Any Day Now (Live at Radio City Music Hall, New York – Feb. 12, 2003)

Lyrics

[Intro] I want to, um, I wanna do a song I have, I have good news and I wanna share it with you now I got nominated for a Grammy this year And the song is this song here I want to take out a second and introduce you to someone Light him up please, yeah You know who he is, but this is our musical director This is Nat Adderley, Jr Nat And I introduce you to Nat because Nat produced and arranged this song on my album, on the last album And, uh, it got nominated for a Grammy, and we are so proud and thank you, I thank you mucho, mucho much And the other good thing is I have a new album that's coming out on June 10th That's right, Tuesday morning, June 10th Oh yeah Singers, why don't we ease on in there Check it [Refrain] (Sha-la-la, la-la-la-la-la) Oh yeah (Sha-la-la-la-la) Any day you'll be gone (Sha-la-la, la-la-la-la-la) Oh yeah (Sha-la-la-la-la) Any day you'll be gone (Sha-la-la, la-la-la-la-la) Whoa, whoa (Sha-la-la-la-la) Oh yeah [Verse 1] Any day now I will hear you say, "Goodbye, my love" Then you'll be on your way Then my wild beautiful bird, you will have flown, ooh oh Any day now, I'll be all alone Oh, oh, hey, hey, hey, yeah I know, baby, now, yeah, yeah Hey, ooh-hoo, yeah [Verse 2] Any day now When the clock strikes go, you'll call it off And then my tears will flow Then the blue shadows will fall all over town, oh And any day now, love will let me down 'Cause you won't be around Oh, baby, now, now, now, now, now, now, now, hey Ooh-hoo, yeah, hey [Bridge] I know I shouldn't wanna keep you If you don't wanna stay (Ooh) Until you're gone forever I'll keep holding (I'll keep holding on) Holding on (I'll keep holding on) for dear life Holding you this way And I'm begging you to stay (Stay) [Verse 3] Any day now When your restless eyes meet someone new, oh, oh And to my sad surprise Then the blue shadows will fall all over town, yeah Any day now, I won't last for long 'Cause any day, you'll be gone [Refrain] (Sha-la-la, la-la-la-la-la) Oh yeah (Sha-la-la-la-la) Any day you'll be gone (Sha-la-la, la-la-la-la-la) Mercy now (Sha-la-la-la-la) You'll be gone, you'll be gone, you'll be gone (Sha-la-la, la-la-la-la-la) You know, and I know any day now (Sha-la-la-la-la) Any day you'll be gone (Sha-la-la, la-la-la-la-la) Mercy, baby (Sha-la-la-la-la) Any day you'll be gone [Outro] Ah, I wanna, I wanna take one second out I wanna tell you that the, the person who— I remember one time I was, um, playing hooky and I had gone to the Apollo to see, uh, this person and The Shirelles And I was quite annoyed because he was headlining over The Shirelles "How can anybody headline over The Shirelles?" is what I thought then And he's here tonight, the original singer of this song and the original maker of this song Chuck Jackson is here, and I just wanna say "hi" to him Warrick, we need some lights on approximately Section GG, something GG, LL, NN or something Yeah, yeah, there you go, haha Everybody, Chuck Jackson, yeah Is Burt Bacharach here? No? Burt's not here? When I wrote that song for Chuck Jackson, let me tell you something Oh, I was so tired when I got through writing that, haha Ah, we're going to, uh, do this here