Just follow the stairway to this lonely world of mine
You'll find me waitin' here in Apartment No 9

Not so very long ago you walked away from me
And after all the plans we made you decided to be free

Loneliness surrounds me without your arms around me
And the sun will nev

A bright array of city lights as far as I can see
The great white way shines through the night for lonely guys like me
The cabaretes and honky tonks their flashing signs invite
A broken heart to lose itself in the glow of city lights

Lights that say forget her name in a glass o

Yes you're known by the company you keep

You say you're doing nothing wrong and I don't believe you are
I'm only trying to help you sis before you go too far
In my eyes you're an angel but folks think that you're cheap
Cause you're known by the company you keep

Please lis

Taking me for granted was your first mistake
And that was the beginning of my last heartache
And then you added insult to my injuries
When you started treatin' me just as you please

Count me out of future plans you might be making
No more foolish chances am I taking
You

Everything turns out for the best they tell me
But is it best because I'm losing you
Everybody says I'll soon forget the reason
I loved you and to you I was so true

But when you've lost the one you love nothing seems right
You can't even sleep at night
Everything turns

Yes I keep falling back to you what else can I do
I keep falling back to you I can't forget the past we knew

So many times I've had you on my mind
It seems I just can't leave the past behind
I know you've been untrue dear but oh what can I do
For everytime the sun goes down

That's what you get for loving me
That's what you get for loving me
Everything we had is gone if you can see
That's what you get for loving me

Don't you shed a tear for me
I ain't the love you thought I'd be
I've had a hundred just like you but don't be blue
I'll ha

Friends tell friends and pretty soon everybody knows

It was only yesterday that you said goodbye
But today everybody knows as well as I
Bad news spreads like wild fire and that's what I've been told
Friends tell friends and pretty soon everybody knows

Friends tell friends

See the tree how big it's grown but friend it hadn't been too long it wasn't big
I laughed at her and she got mad the first day that she planted it was just a twig
Then the first snow came and she ran out to brush the snow away so it wouldn't die
Came running in all excited slipped a

I can stand it as long as she can
Cause I just don't need her anymore

She's got it in her mind her leavin's hurt me
That I sit and cry while she paints the town
All this time she's thinking that I need her
When really it's the other way around

I can stand it as long a

I go on about my business every day
As if nothing ever happened between us
I keep telling everyone that I don't think of you
But I lie to them and to myself too much

I didn't forget all the kisses that we shared
I didn't forget the way you ran your fingers through my hair

But somehow i can't forget you
Your mem'ry keeps haunting me
I told everybody you love me
I guess you made a fool out of me

For you left me early one morning
Leaving me all by myself
I gave you all my affection
But you took your love to somebody else

So i cry

Yes I learn something new every day

There are rumors that you're seeing him again
I'd like to hear it from you if I may
Until now I know very little
But I learn something new every day

No one comes right out and tells me
I just hear things in a round about way
Yes

They're not teardrops just sincere drops
They're I love you drops cause I love you

They were on my pillow when I woke up this morning
They were on the letter I tried all day to write
And just a little while ago I saw them falling
On your picture as I kissed it goodnight

I only regret I have but one heart for you to break

The love we shared for just a while is worth of pain
I now feel your love for me grew weak and die but mine's too strong to kill
I knew someday that I might lose you but that's a chance I had to take
I only regret I have but o

Yes I talked about you too before I fell in love with you

Around town you're the one everybody talks about
Yes I talked about you too before I fell for you
What things you did you meant no harm you needed love by everyone
I saw you condemn then you that they were wrong

Fo

I'd be better off without you but you'd better never go

You just throw your love away to everyone it seems
I wonder why I hang around and live on hopeless dreams
I share the love you give to me that's all I ever know
I'd be better off without you but you'd better never go

I'm living in two worlds dividing my time
Unhappy in your world and lonesome in mine

When I'm in your world I just pretend
That I'm really happy though I don't fit in
Then I drift in my world so cold and alone
I'm living in two worlds where do I belong

I'm living in t

I'm thankful for the times I hold you tight
So grateful for a love that's going bright
Thankful just to have someone like you
And thankful for each time you say you love me too

Those little things you do to prove you care
And when I'm feeling blue you're always there
St

Put it off until tomorrow oh oh you've hurt me enough today

You say our love is over that you have found another
You say you're going away
But leave me tomorrow oh oh you've hurt me enough today

You've hurt me enough today I can't believe the words you say
I must accept t