Savannah is the largest city and the county seat of Chatham County, in the U.S. state of Georgia. Established in 1733, the city of Savannah was the colonial capital of the Province of Georgia and later the first state capital of Georgia. Today Savannah is an industrial center and an important Atlantic seaport. It is Georgia's fourth largest city and third largest metropolitan area.
Each year Savannah attracts millions of visitors, who enjoy the city's architecture and historic buildings: the birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low (founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America), the Georgia Historical Society (the oldest continually operating historical society in the South), the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences (one of the South's first public museums), the First African Baptist Church (one of the oldest African American Baptist congregations in the United States), Temple Mickve Israel (the third oldest synagogue in America), and the Central of Georgia Railway roundhouse complex (the oldest standing antebellum rail facility in America).
get up in the morning, go downtown, work 9 to 5
this is our town
get off work, go midtown, hang out all night
this is our town
our town
this town is our town
OUR TIME IS RIGHT NOW!!
the water's dirty, the river's brown, the air smells bad
this is our town
year after year of the same old thing, not half bad
this is our town
our town
this town is our town
A day not to forget
The machine has collapsed under the program it's been given
Look inside the broken shell
Look inside the broken shell
To see the broken heart
They can't believe the machine was alive but we saw it bleed
We saw it bleed [8x]
The machine it falls apart and when it's cut it bleed
The machine bleeds [6x]
A movie shined like a beacon to a dog-forgotten man,
overwhelmed by the hustle and bustle of the city - yeah
heart-ache and head-ache, he's forced to endure
the story of a victimized girl,
more than a classic beauty was his hell on wheels,
headed San Fernando Valley
She wants to die so I cried
She's a sexy queen
Sunset Strip - Rainbow club, this is our town little honey
this is the life I lead, I live at night,
at daytime I'm using my body
American made and built to get laid
better stop it while you can
You are a fantasy - a fantasy is the one you want to be
You sexy queen
oh! oh!
You sexy queen - yeah
my girl called Savannah
Oh Savannah
Well, your father lends us a car
If we just won't go too far
And we always seem to come home late
Isn't that funny?
Well, your family is so afraid
'Cause our love keeps growing stronger
And they really don't want us
To carry on any longer
Oh Savannah, Savannah, Savannah
Oh, you've taken my heart
Oh Savannah, Savannah
We can make a new start now
This situation is tearing us apart
Oh Savannah, Savannah, Savannah
Oh, you know we can't wait
Oh Savannah, Savannah
'Cause it might be too late if we wait any longer
Oh Savannah
Oh Savannah
You call me on the phone
And you tell me how you're so lonely
But my Daddy won't let me leave home
On account of you, on account of you
Well, you know, well, you know
You know that we've talked this thing over before
Where can we go? Where can we go?
We can run away, we can run away, we can run
Savannah, Savannah, Savannah
Oh, you've taken my heart
Oh Savannah, Savannah
We can make a new start now
This situation is tearing us apart
Oh Savannah, Savannah, Savannah
Oh, you know we can't wait
Oh Savannah, Savannah
'Cause it might be too late, oh Savannah, yeah
Savannah, Savannah
We can run away
Oh Savannah, Savannah
We can run away
Savannah, Savannah
We can run away
Oh Savannah, Savannah
We can run away
We can run away
We can run away
We can run away
Stop, Stare, Goodbye.
This guitar won't play the sound but it's all right
Don't stop, stare, go by, go by, go by
And it was you that flew the ocean
And it was you that makes the sky
And it was you I should have stopped to understand
And she's got dances, you know
And we had dances, she knows
If you fallen into deep, look back
Break too fast in a car that's holding everything I have
They stopped, stared, drove by, goodbye, goodbye
And it was you that flew the ocean
And it was you that makes the sky
And it was you I should have stopped to understand
And she's got dances, you know
And we had dances, she knows
If you fallen into deep, look back
And we crashed, and we crashed
And we crashed, and we crashed
And we crashed, and we crashed
Do you ever think of me
When you lay your head down?
Do you ever think of me
When he ain't around?
Do you ever wonder why
Our love couldn't be?
Ever since you said goodbye
Do you ever think of me?
Savannah
The memory just won't fade
Savannah
I sure wish you'd stayed with me
Savannah
Do you ever see my face
In your new lover's eyes?
Has my memory been erased
Am I out of your life?
I still remember our first night
We made love so tenderly
So when he doesn't hold you right
Do you ever think of me?
Savannah
The memory just won't fade
Savannah
I sure wish you'd stayed with me
Savannah
If he ever lets you down
Happiness just can't be found
I'll still be here hangin' 'round
Savannah
Savannah
(Do you ever think of me?)
Savannah
(Do you ever think of me?)
Savannah
(Do you ever think of me?)
(Matthew L. Moore / Tom Kosta)
Well your father lends us a car,
If we just won't go too far.
And we always seem to come home late
In't that funny
Well your family is so afraid
Cos our love keeps growing stronger
And they really don't want us to carry on
any longer.
Oh Savannah
You've taken my heart
We can make a new start now
This situation is tearing us apart
Oh Savannah you know we can't wait
Cos it might be too late
If we wait any longer
You call me on the phone
and you tell me how you're so lonely
and your Daddy won't let you leave home
on account of me. Well you know,
You know we've talked this over before
Where can we go
We can run away, we can run away... ay...
Savannah, Oh you've taken my heart
We can make a new start now
This situation is tearing us apart
Oh Savannah you know we can't wait
Cos it might be too late
If we wait any longer
[Music : Doernberg, Wunderlich / Lyrics : Doernberg]
Another smoky venue and another long haired band.
Another storm of clapping hands `till the bus rolls again.
Alone in my hotel room with the TV on at night
just to kill the hurting silence after all that noise and light.
And with every mile and every town
and every curtain fallin? down
I start to feel more like a clown
while the roadies start to load.
Like a drifter on a tumbleweed
- addicted to the sound of speed
- already dead but on my feet
and still on the road
Cry for me - my misery - Savannah
I'm searching for a place to call my home.
Set me free - insanity - Savannah.
You'll be by my side wherever I may roam
- Wherever I may roam.
I watch the world revolving
from my daily window seat.
The bus wheels keep on turning
`till it's time for the backbeat.
So if you think this is glamorous
You better should think twice
`cause it's all about the waiting
and it's all about the lies.
Savannah
I hope to be there by the morning
And see this pining all transforming
Into the arms of the Georgia sun
Savannah
I'd love to feel the heat the sunrise
Brushing rays across my windshield as if one dries
The streams from off my face
Yet I know you'll be there cause you'll know I'll want you to be there
And we'll say hello as you're smiling in love
And we'll sigh so relieved I believe because we will both know by tonight we'll feel normal again
But until then
Until then
Until then
Savannah
Our backs supported by a hammock
We sum up perfection like a handbook
And God knows it all too well
Savannah
We'll take a walk to find a gift shop
Who would've thought the book that you bought
Would never come off the shelf
Baby
I spent my life wondering
Wondering when I'd find you
I searched for all these years and now you're right here
I need you to know that
Everything makes sense when you're with me
Savannah
Walk out into the sultry evening
Cotton breathing when the sea winds
Brush the hair down around your neck
Savannah
You hold my hand like it's the first time
And all the feelings that our hearts find
I been strangled by these songs
But I ain't in the wrong
And I ain't impartial no more
So as I try to die
Sell the blood from my eyes
A good they will pay you for
I don't mind if you don't mind about me
Like sweet Savannah skies
I'm too young to die
My Carolina kin
I'll be home again
My sweet mama insists
That my innocence has been levied
And auctioned for gold
But she can't afford this clergy's accord
Or at least that's what
And I don't mean to make you cry
But I can't stand to see you go
And I don't mean to make you mad
I just can't stand to see you go
Oh Savannah
Won't you pardon me
Babydoll, I wanna feel you swim
You look so pretty in the morning sunrise
You smell like baby's breath
In the evening light
Chorus:
I won't leave you
Until the sky falls down on me
And I can't quit you babydoll
I'l addicted to you
Oh Savannah
You're just like a dream
Oh Savannah
Can I have some more
You look so pretty in the morning sunrise
And you smell like baby's breath
In the evening light
Chorus:
Fill your tanks up, hit the gas
Hold it down now, till we pass
South of the border, too many signs
Oh Savannah here we come, Here we come
John B claims that he's about to kill two fifths
Some say he's done it, yes I'm sure it ain't no myth
He likes that Jack and Jim, they treat him oh so well
Oh Savannah here we come
Yeah we headin' down to Georgia
Damn right we lookin' forward to hanging around
Nobody's bringin' us down, Nobody's bringin' us down
Open bar and a open mic
"How may I help you, sir, oh, what would you like?"
"I'd like a shot or two to keep my spirits up"
Oh Savannah here we come
Yeah we headin' down to Georgia
Damn right we lookin' forward to hanging around
Nobody's bringin' us down, Nobody's bringin' us down
Grab a taxi, head into town, there's no relaxin' once the sun goes down, let's all go runnin' through the streets screamin' out loud, Oh Savannah here we come
Yeah we headin' down to Georgia
Damn right we lookin' forward to hanging around