(This is my answer) Now I received your letter sayin' you were sorry And you wanted to come on home to me (This is my answer) So I decided to answer and tell you baby Things ain't the way they used to be ('Cause I've been hurt, hurt, hurt) I found me someone else now I believe will appreciate my love and good (This is my answer) And I'm not gonna mistreat them for you because things ain't going like you thought they would ('Cause I've been hurt, hurt, hurt) Now all I can say I'm sorry for you For forty days and nights you made me suffer Before you called back on the telephone (And I was hurt, hurt, hurt) But I knew you was brainwashed, baby You couldn't just give it up and come on home (And here is my answer) So I finally fell on my knees when I realized, your love, you didn't want me to have it ('Cause I've been hurt, hurt, hurt) But I felt so close to your love sometimes I felt like I could just reach out and grab it (Here is my answer)
Now all I can say I'm sorry for you Now you said right here in your own, love You lied and said I did you wrong (And this is my answer) And you know you didn't guess I live or die then, baby A-worried about how I got along (And it hurt, hurt, hurt) So just before I close my letter, baby Remember I said one day you would be (You would be crying) Brokenhearted and worried, baby Without a love like me (And this is my answer) Now all I can say I'm sorry for you