"7 Rooms Of Gloom"
(Holland - Dozier - Holland)
Intro/Chorus 1:
I see a house, a house of stone
(Seven rooms)
A lonely house 'cause now you've gone
(Filled with gloom)
Seven rooms, that's all it is, seven rooms of gloom
(Just seven rooms of gloom)
I live with emptiness
(Filled with emptiness)
Without your tenderness
Verse 1:
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You took the dream I had for us
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Turned my dreams into dust
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I watch the phone never rings
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I watch the door that never rings
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Bring you back into my life
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Turn this darkness into light
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I'm all alone in this house
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Turn this house into a home
Cb6 /
I need your touch to comfort me
Cb6 /
The tender, tender arms that once held me
Chorus 2:
Without your love, your love inside
This house is just a place to run and hide
Seven rooms, that's all it is - seven rooms of gloom
Rooms of emptiness
Without your tenderness
Verse 2:
Don't make me live from day to day
Watching the clock that ticks away
Another day, another way
Another reason for me to stay
I need you here, here with me
I need your loving desperately
I'm all alone, all alone
In this house that's not a home
I miss your love I once had known
I miss your kiss that was my very, very own
Chorus 3:
Empty silence surrounding me
Lonely walls they stare at me
Seven rooms, that's all it is - rooms of gloom
I live with emptiness
Without your tenderness
Verse 3:
All the windows are painted black
And wait right here until you come back
I'll keep waiting, waiting
Until your face again I see
[continue w/unintelligible backing vocals to fade]
-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers