"None but the Lonely Heart" — Tchaikovsky's song, Sinatra's adaptation.
None but the lonely heart
Can know my sadness
Alone and parted
Far from joy and gladness
Heavens boundless arch I see
Spread about above me
O what a distance dear to one
Who loves me
None but the lonely heart
Can know my sadness
Alone and parted
Far from joy and gladness
Alone and parted far
From joy and gladness
My senses fail
A burning fire
Devours me
None but the lonely heart
Can know my sadness
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- Based on Tchaikovsky's "Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt" (1869), setting a Goethe poem. Sinatra finding the Romantic tradition accessible — the Russian composer's emotional directness translating naturally into the Songbook idiom.