Bleachers' album version
Ooh yeah
Get in my backseat, honey pie
And I'll wear your sadness like it's mine
Because it's just good to feel what's been missing
Yeah it's bad when it's good to always be missing
But a girl like you could rip me out of my head
Black tears on your cheek I want them in my bed
I'll take you out of the city, honey right into the shadow
Because I wanna find tomorrow, yeah I wanna find tomorrow
With a girl like you, my Chinatown baby
Sitting on the front stoop crying out the crazy
I'll take you out of the city, honey right into the shadow
Because I wanna find tomorrow, yeah I wanna find tomorrow with you baby
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme that big red light
And take the sadness out of Saturday night
Because that's just good to have what was missing
We were bad to be bad, to always be missing
But a girl like you could rip me out of my head
Black tears on your cheek I want them in my bed
I'll take you out of the city, honey right into the shadow
Because I wanna find tomorrow, yeah I wanna find tomorrow
With a girl like you, my Chinatown baby
Sitting on your front stoop crying out the crazy
I'll take you out of the city, honey right into the shadow
Because I wanna find tomorrow, yeah I wanna find tomorrow with you baby
I wanna run, I wanna run
I love to chase every feeling
I wanna run, I wanna run
I wanna run 'cause I wanna find tomorrow with you baby
Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I love to chase every feeling
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
CHINATOWN is a song written by Jack Antonoff and Evan Smith and released by Bleachers (Antonoff's official stage name) first as a single in 2020 and later included on the 2021 album Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night. The above lyrics are for Bleachers's album version of CHINATOWN as released in 2020.
Bruce Springsteen contributed backing vocals on CHINATOWN. The song, officially stylized as "chinatown", was produced by Jack Antonoff and Patrik Berger. It was first released as a single on 16 Nov 2020. The Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night album was released on 31 Jul 2021.
In the single press release, Antonoff wrote about his collaboration with Springsteen. "It's the honor of a lifetime to be joined by him. He is the artist who showed me that the sound of the place I am from has value and that there is a spirit here that needs to be taken all over the world."
Track credits:
Composer: Evan Smith, Jack Antonoff
Lyricist: Jack Antonoff
Producer: Jack Antonoff, Patrik Berger
Recording engineer: Laura Sisk
Mixing engineer: Mark "Spike" Stent
Mastering engineer: Chris Gehringer
Assistant engineer: John Rooney, Jon Sher, Matt Wolach, Rob Lebret, Will Quinnell
Vocal: Bruce Springsteen, Jack Antonoff
Background vocal: Patrik Berger
Acoustic guitar: Jack Antonoff
Electric guitar: Jack Antonoff, Mikey Freedom Hart, Patrik Berger
Bass: Jack Antonoff
Keyboards: Jack Antonoff
Synthesizer: Evan Smith, Patrik Berger
Drum machine: Jack Antonoff
Cello: Jacob Braun
Violin: Serena McKinney Göransson
Glockenspiel: Patrik Berger
Percussion: Michael Riddleberger, Sean Hutchinson
A music video for CHINATOWN was released on Bleachers' YouTube channel on 16 Nov 2020 to coincide with the single release. The video, directed by Carlotta Kohl, features an appearance by Bruce Springsteen.
Other versions of CHINATOWN were also officially released.
CHINATOWN was performed off-tour in December 2020 at Electric Lady Studios in New York City, NY, during a guest appearance with Bleachers. See the live December 2020 version for more details.
List of available versions of CHINATOWN on this website:
CHINATOWN [Bleachers' album version]
