Tonight Loneliness Surrounds Me

TONIGHT LONELINESS SURROUNDS ME LIKE THE DARK OF NIGHT
(Piano song written by Trev Teasdel Feb 1982 Middlesbrough)

Tonight -Loneliness Surrounds me

Sat at the table we sat last night Looking at the chair from where you looked at me- Last night. Wishing I could see you there now, Loving eyes. Lovely hair. It all serves to remind me how much – I need someone nice like you to care.

Sat at the window where I watched for you. Looking at the people looking at me looking for you. Wishing I could see you there now, Heart that loves. Soul that cares. It all serves to remind me how much – I need someone nice like you to care.

Chorus Last night it was the wine that was flowing Tonight it's the tears that are flowin' Tonight loneliness surrounds me like the dark of night

Sat on the edge of love awaiting your return Looking inside my soul as my feelings burn Wishing I could see you there now, Words so tender, lips that heal It all serves to remind me how much, I need someone nice like you to care.   Bridge

Just a tender word in my ear would ease my fear. People say such ugly things and in my mind it rings and rings But just a tender word from you can make loneliness stand up and sing.

This is a rare piano song - ie written first on the piano. I'm not a great keyboard player and certainly not trained - I

Ann 1982

picked up a bit through Coventry's Al Docker in the early 70's at the Coventry Arts Umbrella. When I moved to Teesside to do my degree - I was lucky enough to rent a really nice house with a piano in it and a view of the North Yorkshire moors. It was a little bit honky tonk but a piano! I'd worked out a few pieces on the piano and Ann, a friend on my degree course, had been invited by me for a meal at my new home. Ann was always late - up to an hour - but still expected you to turn up!! The lyric was written the night after about me wondering if she was going to turn up, if the meal would be totally cold by the time..etc. It was just a draft home recording with overdubbed vocals and mistakes - a few!

Ann has now been a long a standing friend since then of 25 years standing although she now lives down south. We were involved with initiating many literary projects on Teesside and she played flute on a track to be uploaded - Teardrop in the Tees and keyboards on some other tracks.