Michael Bolton How Am I Supposed To Live Without You

"How Am I Supposed To Live Without You"

I could hardly believe it
When I heard the news today
I had to come and get it straight from you
They said you were leavin'
Someone's swept your heart away
From the look upon your face, I see it's true
So tell me all about it, tell me 'bout the
plans you're makin'
Then tell me one thing more before I go

[Chorus:]
Tell me how am I supposed to live without you
Now that I've been lovin' you so long
How am I supposed to live without you
How am I supposed to carry on
When all that I've been livin' for is gone

I didn't come here for cryin'
Didn't come here to break down
It's just a dream of mine is coming to an end
And how can I blame you
When I build my world around
The hope that one day we'd be so much
more than friends
And I don't wanna know the price I'm
gonna pay for dreaming
When even now it's more than I can take

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
And I don't wanna face the price I'm
gonna pay for dreaming
Now that your dream has come true

[Chorus]

"How Am I Supposed to Live Without You"
Single by Laura Branigan
from the album Branigan 2
B-side	"Mama"
Released	July 1, 1983
Format	7" vinyl
Recorded	1982
Genre	Pop
Length	4:29
Label	Atlantic
Writer(s)	Michael Bolton, Doug James
Producer(s)	Jack White
Laura Branigan singles chronology
"Solitaire" (1983) "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You" (1983) "Self Control"

"How Am I Supposed to Live Without You" is a song originally recorded by Laura Branigan in 1983. The song, written by Michael Bolton and Doug James, was recorded by Bolton later the same decade. The song was first performed in 1985, by actress Lisa Hartman as a music video on the nighttime soap opera, Knots Landing. As the second single from Branigan's second solo album Branigan 2 spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart and peaked at number twelve on the Hot 100 in early-October 1983. Branigan's single also hit the number-one spot on the Adult Contemporary chart in Canada. This success came without benefit of a music video. Branigan performed the song on the syndicated music countdown show Solid Gold in late 1983 and on the popular holiday special Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve.