Solomon Burke

When your baby leaves you all alone
And nobody calls you on the phone
Ah, don't you feel like crying?
Don't you feel like crying?
Well here I am my honey
Oh, come on you cry to me.

When you're all alone in your lonely room
And there's nothing but the smell of her perfume
Ah don't you feel like crying
Don't you feel like crying?
Ah don't you feel like crying?
Come on, come on cry to me.

Well nothing could be sadder
Than a glass of wine, all alone
Loneliness, loneliness, it's such a waste of time
Oh-oh yeah

You don't ever have to walk alone, oh you see
Oh come on, take my hand and baby won't you walk with me?
Oh ya

When you're waiting for a voice to come
In the night and there is no one
Ah don't you feel like crying? (cry to me)
Don't you feel like crying? (cry to me)
Ah don't you feel like a-ca-ca-cra-co-cra-co-cra-cra, (cry to me)
Cra-co-cra-co-cra-cra crying? (cry to me)
Ah don't you feel like a-cra-co-cra-co-cra-cra,
Cra-co-cra-co-cra-cra crying?...

Don't Give Up On Me / Solomon Burke

If I fall short, if I don't make the grades/
If your expectations aren't met in me today/
There is always tomorrow, or tomorrow night/
Hang in there baby, sooner or later/
I know ill get it right,

Please, don't give up on me/
Oh please don't give up on me/
I know its late, late in the game/
But my feelings, my true feelings/
Haven't changed/
Here in my heart/

I know, I know I was wrong, wrong wrong,
wrong, wrong, wrong/
I'd like to make a mends for the love that I
never, ever, ever, ever shown/
Just don't give up on me, every word is true/

I'll give you my everything,
all of my love,all of my love,
all of my love love love/
Just don't give up on me/
Oh please, please, please/
Don't give up on me.

I don't want you to/
I know its late, but wait,
please, please, please, please/
Don't give up on me/
Promise, will you promise,
will you promise me/
Please don't give up on me/

We can make it if we try/
I'm gonna hold on, hold on with me/
And don't give up on me, oh-ooh,
-oohohoooh -baby/
Oh baby, Oh baby, please,
don't-give-up-on-me/

Whatever you do, we gonna make it,
gonna make it through/

Don't you give up on me,
please, please, please....
Promise me/
Don't-give-up-on-me.

Well you've been on a fast train and it's going off the rails
And you can't come back can't come back together again
And you start breaking down
In the pouring rain
Well you've been on a fast train

When your lover has gone away don't it make you feet so sad
And you go on a journey way into the land
And you start breaking down
'Cos you're under the strain
And you jump on a fast train

You had to go on the lam you stepped into no-man's land
Ain't nobody here on your waveband
Ain't nobody gonna give you a helping hand
And you start breaking down
And just go into the sound
When you hear that fast train

And you keep moving on to the sound of the wheels
And deep inside your heart you really know oh, just how it feels
And you start breaking down and go into the pain
Keep on moving on a fast train

You're way over the line next thing you're out of your mind
And you're out of your depth in through the window she crept
Oh there's nowhere to go in the sleet and the snow
Just keep on moving on a fast train

You had to go on the lam stepping in no-man's land
Ain't nobody here on your waveband
Nobody even gonna lend you a helping hand
Oh and you're so alone can you really make it on your own
Keep on moving on a fast train

Oh going nowhere, except on a fast train
Oh trying to get away from the past
Oh keep on moving keep on moving on a fast train
Going nowhere across the desert sand through the barren waste
On a fast train going nowhere
On a fast train going nowhere

Come sit beside me
That'll do for now
The night has come and left me
Just the light that you allow

Come speak my name
Fill my head with all such foolish dreams
My flesh and blood
Is no more real to me
Than what it seems

My love for you is burning
Like a spark along a fuse
I feel your mark upon me now
As surely as the hand that leaves the bruise

Life is for the living
And life comes hard for some
The rest of us with flesh and blood
Make it hard all along

All i ever wanted
Was the freedom to refuse
Or something of my own to love enough
To hate
To lose

The fever in my brain
Is leaving smoke behind my eyes
But the part of me that wants to change
Fights the part of me that trys

Come see the golden light
Cause i've turned the gold light on
Sometimes god knows
You gotta learn to shine, shine, shine shine, shine gold.

I stepped out of darkness
And for a moment
I'm only living by your kiss your kiss your kiss your kiss your
Lips your kiss
And now, just for now, our flesh and blood
Is more real than this
More real than this..

I was a fool
I told a lie
I did you wrong
I made you cry
So now I'm walking all alone
Down the darkest street in town
Standing in the rain
While my tears keep falling down
I'm soul searching
How could I say goodbye to you?
I'm soul searching
I made you cry
How could I leave
Somebody like you
How could I do all the silly things
That I do
Wht makes me try the way I do
Act a fool the way I do
I need you so bad baby
Won't you come back to me?
I'm soul searching
But nobody like my baby
I keep soul searching
It's driving me crazy
Why
Did I ever say goodbye
I must be outta my mind
I keep walking and looking for a sign
I gotta be crazy baby
To ever let you go
I keep looking for a sign
Oh why
Do I get all the bad breaks
How could I make
Such stupid mistakes
But the truth won't come to me
No matter how I wreck my brain
The rain keeps falling down
And I keep calling out your name
I'm soul searching

Only a dream
That I had
In the night

Only a dream
But it felt
So right

Well i was down there
In the moonlight
I was holding you tight

But it was only a dream
Only a dream

Only a dream
That knocks me off my feet

Only a dream
Have you dancing
In the street

And that big band
Keeps on playing
Joe henry's retreat

But only a dream
Only in my dream

Only a dream
But somebody tried to knock me down

Only a dream
Keeps on hanging around

Only a dream
We're rolling in the snow

Only a dream
We just couldn't let go

I sit outside your window
Just like romeo
But it's only a dream
Yes, only a dream

But someone tries to knock me down
To the ground
But it was only a dream
But it's just a dream
Still hanging around.

The accused will rise
To be torn in two
Guilty of nothin' but loving you
This is the judgement

And I'm willin' to plead
How you don't want me
Hopin' this torment will cease
Will I be released?

There'll be lies, there'll be tears
A jury of your peers
With a pitiful look of experience
Hand down the judgement

And if I done wrong
And loved you too long
Stand up and just testify
How can you deny?

Objection overruled
I wait for my reprieve
With the trust of the deceived
The wisdom of the fool

It's his sorrowful face
Too heavy for his head
'Cos he bowed it as something come over him
It was the judgement

And he falls to his knees
Have mercy on me
He clings to the hem of her gown
She says "Just take him down"

Just take him down
Just take him down

Well if I'd done all the things folks say I've done
I'd be in the ground or somewhere on the run
Take a look before you close the book
Look at the other side of the coin

Yes there's much in life for which I could atone
But let him without sin cast the first stone
But before you do there's still one more point of view
On the other side of the coin

I'm just a man sometimes foolish and proud
But all too quick sometimes to really play up to the crowd
But before you judge me if judge you must
Take your time, be sure that the verdict is just

Before you do there's one point of view
Can you stand up and say justice has been done today
Oh I was wrong, so wrong before you see what's going on
The other side of the coin

Yes there's much for which in life I should atone
But let them without sin get up and cast the first stone
And before you do remember there's still one more point of view
On the other side of the coin
On the other side of the coin
Oh yeah

well, you'd better listen my sisters and brothers
'cause if you do you can hear
there are voices still calling across the years
and they're all crying across the ocean
and they're crying across the land
and they will until we all come to understand

none of us are free
none of us are free
none of us are free, if one of us is chained
none of us are free

and there are people still in darkness
and they just can't see the light
if we don't say it's wrong then that says it's right
we got try to feel for each other
let our brother's know that we care
got to get the message send it out loud and clear

none of us are free
none of us are free
none of us are free, if one of us is chained
none of us are free

it's simple truth we all need
just to hear and to see
none of us are free, if one of us is chained
none of us are free
now i swear your salvation
isn't too hard too find
none of us can find it on our own
we've got to join together
in sprirt heart and mind
so that every soul who's suffering
will know they're not alone

none of us are free
none of us are free
none of us are free, if one of us is chained
none of us are free

if you just look around you
your gonna see what i say
cause the world is getting smaller
each passing day
now it's time to start making changes
and it's time for us all to realize
that the trurh is shining real bright right before our eyes

none of us are free
none of us are free
none of us are free
if one of us is chained
none of us are free

The night's getting old
Than your eyes aren't aware
You can't see clearly
And your nerves are thinning
I hadn't fit meal
And I'll kill on the table
We don't seen able
To hold and hang

Love sometimes
Takes the form of frustration
It's a sad combination
Of emptiness and down
But a only human connection
Is expressed for the shown
Will I think I'm gonna have to just sit this one out?

There was a time
That we could sit and talk about things together
No, we didn't shut about things, at all
But let the love we play
To say what we have to say
But there are nothing to do now
And I don't have a clue (...) at all

Love sometimes
Takes the form of frustration
It's a sad combination
Of emptiness and down
But a only human connection
Is expressed for the shown
Will I think I'm gonna have to sit this one out?
Well, I know you understand what we've talked about

Love sometimes
Takes on a form of frustration
A sad combination
Of emptiness and down
But a only human connection
Is expressed for the shown, hey!
Cut down and run
I think I'm gonna have to sit down and sit this one out?
Let me say it again:
I think I'm gonna have to just sit this one out

Can I borrow it all at all?
I don't even have a clue
Sometimes what I feel like I'm going to fall
Sometime I just hold on, don't let go
Don't give up of everything that you work for, so hold on
Don't destroy your self in a second
With anger
Hold on. A chain will go

I just wanna say:
I think I'm gonna have to sit and work this one out

When your baby leaves you all alone
And nobody calls you on the phone
Ah, don't you feel like crying?
Don't you feel like crying?
Well here I am my honey
Oh, come on you cry to me.

When you're all alone in your lonely room
And there's nothing but the smell of her perfume
Ah don't you feel like crying
Don't you feel like crying?
Ah don't you feel like crying?
Come on, come on cry to me.

Well nothing could be sadder
Than a glass of wine, all alone
Loneliness, loneliness, it's such a waste of time
Oh-oh yeah

You don't ever have to walk alone, oh you see
Oh come on, take my hand and baby won't you walk with me?
Oh ya

When you're waiting for a voice to come
In the night and there is no one
Ah don't you feel like crying? (cry to me)
Don't you feel like crying? (cry to me)
Ah don't you feel like a-ca-ca-cra-co-cra-co-cra-cra, (cry to me)
Cra-co-cra-co-cra-cra crying? (cry to me)
Ah don't you feel like a-cra-co-cra-co-cra-cra,
Cra-co-cra-co-cra-cra crying?...

Down in the valley, the valley so low,
Late in the evenin', hear the train blow.
Hear the train blow, dear, hear the train blow,
Late in the evenin', hear the train blow.

The train won't stay, love, it goes right through.
It will be gone, love, and so will you!
Know I love you, dear, know I love you,
Angels in heaven know I love you!

The train is gone, love, and out of sight;
Goodnight my darlin', darlin' goodnight!

Goodnight my darlin', darlin' goodnight!

Hello!
Well, I bet you're surprised to hear me
I'm so glad you picked up the phone
I guess I owed you an apology
But I've been taking some time alone

I need so badly to believe
You missed me and I miss you
There's so much mystery
But I'm lonely, and a-feelin' true

I need some love in my life
(Need some love in my life)
I need some love in my life
(Need some love in my life)

Now the difference between lovin' another
Is one thing I understand
Now that I see one from another
I know I can be your man

You need so bad to believe
That my heart would be forever true
Now I'm standing right here, standing right here
Standing right in front of you

Now, I need some love in my life
(I need some love in my life)
I need some love in my life
(I need some love in my life)
You need some love in your life
(You need some love in your life)
Baby, I need your love in my life
(Need some love in my life)

I missed your midnight invitations
I need you soul, soul confirmation
I need it so badly, oh so much
Baby, I miss your tender touch

You need so bad to believe
That my heart would forever be true
Now I'm standing right here
(Standing right here)
And I'm reaching out to you

Let me tell ya
I need your love in my life
(Need some love in my life)
Need real love in my life, Baby
(Need some love in my life)

I know it, I need it
I know it
Let it rock ya
(Need some love in my life)
Ooh, Lord, let it roll ya
(Need some love in my life)
Take it slow, Baby, console ya
(Need some love in my life)
Let the flow control ya
(Need some love in my life)
I need, I need some love in my life
Your good hot sweet love in my life, Baby
Come get it, Baby, I love ya
(Need some love in my life)
I got it, you need it
(Need some love in my life)
I give it to you
Got, got, got
(Some love in my life)
Got to have some love in my life
(Love in my life)

I'm here to give it to ya
I wanna give it to you
I wanna give it, give it, give it, give it to you
All you need
What you want, you gotta have it
Squeeze ya, tease ya, need ya

Love, love, love, love
That's it
There it is, Baby

The steady red light on my answering machine
Means you haven't called
You haven't cared to call
No you haven't called

And yesterday night I waited up till three
But you didn't come
You didn't care to come
No you didn't come

And I know you don't care for me
And I know that you ain't true
But I can't understand why I'm still with you

The steady red light on my answering machine
Means you no longer care
You just don't care to care
You no longer care

And if yesterday night you would have cared to come
I still would have felt alone
Though you'd been lying next to me
I still would have felt alone

'Cause I know that you don't love me
Yeah, I know you don't care for me
Still I can't understand why I'm still with you

I know you don't care for me
And don't ever think that you can fool me
Any day now I will leave you

Well, I'm standin' at the crossroads
And I'm waitin' on my train
Well, and I'm wonderin' if you are my woman
And am I your man, I wanna be your man

Well, I've been travelin', I'm a soul searcher
So you know I know just where I'm comin' from
Well, I'm tired, I'm tired, tired of runnin' around in circles
But then I wanna come home, I wanna come back home

Mystic nights, oh, surround me
In the darkness, in the darkness of my soul
Well, I see the light come shinnin', shinin' through
The mystic hall, the mystic hall

There's mud on my shoes and there's mud on my trousers
And my money I spent or gave it away
But I don't care, just as long as you see me and you love me
As I am today, as I am today

Here I am at the crossroads
Crossroads of my life

Yeah, babe

Mystic nights, oh, surround me
In the darkness, darkness of my soul
Well, I see my light, I see my light
Come shinin' through the fog, the late liftin' fog, y'all

Now there's mud on my shoes and there's mud on my trousers
My money I spent or gave it away, yeah
I don't really care, just as long as you see me, darlin', um
As I am today, see me as I am today

I'm standin' at the crossroads
And I'm waitin' on the midnight train
And I'm wonderin' deep down
Inside of my heart and my soul, baby
If you are my woman and if I'm your man

Lord, I'm wonderin', I'm wonderin'
I hope I'm not too late

At the crossroads

I've never been in love before not like this you taught me more
Hung out by myself well I lived upon a shelf and cried
'Cause I thought I could not give my pride would not let me live
All my feelings disappeared

You are the lovely reason I am alive you satisfy
All my senses and you give me the confidence to grow
In a thousand different ways happy just to spend the days
Of my lifetime by your side

I want to be everything that I can
I want so much to be more of a man

I want to grow
I want to know you better
Each day I'll try to love you
'Cause I've never been in love before

You have a friend for life in me if we ever disagree
And you have to go away I will set you free with joy
'Cause your happiness is mine may our light forever shine
May you always feel free

I want to be everything that I can
I want so much to be more of a man

I want to live
I want to give my lifetime
Each day I'll try to love you
'Cause I've never been in love before

Got to get you off of my mind
I know it's just a matter of time
You've found somebody new
And our romance is through
Yes it is

Gonna throw your picture away
You didn't want my love, any old way
You've found somebody new
And our romance is through
Yes it is

Some folks love is hard and strong
That's the kind of love that lingers on
Some folks love is swift and fast
That's the kind of love that'll never last

We had a love that was in between
And to me it was like a dream
If we had stayed together till June
Not a problem, bride and groom

That's why
Got to get you off of my mind
I know it's just a matter of time
You've found somebody new
And our romance is through
Listen to me

Got to get you off of my mind
I know it's just a matter of time
Got to get you off of my mind
I know it's just a matter of time

If You Need Me
Solomon Burke
Written by Wilson Pickett, Robert Bateman and Sonny Sanders
Peaked at # 37 in 1963
Also performed by Wilson Pickett as a minor Top 100 single the following month.
If you need me, I wantcha to call me
Said if you need me, all ya gotta do is call me
Don't wait too lo-o-ong if things go wrong
I-I-I'll be home, whoa-oh-oh, home
If you want me, send for me
I said if you want me, want, all ya gotta do is send for me
Don't wait too lo-o-ong, just-a pick up your phone
And I-I-I'll (hurry home where I belong)
People always said, darlin', that I didn't mean you no good. And you
would need me someday. Way deep down in my heart I know I've done the best I
could. That's why I know that one of these days, it won't be long, you'll come
walkin' through that same door (I'll hurry home). And I can imagine in my mind
that these are the words that you'll be sayin'.
I still love you, always thinkin' of you
And I still love, love, always thinkin' of you
Don't wait too lo-o-ong, just-a pick up your phone
And I-I-I'll hurry home (I'll hurry home)
Right there, where I belong

A love that runs away from me
Dreams that just won't let me be
Blues that keeps on bothering me
Chains that just won't set me free
So far away from you and all your charm
Just out of reach of my two empty arms

Each night in dreams I see your face
Memories and time cannot erase
Then I awake and find you're gone
Then I'm so blue and all alone
So far away from you so sweet and warm
Just out of reach of my two empty arms

That lonesome feeling all the time
Knowing you could not be mine
Dreams that hurt me in my sleep
Vows that we could never keep

So far away from you and all your charm
Just out of reach of my two empty arms, empty arms

When your baby leaves you all alone
And nobody calls you on the phone
Ah, don't you feel like crying?
Don't you feel like crying?
Well here I am my honey
Oh, come on you cry to me.

When you're all alone in your lonely room
And there's nothing but the smell of her perfume
Ah don't you feel like crying
Don't you feel like crying?
Ah don't you feel like crying?
Come on, come on cry to me.

Well nothing could be sadder
Than a glass of wine, all alone
Loneliness, loneliness, it's such a waste of time
Oh-oh yeah

You don't ever have to walk alone, oh you see
Oh come on, take my hand and baby won't you walk with me?
Oh ya

When you're waiting for a voice to come
In the night and there is no one
Ah don't you feel like crying? (cry to me)
Don't you feel like crying? (cry to me)
Ah don't you feel like a-ca-ca-cra-co-cra-co-cra-cra, (cry to me)
Cra-co-cra-co-cra-cra crying? (cry to me)
Ah don't you feel like a-cra-co-cra-co-cra-cra,
Cra-co-cra-co-cra-cra crying?...

Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

You're a bad little girl, it's true
But I'm not gonna walk out on you
They say you're a good for nothing, girl
But I'll stand up and tell the world

You're good for me, oh yes, you are
You're good for me
Oh, like a honey is good for the bee
You're good for me

You do two wrongs for every right
You put salt in my coffee just for a spite
You're no good for yourself
You're no good for nobody else

But you're good for me
Oh, you're good for me
Oh, sugar dumpling, can't you see
You're good for me

Let me tell you 'bout it

Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, whoa, oh, oh, ooh

I was down on my sickbed
It was the end for me everyone said
Doctor Jones did all he could
Only your love did me some good

You're good for me oh, yes, you are
You're good for me
Like the sugar is good for the tea
You're good for me

That's all I'm living for
'Cause you're good

Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, whoa, oh, oh, ooh
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, whoa, oh, oh, ooh

Yeah, yeah, yeah

the more i touch you
the rmore i want your warm caress
the more i see you
is more days i have of happiness
the more i kiss you
the more i thrill inside
and i want more and more and more of you
the more i hear your voice
the more loving that it sounds
the more i'm with you
the more i want to be around
the more that you hold me
the more secure that i feel
and i know more and more this love of ours is really real
we don't have to say we'll climb the highest mountain
we don't have to say we'll swim the deepest sea
cuz with a love like ours that's really real, really real
we don't have to lie about impossibilities
the more of the many pleasures darling that we share give me more happy memories
in the hours you cannot be here
the more i think of you
the more i don't want to forget
and the more we we see each other
the more we're like lovers that just met

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Written By WILLIAMS, YVONNE / WHITEHEAD, CHARLES / WILLIAMS JR., JERRY
<i>Lyrics &copy; EMI Music Publishing, BUG MUSIC</i>

Got to get you off of my mind
I know it's just a matter of time
You've found somebody new
And our romance is through
Yes it is

Gonna throw your picture away
You didn't want my love, any old way
You've found somebody new
And our romance is through
Yes it is

Some folks love is hard and strong
That's the kind of love that lingers on
Some folks love is swift and fast
That's the kind of love that'll never last

We had a love that was in between
And to me it was like a dream
If we had stayed together till June
Not a problem, bride and groom

That's why
Got to get you off of my mind
I know it's just a matter of time
You've found somebody new
And our romance is through
Listen to me

Got to get you off of my mind
I know it's just a matter of time
Got to get you off of my mind
I know it's just a matter of time

When your baby leaves you all alone
And nobody calls you on the phone
Ah, don't you feel like crying?
Don't you feel like crying?
Well here I am my honey
Oh, come on you cry to me.

When you're all alone in your lonely room
And there's nothing but the smell of her perfume
Ah don't you feel like crying
Don't you feel like crying?
Ah don't you feel like crying?
Come on, come on cry to me.

Well nothing could be sadder
Than a glass of wine, all alone
Loneliness, loneliness, it's such a waste of time
Oh-oh yeah

You don't ever have to walk alone, oh you see
Oh come on, take my hand and baby won't you walk with me?
Oh ya

When you're waiting for a voice to come
In the night and there is no one
Ah don't you feel like crying? (cry to me)
Don't you feel like crying? (cry to me)
Ah don't you feel like a-ca-ca-cra-co-cra-co-cra-cra, (cry to me)
Cra-co-cra-co-cra-cra crying? (cry to me)
Ah don't you feel like a-cra-co-cra-co-cra-cra,
Cra-co-cra-co-cra-cra crying?...

When your baby leaves you all alone
And nobody calls you on the phone
Ah, don't you feel like crying?
Don't you feel like crying?
Well here I am my honey
Oh, come on you cry to me.

When you're all alone in your lonely room
And there's nothing but the smell of her perfume
Ah don't you feel like crying
Don't you feel like crying?
Ah don't you feel like crying?
Come on, come on cry to me.

Well nothing could be sadder
Than a glass of wine, all alone
Loneliness, loneliness, it's such a waste of time
Oh-oh yeah

You don't ever have to walk alone, oh you see
Oh come on, take my hand and baby won't you walk with me?
Oh ya

When you're waiting for a voice to come
In the night and there is no one
Ah don't you feel like crying? (cry to me)
Don't you feel like crying? (cry to me)
Ah don't you feel like a-ca-ca-cra-co-cra-co-cra-cra, (cry to me)
Cra-co-cra-co-cra-cra crying? (cry to me)
Ah don't you feel like a-cra-co-cra-co-cra-cra,
Cra-co-cra-co-cra-cra crying?...