19 FEBRUARY 1966
Backing them up in the studio were the also-legendary Funk Brothers, the Motown session musicians who played on so many of the label's classics. Despite the driving beat here, the music here seems slightly baroque and somehow sadder than had been usual with the Supremes' earlier work.
B-side: 'Everything Is Good About You'
Recorded: Hitsville U.S.A. (Studio A); 1965
Released: 29 December 1965
Released: 29 December 1965
Highest chart position: #5 (US)
Length: 2:33 (original release), 3:26 (remastered)
Label: Motown M 1089
Writers: Holland–Dozier–Holland
Producers: Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier
'My world is empty without you, baby
My world is empty without you, baby
And as I go my way alone
I find it hard for me to carry on
I need your strenght
I need your tender touch
I need the love, my dear
I miss so much
My world is empty without you, baby
My world is empty without you, baby
From this old world
I try to hide my face
From this loneliness
There's no hiding place
Inside this cold and empty house I dwell
In darkness with memories
I know so well
I need love know
More then before
I can hardly
Carry on anymore
My world is empty without you, babe
Without you, babe
(My world is empty) without you, babe
My mind and soul
Have felt like this
Since love between us
No more exist
And each time that darkness falls
It finds me alone
With these four walls
My world is empty without you, babe
Without you, babe
(My world is empty) without you, babe
Without you, babe
Without you, babe'