The Other Side, Part I
Sometimes I feel like I'm just wasting time
Looking for another side
Sometime I feel like I'm just losing my mind 'cause there ain't
No other side
Sometimes I'm just spinning my wheels, ain't no big deal
Morning, there's another side
Sometimes I feel like I'm just standing in place, ain't no real race
And ain't no other side
Life is like a circle and you end up where you started
You end up where you started
If you end up where you started, ain't no other side
Yeah, but if life is like a curtain that I'm 90% certain that I'm looking through at something
Yes, I'm almost touching something on the other side
Yeah, the opposite of new is old
The opposite of young is old
Seems like, seem like everything, everything has got another side
Yeah, but young ones want to be old ones
Old ones know what they would do if they was young ones
People ain't, people ain't never really satisfied
Folks ain't never satisfied
If life is like a mirror then the nearer you get clearer
You can see it so much clearer
Feel like you know about the other side
Yes and my friends all swear they know
Friends all swear they know
What I should do with my life
How I should run my life
What should be happening with my life
They're on the other side
They're on the outside
I'm on the inside
They're on the outside
I'm on the inside, yes
And things always look so much better from the other side
Four O'clock in the morning
They don't know
All the things I been needing
They don't know
I'm breaking out in a sweat
And they don't know
Feeling bad and they don't know
Feeling down and they don't know
Feeling down and they don't know
They don't know the other side
I need to go home
Momma could change it
Daddy could help me
Yes, I could go home
Yeah, Momma don't need to see me this way
Know me this way
Touch me this way
Love me this way
Find me this way
I can't go home
I'm saying
I don't want to call him
I don't want to know him
I don't want to need him
I don't want to, I don't want to feel it
I don't want to know, I don't wanna know
I don't want to know, I don't want to know
But I know, know know...
Hey, home
Yeah so I say tomorrow
Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow
Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow
Hey, I'm going home
Yeah but tomorrow ain't coming
Tomorrow ain't coming, tomorrow ain't coming
Tomorrow will always where it was
Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow
Yeah I need to go home
Maybe I could start all over, start all over
Start all over, start all over, start all over
Yes I'd like to start all over at home
Without the whispers
Without the whispers
Hanging on me
Pulling on me, rolling with me
Pulling on me, yeah
Yes, I'd like to go home
Without the whispers
Looking for another side
Sometime I feel like I'm just losing my mind 'cause there ain't
No other side
Sometimes I'm just spinning my wheels, ain't no big deal
Morning, there's another side
Sometimes I feel like I'm just standing in place, ain't no real race
And ain't no other side
Life is like a circle and you end up where you started
You end up where you started
If you end up where you started, ain't no other side
Yeah, but if life is like a curtain that I'm 90% certain that I'm looking through at something
Yes, I'm almost touching something on the other side
Yeah, the opposite of new is old
The opposite of young is old
Seems like, seem like everything, everything has got another side
Yeah, but young ones want to be old ones
Old ones know what they would do if they was young ones
People ain't, people ain't never really satisfied
Folks ain't never satisfied
If life is like a mirror then the nearer you get clearer
You can see it so much clearer
Feel like you know about the other side
Yes and my friends all swear they know
Friends all swear they know
What I should do with my life
How I should run my life
What should be happening with my life
They're on the other side
They're on the outside
I'm on the inside
They're on the outside
I'm on the inside, yes
And things always look so much better from the other side
Four O'clock in the morning
They don't know
All the things I been needing
They don't know
I'm breaking out in a sweat
And they don't know
Feeling bad and they don't know
Feeling down and they don't know
Feeling down and they don't know
They don't know the other side
I need to go home
Momma could change it
Daddy could help me
Yes, I could go home
Yeah, Momma don't need to see me this way
Know me this way
Touch me this way
Love me this way
Find me this way
I can't go home
I'm saying
I don't want to call him
I don't want to know him
I don't want to need him
I don't want to, I don't want to feel it
I don't want to know, I don't wanna know
I don't want to know, I don't want to know
But I know, know know...
Hey, home
Yeah so I say tomorrow
Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow
Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow
Hey, I'm going home
Yeah but tomorrow ain't coming
Tomorrow ain't coming, tomorrow ain't coming
Tomorrow will always where it was
Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow
Yeah I need to go home
Maybe I could start all over, start all over
Start all over, start all over, start all over
Yes I'd like to start all over at home
Without the whispers
Without the whispers
Hanging on me
Pulling on me, rolling with me
Pulling on me, yeah
Yes, I'd like to go home
Without the whispers
Credits
Writer(s): Gil Scott-heron
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Link
Other Album Tracks
Altri album
- Legend In His Own Mind (feat. Amnesia Express) [Live, Bremen, 1983]
- Ghetto Ghosts (Live 1977)
- Plug In, Turn On, Cop Out (Live 1983)
- Live in The Bottle
- Spirits
- Aint Really A Life
- The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
- Small Talk at 125th and Lenox
- Nothing New
- When You Are Who You Are / Free Will (Alt Take 1)
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