Hootie & the Blowfish

You’ve got your big girls
Now you have your young one too
Wonder if someday I can have them
The way I once had you

I remember your crazy remarks
We’d get drunk and go out after dark
Searching for someone we could take home

CHORUS
You don’t wanna be alone
You don’t wanna see the sun go down
You don’t wanna open the door
And see her go
One step and tomorrow comes
Two steps and she’s off with someone
Three steps and it’s all you know
You’ll be gone, she’ll be gone

So, what are you gonna do about me?
I’ll be there when you have no one else
* Spot in the ocean in the south’s holy land
I’ll be there, be your friend

Hold on strong, don’t let go
There’ll never be no one to take your place
So, don’t you wanna reach out and take my hand

CHORUS X 2

One step and tomorrow comes
Two steps and she’s off with someone
Three steps and it’s all you know
You’ll be gone, she’ll be gone

With a little love, and some tenderness
We’ll walk upon the water
We’ll rise above the mess
With a little peace, and some harmony
We’ll take the world together
We’ll take ’em by the hand

‘Cause I’ve got a hand for you
‘Cause I wanna run with you

Yesterday
I saw you standing there
Your head was down, your eyes were red
No comb had touched your hair

I said get up, and let me see you smile
We’ll take a walk together
Walk the road awhile

‘Cause I’ve got a hand for you
I’ve got a hand for you
‘Cause I wanna run with you
Won’t you let me run with you? yeah
Hold my Hand
Want you to hold my hand
Hold my Hand
I’ll take you to a place where you can be
Hold my Hand
Anything you wanna be because
I wanna love you the best that, the best that I can

See I was wasted, and I was wasting time
‘Till I thought about your problems, I thought about your crimes
Then I stood up, and then I screamed aloud
I don’t wanna be part of your problems
Don’t wanna be part of your crowd, no

‘Cause I’ve got a hand for you
I’ve got a hand for you
‘Cause I wanna run with you
Ah, won’t you let me run with you?

Hold my hand
Want you to hold my hand
Hold my hand
I’ll take you to the promised land
Hold my hand
Maybe we can’t change the world but
I wanna love you the best that, the best that I can, yeah

Hold my hand
Want you to hold my hand
Hold my hand
I’ll take you to a place where you can be
Hold my hand
Anything you wanna be because
I… oh… no, no, no, no,no

Hold my hand
Want you to hold my hand
Hold my hand
I’ll take you to the promised land
Hold my hand
Maybe we can’t change the world but
I wanna love you the best that, best that I can
Oh, the best that I can

She sits alone by a lamppost
Trying to find a thought that’s escaped her mind
She says dad’s the one I love the most
But Stipe’s not far behind

She never lets me in
Only tells me where she’s been
When she’s had too much to drink
I say that I don’t care
I just run my hands through her dark hair
Then I pray to God you gotta help me fly away
And just

CHORUS
Let her cry
If the tears fall down like rain
Let her sing
If it eases all her pain
Let her go
Let her walk right out on me
And if the sun comes up tomorrow
Let her be, let her be

This morning I woke up alone
Found a note standin’ by the phone
Saying, “Baby, maybe I’ll be back someday”
I wanted to look for you
You walked in I didn’t know just what I should do
So, I sat back down and had a beer and felt sorry for myself
Saying

CHORUS X 2

Last night I tried to leave
Cried so much I could not believe
She was the same girl I fell in love with long ago
She went in the back to get high
And I sat down on my couch and cried
Yelling “Oh mama, please help me
Won’t you hold my hand”
And

CHORUS X 2

You and me, we come from different worlds
You like to laugh at me
When I look at other girls

Sometimes you’re crazy and you wonder why
I’m such a baby
‘Cause the Dolphins make me cry
Well, there’s nothing I can do
I been looking for a girl like you

You look at me, you got nothing left to say
I’m gonna balance you until I get my way
I won’t dance, you won’t sing
I just want to love you
But you want to wear my ring

Well, there’s nothing I can do
I only wanna be with you
You can call me your fool
I only wanna be with you

Put on a little Dylan, sitting on a fence
I say that line is great, you ask me what it meant by:
“Said I shot a man named Gray, took his wife to Italy
She inherited a million bucks, and when she died
It came to me, I can’t help it if I’m lucky”

I only wanna be with you
Ain’t Bobby so cool?
I only wanna be with you

Yeah, I’m tangled up in blue
I only wanna be with you
You can call me your fool
I only wanna be with you

Sometimes I wonder, if it will ever end
You get so mad at me when I go out with my friends
Sometimes you’re crazy, and you wonder why
I’m such a baby, yeah, the Dolphins make me cry
Well, there’s nothing I can do
I only wanna be with you

You can call me your fool
I only wanna be with you

Yeah, I’m tangled up in blue
I only wanna be with you
I only wanna be with you
I only wanna be with you
I only wanna be with you

Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth
Come on try and tell me what you’re talkin’ about
Those things you’re dealing with, you’re living a lie
Every time I see you it makes me wanna cry

Sometimes we laughed and talked, seems like yesterday
Then you let the white horse come and take you away
They came to get you, it was cold and black
The wheels were in motion, there was no turning back

Runnin’ from an angel, runnin’ to the devil, devil, yeah
Runnin’ from an angel, runnin’ to the devil

I gave up on you a long time ago
But there’s something I want you to know
Your lyin’ and cheatin’ really tore us apart
Please don’t come home if you’re gonna break my momma’s heart

Runnin’ from an angel, runnin’ to the devil, devil, yeah
Runnin’ from an angel, runnin’ to the devil
Runnin’, runnin’, runnin’, yeah
Don’t make me cry again, no, no, oh

Love that stayin’ by
Love that you make me cry
You’re runnin’, you’re runnin’
You’re runnin’, runnin, runnin’, runnin’
Oh no, oh no, no, no, no, no, no

Runnin’ from an angel
Runnin’ to the devil, devil, devil, devil
Runnin’ from an angel

Time is singing by, time you made me cry, oh, oh
You’ll do what you gotta do, I still love you
Runnin’, runnin’

Mama, please don’t go
Won’t you stay here for one more day?
I’ve been your boy for so long now
There’s so much I, I still have to say

Sky rips open and I held my heart in my hand
Like a soldier on his very last day
Cried myself to sleep that night and I listened
As I heard the Angels sing, “Sha la la”

Sha la la la, sha la la la, I’m going home
Sha la la la, la la la la, I’m going home

Something inside makes me scream
How could God take you from a little boy?
He’ll be alright, He’s by my side
He’s not a little boy, He’s my pride and joy, sha la la la la

Sha la la la, la la la la, I’m going home
Sha la la la, la la la la, I’m going home

Summer on the radio and the phone rings
And it was Jeanette
Said, “Boy we had to let her go
I begged her no, no not yet”

You left six of us to fend for ourselves
Guess it’s part of someone’s master plan
I see you laughing, you’re my best friend
You’re the light of the lamb, and I smiled
When the Angels sing, “Sha la la la la la la”

Sha la la la, la la la la, I’m going home
Sha la la la, la la la la, I’m going home

Sha la la la, la la la la, I’m going home
Sha la la la, la la la la, I’m going home

Trouble with the world is we’re too busy to think about it, alright
Why is there a rebel flag hanging from the state house walls?
Tired of hearin’ this shit about heritage not hate
Time to make the world a better place

Why must we hate one another?
Well, no matter what we gotta live together
Just that you don’t look like me, tell me what do you see
When we pass on the street what do you wanna see

P.E.’s coming is all I gotta say
Wanna turn and run away
They’re just telling you how they see it
Right or wrong they don’t care, you wish that they would quit

Drowning in a sea of tears
Hatred trying to hide your fears
Living only for yourself
Hating everybody else
‘Cause they don’t look like you

Nancy singing it’s a hard life wherever you go
About some fat racist living in Chicago
Trying to teach his kids to hate everyone
Well, tell me why is that something you wanna teach your son?

Why must we hate one another?
When the people in the church, they tell me you’re my brother
You don’t walk like me, I said that, you don’t talk like me, saying
Go back to Africa, I just don’t understand

Drowning in a sea of tears
Hatred trying to hide your fears
Living only for yourself
Hating everybody else
‘Cause they don’t look like you, don’t look like you

Drowning, yeah I’m trying to be someone that he could look up to, but
When I walk down the street, tell me what do you see
I’m a man, well, I’m a man, I’m a man
No, I’m not like you
Why do you hate me so
I don’t know, well, I don’t know, I don’t know

Hating everybody else
‘Cause they don’t look like you

Oh drowning
Hating everybody else
‘Cause they don’t look like you

Drowning

Time why you punish me?
Like a wave bashing into the shore
You wash away my dreams

Time why you walk away?
Like a friend with somewhere to go
You left me crying

Can you teach me ’bout tomorrow?
And all the pain and sorrow running free?
‘Cause tomorrow’s just another day
And I don’t believe in time

Time, I don’t understand
Children killing in the street
Dying for the color of a rag

Time hey, there red and blue
Wash them in the ocean, make them clean
Maybe their mother won’t cry tonight

Can you teach me about tomorrow
And all the pain and sorrow running free?
But tomorrow’s just another day
And I don’t believe in

Time is wasting time is walking
You ain’t no friend of mine, I don’t know where I’m goin’
I think I’m out of my mind, thinking about time
And if I die tomorrow, just lay me down in sleep

Time is wasting time is walking
You ain’t no friend of mine
I don’t know where I’m goin’
I think I’m out of my mind, thinking about time

Time you left me standing there
Like a tree growing all alone
The wind just stripped me bare, stripped me bare

Time the past has come and gone
The future’s far away
And now only lasts for one second, one second

Can you teach me ’bout tomorrow
And all the pain and sorrow, running free?
‘Cause tomorrow’s just another day
And I don’t believe in time

You ain’t no friend of mine
I don’t know where I’m goin’
I think I’m out of my mind

Walking, wasting
You ain’t no friend of mine
And I don’t know where I’m goin’
No, no, no, no

Time without courage
And time without fear
Is just wasted, wasted
Wasted time

Time why you punish me?

I saw her standing there
Tears upon her cheek told me something was wrong
I asked her what it was
She looked away and said “My daddy’s home”

I knew what that meant
It meant that I could never see her again
I had seen this once before
I didn’t wanna deal with it anymore

“Look away” she said, as she turned to me
And when I tried to hold her, I couldn’t let her be
Let her be, let her be

I said “Why, why do you make me cry?”
She said, “I love you so, look away I don’t wanna know”
I saw her standing there
Tears upon her cheek told me something’s wrong
I said, “What baby”
She looked away and said “My daddy’s home”

“Look away” she said, and she turned to me
But darling, oh I loved her, couldn’t let her be
Let her be, let her be

“Look away, look away”
She said, “I love you so, look away”

Alone as I sit and watch the trees
Won’t you tell me if I scream will they bend down and listen to me
And it makes me wonder if I know the words will you come
Or will you laugh at me or will I run

Little boy says to me
“Where you goin’ now son”
I said, “I don’t know where I’m goin’ boy
I only know where I’m from”
And it makes me wonder
If the stars shine when my eyes close
Or does my brothers heart cry
I don’t know

I’m a stranger in my home
Now that everybody’s gone
Someone please talk to me
‘Cause I feel you cry
And you’re sitting with him
And I know I’ll never see you again

Lying down in Charleston under the Carolina sky
You see I’m tired of feeling this pain
I’m tired of living my own little lie
And it makes me wonder
When I see you in my dreams
Does it mean anything
Are you trying to talk to me

I’m a stranger in my home
Tell me are you feeling alone
Someone tell me what to do
‘Cause I’m feeling strong
And I wonder how you feel
Do you realize my pain is for real

I see you in my dreams
And I wonder if you’re looking down at me
And smiling right now
I wanna know if it’s true
When he looks at me
Won’t you tell me
Does he realize he came down here
He took you too soon

And now my days are short and my nights are long
I lay down with memories of you keep that keep me going on, going on
And it makes me wonder as I sit and stare
Will I see your face again, tell me, do you care?

I’m a stranger in my home
Living life on my own
Right now, I just can’t see
‘Cause I’m feeling weak
And my soul begins to bleed
And no one is listening to me, not even the trees
Oh no no no no no no no

Tomorrow used to be a day away
Now love is gone and you’re into someone far away
I never thought the day would come
When I would see his hand, not mine
Holding onto yours because I could not find the time

And now I can’t deny nothing lasts forever
But I don’t want to leave
And I see the tear drops in your eyes
I don’t want to live to see the day we say, “Goodbye”

Now there comes another part of life that I call alone
Sitting at a bar with Chris
And I can’t leave ’cause my house ain’t no home, no
I just wanna touch you girl, I wanna feel you close to me
Without your love I would give up now
And walk away so easily

So maybe while we’re young
We’ll figure out together
That even with the pain, there’s a remedy and we’ll be alright
I don’t want to live to see the day we say, “Goodbye”

When I first met you, I couldn’t love anyone
Oh, but you stole my dreams and you made me see
That I can walk under the sun and I can still be me
And now I can’t deny

Nothing lasts forever, but I don’t want to leave
And see the teardrops in your eyes
So, baby while we’re young let’s figure out together
That even with the pain there’s a remedy and we’ll be alright
I don’t want to live to see the day we say “Goodbye”
We say, “Goodbye”, oh goodbye, goodbye

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a mother
A motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Long long way from my home