DIDN'T YOU KNOW (YOU'D HAVE TO HURT SOMETIME)
(Nickolas Ashford / Valerie Simpson


Gladys Knight & The Pips - 1969
Diana Ross - 1971
Nona Hendryx & Billy Vera - 1992





Remember when you left
Yeah, you had your own rules about playing the game
And any day, you could walk away feeling no no pain
Now look at yourself
Yeah, you're all hung up on somebody else
And in your eyes I see all the signs of the misery
That you laid on me

Baby, baby
Didn't you know you'd have to cry sometime
Oh, didn't you know
Didn't you know you'd have to hurt sometime
Didn't you know you'd have to lose your pride
Didn't anybody tell you love had another side

Ooh, you used to be so proud
Now your head's a little lower and you walk a little slower slower
And you don't talk so loud
Now you've gotten wise
Yeah, you know how love can build you up one moment
And the next, cut you down to size
And then you discover all she told you was a bunch of lies

Didn't you know you'd have to cry sometime
Ooh, didn't you know
Didn't you know you'd have to hurt sometime
Didn't you know you'd have to lose your pride
Didn't anybody tell you love had another side

Oooooh-oooooh
Oooooh-oooooh

Now you come to me
Yeah, you hurt so bad, you wanta feel the security
Of the love you once had
Oh, but I can't open doors
And my arms can't ever take the place of hers
'Cause no other could ever take the place of yours
So, what can I tell ya, baby

Didn't you know you'd have to cry sometime
Oh, didn't you know
Didn't you know you'd have to hurt sometime
Oh, didn't you know
Oh, didn't you know you'd have to cry sometime
Oh, baby, baby
Didn't you know you'd have to hurt sometime
Oh, didn't you know
Oh, didn't you know you'd have to hurt sometime
Oh, baby, baby, think about it
You'd have to hurt sometime
Ooooooooooohhhh
Didn't you know you'd have to hurt sometime, yeah!






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - May 2014)