La solitude

Billie Holiday 

(Baltimore, 7 avril 1915 - New York, 17 juillet 1959)

In my solitude

You haunt me

With dreadful ease

Of days gone by

In my solitude

You taunt me

With memories

That never die

I sit in my chair

And filled with despair

There no one could be so sad

With gloom everywhere

I sit and I stare

I know that I'll soon go mad

In my solitude

I'm afraid

Dear lord above

Send back my love

Duke Ellington / Eddie Delange / Irving Mills