Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

David Bowie

You're like a sailor with a girl on every shore
Stay with them now for they won't see you no more
Like a gypsy forever on the run
Stay for a while, while ya look for a whore
Like that sailor leaves, come back again
Stay for a while, and they won't see you again
Like that gypsy caravan forever on the run
Ya stay for a while, then you pick up and go

That's how you show
Your love for me
That's how you show
Your love for me
You're like
Here today
Gone tomorrow
Each time you come
You leave a little sorrow
You're like

Here today
Gone tomorrow
Each time you come
Leave a little sorrow

You're like that big, big storm, who's tore the town apart
Leavin' everyone to console their aching heart
Like that snow that fell, looks so wrong and out of place
Stay for a while and then you leave without a trace
That's like, like that storm, tore the town apart
Leave everyone to console their aching heart
Like that snow that fell, looks so wrong and out of place
Stay for a while, leave without a trace

That's how you show your love for me, yeah
That's how you show your love for me

Here today
Gone tomorrow
Each time you come
You leave a little sorrow
You're like

Here today
Gone tomorrow
Each time you stay
You leave a little sorrow, naw

Uh-huh
Oh oh
Here today
Gone tomorrow
Mmhm

You're like
Here today
Gone tomorrow
Each time you come
You leave a little sorrow, yeah

Here today
Gone tomorrow
Each time you come
You leave a little sorrow, yeah yeah

Here today, yeah
Here today but gone tomorrow


Lyrics submitted by nagromnai, edited by Mellow_Harsher, TheKirn

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow [Live, 2005 Mix] Lyrics as written by David Bowie

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    This was an interesting cover that he added in David Live...I still wait to listen to the original...but I loved it, anyway.

    davidbowiefan1on October 11, 2007   Link

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