(David Foster, Jermaine Jackson, Tom Keane & K. Wakefield)



Why do I seem to be caught up inside a dream

All my life, it's always been my shadow and me

Over my shoulder there's always a voice somewhere

Saying I never should try to set my heart free



I wish that love would come and take me in her arms

Show me what I've never known.

Where I could hold someone words like right and wrong

Just fade away like yesterday



Lonely won't leave me alone

Lonely won't leave me alone

Why, tell me why, won't even let me fall in love

Oooooh everywhere I go always by my side

Won't even let me fall in love



I try and say I love you but the words won't come through

In my eyes, see all the tears and sad memories

Why can't I start out new and leave that old feeling too far behind

I guess that lonely needs company



Around each bend of road

I'm thinking that in time there will be that rainbow's end

But when I follow those self illusions

I find that it's only lonely and me again



Lonely won't leave me alone

Lonely won't leave me alone

Why, tell me why, won't even let me fall in love

Oooooh everywhere I go always by my side

Won't even let me fall in love



Lonely won't leave me alone

I wish that love would come

Lonely won't leave me alone

And take me home

Lonely...