# A little help figuring out lyrics? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 15, 2018, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-help-figuring-out-lyrics/826153 "2018-12-15T01:14:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2018, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-help-figuring-out-lyrics/826153/1 "2018-12-15T01:14:46Z")
I’m working up the song [Indecision by James King](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-1aD2PbUb8), to play with my group, and I’m having a heck of a time figuring out the lyrics for one line. The line in question starts at 2:06 on the linked recording. It starts “_Reaching for both_” Including the line before and after, I’ve got: _But I’m travelling, down a road that has no end Reaching for both (? ? ?- 3 syllables) It’s useless to pretend. I need you even though I know I’m losing_ I can’t figure out the three syllables in the parens, either by sound or from context. And I couldn’t find any other recorded versions online or any lyrics (I have this on a compilation disc, with no lyrics.) To my ear, the mystery 3 syllables sound something like “and yer foon” Maybe he was just being indecisive in that line… 😃 In case it helps you put it in context, the entire lyrics I have are: \*I’m sailing on a sea of indecision Deep dark waters on both sides I can’t make up my mind which way I’m going To ease away this hurt so deep inside If I lose you, that old sun will cease to shine If by laws of God and men, you cannot be mine I really do not know which way I’m going My soul is dying every day I really wish I had a way of knowing Either way my heart will have to pay BREAK You cannot live with one and love another When - I lose I just can’t stay Drifting on a sea of indecision Either way my heart will have to pay But I’m traveling, down a road that has no end Reaching for both (? ? ?- 3 syllables) It’s useless to pretend. I need you even though I know I’m losing I really wish that I could find a way I know that I will soon have to be choosing Either way my heart will have to pay.\* Cheery tune, huh? 😉 Appreciate any help you might be able to give. (Reminds me of when I was in a band back in the 80s - thought we were going to go mad trying to figure out the lyrics to Peter Gabriel’s Modern Love off vinyl LP. WTF - The driver had stolen Lady Godiva’s WHAT???) 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![zombywoof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/9e8a1a/32.png) [@zombywoof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zombywoof)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2018, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-help-figuring-out-lyrics/826153/2 "2018-12-15T01:33:42Z")
I don’t hear “both” where you do - I hear something more like “for” (again) or “four” or “far” - as to what follows, something like “baby food”, LOL ---
**Author:** ![zombywoof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/9e8a1a/32.png) [@zombywoof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zombywoof)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2018, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-help-figuring-out-lyrics/826153/3 "2018-12-15T02:02:51Z")
OK, I found it - listen [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvRTsQiKTms) from about 25:15 - “reaching for forbidden fruit it’s useless to pretend” ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2018, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-help-figuring-out-lyrics/826153/4 "2018-12-15T03:16:44Z")
Damned fine work, zombiewoof! Thanks a million! How’d you find that? What did you search under? ---
**Author:** ![zombywoof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/9e8a1a/32.png) [@zombywoof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zombywoof)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2018, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-help-figuring-out-lyrics/826153/5 "2018-12-15T03:22:51Z")
You’re welcome! I found it by looking up the James King album on allmusic ([here](https://www.allmusic.com/album/lonesome-and-then-some-mw0000177417)), found the songwriter was Ola Belle Reed, then searching for stuff like “Ola Belle Reed Indecision”, which led me to the video above. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2018, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-help-figuring-out-lyrics/826153/6 "2018-12-15T23:19:33Z")
Thanks again. In my ignorance, I had assumed JK wrote it. We do another of his tunes. But I really dig Ola Belle - we do a couple of other songs of hers.