oh i oh i i miss you baby oh i oh i i miss you baby i swear i do mmm hmm ever since you went away i ain t been doing nothing but with my head in my hands you been away from me so long and i just don t think i can carry on so i start each and every night trying to drown all my loneliness away i don t forget a day fall down on my knees wishing for your return and oh how i hurt cause i oh i i miss you baby oh lord you can look at my eyes and see that a great big man like me has been crying my heart and soul out to you baby sitting in my lonely room filled with nothing but gloom and i feel like hey y all help me cause ever since the day you left i don t know what to do with myself oh i wish for your return and oh how i hurt  cause i oh i i miss you baby i miss you baby oh i oh i i miss you baby i swear i do oh i oh i oh i i miss you baby without you baby they re ain t no future yeah oh no oh i i miss you baby i miss you baby i miss you baby without you i don t know what to do with myself what to do with my time hmm hello did i disturb you i didn t mean to take up too much of your time but just thought i d give you a ring and see how you was doing how s how s everything a friend of mine told me he saw you the other day said you was still looking good heh made me feel kind of good you know told me told me that you did ask about me heh i been really meaning to try to get to talk to you for now but you know how a man s pride is sometimes it kind of won t let him do what he wanna do yeah baby come back to me darling i don t want nobody else hey hey baby hey baby i miss you baby i miss you baby i don t know what to do with my time with myself without you baby hmm guess what i know this will knock you dead but i even went out and got a gig oh forgot you know hip to the hip talk plain j o b baby in eight hours a day all the overtime i can get i don t know i guess it might be too late but i swear i miss you yeah lord knows don t do me like this baby yeah i m on my knees i m begging you please oh baby baby baby baby i miss you baby oh lord hey girl hey girl hey baby baby baby baby baby i can t go on without you baby what am i gonna do what can i say i love you baby ha heh remember how i used to always say how lucky i done been you know being they got that lottery i hit it i d like to kind of make up for a lot of things that just seemed not to go right don t want you to think i m trying to buy back your love or your friendship but now i feel i got a chance to kind of make things up to you a little bit heh enough about you and me how s my little son hmm he ever ask about me just a little bit does he still like to go down by the supermarket if i could just if i could just see you can t really say what you mean or what you want over the phone i swear i miss you you done heard it ten times or more but i swear i done changed i swear i done changed i miss you baby oh lord miss you baby yeah baby yeah baby yeah baby 5