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

I Can Never Go Home Anymore - "The Shangri-Las" - Peak Position;#6 in 1965

I'm gonna hide, if she don't leave me alone.
I'm gonna run away.
Don't!!
'Cause you can never, go home anymore

Spoken:
Listen. Does this sound familiar?
You wake up every morning, go to school every day,
spend your nights on the corner, just passing time away.
Your life is so lonely, like a child without a toy.
Then a miracle-a boy.
And that'scalled "glad.".

Now my mom is a good mom, and she loves me with all her heart.
But she said I was too young to be in love and the boy and I would have to part.
And no matter how I ranted and raved, I screamed, I pleaded, I cried.
She told me it was not really love, but only my girlish pride.
And that's called "bad."
(Never go home anymore)

SPOKEN:
Now if that's happened to you, don't let this. I packed my clothes and
left home that night. Though she begged me to stay, I was sure I was right. And
you know something funny? I forgot that boy right away. Instead I remember
being tucked in bed and hearing my mama say,
("Hush, little baby, don't you cry. Mama won't go away")

Mama!!!
(You can never, go home anymore)
Mama!!!
I can never, go home anymore.

Spoken:
Do you ever get that feeling and wanna kiss and hug her?
Do it now tell her you love her.
Don't do to your mom what I did to mine.
She grew so lonely in the end.
Angels picked her for a friend...(Never)
And I can never go home...(never) anymore
And that's called "sad."...

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Shangri-Las
• Can
• Never
• Go
• Home
• Anymore..('65)

[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.

[Loobs666]

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

[oakwoodNS]

Pictures of the girls shaped as razor blades, nice

[MsBkirk]

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

[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 

[Alikah1]

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