Solitude
is in the album,
Quintessential Billie Holiday, The (1940-1942)
featuring
Billie Holiday
Track 10
Genre: Jazz
Recorded in 1941
Performed by:
Billie Holiday (voc)

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Music by: Duke Ellington
Lyrics by: Eddie DeLange
Composed in 1934
 

             

 

 
Lyrics: (Separate Lyrics)
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,
Filled with despair,
There’s 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 praying,
"Dear lord above,
Send back my love."