"Love or Let Me Be Lonely" is a pop song recorded by the soul group The Friends of Distinction and released as a single in early 1970.

[5] The song was written by Skip Scarborough, Jerry Peters and Anita Poree.

The Friends of Distinction version features Charlene Gibson singing the lead vocals.

The song returned to the charts in the summer of 1982 in a version by American singer-songwriter Paul Davis.

In August 1970, the song was adapted into French as "La chasse à l'homme" (meaning "The manhunt") by Gilles Thibault and recorded by French pop singer Sylvie Vartan, who released her version as a non-album single, 5 months after the release of the original Friends of Distinction version.