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I’ll be a long gone daddy when they find my note
But just for the record this is what I wrote
I’m relocating to a foreign shore
You won’t have me to kick around no more
You can’t make me stay
I’m leaving today
It’s anchors aweigh
I’m shipping out to Tokyo Bay
There’s a solemn little geisha pining for me
Under a parasol out on the quay
She knows I’m coming from beyond the sea
And she’s hoping and a-praying most fervently
That today’s the day I come smoking into Tokyo Bay
I’ll find a liner, then my plan
To work my ticket as some kind of hand
Maybe picking up after the cabaret band
Anything to get my toes in the sands of Tokyo Bay
Well in a dim dockside canteen I know
With my collar turned up and my cap down low
All dressed up like a matelot
I got my grip in my hand packed ready to go
I’ll be long gone daddy when they find my note
But just for the record this is what I wrote
You, you, you can’t make me stay
I’m leaving today
So glad to say
I’m heading up the gangway
Bound for Tokyo Bay
Tokyo Bay
I’ll be long gone daddy
Be long gone daddy
Long, long gone daddy
Long gone daddy
So long
That’s all I wrote
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Crying Inside
02:53
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I’m standing in a jolly crowd
Joking, laughing a little too loud
Looking like the model of a man that’s got it made
But my repartee is just to disguise
All the hurt I’m trying to hide
Cause I’m crying
I’m crying
Crying inside
I’m sitting in a restaurant
A few old friends in a favorite haunt
And I’m wearing a suit of deepest blue
I’ve been wise-cracking like the good old days
But pretty soon I’m gonna slip away
And walk myself right back to my lonely room
Everybody knows a man’s not supposed to cry
If you look at my face you’ll see my cheek is dry
I wish sometimes they’d cut me some slack
Cause they don’t know, while they’re slappin’ my back
I’m crying
Cry, cry, cry
Crying inside
Whoa here comes the tears
Cry again, cry again
Well everybody knows a man’s not supposed to cry, cry, cry, cry
So behind this grin I’m holding it in up until I say goodbye
Well I wish sometimes they’d cut me some slack
Cause they don’t know while they’re slappin’ my back
I’m crying
Cry, cry, cry
Crying inside
Nobody knows I’m crying
Crying inside
I’m the life and the soul of the party sometimes
But I’m crying inside
Crying inside
Crying inside
Crying inside
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Heartbreaker
03:52
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I have to say it and it's hard for me
You’ve got me crying like I thought I’d never be
Love is believing but you let me down
How can I love you when you’re not around?
Get to the morning and you never call
Love should be everything or not at all
But it don't matter whatever you do
I made a life out of loving you
Only to find any dream that I follow is dying
I'm crying in the rain
I should be searching my world for a love everlasting
And feeling no pain
When will we meet again?
Why do you have to be a heartbreaker
Is this the lesson that I never knew?
Gotta get out of the spell that I'm under
My love for you
Why do you have to be a heartbreaker
When I was being what you want me to be?
Suddenly everything I ever wanted has passed me by
This world will end
Not you and I
My love is wider than the universe
My soul’s crying for you and that can’t be reversed
You made it up but you couldn’t see
You made a life out of hurting me
Out of my mind
I am held by the power of you, love
Tell me when do we try
Or just say goodbye?
Why do you have to be a heartbreaker
Is this the lesson that I never knew?
Gotta get out of the spell that I'm under
My love for you
Why do you have to be a heartbreaker
When I was being what you want me to be?
Suddenly everything I ever wanted has passed me by
This world will end
Not you and I
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Travellin' Light
03:03
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Well I’ve got no bags and baggage to slow me down
I'm travellin’ so fast my feet ain't touchin’ the ground
Travellin’ light, travellin' light
I just can't wait to be with my baby tonight
Soon I'm gonna see that love light in her eyes
I'm a hoot and a holler away from paradise
Travellin' light, travellin' light
I just can't wait to be with my baby tonight
No comb and no toothbrush
I've got nothing to haul
I'm carrying only
A pocket full of dreams
A heart full of love
They weigh nothin’ at all
Soon I'm gonna to see that love light in her eyes
I'm just ‘round the corner away from paradise
Travellin' light, travellin’ light
Well I just can't wait to be with my baby tonight
No comb and no toothbrush
I've got nothing to haul
I'm carrying only
A pocket full of dreams
And a heart full of love
And they weigh nothin’ at all
Soon I'm going to see that love light in her eyes
I'm a hoot and a holler away from paradise
Travellin' light, travellin' light
Well I just can't wait to be with my baby tonight
Just can’t wait to be with my baby tonight
No I just can’t wait to be with my baby tonight
Baby tonight
Baby tonight
Baby tonight
Baby tonight
Baby tonight
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Nick Lowe London, UK
Nick Lowe has made his mark as a producer (Elvis Costello-Graham Parker-Pretenders-The Damned), songwriter of at least three songs you know by heart, short-lived career as a pop star, and a lengthy term as a musicians’ musician. But in his current ‘second act’ as a silver-haired, tender-hearted but sharp-tongued singer-songwriter, he has no equal. ... more
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