Album: Out Of Our Heads (1965)

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• 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.

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