The Main Ingredient: Just Don't Want to Be Lonely

Remarks:

This song went to #8 on the American R&B charts in 1974. I like it better than their 1972 hit, “Everybody Plays the Fool”, which went to #2.

You will have to click through to YouTube to see the video, but there you will see their performance on “Soul Train”. The lead singer, by the way, is none other than Cuba Gooding, Sr. Yes, the father of actor Cuba Gooding, Jr!

Lyrics:

I don’t mind when you say that you’re going away
I just don’t wanna be lonely,
And I don’t care if we share only moments a day,
I just don’t wanna be lonely,

I’d rather be loved and needed; depended
on to give a love I can’t give
When you’re gone, when you’re gone, I just
don’t want to be lonely. I’d
just rather be loved.

I don’t mind when the time sets the sun to the moon,
I just don’t wanna be lonely,
Let the stairs find you there, way down at the end of the room,
I just don’t wanna be lonely,

I’d rather be loved and needed; depended
on to give a love I can’t give
When you’re gone, when you’re gone, I just
don’t want to be lonely. I’d
just rather be loved.

I’d rather be loved and needed; depended
on to give a love I can’t give
When you’re gone, when you’re gone, I just
don’t want to be lonely. I’d
just rather be loved.