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Artist: The Jackson 5
Canonical path: /jackson-five/heartbreak-hotel
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Heartbreak Hotel
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Heartbreak Hotel
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Live and sin
Ten years ago on this day,
My heart was yearning.
I promised I would never ever be returning
Where my baby broke my heart
And left me yearning
As we walked into the room,
There were faces
Staring, glaring, tearing through me
Someone said welcome to your doom
Then they smiled with eyes
That looked as if they knew me
This is scaring me
We walked up the stairs
Still concealing gloom
There were two girls sitting in my room
She walked up to my face
And said this is the place,
You said meet you right here at noon
Heartbreak hotel
Heartbreak hotel
Heartbreak hotel
Heartbreak hotel
Hope is dead
She thought that I had cheated for another lover
I turn my back to see that I am undercover
Now I can't convince this girl there ain't no other
Someone's evil to hurt my soul
Every smile's a trial thought in beguile
To hurt me
Then the man next door had told
He's been here in tears for fifteen years
This is scaring me
We came to this place, where the vicious dwell
And found that wicked women run this strange hotel
There was Sefra and Sue,
Every girl that I knew
And my baby said love is through.
Heartbreak hotel
Heartbreak hotel
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