Song Lyric Sunday | “If You Think You’re Lonely Now” – Bobby Womack

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The theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week is “game.”

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Discovered by music legend Sam Cooke, Robert Dwayne Womack aka Bobby Womack, was one of those singers the average person ‘knew’… but just couldn’t quite place. With the exception of crossover hit’s like That’s the Way I Feel About Cha’, Woman’s Gotta Have It, and Across 110th Street, Womack was better known to R & B and gospel fans. However, in the music industry he ranks among the greats. Womack wrote songs for, collaborated with, or had songs covered by some of the biggest names in music including The Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, George Benson, Rod Stewart, Janis Joplin, Todd Rundgren, Sly & the Family Stone, and Van Morrison.

But it’s Womack’s 1982 If You Think You’re Lonely Now I bring to this week’s Song Lyric Sunday. It’s from his album The Poet. The single reached number three for four weeks on the Hot Soul Singles chart. This is significant because Womack released the song during a time when R&B was on a down slope and the charts were largely dominated by dance music.

The song is about a man whose woman is never satisfied. He does everything he can to please her and it’s never enough. She wants him home rubbing her back. She has a keeping up with the Joneses mentality and complains about him being at home and not out working because she wants everything her girlfriends get. She’s playing mind games.

He gets fed up!

This song is his come-toJesus-meeting for her… if you think you’re lonely NOW… wait until tonight, girl.

Enjoy!

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If You Think You’re Lonely Now

by Bobby Womack

Written by Bobby Womack / Patrick Moten / Sandra Sully

I wanna dedicate this song to all the lovers tonight

And I expect that might be the whole world

Because everybody needs something or someone to love

When it’s cold outside who are you holding

You know

If y’all don’t mind I’d like to talk about this woman of mine

She’s always complaining ’bout me never being at home

But when I’m there broke

She’s telling me ’bout the things that her girlfriend’s got

What she ain’t got, and she wants me to go out and get em for her

But, but girl, I can’t be in two places at one time

If you think you’re lonely now, huh

Wait until tonight, girl

I’ll be long gone

And you’ll never find another man that’ll treat you right

When I ain’t there to rub your back

Just remember I made it a long fact

And it’s gotta just come out of the closet

And chase you all around your room

And the memories sail round like a ghost

And that’s a matter of fact, it’s no joke, ah

If you think you’re lonely now

Oh, wait until tonight

I’ll be long gone

And you’ll never find another man that’ll treat you right

If you think you’re lonely now

Wai-ait, wait until tonight, girl

Oh, ain’t it funny how the tables turn

When things aren’t going your way

But when love runs out, and the pain walks in

And settles for a stay, ooh

Lord, help me, I feel like I wanna testify

Girl, wait until tonight

If you think you’re lonely, lonely now

Oh, you just wait until tonight, girl

You see tonight’s the night when the needs come out

When your needs come out to breathe

And you toast the stars and there ain’t no way you can sleep, oh

If you think you’re lonely now

I feel like I wanna testify this evening

I’m lonely, cause I know I gotta leave you, oh, girl

I just can’t take no more

Ooh…hoo…hoo…

Ah, girl, you just wait

If you think you got problems now, baby, you just wait

Wait

Too far gone, to back it up now

Ooh…hoo…ooh…hoo, babe

You say you’re a little lonely

But everybody needs somebody to love

It’s good that you know that you got somebody that’ll stand by your side

That’ll build you up when you’re falling down

And you had that someone, baby

Cause I’ve done my time

And it’s your turn now

If you think you’re lonely now

Wait, wait until tonight

I’m tired

I’m tired of this same old shuck and jive

It’s been too long

You think you could start all over again, it’s been too long

You think you could start it just one more time

 

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