Can't Take It With You When You Go (Live @ Sugarshack Sessions)

You can't take it with you when you go (no)
No, you can't take it with you when you go
Collect your silver, collect your gold
But in the end, what will you have to show?
'Cause you can't take it with you when you go (go)

I was born at quarter to two in the morning
In the best suit I ever worn
With my first breath, I sang out a warning
To the world I had arrived

And I cried out when I first saw the light
I was blinded
I had been so in love with the darkness
But adjustment is just part of life

And everywhere I looked, everything was changing
And every moment, a new face was appearing
And steering me, clearing my path to the next phase
Of the maze of unfolding awakening, shaking me

And then I drank from the heart of my mother
And heard the song from the soul of my father
And further I flew and into this new world of opportunity
Moving me, forming and informing me, so

Tell me, teach me, show me everything I need to know
'Cause you can't take it with you when you go (yeah, baby)

I was a punk little teenager tormenting my mother
With all the mistakes I made
Yeah, but I never once put a possession over a person
That's just how I was raised

And I labored in a full time job for minimum wage
But my savior was this guitar
Said aloha to these new slave traders
I'll never again waste another drop of perspiration
On a corporation no matter what they pay, no
And I don't need no Christmas bonus, I don't need no raise

'Cause it won't do you no good in your grave (no, it won't)
No, it won't do you no good in your grave
Go break your back, go on, slave away
To count your coins up at the end of the day
But it won't do you no good in your grave (no)

And when I grew into what they refer to as a man
I was told I had to have a plan
I never really understood why
Oh, but I told them I would try

It seems this system is just designed
To make you want shit you don't really need
Fill your heart with greed
Plant a seed of separation in your soul

Just remember, happiness can not be bought or sold
And you can't take it with you when you go
(No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no)

Children listen please, yo, let me say my piece, oh
Growing up is a disease, don't you catch it, yeah

Can't take it with you when you go (yeah)
No, you can't take it with you when you go
Collect your silver, collect your gold
But in the end, what will you have to show?
'Cause you can't take it with you when you go (no)

You can take my love with you when you go (c'mon)
And I'll take your love with me when I go
And hand in hand, we'll leave this land
And go wherever the trade winds blow
And we'll take this love with us when we go