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Jan 22, 2024 · Written by Stipe, Peter Buck, and Mike Mills and released on R.E.M.’s 13th album Around the Sun in 2004, “Leaving New York” runs through bittersweet reminisces, grief, loss, and leaving...
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Jan 23, 2024 · ‘Leaving New York’ by R.E.M. is not just a song; it’s a haunting meditation on departure and the bittersweet embrace of change. The track, a standout from the band’s 2004 album ‘Around the Sun’, is laden with emotional depth that extends beyond the geographical reference in its title.
Oct 4, 2004 · Leaving New York Lyrics: It's quiet now and what it brings is everything / Comes calling back, a brilliant night, I'm still awake / I looked ahead, I'm sure I saw you there / You don't need...
Leaving New York, never easy. I saw the light fading out. Now life is sweet, and what it brings I tried to take. But loneliness, it wears me out, it lies in wait. And all not lost, still in my eye. Shadow of necklace across your thigh. I might have lived my life in a dream, but I swear it, this is real.
You might have succeeded in changing me. I might have been turned around. It's easier to leave than to be left behind. Leaving was never my proud. Leaving New York, never easy. I saw the light fading out. Now life is sweet. And what it brings. I tried to take.
You might've succeeded in changing me. I might've been turned around. It's easier to leave than to be left behind. Leaving was never my proud. Leaving New York never easy. I saw the light fading out. Now life is sweet and what it brings. I tried to take. The loneliness it wears me out.
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Lyrics to Ich war noch niemals in New York in English and the original German, an evergreen hit that still gets a spin at the Munich Oktoberfest. Ich war noch niemals in New York was one of about 1,000 songs composed by the hugely prolific and utterly legendary Udo Jürgens (1934-2014).
