Listen everybody
   especially you boys
   it is right to be left alone
   when the one you love is never home
  
   I love too hard
   my friends sometimes say
   but I believe I believe
   that a man should be loved that way
   but it hurts me so inside
   to see him treat me so unkind
  
   Somebody somewhere
   tell him it's unfair
   can I get a witness
   can I get a witness
   can I get a witness
   somebody
  
   Is it right to be trated so bad
   when you've given everything you've had
   even tossin' in sleep cause I
   haven't see my baby all week
   now all you boys agree
   that this ain't the way love's supposed to be
   let me hear you let me hear you say yeah
  
   Up early in the morning with him on my mind
   just to find out all night that I've been cryin'
   but I believe that a woman's a man's best friend
   and I'm gonna stick by him till the very end
   'cause he's caused so much misery
   that I forget how love's supposed to be
  
   Somebody somewhere
   tell him it's unfair
   can I get a witness
   can I get a witness
   can I get a witness
   I want a witness
   witness witness