Released: November 11, 1981
Songwriter: Michael Jackson
Producer: The Jacksons
[Verse 1: Michael Jackson]
Live in sin
Ten years ago on this day
My heart was yearning
I promised I would never ever be returning
When my baby broke my heart and left me yearning
As we walked into the room
There were faces staring
Glaring, tearing through me
Someone said welcome to your doom
Then they smiled with eyes
That looked as if they knew me
This is scaring me
[Pre-Chorus: The Jacksons]
We walked up the stairs
Still concealing gloom
There were two girls
Sitting in my room
She walked up to my face
Said this is the place
You said meet you right here at noon
[Chorus: Michael Jackson & The Jacksons]
This is Heartbreak Hotel
Welcome to Heartbreak Hotel
So this is Heartbreak Hotel
So evil Heartbreak Hotel
[Verse 2: Michael Jackson]
Hope is dead
She thought that I had cheated for another lover
I turn my back to see that I'm undercover
Now I can't convince this girl there ain't no other
Someone's evil to hurt my soul
Every smile's a trial thought
In beguile to hurt me
Then the man next door had told
She's been here in tears for fifteen years
This is scaring me, woo
[Pre-Chorus: The Jacksons]
We came to this place
Where the vicious dwell
Found that wicked women
Run this strange hotel
There was Sefra and Sue
Every girl that I knew
And my baby said love is through
[Chorus: Michael Jackson & The Jacksons]
This is Heartbreak Hotel
Welcome to Heartbreak Hotel
So evil Heartbreak Hotel
This place is Heartbreak Hotel
Someone's stabbin' my heart
(Heartbreak Hotel)
This is Heartbreak Hotel
(Heartbreak Hotel)
Ten years ago today
(Heartbreak Hotel)
Yes, you break my baby's heart
(Heartbreak Hotel)
[Outro: Michael Jackson & The Jacksons]
Someone's stabbin' my heart
(Heartbreak Hotel)
This is Heartbreak Hotel
(Heartbreak Hotel)
Ten years ago today
(Heartbreak Hotel)
Yes, you break my baby's heart, yeah
(Heartbreak Hotel)
This is heartbreak
(Heartbreak Hotel)
(Heartbreak Hotel)
Live in sin
Ten years ago on this day
My heart was yearning
I promised I would never ever be returning
When my baby broke my heart and left me yearning
As we walked into the room
There were faces staring
Glaring, tearing through me
Someone said welcome to your doom
Then they smiled with eyes
That looked as if they knew me
This is scaring me
[Pre-Chorus: The Jacksons]
We walked up the stairs
Still concealing gloom
There were two girls
Sitting in my room
She walked up to my face
Said this is the place
You said meet you right here at noon
[Chorus: Michael Jackson & The Jacksons]
This is Heartbreak Hotel
Welcome to Heartbreak Hotel
So this is Heartbreak Hotel
So evil Heartbreak Hotel
[Verse 2: Michael Jackson]
Hope is dead
She thought that I had cheated for another lover
I turn my back to see that I'm undercover
Now I can't convince this girl there ain't no other
Someone's evil to hurt my soul
Every smile's a trial thought
In beguile to hurt me
Then the man next door had told
She's been here in tears for fifteen years
This is scaring me, woo
[Pre-Chorus: The Jacksons]
We came to this place
Where the vicious dwell
Found that wicked women
Run this strange hotel
There was Sefra and Sue
Every girl that I knew
And my baby said love is through
[Chorus: Michael Jackson & The Jacksons]
This is Heartbreak Hotel
Welcome to Heartbreak Hotel
So evil Heartbreak Hotel
This place is Heartbreak Hotel
Someone's stabbin' my heart
(Heartbreak Hotel)
This is Heartbreak Hotel
(Heartbreak Hotel)
Ten years ago today
(Heartbreak Hotel)
Yes, you break my baby's heart
(Heartbreak Hotel)
[Outro: Michael Jackson & The Jacksons]
Someone's stabbin' my heart
(Heartbreak Hotel)
This is Heartbreak Hotel
(Heartbreak Hotel)
Ten years ago today
(Heartbreak Hotel)
Yes, you break my baby's heart, yeah
(Heartbreak Hotel)
This is heartbreak
(Heartbreak Hotel)
(Heartbreak Hotel)
more tracks from the album
The Jacksons Live!
- Workin’ Day And Night (Live)
- Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground) (Live)
- Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough (Live)
- Lovely One (Live)
- Rock With You (Live)
- I’ll Be There (Live)
- Movie And Rap, Including Excerpts Of: I Want You Back / Never Can Say Goodbye / Got To Be There (Liv
- She’s Out Of My Life (Live)
- This Place Hotel (Live)
- Off The Wall (Live)
- Things I Do For You (Live)
- Opening / Can You Feel It (Live)
- Ben (Live)
- Medley: I Want You Back / ABC / The Love You Save (Live)
From the album
- The Jacksons Live! (1981)
The Jacksons popular songs
- Blame It on the Boogie
- This Place Hotel (a.k.a. Heartbreak Hotel)
- Can You Feel It
- Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground)
- Torture
- State of Shock
- Push Me Away
- Lovely One
- Wondering Who
- The Hurt
- Wait
- Music’s Takin’ Over
- Good Times
- Your Ways
- Enjoy Yourself
- Time Waits For No One
- Goin’ Places
- Dreamer
- If You’d Only Believe
- Give It Up
- Harley
- Be Not Always
- Living Together
- Heaven Knows I Love You, Girl