Bonnie Raitt : Takin' My Time

Blues Rock / USA
(1973 - Warner Music Group)
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1. YOU'VE BEEN IN LOVE TOO LONG

Girls, you've been in love too long
I said girls, you've been in love too long
When just his smile takes all your pain away
And you find yourself believin' whatever he may say
Now when he gets you cryin'
But your heart tells you Girl keep right on tryin'
You know Girls, you've been in love too long.

You're a fool for your baby
Girls, you've been in love too long
You're a fool for your baby.

When you accepted wrongs, just to share his kiss
Even your lonely nights, you know they're filled with Happiness.
You know Girl you're in trouble
You know your... heart is seein' double.

Cuz when you're head tells you to run
But your heart tells you "Girl he's the only one.."
You know you have:been in love too long.

Cuz when a week of loneliness can be erased with just one Sweet caress.
Girl, You've been in love too long
When his wrong looks right though he always treats you bad
You find little excuses for all the sadness and abuses.


2. I GAVE MY LOVE A CANDLE


I gave my love a candle
A promise at life
And I told him when my number comes up
Winds would fill the sky
Me I'm fixin' to die
Moving down that same lonesome road
No I don't know why
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
You didn't have to fool me
You didn't have to lie
My love comes around like a thief in the night
But only love can make you cry
And we have walked side by side
Moving down that same lonesome road
No I don't know why
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
Your love was like a diamond ride a wave
On a sea that calms my mind
Moving onward to a distant shore
Where the boats sail in a line
We have danced to a fateful rhyme
Moving down the same lonesome road
No I don't know why
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
You didn't have to fool me, no
You didn't have to lie
If it all came out so ugly
It's only my love that could make you cry
And we have walked side by side
Moving down that same lonesome road
And I still don't know why
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
Ooh ooh ooh
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.

3. LET ME IN

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4. EVERYBODY'S CRYING MERCY

I don't believe the things I'm seein'
I've been wonderin' 'bout some things I've heard
Everybody's crying mercy
When they don't know the meaning of the word.

A bad enough situation
Is sure enough getting worse
Everybody's crying justice
Just as soon as there's business first.

Toe to toe, touch and go
Give a cheer and get your own souvenir.

Well you know the people running round in circles
Don't know what they're headed for
Everybody's crying peace on earth
Just as soon as we win this war.

Straight ahead, gotta knock em dead
So pack your kit, choose your own hypocrite.

You don't have to go to off-broadway
To see something plain absurd
Everybody's crying mercy
When they don't know the meaning of the word.

Nobody knows the meaning of the word.


5. CRY LIKE A RAINSTORM

Life isn't easy
Love never lasts
You just carry on
And keep moving fast.

I turned off the highway
Pulled into town
I'm fancy free darlin'
And I've travelled round.

Sometimes I'm up
Sometimes I'm down
Tell me where can I run to
Tell me how have I sinned
When you cry like a rainstorm
And howl like the wind.

So who shall I start with
Tell me how to begin
When you cry like a rainstorm
And howl like the wind.

My thoughts are lost in memories
That keep me free
Know if all the stars were shining
They would not help me see.

Don't you know that
Sometimes I'm up
Most times down
Where can I run to
Tell me how have I sinned
You cry like a rainstorm
And you howl like the wind.

Well my life isn't easy
And my love never seems to last
So I'll keep on carrying on darlin'
I'll just keep moving fast.

I turned off the highway
Pulled into town
And I'm still fancy free
And I keep travellin' round.

Sometimes I'm up
Most times I'm down
Where can I run to
Tell me how have I sinned
When you cry like a rainstorm
And you howl like the wind.

So who shall I start with
Tell me how to begin
When you cry like a rainstorm
And you howl like the wind.

Cry like a rainstorm
And you howl like the wind.


6. WAH SHE GO DO

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7. I FEEL THE SAME

Say goodbye,
Well I know it's true
I know you're leaving me but i
I'm leaving to
You won't forget me
Or the sound of my name
Please believe me
I feel the same.

It seems so empty now
Clo-ose the door
Ain't it hard to believe that you ever
Lived this way before
All that nothing
Causes all that pain
Please believe me
I feel the same.

Well this broken soul
That I know a, a heart that's breakin'
You can't make it whole
Until you know what has been taken
And all those pieces
Uh that you find them all your own.

I said goodbye
Now you know it's true
You said you're leaving me, but honey i
I'm leaving too
You won't forget me
Or the sound of my name
Please believe me
I feel the same
Please believe me
I feel the same.


8. I THROUGHT I WAS A CHILD

It's such a clever innocence with which you do your sorcery
As if somehow the years just bow and let that young girl go free.
I thought I was a child until you turned and smiled
I thought I knew where I was going until I heard your laughter flowing
And came upon the wisdom in your eyes
Surprise.

I've spent my whole life running 'round
Chasing songs from town to town
Thinking I'd be free so long as I never let love slow me Down
So lonely and so wild until you turned and smiled
By now I should have long been gone
But here I am still looking on
As if I didn't know which way to run.

It's such a clever innocence with which you show myself to Me
As if you know how it feels to never be who you wanted to be
I thought I was a child until you turned and smiled
I thought that I was free but I'm just one more prisoner of Time
Alone within the boundaries of my mind
I thought I was a child.


9. WRITE ME A FEW OF YOUR LINES / KOKOMO BLUES

When you get home baby
Write me a few of your lines
When you get home little baby
Write me a few of your lines
That'll be consolation
Lord honey oh my worried mind.

Left my baby
Standin' in the backdoor cryin'
Well I left my little baby
Standing in the backdoor cryin'
I never felt so sorry
Lord honey till he said goodbye.

Kokomo me baby
Kokomo me right
Kokomo your mama,
She'll be back tomorrow night
I'd like to cry in your arms tonight
Baby don't you wanna go?
Right on to lemon light city
Sweet home kokomo.

Go on down to the river baby
Goin' to sit down on the ground
Well I'm goin' down to the river baby
Goin' to sit down on the ground
And let the way of the water
Lord honey wash my troubles down.

Kokomo me baby
Kokomo me right
Kokomo your mama,
She'll be back tomorrow night
I gotta cry with you baby
Baby don't you wanna go?
Right on to lemon light city
Sweet home kokomo.


10. GUILTY

Yeah baby, I've been drinking,
And I shouldn't come by I know
But I found myself in trouble darling,
And I had nowhere else to go.

Got some whiskey from a bar man,
Got some cocaine from a friend
I just had to keep on moving,
Till I was back in your arms again.

Well I'm guilty, yeah I'm guilty,
I'll be guilty for the rest of my life
How come I never do,
What I'm supposed to do
How come nothing that I try to do ever turns out right.

Well you know how it is with me baby,
You know I just can't stand myself
It takes a whole lot of medicine,
For me to pretend to be somebody else.


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