Mississippi Delta City Blues
I've got a smile that I put on
When I'm not at home, when I'm not alone
It is so hard to make that smile
'Cause I know I'll be at home and alone in a while
If I look in a mirror, I see my eyes start to tear
Can't help but cry since you said goodbye
I've got to hide
What I'm feelin' inside
Can't let them see
That you could hurt me so
Guess what I'll do
Won't let them see through
Won't let them know that you could hurt me so
I got a laugh that I put on
When I'm not at home, when I'm not alone
And it is so hard to fake that laugh
When my insides are cryin' and my heart's torn in half
And all the music I hear
Things I value so dear
Make me feel so blue, they all remind me of you
What can I do?
Oh, our love is through
My purpose is gone
And I gotta keep living on
Oh, that's what I'll do
Won't let them see through me
Won't let them know that you could hurt me so, yeah
That's what I'll do
Won't let them see through me
Won't let them know
That you could hurt me so
Nothing could be back when your mind wakes up
I gotta see that you really love me
The people won't say
That you'll do it again
They'll just look at you, darlin'
Now I'll be your friend
If you come on home
They'll just leave
Look at you, darling
They all say hello, hello
Hello, baby
Won't you come home?
Come on hold me baby
Won't you come home to me?
They said, "Would you get back to the back, back to the back?"
Back to the back, give it, give it back oh
I love you, I need yah
I love you
Now, I need yah
Don't you leave me
Don't you leave me
Don't you leave me, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Don't you leave me
New one, thank you very much
We haven't played for a while
But huh, oh, there I am
I was talking, but I couldn't hear me
When I'm not at home, when I'm not alone
It is so hard to make that smile
'Cause I know I'll be at home and alone in a while
If I look in a mirror, I see my eyes start to tear
Can't help but cry since you said goodbye
I've got to hide
What I'm feelin' inside
Can't let them see
That you could hurt me so
Guess what I'll do
Won't let them see through
Won't let them know that you could hurt me so
I got a laugh that I put on
When I'm not at home, when I'm not alone
And it is so hard to fake that laugh
When my insides are cryin' and my heart's torn in half
And all the music I hear
Things I value so dear
Make me feel so blue, they all remind me of you
What can I do?
Oh, our love is through
My purpose is gone
And I gotta keep living on
Oh, that's what I'll do
Won't let them see through me
Won't let them know that you could hurt me so, yeah
That's what I'll do
Won't let them see through me
Won't let them know
That you could hurt me so
Nothing could be back when your mind wakes up
I gotta see that you really love me
The people won't say
That you'll do it again
They'll just look at you, darlin'
Now I'll be your friend
If you come on home
They'll just leave
Look at you, darling
They all say hello, hello
Hello, baby
Won't you come home?
Come on hold me baby
Won't you come home to me?
They said, "Would you get back to the back, back to the back?"
Back to the back, give it, give it back oh
I love you, I need yah
I love you
Now, I need yah
Don't you leave me
Don't you leave me
Don't you leave me, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Don't you leave me
New one, thank you very much
We haven't played for a while
But huh, oh, there I am
I was talking, but I couldn't hear me
Credits
Writer(s): Terry Kath
Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
Link
Other Album Tracks
- A Hit by Varèse - 2002 Remaster
- All Is Well - 2002 Remaster
- Now That You've Gone - 2002 Remaster
- Dialogue (Pt. I) - 2002 Remaster
- Dialogue (Pt. II) - 2002 Remaster
- While the City Sleeps - 2002 Remaster
- State of the Union - 2002 Remaster
- Goodbye - 2002 Remaster
- Alma Mater - 2002 Remaster
- A Song for Richard and His Friends - Without Vocals
Altri album
- Live At 55
- Live At 55
- Chicago At The John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts, Washington D.C. (9/16/1971) [Live]
- Chicago At The John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts, Washington D.C. (9/16/1971) - Live
- Chicago Christmas Complete
- Greatest Christmas Hits
- Summer In Chicago - EP
- Magical Mystery Tour
- Love from Chicago - EP
- Love from Chicago
© 2025 All rights reserved. Rockol.com S.r.l. Website image policy
Rockol
- Rockol only uses images and photos made available for promotional purposes (“for press use”) by record companies, artist managements and p.r. agencies.
- Said images are used to exert a right to report and a finality of the criticism, in a degraded mode compliant to copyright laws, and exclusively inclosed in our own informative content.
- Only non-exclusive images addressed to newspaper use and, in general, copyright-free are accepted.
- Live photos are published when licensed by photographers whose copyright is quoted.
- Rockol is available to pay the right holder a fair fee should a published image’s author be unknown at the time of publishing.
Feedback
Please immediately report the presence of images possibly not compliant with the above cases so as to quickly verify an improper use: where confirmed, we would immediately proceed to their removal.