It's Lonely Out There

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"It's Lonely Out There"
Single by Pam Tillis
from the album All of This Love
B-side "You Can't Have a Good Time Without Me"
ReleasedMay 1996
Genre Country
Length3:23
Label Arista Nashville
Songwriter(s) Bob DiPiero
Pam Tillis
Producer(s) Pam Tillis
Mike Poole
Pam Tillis singles chronology
"The River and the Highway"
(1996)
"It's Lonely Out There"
(1996)
"Betty's Got a Bass Boat"
(1996)

"It's Lonely Out There" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Pam Tillis. It was released in May 1996 as the third single from her album All of This Love . The song reached number 14 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in September 1996. [1] Tillis wrote the song with her then-husband, Bob DiPiero.

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Content

The song's lyrical focus is a woman conversing with an ex-lover of hers, "taunting" him by telling him to find another lover but warning him that "it's lonely out there". [2]

Background

The song is composed in the key of A-flat major with a main chord pattern of A-E-D9-E on the verses, and A-E-Fm-D9-A-E-A on the chorus. Tillis presented the idea to her then-husband Bob DiPiero, who helped her compose it on a classical guitar that was gifted to him by Neil Diamond. According to Tillis, DiPiero had "pretty much written it" when she took a nap, and then when she woke up with the song "I Can See Clearly Now" in her head, the two decided to give the song a similar sound. [3]

Chart performance

Chart (1996)Peak
position
Canada Country Tracks ( RPM ) [4] 21
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [5] 14

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References

  1. "Pam Tillis Hot Country Songs Chart History". Billboard . Retrieved January 30, 2012.
  2. Kristine M. McCusker, Diane Pecknold (2004). A boy named Sue: gender and country music. p. 163.
  3. "This guitar won't be 'Lonely' for long". The Tennessean . September 8, 1996. p. 4. Retrieved February 21, 2019.
  4. "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 9679." RPM . Library and Archives Canada. September 9, 1996. Retrieved July 20, 2013.
  5. "Pam Tillis Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.