IT'S TORTURE
Count Basie (m) Ned Washington (l)  1940

Helen Humes w Count Basie & his Orch   
Aug 8th 1940 Chicago


It's torture to know that you are here
And your heart so far away.
It's torture to feel your arms so near
And not hold me in the same old way.

It's torture to look into your eyes and see,
And to realise that our love can never be.
Tell me what to do, tell me what to say,
To gain your love back some day.

Tell me what to do, tell me what to say,
To gain your love back some day.




(Contributed by Peter Akers - July 2009)