Cypress 2 - 6725 (for Bobby Darin)

Cypress 2 -- 6725 (for Bobby Darin)

Recorded live at Cecil Taylor's Hot Jazz, London, England, December 31, 2007.

Dusty Carr comments: "I suppose you could say that Bobby Darin is hip again. But he sure wasn't hip when he died in '73. Anyway, he was a pal. In fact, we got our tuxes from the same tailor, who also happend to be Sinatra's tailor. Bobby wanted it that way. Last year, I was talking with some people who were with him at the end, and the last thing he ever said on this earth was ' Cypress 2 -- 6725', which was the phone number he had when he was a kid. You can read about that elsewhere. He grew up poor and a phone must have been a big deal. It got me thinking about a song, and I thought that phone number said a lot about Bobby. He was a beautiful punk, he was sick a lot, but he was tough—and I miss him every day."

Cypress 2 -- 6725 (for Bobby Darin)
(® I. Clarke -- D. Carr)

When I heard your teenage words
They sounded so absurd
I knew you were for real
You wanted a much bigger part
You had the soul but not the heart
You rang Cypress 2 -- 6725
It kept you alive
Cypress 2 -- 6725

Back in town, you got around
I loved the way you moved
And you knew how to dress
What went wrong, you couldn't stand
The future lost you in its plan
Time for Cypress 2 -- 6725
Dead or alive
Cypress 2 -- 6725


May there be Beyond the Sea
someone who will wait for me
At night we'll sing up to the stars
Come the day to go away
Let my phone ring a million times
Somehow I know I'll be fine
On Cypress 2 -- 6725
It'll keep me alive
Cypress 2 -- 6725
... I know beyond a doubt

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• Dusty
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• Bobby
• Darin
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