Randall Stuart "Randy" Newman (born November 28, 1943) is a singer/songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist who is notable for his mordant (and often satirical) pop songs and for his many film scores.
Newman is noted for his practice of writing lyrics from the perspective of a character far removed from Newman's own biography. For example, the 1972 song "Sail Away" is written as a slave trader's sales pitch to attract slaves, while the narrator of "Political Science" is a U.
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G#D#6C#/FFBbm I ran out on my children D#/BbFm7D# And I ran out on my wife G#D#6C#/F Gonna run out on you too, baby BbmD#/Bb I’ve done it all my life
Everybody cried the night I left, well, almost everybody did My little boy just hung his head And I put my arm, put my arm around his little shoulder And this is what I said:
Chorus: G#D# "I just want you to hurt like I do FmC#D# I just want you to hurt like I do G#F I just want you to hurt like I do BbmD#G# Intro Honest I do, honest I do, honest I do"
If I had one wish one dream I knew would come true I'd want to speak to all the people of the world I'd get up there, I'd get up there on that platform First I'd sing a song or two you know I would I'd do
D# I'd talk to the people and I'd say G#Cm "It's a rough rough world, it's a tough tough world C#FBbm Well, you know D# And things don't always, things don't always go the way we plan G#C#FBbm But there's one thing, one thing we all have in common D# And it's something everyone can understand All over the world sing along