When the Party's Over

by Allen Toussaint

From the album: Southern Nights

Track 9 of 10 on Southern Nights (1975).

Duration: 2:38

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Lyrics for When the Party's Over

When the party's over and everybody's gone You know I'll be with you, honey, and we will be alone It's so nice to be with people, especially when everybody's cool And I can always use the time, baby, now, getting into you It's a groovy scene And everybody's clean and feeling good, oh baby People finding pleasure in each other is a treasure And feeling good Say now, I wanna take this moment to tell you how I feel (How I feel, how I feel, tell you that my love is real) And we know how tricky love can be, baby now, but I'm for real Say now, and when the party's over and everybody's gone We can trip out to a space where we can be alone Let my love touch your heart, baby, as gently as I can Let our love play the part, oh baby, like only lovers can

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