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Leaving Tomorrow from the album The Chelsea Hotel#4 by ‘Les Paul’s’ (The Paul’s) that is the 4th album in the series of albums about those celebrities, actors, artists, writers, poets, songwriters and musicians that have stayed at the iconic New York through the years or have a strong connection to the hotel.
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After eleven deeply immersive portraits, The Chelsea Hotel #4 closes with “Leaving Tomorrow” – a song that feels like both curtain call and confession. “I wish I could stay,” the recurring line, becomes both lament and lullaby, embodying the transience of genius. It is soft, cinematic, and profoundly moving. Here, Les Paul’s step out from behind their subjects and speak directly to the muse itself: the Chelsea Hotel as a living spirit. The lyrics evoke empty hallways, fading echoes of laughter, and the faint hum of music long since stilled – yet never truly gone. It’s a farewell not just to a building, but to an era, to all the dreams that burned and fell within its walls.
As the final notes dissolve into silence, the listener is left suspended between nostalgia and transcendence. It’s a moment that encapsulates what this album – and indeed the entire series – is about: the eternal dialogue between art and impermanence.
– Read the just published Jamsphere magazine review our album HERE
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download the track Leaving Tomorrow on Bandcamp HERE
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Leaving Tomorrow lyrics
I’m leaving tomorrow, wish I could stay
Just to be with you, for another day
You made my dreams, all come true
There’s nothing anywhere that can compare to you
I’d heard your name wherever I’d go
They told me that you’re someone that I should get to know
I crossed that big ocean to be where you are
I looked at you and saw a thousand stars
When I stood there right outside of your door
I knew there and then what I had come here for
You opened your door and you let me in
Oh how my head started to spin
I came to see you and I found
That there was no-one like you anywhere around
With your new make-up you looked fresh and clean
You looked more beautiful than you had in my dreams
For your majestic beauty and charm I fell
I had found what I had come here for, I could tell
I came 6,000 miles to be by your side
But then you told me there was no room for me inside
So I’ll be leaving tomorrow, I wish I could stay
Just to be with you, for another day
I’m leaving tomorrow, wish I could stay
Just to be with you, for another day
So many people have stayed with you too
What was it that attracted them to you
I wanted to breathe your air and smell your past
They say nothing lasts forever, nothing can last
I’ll remember you for all of my time that remains
Everyone you knew, comes back to see you again
You outshine the brightest stars
Pure perfection is what you are
Look out your window, the day is getting dark
Out on the road, the rain dogs howl and bark
Soon night will be here, I must move on
Reality awaits, the journey back will be long
And I’ll be leaving tomorrow, I wish I could stay
Just to be with you, for another day
I’m leaving tomorrow, wish I could stay
Just to be with you, for another day
Outside it’s still raining, cold and wet
Wish I could have laid on your warm soft bed
But maybe that’s how things were meant to be
No-one can rewrite the pages of history
I’m going back to my place beside the church
I’ve come to the end of my lifetime’s search
You were what I came looking for
I found you and couldn’t have asked for more
I don’t know if we’ll ever meet again
If we do, I don’t know when, I don’t know when
But I know you’ll always be there for me
You will always be my darling Chelsea, my darling Chelsea
Goodbye Chelsea, I sigh, I sigh
Goodbye, goodbye
I’m leaving you now, I wish I could stay
Just to be with you forever and a day
I’m now on the road just like Jack
And I won’t look back, I can’t look back
Goodbye Chelsea, I sigh, I sigh
Goodbye, goodbye
Music composed and performed by Paul Odiase BMI No. 1252265 (Switzerland)
Song lyrics by Paul Robert Thomas PRS No. 497904008 (London)
PRS Tunecode 882610BR
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