Shangri-Las - I Can Never Go Home Anymore w/ LYRICS

[oakwoodNS]

Pictures of the girls shaped as razor blades, nice

[zazoom84]

i remember this song when it came out...i thought it was a hoot even then...

[MrRaiderfan1000]

This was released around the time that J.Frank Wilson had "Last Kiss" both sad songs. It would be hard to discribe the feeling of hearing these songs as a kid. Not in todays terms or standards. The words to this song ring true: "Could Never Go Home Anymore!"

[jbolio888]

LOVE these haunting 60's songs.

[clarkzie100]

my mom has been gone for 25 year's.. I have two daughter's of my own. but you will never forget you're mother's love , even if you were not the best kid. I never told her how much I loved her. That is sad..

[smalltownmiss]

This was rapping back then. What a difference.

[ElectricMethod]

This song is too amazing to describe in just one youtube comment.

[7Nevermore9]

maybe the saddest song

[talliwoof]

"She grew so lonely in the end, angels picked her for a friend" :(

RIP Amy x

[littlenelly99]

@ atthedi, you must have been watchn "When Amy came to Dingle" rite? she was attracted to really deep depressive but meaningfull lyrics alright, some people cant help being that way, poor Amy was just emotionally very weak,hence the addiction. I think that performance @ Dingle was prob one of her best ever, her voice alongside bass guitar alone, it was amazing & drinking water, Amy at her best r.i.p Amy

[littlenelly99]

@ atthedi, you must have been watchn "When Amy came to Dingle" rite? she was attracted to really deep depressive but meaningfull lyrics alright, some people cant help being that way, poor Amy was just emotionally very weak,hence the addiction.

[atthedi]

When Amy Winehouse had a depression she used to listen to that song for a week. No wonder she went nuts.

[Alikah1]

@atthedi As though she was wrapped all that tightly before.

[MsBkirk]

@atthedi I related it to Amy's mum and dad splitting up - who didn't go home in their case?

[irada20]

I hear Amy Winehouse in this music.

[talliwoof]

OMG....sad :/

[harrietalice93]

i cant begin to explain how amazing this song is.

[therealjoebloggs]

The oldies stations only play "Leader of the Pack"-- and that's...sad.

[starestrellakal]

I'm 16 and this is one of my favorites songs :) One of my favorite groups :) And I relate so much to this...though don't worry I didn't run away. RIP to the Shangri Las who are gone and live on to the ones still here. They live on always in their music if a 16 year old kid like me is listening! This stuff is sooo cool I LOVE it love them. <3

[CreamyMacarooney]

I am seventeen, and I was so keen.

I wanted to escape my mother.

Now, after hearing this song,

I won't move out of the house... yet.

[SteveElMonk86]

Mary Weiss was actually crying at the end of recording this song.

[12speeder]

You might, if you searched for a million years, through a million records find one as good as this, performed as good as this-but I doubt it. Shangri-las and the songwriter Morton were something really out of the ordinary, something almost supernatural considering what was also being played at that time and since. Mary was beautiful, had/has an incredible voice.

[5saxman7]

Wow



[KhoobBoob]

i just cried a little

[wawawis]

Soon after hearing this song for the 1st time in 2006, I got into a fight with my mother & this song weighed heavily on my mind and caused me to make up sooner than later. For somebody who's cold & iron strong like me, I admit this song has the capability to reduce everybody to tears at the right moment. It has to be the saddest song I've ever heard. The next 3 years were great, glad we made up because she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2009 & passed away last year.

[pecangel]

@wawawis I am so so sorry for your lose, but I am glad you heard this song, it gave you the peace that would have needed. RIP your mom.

[HugoMasekela]

Nowadays this song would be titled: "You're Probably Just Gonna' Move Back In Anyways (In Your Twenties)"!!

[Nestor123057]

This song affected me so much when I first heard it. I can't remember if I cried, I just remembered never stopped telling my other how muched I loved her.

[budmangt2]

Mary and the twins were born with this talent to sing..It's the kind of thing that's not learned..Today's so call singers have no talent what's so ever and there music is just garage..and they receive lots of money and fame and they are so mess up...Mary wiess had a hard life and lived it with such grace and modesty and very little money and she was only a child when she sang these songs.with adult wisdom..We love you Mary

[bilcon12]

My mom just told me this song makes her think of me?anyone think of a reason why??

[nancymleinek]

I heard this song on the oldies channel on tv and wow it hit me like a rock, brought back some deep memories..........thanks

[markcat5]

The Shangri-Las had many good songs, I think this was their best. It is timeless and any generation can relate the the story line.  The vocals of Mary Weiss are amazing in this song.

[689321546]

she had a haunting voice , which made this so great

[Loobs666]

and that's called.... 60's Girly-Group music at it's most melodramatic....and Damn fine it is as well!

[QUEENALIZE]

im 31 my mom use 2 sing this song 2 me she said 1 day u will understand this song the day she died i understood why she said that

[shmuli9]

And this was #1 in Canada.  (So was 'My World Is Empty without You' by the Supremes.) Yes, this is a good song - and Mary Weiss actually got quite emotional recording this song.

[heru1966]

Their songs were like mini films. What can you say? Touching.

[StanBennet]

This song was decades ahead of its time.

[BootPatrol]

This is quite a story, one which is worth hearing. This is the first time I've heard this song, and I think it should be played for every teenager in the country.

Very good work, and thanks for posting, friend.

[Rivalee]

I just love this song

[simplymufasa]

I just love the beginingof the song <3

[Jaaaaam]

As is the obligatory age statement, I'm 19. I'm not going to say I wish I was around back then because a lot of the music I love has come after too. This is, however, bloody amazing.

[drstevie]

the greatest record ever made !

[kickassfan]

so haunting and masterful,EAT this pussycats,Lady Gaga,sluts..this is class

[ladydragoncharmer]

This song at one point brought me to tears because it reached deep down into a part of me that I never had and another part of me that emotionally was strongly connected to.

[54nomore]

One of their greatest songs ever. This is a conflict that goes on everyday. And still the answers are very hard to find. Hopefully we will figure it out sometime.....

[crowleysridgegirl]

Mary Weiss' anguished cry of "mama!" @ 2:09 and 2:23 sends chills down my spine and tears to my eyes!

[policemanandrew]

Kids today don't know they're bloody born.

This is proper music not all this Lady Ga Ga and Lily Allen marlarke you hear on the wireless.

Brilliant stuff!!!!

[maryjochat]

it sure does

[issurchaim]

i forgot how powerful these songs were...thank you.

[Looner]

Wow!  Made my cat's ears up like an owl! lol...Awesome!

[ShaBomp]

Wow. I remember listening to this on an old 45 record when I was just a little girl...it was my mother's when SHE was a little girl.  I used to think it was such a sad story.

[irlbyj]

It is the song which was popular more than 40 years ago. I was a junior-high school student, I often heard this song on the radio.

I look back on it with nostalgia.

[khj93play]

@irlbyj You mean over 44 y/o ago. If you were in junior high in 1965 you must be in your mid 60's. As a 9y/o boy I could never get enough of this song. It 's sad though how the twins died so young and bitter.

[irlbyj]

@khj93play Thank you for the message. When I heard that song, I was 13years old and was 1st grade in junior high school in Japan. I am sad hearing the member of the group died young.

[oldermusiclover]

i heard part of a song today, i thinkwas done by same group. it says something about a couple running away to get married and dying on the way. asking will

you give us youre blessing, p;lease don't

make us run away. does anyone know the

song

[susandiane311]

@oldermusiclover  The name of the song you're looking for is "Give Us Your Blessings" first released by Ray Peterson in 1963 and then by the Shangri-Las in 1965. The Shangri-Las had the most popular version,

[689321546]

to all the young teen girls of today you should listen to this song, never hurt your mom she's the only mom you'll ever have .

[1115youha]

i love song best ever!

nostalgia...........

[chanal05]

my mum loves this song

she told me 2 search and when she herd it she got excited!

its a nice song :)

[willgonow]

i wuz 5 years old in 1965, but i remember this tune, strange !

kool stuff.

[paulf0403]

Lead singer Mary Weiss has the absolute best singing - and speaking - voice of any female EVER! She makes me crazy she's so good.

[689321546]

thats called sad........ still brings tears to my eye's

[ScriptWorker]

I haven't heard this in a while. I had forgotten. The depth of the song, the strain in the voice, the utter heart renching.

And what makes their songs so amazing? They are all human stories, songs that touched the lives and the hearts of everyday people. There was never a group like it and there hasn't been anything or anyone to surpass them. This song really strikes home.

[EOJARJARBINX]

And thats called...beautiful.

[moparfan59]

Sad, but powerful. I didn't hear this until 1979. Even so. it makes me thankful that it ended for my mom (85 y. o.) the best way it possibly could, with a brief illness after a good ride. Thanx for posting.

[Carsonetric]

Thanks for posting! Moms are precious and often under-appreciated. Don't wait 'till it's too late to show her you care!

[halleyhobbie01]

I think that Bat For Lashes would do a great cover of this.

[inkybuz]

@halleyhobbie01 heck-yeah!

[54nomore]

I would love to see Beyonce and her old girl group "Destiny Child" do the Shangri-las greatest hits. I feel they can pull it off. It would shed light onto a group that was one of the best girl groups of the 60's. What say you?....

[conservativegrunt]

This is too awesome for Beyonce.

[faeryquene]

♥Love them!♥

[bob51ford]

the ultimate greaser girl band of the mid 60's.i'm a beatles guy but all these groups were good.give me motown anytime also.cars were fun and times so much easier and people got along better.

[englishsinger]

@bob51ford I think the Shangri-Las got the 'greaser' tag purely because of 'Leader of the Pack' and it suited their record company to market them like that. I never really thought of them that way. I loved a lot of Motown too but the Shangri-Las were different and had a unique style. Very underestimated.

[purdybrothers]

What a great song i wish we still had singers like this fantastic job thanks

for posting

[lolacutiepie10]

thats so sad

[netherwaygirls]

thats sad

[54nomore]

One of the greatest songs dealing w/teenage children that was ever penned and sung. I love how the rap (Spoken Lyric) tells the story of a rebellious teenage girl in the mist of her puberty betray her mothers wisdom. Untill at the end realizes that her actions had consequences. This mini opera is something the Shangri-las were best known for.

The melodies and lyrics to most of their songs were pure genius.

[689321546]

so true i'am from the era of song's and i still cry when i hear it , crying right know .

[oldermusiclover]

You are so right. i never heard this song

till i was an adult, but it gives me goosebumbs. the only song like it

i have ever heard, is Walk Away Joe

[princessa242]

i love this song!! but its still sad.

[jekiwe]

always enjoy seeing pictures of the girl groups of the 60s. i remember this song quite well. i was dating a girl, three years younger than me. I was 18. her mom just couldn't stand the sight of me...got a migraine everytime i came around. time passed and the girl and i parted ways but i was really infatuated with her. she was very much a girl but also in another way... a woman! thanks for the post!

[smlmlmmm]

thank you so much for posting this!! i was telling my daughter about this song...am going to tell her to listen to it..so sad...

[skyavalanche]

The wisdom of the Shangrila's cannot be underscored. They taught us what we shouldn't do...who we shouldn't fall in love with. Of course it was always too late, as our emotions always crossed the line...and those VIOLINS (Gasp!)CLASSIC!!

[Montag80]

Oh My God So Sad...

[mansfield67]

My favorite song by them ! Thanks for posting.

[cynthiaann17]

OMG...this just brings so many tears..thank you..i have a daughter now and i'm trying real hard to teach her all the wrong i did...she's so beautiful...it's scary

[Montag80]

Cinematic Experience.

[ynrtfln]

Pretty song...