Seven Rooms Of Gloom
Four Tops
#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE--------------------------------# #This file is the author’s own work and represents their interpretation of the# #song. You may only use this file for private study scholarship or research.# #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------# "7 Rooms Of Gloom" (Holland - Dozier - Holland) Intro/Chorus 1: I see a house a house of stone (Seven rooms) A lonely house ’cause now you’ve gone (Filled with gloom) Seven rooms that’s all it is seven rooms of gloom (Just seven rooms of gloom) I live with emptiness (Filled with emptiness) Without your tenderness Verse 1: You took the dream I had for us Turned my dreams into dust I watch the phone never rings I watch the door that never rings Bring you back into my life Turn this darkness into light I’m all alone in this house Turn this house into a home I need your touch to comfort me The tender tender arms that once held me Chorus 2: Without your love your love inside This house is just a place to run and hide Seven rooms that’s all it is - seven rooms of gloom Rooms of emptiness Without your tenderness Verse 2: Don’t make me live from day to day Watching the clock that ticks away Another day another way Another reason for me to stay I need you here here with me I need your loving desperately I’m all alone all alone In this house that’s not a home I miss your love I once had known I miss your kiss that was my very very own Chorus 3: Empty silence surrounding me Lonely walls they stare at me Seven rooms that’s all it is - rooms of gloom I live with emptiness Without your tenderness Verse 3: All the windows are painted black And wait right here until you come back I’ll keep waiting waiting Until your face again I see [continue w/unintelligible backing vocals to fade] -- another ace 60’s tab from Andrew Rogers
