Heartbreak Hotel

Album: My Love Is Your Love (1998)
Charted: 25 2
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  • This is the heartbreak hotel
    This is the heartbreak hotel
    This is the heartbreak hotel
    This is the heartbreak hotel
    This is the heartbreak hotel
    This is the heartbreak hotel
    This is the heartbreak hotel (yeah, oh, yeah)
    This is the heartbreak hotel

    You said you'd be here by nine
    Instead, you took your time
    You didn't think to call me, boy
    Here I sit, trying not to cry
    Asking myself why
    You'd do this to me, mmh, oh, baby

    Since you're not around for me to tell you, baby, face to face
    I'm writing you this letter, and this is what I have to say, yeah

    All I really wanted was some of your time
    Instead, you told me lies when someone else was on your mind
    What you do to me (what you do)
    Look what you did to me (oh, baby)
    I thought that you were someone who would do me right (do me right)
    Until you played with my emotions and you made me cry (made me cry)
    What you do to me
    Can't take what you did to me

    Now I see that you've been doing wrong
    Played me all along
    And made a fool of me, baby, oh
    You got it all wrong to think that I wouldn't find out
    That you were cheating on me, baby
    How could you do it to me? Mmh, oh, baby

    Since you're not around for me to tell you, baby, face to face
    I'm writing you this letter, and this is what I have to say, yeah

    All I really wanted was some of your time
    Instead, you told me lies when someone else was on your mind
    What you do to me (all you did was lie to me, baby, yeah)
    Look what you did to me (can't believe what you did to me, yeah, yeah)
    I thought that you were someone who would do me right
    Until you played with my emotions and you made me cry
    What you do to me (why'd you do it?)
    Can't take what you did to me (you didn't have to do it to me, baby)

    Heartbreak hotel
    This is the heartbreak hotel
    This is the heartbreak hotel
    This is the heartbreak hotel
    This is the heartbreak hotel (this is the heartbreak)
    This is the heartbreak hotel (welcome to the, the heartbreak)
    This is the heartbreak hotel (why'd you do it?)
    This is the heartbreak hotel

    All I really wanted was some of your time (all I wanted)
    Instead, you told me lies when someone else was on your mind (oh, baby)
    What you do to me (ooh, all I really wanted)
    Look what you did to me (that's all I really wanted, baby)
    I thought that you were someone who would do me right (did me wrong)
    Until you played with my emotions and you made me cry (can't take it no more)
    What you do to me
    Can't take what you did to me (I wanted your love)

    All I really wanted was some of your time (all I really want)
    Instead, you told me lies (but you told me lies)
    When someone else was on your mind (do me, baby)
    What you do to me (do me right, can't take it no more)
    Look what you did to me
    (Why did you do me that way? Yeah)
    I thought that you were someone who would do me right (thought you'd do me right)
    Until you played with my emotions and you made me cry ('til you made me cry)
    What you do to me
    Can't take what you did to me

    I ain't gon' take it
    I ain't gon' take it no more
    I ain't gon' take it, boy
    I ain't gon' take it no more
    Oh, everything that you said was a lie
    Don't lie to me
    Tell me what it is, and I will be alright Writer/s: Carsten Soulshock Schack, Kenneth Karlin, Tamara Savage
    Publisher: Audiam, Inc., Reservoir Media Management, Inc., SEEKER MUSIC PORTFOLIO HOLDCO I, LP, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Trinilicious from NcMy friend Irene said she wrote Whitney Houston Song Heartbreak Hotel and sold it for $1000 back in the days because she was poor and needed the money!
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