Name: Hey Tommy (Demo)
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Description: Written by James Dunning and Craig Hinkle. (A precursor to Lost Immigrants, this was one of the first songs born out of a Dunning-Hinkle collaboration.)

Hey Tommy (Demo)

from Oddities by Lost Immigrants

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Written by James Dunning and Craig Hinkle. (A precursor to Lost Immigrants, this was one of the first songs born out of a Dunning-Hinkle collaboration.)

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"Hey Tommy"
(Words and music by James Dunning and Craig Hinkle)

Hey Tommy, why did you go?
I didn't even get a chance to say "hello"
Better still, won't you take me along?
I guess it's been too long to find me now

How did you see it all coming down?
Was it a vision you had
Or daydreams possibly, that made you see
It was time for an exit from mediocrity?

So you ran to the place
Where the sunsets are free
And the people that you love
Are tightly held memories
Oh, I wish I could go
How I wish, wish I had known
Hey, Tommy
Hey, Tommy, why did you go?

Hey Tommy someone said your name
Just the other day, but it's all the same
Seems to me they think you're dead
They've forgotten the colors to paint inside their head

Hey Tommy, I wanna run
Like a bullet shot from a desperate gun
Faster than light and sound combined
Hey Tommy, tell me what did you find?

When you ran to the place
Where the sunsets are free
And the people that you love
Are distant memories
Oh, I wish I could go
How I wish, wish I had known
Hey, Tommy
Hey, Tommy, why did you go?

Yeah, put 'em all in line
And I'll be the first to buy
Buy a ticket to their show
Heaven help me and those who know
That you found it somewhere
Where the skies are always clear
Like a city on a hill
You life really fits the bill
And I'd like to die the way that you did
But I'd have to lose myself
And I've worked so hard on me
Here in my life of mediocrity

So you ran to the place
Where the sunsets are free
And the people that you love
Are tightly held memories
Oh, I wish I could go
How I wish I could go
Hey, Tommy
Hey, Tommy, why did you go?

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from Oddities, released January 1, 2012
James Dunning: guitars, vocals, keys

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