(Roy Turk — Lou Handman)
Are you lonesome tonight, do you miss me tonight
Are you sorry we drifted apart?
Does your memory stray to a bright summer day
When you kissed me and called me sweetheart.
Does the room where we once loved seem empty and bare
Do you gaze at your pillow and picture me there
Is your heart filled with pain, could I come back again
Tell me dear are you lonesome tonight?
I wonder if you’re lonesome tonight
You know someone said the world’s a stage
And everyone must play a part
Fate had me playing, In Love with you as my sweetheart.
Act one was where we met
You read your lines so well and never missed a cue
Then act two you seemed to change
You acted strange and why I never knew.
Honey, you lied when you said you loved me
And I had no cause to doubt you
And I’d rather go on hearing your lies
Than to go on living without you.
So the stage is bare and I’m standing there
With emptiness all around
And if you won’t come back to me
Then they can ring the curtains down.
Is your heart filled with pain
Shall I come back again?
Tell me dear
Are you lonesome tonight?…