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Daddy used to Travel

from Back on Track by Jean-Michel George

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Daddy used to travel a lot
Mummy used to cry at home
And I used to play in the backroom
And in my pocket was a photograph
Of you
Of you

That's when we came to France
Give ourselves another chance
But I'm still stuck in the backroom
Tearing up your photograph

Oh Daddy
Now your flying home at last
On a cold and rainy morning
As the smell of kerosene fills the air
I could burn
And the terminal is empty
And I'm pretty much the same
As they hand across the little box
And on it is your name
And all I can think of are the stupidest jokes :
"How much does a Grecian earn" (urn) ?

Fifteen years have flown
And I have children of my own
That bear your name
But you've never known

Oh Daddy,
When the shadows of the past
Take me without warning
Craving for what could have been
I'm aware I should burn
If the story is repeating
I'm pretty much to blame
But it's hard to keep on smiling
Except within a frame
When all that you've lived for has gone up in smoke
Some people never learn

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from Back on Track, released June 7, 2015
Music,Vocals & Lyrics Jean-Michel George (2013)

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Jean-Michel George Paris, France

Like stepping stones in a storm-tossed sea
These hand-picked songs propound to be
The safest path from you to me ...

Anglo-French composer, songwriter and singer.

Using film references, humour, nostalgia and stories with a twist as building blocks, my music is the by-product of a life spent swinging from soundtracks to pop, classical to EDM, jazz to new-wave

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