day I'm more inclined to find her/inclined to find her/inclined to find my baby" - that line makes the entire song!
  • Sara from Silver Spring, MdMichael McDonald did a cover on his Motown album.
  • Matt from Raleigh, NcThis was played in the movie "Standing in the Shadows of Motown" after James Jamerson, Motown's famous bass player, went to see the Motown 25th anniversary concert in 1983 and died shortly thereafter, dying a forgotten genius. A very moving moment in an excellent documentary about Motown's house band, The Funk Brothers.
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