Babyface

Released: September 18, 2007

Featuring: Brandy

Songwriter: Dave Loggins

Producer: Babyface

[Babyface]
Please come to Boston for the springtime
I'm staying here with some friends and they've got lots of room
You can sell your paintings on the sidewalk
By this cafe club I hope to be working soon

Please come to Boston, she said no
But you come home to me
And she said:

[Brandy]
"Hey ramblin' boy, now you can settle down
Boston ain't your kind of town
There ain't no gold and there ain't nobody like me
I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee."

[Babyface]
Please come to Denver with the snowfall
We'll move up into the mountains, so far where we can't be found
And through 'I love you' echoes down the canyon
And then lie awake at night 'til they come back around

Please come to Denver, she said no
Boy, but you come home to me
And she said:

[Brandy]
"Hey ramblin' boy, why don't you settle down?
Denver ain't your kind of town
There ain't no gold and there ain't nobody like me
I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee."

[Bridge: Babyface]
Now this drifter's world goes round and round
And I doubt if it's ever gonna stop
But of all the dreams I've lost or found
And all that I ain't got
I still need somebody I can cling to
Somebody I can sing to

[Babyface]
Please come to L.A. to live forever
'Cause California life alone is just too hard to deal
We'll live in a house that looks out over the ocean
And there's some stars that fell from the sky, livin' up on the hill

Please come to L.A., she said no
But you come home to me, yeah
And she said:

[Brandy]
"Hey ramblin' boy, why don't you settle down?
L.A ain't your kind of town
There ain't no gold and there ain't nobody like me
I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee."

[Babyface]
I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee

Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds (born April 10, 1959 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is a Grammy Award-winning producer, singer, and songwriter responsible for a string of hits in the 1980s and 1990s. He has written and produced more than 20 number-one hits and won 11 Grammys—including three for Producer of the Year—for his work with Boyz II Men, Whitney Houston, Eric Clapton, Alicia Keys, and Toni Braxton, as well as his own work as an artist.

Babyface got his nickname from funk legend Bootsy Collins after joining his backing band in the 1970s. He joined the group Manchild in the late ‘70s—a group that also included his frequent collaborator Daryl Simmons—before moving out West and working with the group The Deele in the early 1980s, forming a bond with his bandmate and future production partner L.A. Reid. After producing the hit “Two Occasions” for The Deele, L.A. & Babyface broke off and became one of the biggest superproducer duos in R&B, rivaling the hits of fellow superproducer duo Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis.

L.A. & ‘Face had their hands in a string of #1 R&B hits in the late '80s and early '90s from artists such as Pebbles (“Girlfriend”), Karyn White (“Superwoman”), The Whispers (“Rock Steady”), Johnny Gill (“My, My, My”) and many more. They were also instrumental in the success of post-New Edition era Bobby Brown as they produced his #1 hits “Don’t Be Cruel,” “Every Little Step,” “On Our Own,” and “Humpin' Around.” They made history with Boyz II Men in 1992 as they wrote and produced “End of the Road,” which spent a record-breaking 14 consecutive weeks atop the pop chart.

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