It’s been too hard living, but I’m afraid to die. ‘Cause I don’t know what’s up there, beyond the sky.
Well that's very kind of you, but voices ought not be measured by how pretty they are. Instead they matter only if they convince you that they are telling the truth.
It's been a long time coming But I know a change is gonna come
There been times when I thought I couldn't last for long But now I think I'm able to carry on It's been a long, been a long time coming But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will
Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody.
I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.
You know, I'll always be your slave 'til I'm buried, buried in my grave.
Shakin' like a bowl of soup and make your body loop-de-loop.
Ooh, ah, ooh, ah, that's the sound of the men working on the chain gang.
Man, if I was back home, I'd be swinging with two chicks on my arms.
It’s been too hard living, but I’m afraid to die. ‘Cause I don’t know what’s up there, beyond the sky.
It was something I enjoyed doing and decided to give it a couple years, though I'm not making a lot of money now either!
I was born by the river, in a little tent, and just like the river I've been running ever since.
I don't know what's up there / Beyond the sky
Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took.
Don't know much about history Don't know much biology.
Another fella told me, he had a sister who looked just fine. Instead of being my deliverance, she had a strange resemblance to a cat name of Frankenstein.
I think the secret is really observation. Well, if you observe what's going on and try to figure out how people are thinking, I think you can always write something that people will understand.
I say, as a singer grows older, his conception grows a little deeper, because he lives life and he understands what he is trying to say a little more. And I think this gives. If a singer tries to find out what's happening in life, it gives him a better insight on telling the story of the song he is trying to sing.
