Stay Loose - Jimmy Smith

[00:25.51]i was choking on a cornflake
[00:27.99]you said "have some toast instead"
[00:32.75]i was sleeping maybe three hours
[00:35.99]you said "you should get to bed"
[00:40.13]i was waiting at the church door
[00:42.97]for the minister to show
[00:47.48]i was looking at the new year
[00:50.23]you said "walk before you crawl"
[00:58.73]i was feeling like a loser
[01:01.13]you said "hey, you've still got me"
[01:05.81]i was feeling pretty lonely
[01:08.49]you said "you wanted to be free"
[01:13.28]i was looking for a good time
[01:15.89]you said "let the good times start"
[01:20.57]with a quiver of your eyelid
[01:23.4]you took on someone else's part
[01:27.13]but what about me
[01:30.3]i don't really see
[01:34.130005]how things will improve
[01:36.85]if all you want is to stay...
[01:39.520004]maybe i'm a little greedy
[01:41.83]you said "think before you speak"
[01:46.54]sometimes i'm a little seedy
[01:49.18]you said "everyone is weak"
[01:53.880005]now i feel a little better
[01:56.54]is there something i can do?
[02:01.31]but i never heard the answer
[02:04.24]i never had a clue
[02:07.46]but what about me
[02:11.01]i don't really see
[02:14.58]how things will improve
[02:17.25]if all you want is to stay
[02:19.63]the lights are on in the house tonight
[02:21.18]going to creep around going to creep into your head
[02:24.72]all you want is to stay loose
[03:08.38]there's a little echo calling
[03:10.84]like a miner trapped inside
[03:14.83]if i tell her of this moment
[03:17.39]she will in me doubts confide
[03:21.24]and she's on me like a blanket
[03:23.55]like a stalk of wilting grass
[03:27.59]i'm not sure about her motives
[03:30.37]i'm not sure about her past
[03:36.84]but my faith is like a bullet
[03:39.44]my belief is like a bolt
[03:43.26]the only thing that lets me sleep at night
[03:45.95999]a little carriage of the soul
[03:49.58]if it starts a little bleaker
[03:52.55]then the year may yet be gold
[03:55.95]happiness is not for keeping
[03:59.09]happiness is not my goal
[04:02.07]so what about me
[04:05.53]i don't really see
[04:09.34]how things will improve
[04:11.66]all you want is to stay loose
[04:16.61]oh what about them
[04:20.01]you play mother hen
[04:23.14]to a gaggle of gangling youth
[04:26.36]all you want is to stay
[04:28.74]the lights are on in the house tonight
[04:30.33]going to creep around going to creep into your head
[04:33.66998]all you want is to stay
[04:36.79]i was living through the seconds
[04:39.33002]my composure was a mess
[04:43.35]i was miles from tenderness
[04:46.51]it was dark outside, the day it was lying in pieces
[04:54.94]everything is flat and dreary
[04:57.9]i couldn't care what's in the news
[05:01.51]television is the blues
[05:05.27]television is hysterical laughter of people
[05:12.75]and i know it could be me
[05:15.63]i'm always asking for more
[05:20.03]i keep running round in circles
[05:23.97]i keep looking for a doorway
[05:27.3]i'm going to need two lives
[05:29.23]to follow the paths i've been taking