LYRICS: Heartbreak Hotel

Album:

Heartbreak Hotel / I Was the One (single) || Heartbreak Hotel (EP)

Lyrics / Music:

Mae Boren Axton / Tommy Durden / Elvis Presley, 1956

Catalog number:

47-6420 (single) || EPA 821 (EP)

Recording date:

January 10, 1956

Release date:

January 27, 1956 (single) / April 20, 1956 (EP)

Observation:

- First Elvis recording by RCA to be released by the label

- The song was modified to hide the central theme about suicide a little

- Elvis sang it live between 1956 and 1977

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LYRICS

Well, since my baby left me

Well, I found a new place to dwell

Well, it's down at the end of Lonely Street

At Heartbreak Hotel

Where I'll be, I'll be so lonely, baby

Well, I'm so lonely

I'll be so lonely, I could die

Although it's always crowded

You still can find some room

For broken hearted lovers

To cry there in their gloom

Be so, they'll be so lonely, baby

They get so lonely

They're so lonely, they could die

Now, the bellhop's tears keep flowin'

And the desk clerk's dressed in black

Well, they've been so long on Lonely Street

Well, they'll never, they'll never look back

And they get so, they get so lonely, baby

Well, they are so lonely

They're so lonely, they could die

Well, now, if your baby leaves you

And you got a tale to tell

Well, just take a walk down Lonely Street

To Heartbreak Hotel

Where you will be, you will be lonely, baby

Well, you will be lonely

You'll be so lonely, you could die

Although it's always crowded

But you still can find some room

For broken hearted lovers

To cry there in their gloom

Where they get so, they get so lonely, baby

Well, they're so lonely

They'll be so lonely, they could die