I'd Rather Be Hurt By You (Than Be Loved By Somebody Else) - The Stylistics

I’d rather be hurt by you

Rather be hurt by you

Than to be loved by somebody else

I’d rather spend hours lonely and blue

Than one single moment with somebody new

My friends say that some day I’ll love again

And maybe some day I will, still

I’d rather be hurt by you

Rather be hurt by you

Even be left alone by myself

Than be loved by somebody else

My friends say that some day I’ll love again

And maybe some day I will, still

I’d rather be hurt by you

Rather be hurt by you

Even be left alone by myself

Than be loved by somebody else

Rather be hurt by you, baby

I’d rather, rather, rather, rather be