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Too Young to be Lonely

Dreaming lonely while you sleep in style
Satin pillows give you rest for a while, but then the
Morning sun becomes a warning sign and all
Day you're gonna have to face your mind and I
Watch you closely as you try not to think
I see your watery eyes and I sink because I
Know you can't forget your misery while you're
Broken hearted, you can't let it be
And I know it's much too strong to let go
You're far too young to be lonely, but much too old not to know
Too young to be lonely, too old not to know
You're much too young to be so sad
This is the only love you've ever had

Friends advise you not to reason why
People tell you "life is learning to cry", but then you
Say you've heard enough and seen your share and you're
Feeling nothing, you don't even care, but some . . .
. . . times you seem a little out of place
Something changes when I look in your face, you don't
Feel as solid as you used to be now that
You're down and under, you can't see me
And I know it's much too strong to let go
You're far too young to be lonely, but much too old not to know
Too young to be lonely, too old not to know
You're much too young to be so sad
This is the only love you've ever had

Wasting hours waiting for some word
Waiting for the phone you never heard, you sit
Arms tightly wrapped around your knees, the more
Pain you suffer, the harder you squeeze
But you know it's much too strong to let go
You're far too young to be lonely, but much too old not to know
Too young to be lonely, too old not to know
You're much too young to be so sad
This is the only love you've ever had

Peter Cross is the songwriter, the lead singer and he also sings all the harmony tracks, plus he's the arranger and the producer.

This song was written at the Clapp house on Paradise Island in The Bahamas when Gary Kelgren sent me down there on a working vacation. I stayed in that house with Ringo Starr and the story is in The Interview with Peter Cross, Part 3. This is the third song that I discovered on that old cassette tape which was stashed in my grandfather's antique record cabinet, thus beginning my great recording experience that eventually resulted in this web site. From the point of view of songwriting, this song uses a neat diminished chord to build-up into the chorus and the lyric lines don't end in the same place as the melody does. I believe that we're all too young to be lonely, and also that we're all too old to be lonely.