Are you lonesome tonight?
Do you miss me tonight?
Are you sorry we drifted apart?
Does your memory stray
To a brighter summer day,
When I kissed you and called you "Sweet heart"?

Do the chairs in your parlour seem empty and bare,
Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there?
Is your heart filled with pain?
Shall I come back again?
Tell me dear, "are you lonesome tonight"?

I wonder if you're lonesome tonight?
You know, someone said
"The world's a stage, and each must play a part".
Fate had me playing in love
with you as my sweetheart,
Act one was when we met;
I loved you at first glance.

You read your lines so cleverly,
And never missed a cue then came act two.
You seemed to change; you acted strange, and why?
I'll never know.

Honey, you lied when you said
"You loved me" and I had no cause to doubt you.
But I'd rather go on hearing your lies
that to go on living without you.
Now the stage is bare,
and I'm standing there with emptiness all around
And if you won't come back to me,
then they can ring the curtain down.

Is your heart filled with pain? Shall I come back again?
Tell me dear, "are you lonesome tonight"?