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Without the One You LoveAretha Franklin

[Verse 1]
Baby, I need your good loving
Got to have your love right now, baby
So come and fill my empty arms
And make my life worthwhile
Because I'm not living, baby, I only exist
I'll never laugh, I'll never smile no more
Don't care if I stay like this, because

[Chorus]
Without the one you love
Life is not worthwhile
Without your love, my dear
I'm like a fatherless child
So come and fill my empty arms
And make my life worthwhile

[Verse 2]
When I feel the hurt coming on
I stop and cry like I'm crying
(Right now)
People ask why would a grown man cry
I drop my head and I sigh and reply

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]
(Baby, I need your good loving)
Sometimes I feel like a wanderer
(Got to have your love right now)
Searching for peace within
(Baby, I need your good loving)
I need you my darling
(Got to have your love right now)
Like a lost soul needs a friend

[Bridge]
So come and fill my empty arms
And fill my empty life
(Baby, I need your good loving)
Nobody knows the emptiness I feel
(Got to have your love right now)
And I feel it
(Baby, I need your good loving)
Nobody knows the loneliness I feel
(Got to have your love right now)
And I feel it because

[Chorus]

Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin is both a 20th and 21st century musical and cultural icon known simply by her first Aretha. She is the reigning and undisputed “Queen Of Soul” with a legacy that spans five decades. A native of Detroit, Michigan, Aretha began her career singing gospel at her father, minister C. L. Franklin’s church as a child. In 1960, at the age of 18, Aretha embarked on a secular career, recording for Columbia Records with modest success.

After moving to Atlantic Records in 1967, she released a steady string of US top ten hits through 1973 including “Spanish Harlem”, “Chain Of Fools”, “Baby I Love You”, “Since You’ve Been Gone”, “Daydreaming”, “The House That Jack Built”, “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", ”Think“ and her first chart-topper “Respect” – a song that also won Aretha her first of 18 Grammys. During this time, several of her songs were also successful overseas.

By the mid-70s, Aretha’s commercial success waned and she left Atlantic for Clive Davis' Arista Records in 1980. Her 1982 song “Jump to It,” returned her to the top 40 for the first time in six years. 1985’s Who’s Zoomin' Who? got her back into the top 10 twice with its title track and “Freeway Of Love”. Four more songs reached the top 40 through 1986.

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