2:47
single, 1963
Written by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland
Addressing the "chicks" and "young girls" in the audience, the narrator pleads his case, preacher style: is it right to be left alone? Is this the way love is supposed to be? It's a pretty clever ploy, proclaiming that you're single and, oh yeah, just happen to mention that you know how to treat a woman right at the same time ("I'm going to stick by her till the bitter end"). Gaye lived his life between gospel and the secular world, but here he's pretty much a Sam Cooke lover, not a preacher. It's got the same punchy energy as "Heat Wave."
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