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I Wanna Be Around Lyrics

Artist: Tony Bennett

I Wanna Be Around

- Artist: Tony Bennett as sung on "Tony Bennett's Greatest Hits, Vol. III"
Columbia CL 2313
- peak Billboard position # 14 in 1963
- Words and Music by Sadie Vimmerstedt and Johnny Mercer

I wanna be around to pick up the pieces
When somebody breaks your heart
Some somebody twice as smart as I

A somebody who will swear to be true
As you used to do with me
Who'll leave you to learn
That mis'ry loves company, wait and see

I mean, I wanna be around to see how he does it
When he breaks your heart to bits
Let's see if the puzzle fits so fine

And that's when I'll discover that revenge is sweet
As I sit there applaudin' from a front-row seat
When somebody breaks your heart
Like you, like you broke mine

Transcribed by Robin Hood

These lyrics were transcribed from the specific recording mentioned above
and do not necessarily correspond with lyrics from other recordings, sheet
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Comments/Interpretations

by GUS BOYD on 6/23/2008 7:43pm
A GREAT SENTIMENT...A GREAT SONG...

SUNG BY A GREAT SINGER.

GB

by diane on 6/24/2008 4:14am
my sister used to sing this song but i could never find it and could only remember the part 'when somebody breaks you heart like you broke mine'

by Keerene Carty on 7/31/2008 4:09pm
I LOVE it!!! It's brilliant...ditto

by Mathias Von Cabronssen on 8/1/2008 7:30pm
Needless to say...Great song, beautifully interptreted by Tony

by mariosky9 on 1/10/2009 7:40pm
memories........great

by Lisa on 8/19/2009 4:50pm
LOVE THIS SONG!!!

by JessicaM on 2/3/2010 5:00pm
voices like buttah....

by HI on 4/6/2010 2:51pm
I LOVE THSIS SONG SOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!

by Chelsea on 4/6/2010 2:52pm
I love all your songs the one I love is i left my heart in san francisco! <3

by Matt Karaoke Crooner on 8/13/2010 3:50am
I sang this song 2 years ago in Karaoke,it blew the Karaoke Hostess and the audience away.

They had no idea someone in their early 40s,was going to do a song that classic:)

by walter on 6/3/2011 4:46pm
a song with soul

by by Wayne A. on 1/25/12 7:30 p.m. on 1/25/2012 6:44pm
Tony Bennett. What a class act. He's in a class all his own. A pure gentleman.

by by Wayne A. on 1/25/12 7:30 p.m. on 1/25/2012 6:58pm
Tony Bennett. What a class act. He's in a class all his own. What a pure gentleman!

by by Wayne A. on 1/25/12 at 7:30 on 1/25/2012 7:06pm
Tony Bennett is a class act. He's such a great singer. He sings only classy songs.

by by Wayne A. on 1/25/12 at 7:30 p.m. on 1/25/2012 7:42pm
Tony Bennett is a class act. He's such a great singer. He sings only classy songs.

by Wayne Abraham on 1/26/2012 10:21pm
Please delete my comments on T.B.

by Anne on 7/14/2012 11:28am
Brilliant song sung by one of the greats with lyrics nearly as good as Positively 4th Street

by Nici on 7/19/2012 10:47pm
A refreshing healer.

by Bruce on 9/20/2012 2:49am
Correction:
A somebody who will swear to be true
As you did with me
Who'll give you a turn
Then leave you to learn
That mis'ry loves company, wait and see

by steve c. on 10/14/2012 11:39pm
Great lyrics...Too bad the Performer is such a putz.

by paulyrizzo on 6/6/2014 11:23am
Original lyrics by the great Johnny Mercer inspired by Sadie Vimmerstedt of Ohio. Best known version is by Tony bennet though sung by many others.