(Well, don’t you know)
That’s the sound of the men
Working on the chain gang
That’s the sound of the men
Working on the chain gang
Working on the Chain Gang – Sam Cooke
-“BB”-
Been workin’ and workin’
But I still got so terrible long to go
Breaking up big rocks on the chain gang
I’m comin’ home, I’ve done my time
Now I’ve got to know what is and isn’t mine
If you received my letter telling you I’d soon be free
Then you’ll know just what to do if you still want me
If you still want me
Don’t
Don’t you want me?
You know I don’t believe you
When you say that you don’t need me
I want you to want me
I need you to need me
I’d love you to love me
I’ll shine up the old brown shoes, put on a brand-new shirt
I’ll get home early from work if you say that you love me
No, you can’t always get what you want
You can’t always get what you want
You can’t always get what you want
But if you try sometime you’ll find
You get what you need
I need you like the flower needs the rain
You know I need you, guess I’ll start it all again
You know I need you like the winter needs the spring
You know I need you, I need you
People
People who need people
Are the luckiest people in the world
I can’t understand
What makes a man
Hate another man
Help me understand
People are people, so why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully
People are people, so why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully
I am no better and neither are you
We’re all the same whatever we do
You love me you hate me
You know me and then
You can’t figure out the bag I’m in
I am an everyday people (yeah yeah)
How can people have no feelings
How can they ignore their friends
Easy to be proud
Easy to say no
I’ve built walls
A fortress, steep and mighty
That none may penetrate
I have no need of friendship
Friendship causes pain
Its laughter and its loving I disdain
And if I built this fortress around your heart
Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire
Then let me build a bridge
For I cannot fill the chasm
And let me set the battlements on fire
We gotta burn down the mission
If we’re gonna stay alive
Watch the black smoke fly to heaven
See the red flame light the sky
Should have taken warning
It was just people ignoring, running, hiding, lost
Couldn’t find, find a place to go
So it’s red skies at night, red skies at night
Sisters and brothers daddys mothers standin’ ‘round cryin’
When I reached the scene the flames were makin’ a ghostly whine
So I stood on my horse’s back an’ I screamed without a crack
I say oh baby why’d you burn your brother’s house down?
Ah, watch out
You might get what you’re after
Cool babies
Strange but not a stranger
I’m an ordinary guy
Burning down the house
I remember when I was a little girl, our house caught on fire.
I’ll never forget the look on my father’s face as he gathered me up
In his arms and raced through the burning building out to the pavement.
And I stood there shivering in my pajamas and watched the whole world go up in flames.
And when it was all over I said to myself, “Is that all there is to a fire”
When I was just a little girl
I asked my mother, “What will I be?”
“Will I be pretty, will I be rich?”
Here’s what she said to me
“Que será, será
Whatever will be, will be
The future’s not ours to see
Que será, será
What will be, will be”
¿Qué pasa, qué pasa?
¿Qué pasa, qué pasa?
¿Qué pasa, qué pasa?