Brook Benton - The Very Best Of... [compilation] (2008) by Brook Benton (보컬) on maniadb.com

Hoverin' by my suitcase
Tryin' to find a warm place
To spend the night
Heavy rain fallin'
Seems I hear your voice callin'
It's all right

A rainy night in Georgia
A rainy night in Georgia
It seems like it's rainin' all over the world
I feel like it's rainin' all over the world

Neon signs a-flashin'
Taxicabs and buses
Passin' through the night
A distant moanin' of a train
Seems to play a sad refrain
To the night

A rainy night in Georgia
Such a rainy night in Georgia
Lord, I believe it's rainin' all over the world
I feel like it's rainin' all over the world

How many times I wondered
It still comes out the same
No matter how you look at it or think of it
It's life, and you just got to play the game

I find me a place in a boxcar
So I take my guitar
To pass some time
Late at night when it's hard to rest
I hold your picture to my chest
And I feel fine, I

But it's a rainy night in Georgia
Baby, it's a rainy night in Georgia
I feel it's rainin' all over the world
Kind of lonely now
And it's rainin' all over the world
Oh, have you ever been lonely, people?
And you feel that it was rainin' all over this man's world
You're talking 'bout
A-rainin', rainin', rainin', rainin', rainin', rainin'
Rainin', rainin', rainin', rainin', rainin'
A-rainin', a-rainin', rainin' over the world
I said now, rainin', rainin', rainin', rainin', rainin', rainin'

Think twice before you answer
Think twice before you say yes
I'm asking you if you love me true
'Cause it means my happiness
Take your time think it's over
Think twice and let me know
If you don't feel that your love is real
Tell me although you'll hurt me so

Funny how a word can mean everything
That's why I want you talk to me
To hear you say my name I'd do anything
Only you can decide
What my future will be

Think twice before you answer
Think twice whatever you do
A love as strong as mine
Can stand the test of time
Think twice of the one
Who love you so

I told you, baby, how I feel
One word can close this deal
Baby, be my queen of hearts
Please gimme that love you've got
a-won'tcha say yes?, don'tcha say no
Make me feel good, kiddio

Maybe I'm just wastin' time
Can't get you off my mind
You could make me feel so good
I know you could if you only would
a-won'tcha say yes?, don'tcha say no
Make me feel good, kiddio

I wrote you a six-page letter
I called you on the phone
But you started talkin' 'bout the weather
Kiddio, don'tcha know that's wrong?

I can't stand this playin' 'round
Help me up, don't let me down
Kiss me baby, tell me so
If you love me, let me know
a-won'tcha say yes? don'tcha say no
Make me feel good, kiddio

I wrote you a six-page letter
I even called you on the phone
But you started talkin' 'bout the weather
Kiddio, don'tcha know that's wrong?

I can't stand this playin' 'round
Help me up, don't let me down
a-kiss me baby, tell me so
If you love me, let me know
a-won'tcha say yes?, don'tcha say no
Make me feel good, kiddio

Make me feel so-uh-oh oh good , so, so good, kiddio

Dear Mr. Editor, wontcha please
Print my story in your magazine?
Warn all the lovers how a cheating heart
Can only end up in misery

I was a lyin', cheating fool
Treated her so cruel
Broke her heart and made her cry
Broke every rule and that's my

(True confession) she can read the story
(Read it in your magazine) that's my true confession
(True confession) and I'm sorry
(Sorry that I treated her so mean, oh oh, sorry that I treated her mean)

I would call her up and apologize
If I was half the man I should be
But I'm afraid it's too late for that
Cause I know she wouldn't listen to me

I was a lyin', cheating fool
Treated her so cruel
Broke her heart and made her cry
Broke every rule and that's my

True confession, she can read the story
(Read it in your magazine) a-that's my true confession
(True confession) let her know that I'm
(Sorry that I treated her so mean, oh oh, sorry that I treated her mean)

I know her love was true
But I made her cry time after time
Until one day she couldn't take it no more
She said goodbye to me and walked straight out the door, so

Please Mr. Editor, ask her for me
To take me back and give me a try
And I'll be true, oh, so true
And I'll love her till the day I die

And that's my
(True confession), she buys your magazine
(Read it in your magazine) print the story, it's my
(True confession)

And I'm sorry

Hotel Happiness

- Artist: Brook Benton as sung on "The Satin Sound Brook Benton"
- Suffolk Marketing-SMI 2
- peak Billboard position # 3 in 1963
- Words and Music by Earl Shuman and Leon Carr


I'm checking out of Hotel Loneliness
All my lonely days, they're all through
I'm checking into Hotel Happiness (oh, yeah)
Because, darlin', I found you

I left my teardrops in that old lonely room
Left my broken heart (my heart) back there, too
(Yeah, yeah , yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
I won't be needin' them in Hotel Happiness (oh, yeah)
'cause, darling, I found you

I woke up (woke up) dreamin' of your crazy kisses (kisses) (crazy)
I woke up (woke up) tellin' Mr. Misery "Here's your key" 'cause

I'm checking out of Hotel Loneliness
And no, I won't be back, yes it's true
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Gonna make my new address at Hotel Happiness (oh, yeah)
You know why, darlin', so glad I found you

No more, make my new address at Hotel Happiness
'cause, darlin', I found you


Transcribed by Robin Hood

These lyrics were transcribed from the specific recording mentioned above
and do not necessarily correspond with lyrics from other recordings, sheet
music, songbooks or lyrics printed on album jackets.

Your lips on mine are soft as dew
Your kiss is so divine
Your eyes are like the skies of blue
And stars that brightly shine

Your voice is sweet like violins
And warm like summer days
I love you, I love you, I love you
In oh, oh, so many, many ways

Your touch is like a breath of spring
You give life to my soul
To me, sweetheart, you're everything
I ever hoped to hold

A smile from you lights up my heart
And brightens all my days
And I just love you, I love you, I love you
In oh, oh, so many, many ways

If words could say how much I care
My dear, you'd be amazed
That I love you, I love you, I love you
In oh, oh so many so many ways

You keep looking at me while you dance in another's arms
And you pretend to be so enchanted with all his charms
Revenge, revenge, is that all you want?
Well, you've had your revenge; now come back to my arms

You keep telling your friends only heartaches I gave to you
And you hope in the end that my heart will be crying, too
Revenge, revenge, is that all you want?
Well, you've had your revenge; now come back to my arms

Maybe you want me to get down on my knees to you
Well, I'll do it gladly, darling, if that's what pleases you

Ya got to tell me now; you'll get all of a brand-new start
For you've had your delight with just tearing my heart apart
Revenge, revenge, is that all you want?
Well, you've had your revenge; now come on back to my arms

Revenge, revenge, is that all you want?
Well, you've had your revenge; now come back to my arms

I wait in revenge, revenge
Now is that all you want?
Now you've had your revenge; now come back to my arms

Revenge, that's all you want
Well, you've had your revenge
Come on to my arms

Let me tell ya a story about a boll weevil
Now, some of you may not know
But a boll weevil is an insect
And he's found mostly where cotton grows
Now, where he comes from, hm, nobody really knows
But this is the way the story goes

The farmer said to the boll weevil
"I see you're on the square"
Boll weevil said to the farmer
"Say yep, my whole darn family's here"

The farmer said to the boll weevil
"Say, why do you pick my farm"
The weevil just laughed at the farmer 'n' said
"We ain't gonna do ya much harm"
Ho-o-o-o-o,-o-o-o, -o-o-o, o-o-ome"

And the boll weevil spotted a lightning bug.
He said "Hey, I'd like to make a trade with you
But, ya see if I was a lightning bug
I'd search the whole night through"

And the boll weevil called the farmer, 'n' he said
"Ya better sell your old machines
'Cause when I'm through with your cotton
Heh, you can't even buy gasoline
"Stake me a home, gotta have a home

And the boll weevil said to the farmer, said " Farmer
I'd like to wish you well"
Farmer said to the boll weevil
"Yeah, an' I wish that you were in ****" home
Lookin' for a home
(Ahh, you have a home all right, you have a home
A real hot home, ahhh)

I want to thank you, pretty baby, for givin' your love to me
I want to thank you, pretty baby, for givin' your love to me
My heart was locked up till you came and set it free

I'm gonna love you, pretty baby, love you till the end of time
And I-I-I-I-I'm gonna love you, pretty baby, love you till the end of time
I wanna thank your folks for making you so divine

Thank you for your loving ways
Mmm-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh thank you 'cause you've been so kind
I'm gonna take my time and just thank you, honey
Because you're mine, all mine, all mine

I'm gonna kiss you in the morning and kiss you in the evening, too
And I-I-I-I-I'm gonna kiss you in the morning, kiss you in the evening, too
I'm gonna spend my life loving no one but you
I'm gonna spend my life loving no one but you

So close as we dance across the floor
So close to the one that I adore
So close in your arms, yet so far from your heart

So close to the lips I long to kiss
So close, tell me why do you resist?
So close in your arms yet so far from your heart

We're so close to the real sensation
But so far it's only been conversation
Now, if you love me let it show
But I, I've gotta know, I just got to know
Because I'm

Too close to the chance I'd love to take
Too close to the vows I'd love to make
Too close in your arms to be so far from your heart
So close

When I go to all the places we used to go
When I see all the people we used to know
They ask me why I look so sad, I have to say
I got what I wanted but I lost what I had

Without your love I'm such a lonely man, that's what I am
And there's no one but myself to take the blame
Because I once had your love and I treated you so bad
I got what I wanted but I lost what I had

Since you've gone, the bright lights are dim
The people don't seem the same
They're so used to seeing us together
Oh, but my, how things have changed

I went searching, not knowing what I'd find
I looked for something and I had it all the time
Now to think I've treated you so bad, makes me sad
I got what I wanted but I lost [Incomprehensible] I had
I got what I wanted but I lost what I had

I know I'm losing you, I feel it all the time
And I know if I lose you, then I'll lose my mind
So lie to me, lie to me, make me believe everything you say
Just, lie, lie, lie, lie, I'd rather have it that way

Nobody told me you were cheating
Aw it's just a feeling I had
So if I'm right, you got to lie to me
Then I won't feel so bad

Because the truth would only hurt me
And that price is too big to pay
So lie to me, lie to me, I'd rather have it that way

Now you may think I'm foolish for saying what I said
But the truth could mean I'd lose you
So tell me a little lie instead

Tell me that you love me and I'll believe every word you say
Even if you lie, lie, lie, lie, I'd rather have it that way

When you see me smile
I'm smilin' for my baby
When you hear me sigh
I'm sighin' for my baby
When I step out as sharp as a tack
The girls whistle but I never whistle back
'Cause everything I do
I do it for my baby

And every time I dream
I dream about my baby
And every time I scheme
I'm schemin' for my baby
I know my baby, she's never hard to find
Because she's always on my mind
And everything I do
So help me, I do it for my baby

My baby, she's somethin' else
Let me tell you, she's fine
I'm glad I belong to her
And she's mine all mine

Everything I make
I make it for my baby
And every dime I take
Oh I just take 'em for my baby
Now when you see us strollin' down the avenue
You just keep your eyes off you know who
Cause everything I do, you know I do it for my baby
When you see me walking alone
I'm tryin' to make it to my baby
When you hear me singin' a song
I'm just singin' for my baby

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Written By BENTON, BROOK / OTIS, CLYDE LOVERN
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Some day, some way
You'll realize that you've been blind
Yes, darling, you're going to need me again
It's just a matter of time
Go on, go on
Until you reach the end of the line
But I know you'll pass my way again
It's just a matter of time

After I gave you everything I had
You laughed and called me a clown
Remember, in your search for fortune and fame
What goes up must come down

I know, I know
That one day, you'll wake up and find
That my love was a true love
It's just a matter of time