track 14
from Archway Archives
I want you back girl
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01 I want you back girl 1975
This was the blurb I wrote for 'back on the Cam' ...
This was one of the last songs I wrote in my ‘early period’ and I certainly never played it anywhere. Flipping though the pages of my old songbook and running things through on the guitar it seemed a bit flat so I scored a jerky piano part and some drums and added the simple guitar riff which livened it up no end.
...but I'd totally forgotten this version recorded in Archway with Roger Brawn, Steve Franks and Roger Wagner. If the BOTC version owed something to George Harrison this is more like CS&N spawn...
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I’ve been thinking… are the chains between us linking
No pretending … seems our lines of life are blending
I… I’d like to try
And I can see that twinkle in your eye
I… I want you back girl
I’m tired of waiting.. sitting here just contemplating
On what got between us.. those happy people could have been us
I… I’d like to try
And I can see that twinkle in your eye
I… I want you back girl
Those eyes shining like rainbows
In my mind when I’m alone
Time flies but something inside grows
Don’t it feel like home
Oh I.. I want you back girl