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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    This EP is limited to 3,500 copies and features two 45s in a gatefold package!

    Nick Lowe is back and has re-discovered his rockin' side on his first new release in half a decade. Tokyo Bay/Crying Inside is a four song EP featuring two Nick originals, the shiprockin' "Tokyo Bay" and introspective "Crying Inside," plus covers of the Bee Gees' "Heartbreaker" and Cliff Richard's "Travellin' Light." Nick's recent tour mates, Los Straitjackets, are his backing band on this record, contributing to the sounds of Nick rocking his hardest in decades.

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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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from Tokyo Bay​/​Crying Inside, released June 15, 2018

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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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