Eric Burdon - Leo's Place (1988)

"Leo's Place" by Eric Burdon. Taken from the album "I Used To Be An Animal" (1988).

Very moody song.

Lyrics

You can always get a decent cuppa coffee
Just a block from Piccadilly
Watchin' the bums, punks and straights
The world is on parade at Leo's place

American girls looking for a ride
Tryin' to get across to the other side
He'd see them all through the serving hatch
They young the old, the yellow and black

Chorus:
I don't recall your name, but I recall your face
Everyone looks the same, hanging around at Leo's place

I don't care where I travel to
One big circle leads me back to you
Those coffeehouse dreams that set me on the road
Always brings me back to Leo's

Used to impress my best girls
Take'em down to Leo's place
Because of them not me, I know
That's how he remembers my face
So sad that things have changed
Junkies fill the place
But it don't change the taste
The coffee's still the best at Leo's place

Chorus:
This world is not what it used to be
One time a man could hitchhike from A to Z
A country explodes, another boarder close
Sometimes I wish l'd never left Leo's

So if you wanna see me again
I tell you where, you say when
I got this number, it may change
All you gotta remember is Leo's place

Chorus:
I don't recall your name, but I recall your face
Everyone looks the same, hanging around at Leo's place

l'm coming home, I've been to America,
Africa, Asia and Japan
I am what you call a travellin' man
l've seen the ladies in Africa, Tokyo, Soho
South of the border, Rio de Janeiro
But now the time has come,
To go back where I started from . . .

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Eric Burdon
• Leo's Place
• 1988
• I Used To Be An Animal
• pop
• story
• 80s
• new age
• punk rock
• singer-songwriter

[soutltank]

nice song

[JulianThomePictures]

Nobody can imagine what I feel for this song...

[magusmagic2]

The music of Eric Burdon will see me into the New Year. Happy 2009, Julian and everyone!

[hzsuzsi]

To go back where I started from . . .

[whotwo]

LOVE this tune , when I first got the CD I just had to play this song over and over --- so simple and catchy, thanks Julian. I want to live at LEO'S PLACE!

[slimeandoxygen]

thank you so much for this, i can't get enough of it. it's been on repeat since i found it!

[California228]

I met Burdon ones at Leo`s. We smoked a couple of stones together and had a good night!

[tdfd023]

Should have packed it in in '72? And miss his last two albums (Secret Life and Soul of a Man)?

If you listen closely to Jagger, you'll realize who he's been trying to rip off all these years. He's always trying to howl like Burdon but can't. Still like Jagger, but Jagger has failed to produce a decent solo album....but Burdon can and still does.

[originalwildman1969]

ERIC Is the best! Was in 1967,77,87,97,07 and to the day I die!

when I think of all the good time that i have wasted having good times!!

[AXISOFHENDRIX]

should have packed in in in '72

[foghatconcertseries]

I wanna go to Leo's!