Album: Out Of Our Heads (1965)

License This Song 

• When your baby leaves you all alone
  And nobody calls you on the phone
  Don't ya feel like cryin'?
  Don't ya feel like cryin', like cryin' like cryin'?
  Come on baby, come on, cry to me
  
  When you're all alone in your lonely room
  And there's nothin' but the smell of her perfume
  Don't ya feel like cryin'?
  Don't ya feel like cryin', like cryin' like cryin'?
  Come on baby, come on, cry to me
  
  Nothin' could be sadder than a glass of wine alone
  Loneliness, loneliness, it's just a waste of your time
  But you don't ever, you don't ever have to walk alone
  You see, so come on take my hand
  Honey and walk with me
  
  When you're waitin' for a voice to come
  In the night and there's no one
  Don't ya feel like cryin'?
  Don't ya feel like cryin', like cryin' like cryin'?
  Come on baby, come on, cry to me
  
  Come on baby, I want you to cry to me
  Yes, I want you to come on, little darlin'
  Come on, come on and cry to me
  Yeah, come on baby, come on, come on and cry to me
  Yeah, I want you to cry, cry, cry, cry (ooh)
  Yeah I want you to cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry (ooh)
  Ooh, come on, baby, come on, I want you to share those tears with me, yes I do
  Yeah, come on little baby, come on, come on and cry to me, oh yes, oh yes Writer/s: Bert Russell
  Publisher: Downtown Music Publishing, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 4

• AnonymousI don't understand a bit of the lyrics? The song is sung to a lonely woman left alone asking her to "cry to me" if you feel like crying. The phrase" when you are all alone in your lonely room with nothing but the smell of her perfume" makes me think of a man in a room alone after the woman has gone?
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn March 20, 1962, Solomon Burke performed "Cry to Me" on the Dick Clark ABC-TV weekday-afternoon program, 'American Bandstand'...
  At the time the song was at #47 on Billboard's Top 100 chart, the week before it had peaked at #44 and it spent ten weeks on the Top 100...
  It reached #5 on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart...
  Between 1961 and 1978 the Philadelphia native had thirty-one records on the Hot R&B Singles chart, nine made the Top 10 with one* reaching #1, "Got To Get You Off My Mind", for three non-consecutive weeks on March 28th, 1965...
  Mr. Burke, born James Solomon McDonald, passed away at the age of 70 on October 10th, 2010...
  May he R.I.P.
  * He just missed having two more #1 records when both "If You Need Me" {1963} and "Tonight's The Night" {1965} peaked at #2.
• Demian from Buenos Aires, ArgentinaEs la mejor cancion del album out of our head, uno de los mejoresdiscos de los stones junto con exile on main street, sticky fingers, let it bleed y beggars banquet. excelente!!!!
• Roger from Stockholm, SwedenMick Jagger once said that The Pretties' version is the way The Stones always wanted to play it.

More Songfacts:

Eternal FlameBangles

The Bangles song "Eternal Flame" was inspired by a display at Graceland that honored Elvis Presley.

StayLisa Loeb

"Stay" by Lisa Loeb was the first #1 hit by an unsigned artist. It got a boost from Ethan Hawke, who got it into a movie he starred in called Reality Bites.

I Walk The LineJohnny Cash

In "I Walk The Line," Johnny Cash hums before each verse. He did this to get his pitch, as the song changes key several times.

Livin' La Vida LocaRicky Martin

"Livin' La Vida Loca" is a Latin pop landmark, but "la vida loca" are the only Spanish words in the lyric - "mocha" is English.

MachineheadBush

An Allen Ginsberg line from his poem Howl inspired "Machinehead" by Bush: "Machine says I saw the best minds of my generation."

Money For NothingDire Straits

Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler got the idea for "Money For Nothing" after overhearing delivery men in a New York department store complain about their jobs while watching MTV.

Editor's Picks

Songs in Famous Movie Scenes: Tarantino EditionMusic Quiz

Whether he's splitting ears or burning Nazis, Quentin Tarantino uses memorable music in his films. See if you can match the song to the scene.

Jimmy JamSongwriter Interviews

The powerhouse producer behind Janet Jackson's hits talks about his Boyz II Men ballads and regrouping The Time.

Song CitiesMusic Quiz

Nirvana, Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen are among those who wrote songs with cities that show up in this quiz.

"Private Eyes" - The Story Behind the SongSong Writing

How a goofy detective movie, a disenchanted director and an unlikely songwriter led to one of the biggest hits in pop history.

Guy ClarkSongwriter Interviews

Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris and Lyle Lovett are just a few of the artists who have looked to Clark for insightful, intelligent songs.

Steely DanFact or Fiction

Did they really trade their guitarist to The Doobie Brothers? Are they named after something naughty? And what's up with the band name?