C Em D D Is you heart full of pain, shall I come back again? D G7 C G7 G7 C Tell me dear are you lonesome tonight. I wonder if you are lonesome tonight You know someone said the world's a stage And you must play a part Fate had me playing love twas my sweetheart Act one was when I met you, I loved you at first glance You read your line so cleaverly and never missed a cue Then came act2, you semmed to change and acted strange And why I'll never know Honey, you lied when you said yu loved me And I had no cause to doubt you But I'd rather go on hearing your lies Than to go on living without you Now the stage is bare and I'm standing there With emptiness all around And if you won't come back to me December 23, 1989.INTRO: C, G7, C, G7 C Em Am Am Are you lonesome tonight, do you miss me tonight? C C7 F F Are you sorry we drifted apart? G G G7 G7 Does you memory stray to a brighter sunny day G7 G7 C C When I kissed you and called you sweetheart? C7 C7 F F Do the chairs in your barroom seem empty and bare? D D D G Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there? C Em D D Is your heart full of pain, shall I come back again? D G7 C G7 Tell me dear are you lonesome tonight.
The video for the song (directed by Wayne Isham) features the band performing on a dark stage with an almost monochromatic blue color due to the stage lighting, with close-ups of each member, most notably lead singer Jon Bon Jovi and lead guitarist Richie Sambora. In various Bon Jovi concert performances, this song was sometimes sung by Richie Sambora on lead vocals. Ellis has said that Lehua Reid (Richie Sambora's ex-fiancée) regaled him with anecdotes regarding Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora 'sitting at the piano for hours with a box full of tapes they got from people and going through the songs looking for stuff they could rip off and laughing about it, your song was played over and over and over.' Some think the verses have an eerily and uncredited similarity (both musically and melodically) to John Lennon's Beatles' track 'Don't Let Me Down' (recorded during the Get Back sessions) and the chorus was claimed, by some fans of the late 1980s hard rock genre, to have been culled from an unreleased song by Joel Ellis of Cats in Boots and Heavy Bones. The song was also a peek into a more mature sound heard on their following albums Keep the Faith and These Days.
The song has remained as one of Bon Jovi's signature songs and a classic in the power ballad genre. As the band (and hard rock music) was at its peak popularity at this time, the song quickly climbed to the number one position on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming their fourth and final number one single. Originally released on the 1988 album New Jersey, it became the band's third single from the album when it was released as a single in 1989. With Tenor, maker of GIF Keyboard, add popular Bon Jovi animated GIFs to your conversations. Yeah, I will love you baby, always And I'll be there forever and a day, always Bridge If you told me to cry for you I could. The single ranked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and #5 on the Mainstream rock chart. It was written by Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora. ' I'll Be There for You' is a song by American rock band Bon Jovi, released as the third single from their 1988 album New Jersey.