In The Middle Of It All:Arthur Alexander. Album - Arthur Alexander - on WARNER Records in 1972. (The song was released earlier, I believe in 1962.) #1. My house is a lonely house (lonely house.) But it was, was a happy house (happy house.) And the two of us were happy as I recall (as I recall.) But now the rain falls around it and loneliness surrounds it and I'm in the middle of it all. #2. My friends look at me and say (me and say.) I wonder what made that boy that way (that way.) The boy doesn't even smile at all (smile at all.) But I wonder what they would say if their world just came down one day, and they were in the middle of it all. BRIDGE: I gave that girl all the love that I had, had to give.....and the love that I gave her was real, now, really real. #3. Now, I ache, yeah, with heartbreak and pain (heartbreak and pain) and the hurt that I just can't explain. Yes, it looks like my life is about to fall (about to fall.) But, I built a shield around it, but sadness has found it. And me, I'm in the middle of it all. I will sit right here in the middle..(Fade.) A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.