I'm gonna ride on It's another lonely evening And another lonely town But I ain't too young to worry And I ain't too old to cry When a woman gets me down Got another empty bottle And another empty bed

Ah, I'll get even with you I'll get you back somehow Ah, that's what I'm gonna do Gonna get even with you I'm lonely and abandoned Washed up, left for dead I'm lost inside the desert Of every word you said Like a nuclear reactor

You really ought to think about it 'Fore you leave me Before you walk out that door Hang your clothes in the closet You're forgetting one thing I'm the one who saved you From a long lonely life I'm the one who gave you

It never entered my mind Once you warned me that if you scorned me I'd say a lonely prayer again And wish that you were there again To get into my hair again Once I laughed when I heard you saying That I'd be playing solitaire Uneasy in my easy chair And

Dee do de de, dee do de de I don't have no time for no monkey business I get so lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, yeah Got to be some good times ahead Di, di, di, di, di, di, di Be-dop, be-dop, be-dop, be-dop Dee do dee do day Dee do dee do dee do dee do

Are you lonely for me, baby? Are you lonely for me baby? And I'm lonely for you Oh, it's our last train, baby, to Jacksonville I'm gonna get on it, baby, you know I will Will you try? Go ahead and try To forget all the pain I brought you Go on and try,

I gotta trust my lonely Don't you know that you're bad for me? Don't you know you're no good for me? Go get your praise from someone else And I can do better, do better You and I were swayin' on the ropes I'm a-okay, I'm good as gold And I can do better,

It's gonna be a lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely night, bye-bye Lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely Lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely night Get ya, get ya, get ya shit together Must be confused about me (what?) If you don't treat ya mama right, bye-bye,

Keep me in mind (Keep me in mind) Somewhere down the road you might get lonely And I pray someday that you will love me only Well the world can be real tough This is gonna be funky How come all the pretty girls like you are taken baby I've been looking

Layla, you've got me on my knees Layla, I'm begging, darling please Layla, darling won't you ease my worried mind What'll you do when you get lonely And nobody's waiting by your side? You've been running and hiding much too long You know it's just your