That's How It Is (Since You've Been Gone) - Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell

Oh baby, there’s a letter on the floor

That I just can’t read no more

'Cause the words upon its face are sayin' goodbye

There’s a plate upon the table

Filled with food I could not eat

There’s a made-up bed in the bedroom where I couldn’t sleep

I just sit &weep

Oh baby, that’s how it is since you’ve been gone

That’s how it is, I’m so all alone

Now the curtains are drawn in my lonely room

&the darkness fills the air

&this old empty heart of mine is in despair

Even though the tears I shed

Washed the words away

I could still remember every word you had to say

They just wouldn’t go away

Oh baby, that’s how it is since you’ve been gone

That’s how it is, I’m so all alone

Oh baby, you knew right from the start

That my heart was in your hands

&your every, every wish, boy, was my command

That’s why I can’t understand

How you could leave me here helpless, dear

Alone &afraid, oh how could such a mistake be made?

But that’s how it is since you’ve been gone

That’s how it is, I’m so alone, oh baby

That’s how it is since you’ve been gone

That’s how it is, I’m so alone