The song of the day for Monday, May 15, 2017 is “The Two Lonely People.”
About This Song
Bills Evans wrote “The Two Lonely People” in 1971; Carol Hall wrote the lyrics. The song first appeared on Evans’ 1971 album The Bill Evans Album. The song was also recorded in 1974 on the album But Beautiful, recorded live with Stan Getz at Jazz Middelheim in Antwerp, Belgium.
About This Version
Tony Bennett and Bill Evans recorded “The Two Lonely People” in 1976 for their second album, Together Again.
“The Two Lonely People,” as well as Together Again, is available from iTunes.
About Today
The song is one of the most-searched songs for both this site and our sister site, The Interactive Tony Bennett Discography. The lyrics for this song are also searched for quite often. Thus, I”m happy to present them here.
The two lonely people sat silently staring
Their eyes looking coldly ahead
The two lonely people once loved and were caring
But now it’s all over and dead
They don’t know what happened
They can’t think what happened
They had something fine on their own
But the two lonely people have turned into statues
Yes turned into statues of stone
The world was their moon once
The yellow ones
It held all their hopes and their dreams
But time came and broke them
Reality woke them
The world’s not so pretty as it seems
For all that once mattered
Is old now and battered
But must it be shattered in two
The two lonely people
Would give all their life
Yes give all their life
If they knew… The two lonely people sat silently staring
Their eyes looking coldly ahead
The two lonely people sat silently staring
Their eyes looking coldly ahead