On My Own -- Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald -- Lyrics

On My Own -- Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald

Charted: 1986
Peaked at #1 (3 weeks)
MCA -- 52770
From the album "Winner In You"
B-Side "Stir It Up" by Patti LaBelle

So many times
Said it was forever
Said our love
Would always be true

Something in my heart
Always knew I'd be
Lying here beside you

On my own
On my own
On my own

So many promises
Never should be spoken
Now I know what
Loving you cost

Now we're up
To talking divorce
And we weren't
Even married

On my own
Once again now
One more time
By myself

No one said it was easy
But, it once was so easy
Well, I believed (I believed) in love (in love)
Now, here I stand
I wonder why

I'm on my own
Why did it end this way
On my own
This wasn't how it
Was supposed to be
On my own
I wish that we could
Do it all again

So many times, I know
I could have told you
Losing you, it
Cut like a knife

You walked out and
There went my life
I don't want to
Live without you

On my own
This wasn't how
It was supposed to end
On my own
I wish that we
Could do it all again
On my own
I never dreamed I'd
Spend one night alone
By myself

On my own, I've got to
Find where I belong again
I've got to learn
To be strong again

I never dreamed I'd
Spend one night alone
By myself, by myself

I've got to find out
What was mine again
My heart is saying
That it's time again

And I have faith
That I will shine again
I have faith in me