In My Lonely Room

Album

Single

Label

Gordy Records

Genre

Girl Group

Media Type

45s

Duration

2:29

Composer(s)

Brian Holland;Lamont Dozier;Eddie Holland Jr.

Entered Chart

Apr 11, 1964

Peak Date

May 2, 1964

Released

March 23, 1964

Recorded

January 29, 1964

Catalog #

Gordy G-7031

B-Side

A Tear For The Girl

"In My Lonely Room" is a 1964 single by Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas. In this song, which registered at #6 R&B (Cashbox) and #44 Pop, the narrator solemnly discusses how her lover's flirting with other girls leave her so depressed that all she can do is sit "in my lonely room and cry". The song was produced with a more solemn though still uptempo gospel-influenced feel that had been on a number of the group's hits starting with "(Love Is Like a) Heat Wave". It was their fifth hit with Holland–Dozier–Holland. Despite its lyrics, Cash Box described it as "a real happy thumper geared for loads of spins and sales" that is performed in an "exciting infectious fashion.

Every single time
You take me out with you
You always flirt around
With someone new

But I never criticize
The tearful things you do
Cause I'm so afraid
Of losing you

But in my lonely room
Tears I don't have to hide
Cause I just lock my door
And let myself go and
Lay right down and cry

Every place we go
People are whispering
About your flirting ways
And it hurts me so to hear

But in the public's eye
I just push behind
All my hurt inside
And pretend I don't mind

But in my lonely room
Tears I don't have to hide
In my lonely, lonely
Lonely, lonely room

I push my pride aside
And lay right down and cry
In my lonely room
In my lonely room
Let myself go... (fade)

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