Warwick Avenue

Album: Rockferry (2008)
Charted: 3
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  • When I get to Warwick Avenue
    Meet me by the entrance of the tube
    We can talk things over a little time
    promise me you won't step by the line

    When I get to Warwick Avenue
    Please drop the past and be true
    Don't think we're OK just because I'm here
    You hurt me bad but I won't shed a tear

    I'm leaving you for the last time baby
    You think you're loving but you don't love me
    I've been confused outta' my mind lately
    You think you're loving but I want to be free
    Baby you've hurt me

    When I get to Warwick Avenue oh
    We'll spend an hour but no more than two
    Our only chance to speak once more
    I showed you the answers now here's the door

    When I get to Warwick Avenue
    I'll tell you baby, that we're through

    I'm leaving you for the last time baby
    You think you're loving but you don't love me
    I've been confused outta my mind lately
    You think you're loving but you don't love me
    I want to be free, baby you've hurt me

    All the days spent together, I wish for better
    But I didn't want the train to come, now it's departed
    I'm broken hearted, seems like we never started
    All those things here together, when I wished for better
    And I didn't want the train to come

    You think you're loving, but you don't love me
    I want to be free
    Baby, you've hurt me, you don't love me
    I want to be free, baby you've heard me Writer/s: Aimee Ann Duffy, Francis Anthony White, James Dearness Hogarth
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • Alistair from Daventry, United KingdomUS listeners will perhaps think 'Warwick' is mis-pronounced in the song but this is the original English way of saying it (we spent years getting Dionne Warwick's name wrong, using our English version). Warwick is a very English town near Stratford on Avon with a fine castle by the river.
  • Maddie from New York, NyI find this song to be about her telling a guy that she's leaving him for the last time and won't be coming back to him.
  • Derek from Cambridge, New ZealandThis has to be one of the best songs of the year. Duffy has such a distinctive voice, a cross between Lulu & Dusty Springfield (both of whom are/were superb artists). Duffy has the emotion that shows in her songs on the Rockferry album...just great!
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