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David Taro and Bill White - Twenty Years Too Late

from Song​-​A​-​Day by Bill White

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VERSE ONE

woke up this morning
everybody was gone
didnt know what side of the bed
i had been sleeping on
the room started spinnin
so i bit down real hard
and took a bus to the beach
along santa monica boulevard


CHORUS ONE
i wanna play beach blanket bingo
with miss lana del ray
but I woke up too early
and twenty years too late


VERSE TWO

i make a reservation
for a one way ticket home
but i havent got a penny
and i cannot get a loan
so im stuck here in west hollywood
living in an empty lot
where the house that one day stood here
has been torn down and forgot

CHORUS TWO

i had a place to stay in malibu
but the owners locked the gate
id try to scale the walls
but im twenty years too late


BRIDGE

and lana's gotten older
and i am older still
and the friends we had on venice beach
are buried in the hills

VERSE THREE

i used to have a twin bed
but i never had a twin
lana stayed there with me
and elvis tucked us in
im walking down five thousand miles
of the pacific coast
looking for a harbor
for dead and living ghosts

CHORUS THREE

i was surfing a tsunami
with miss lana del ray
and when we rang the bells at midnight
it was twenty years too late

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from Song​-​A​-​Day, released July 3, 2019
David Taro Vocals, music, production
Bill White Lyrics

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