It Ain't No Fun - Shirley Brown

When it’s getting late

I guess you’ll soon be coming home, yeah

We’ll sit and talk and you’ll pretend

That your love for me is gone, well

You act as though I’m just a friend

A quick hello and you’ll be down

You’ll be down again, oh

But it ain’t no fun

Being in love all by yourself

I tell you it ain’t much fun

When the one you love loves someone else

And I love you

Sometimes you say sweet things

To make me think you care

Don’t you do that, baby

But tell me how can you give love

When no love, when no love is there

I wish I knew the words to say

To save the love that’s slipping away

Away from me

It ain’t no fun

Being in love all by yourself

It ain’t much fun

Being in love all by yourself

Yeah, I know a lot of you ladies out there

Are probably criticizing me this evening

I even run into some ladies occasionally out there

Have the nerve to ask me

They say, Shirley, did you really do that?

Did you really buy him all those cars

And the clothes like you said on the record?

Yeah, love’ll make you do these things

It’s a funny thing how these men

Can make you lie in bed night after night

Wondering if they coming home

Laying there by the phone

Hoping that any minute he’ll call

And tell you, baby, I’ll be there shortly

You just hold on, I’m coming

Comes in three days later, yeah

I know you know what I’m talking about

You see, it ain’t no fun to have to sit there

And count the tile on the floor

Count them four walls

And another funny thing

How we ladies can get on that telephone

Talking day after day about how sweet

And how good our love life is

You might be familiar with this

Commercial that comes on TV

How’s your love life?

Knowing all the time that it’s rotten

Ha ha, having to laugh to keep from crying

Ha ha ha, like I’m doing now

But you see, the only thing

I’ve always believed in

Whatever makes me feel happy

I try to do whatever it takes

To keep it that way

But you see, it ain’t no fun

Being in love all by yourself

Knowing all the time that the one you love

Is loving somebody else

I’m standing here to tell you today, ladies

That it ain’t no fun

It ain’t no fun

Being in love all by yourself

No, it ain’t no fun

When the one you love loves someone else

It ain’t no fun, no, it ain’t

Being in love all by yourself

No, no, no, oh, no, oh, oh, oh