He wear no shoeshine
He got toe jam football
He got monkey finger
He shoot Coca-Cola
He say I know you, you know me
One thing I can tell you is
You got to be free
Come together, right now
Over me
Coming close together with a feeling that I’ve never know before, in my time
She ain’t afraid to be a woman or afraid to be a friend
I don’t know the answer to the easy way she opens every door in my mind
Dreaming was as easy as believing it was never gonna end
Loving her was easier than anything i’ll ever do again
Close every door to me,
Hide all the world from me
Bar all the windows
And shut out the light
I ain’t gonna do you wrong while you’re gone
Ain’t gonna do you wrong cause I don’t wanna
All I’m askin’
Is for a little respect when you come home (just a little bit)
RIP Aretha.
You better think (think)
Think about what you’re trying to do to me
Think (think, think)
Let your mind go, let yourself be free
You told me to leave you alone
(Ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo)
My father said ‘Come on home’
(Ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo)
My doctor said ‘Take it easy’
(Ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo)
Oh but your lovin is just too strong
You make me feel,
You make me feel,
Yeah, you make me feel
Like a natural woman.
Though you don’t call anymore
I sit and wait in vain
I guess I’ll rap on your door
Tap on your window pane
I want to tell you baby
Changes I’ve been going through
Missing you, listen you
'Til you come back to me
That’s what I’m gonna do
Tap on my window, knock on my door,
I want to make you feel beautiful,
I know I get so insecure
It doesn’t matter anymore…
I’ve been cheated, been mistreated
When will I be loved
I’ve been put down, I’ve been pushed 'round
When will I be loved
I’ll say goodbye to love
No one ever cared if I should live or die
Time and time again the chance for love has passed me by
And all I know of love
Is how to live without it
I just can’t seem to find it
I guess I’m uptight
And I’m stuck like glue
Cause I ain’t never
I ain’t never, I ain’t never, no, no, loved a man
The way that I, I love you
The only one who could ever reach me
Was the son of a preacher man
The only boy who could ever teach me
Was the son of a preacher man
Yes he was, he was, ooh, yes he was
I was born in the wagon of a travellin’ show
My mama used to dance for the money they’d throw
Papa would do whatever he could
Preach a little gospel, sell a couple bottles of doctor good
Eatin’ rainbow stew from a silver spoon,
Underneath that sky of blue,
We’ll all be drinkin’ that free bubble-ubb,
Eatin’ that rainbow stew…
Everyday for supper time, she’d go down by the truck patch
And pick her a mess of polk salad, and carry it home in a tow sack
Polk salad Annie, the gators got your granny
Everybody says it was a shame
Cause her momma was a workin’ on the chain gang
(A wretched, spiteful, straight-razor totin’ woman
Lord have Mercy, pick a mess of it)
I found a picture of you, oh oh oh oh
What hijacked my world that night
To a place in the past
We’ve been cast out of? Oh oh oh oh
Now we’re back in the fight
We’re back on the train
Oh, back on the chain gang
I put your picture away,
I wonder what you’ve done today,
I can’t look at you,
While lying next to him…
Every time I see your face
It reminds me of the places we used to go
But all I’ve got is a photograph
And I realize you’re not coming back anymore
Whenever I see your smiling face
I have to smile myself
Because I love you (Yes, I do)
And when you give me that pretty little pout
It turns me inside out
There’s something about you, baby (I don’t know)