You want to take me to a doctor
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To talk to me about my mind
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To try to give directions to some places
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That I don't really want to find.
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Trouble in me is not related
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To things that I might say or do
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I'm really not that complicated
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Your good doctor friend, he oughta talk to you.
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I notice that he can't remember
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Things that he never should forget
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And why does he spend his evenings
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Smoking them funny cigarettes?
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I have a friend that knows your best friend
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He goes some places where she goes
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He said he saw y'all at a party
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Sniffing white powder up your nose.
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You got the nerve to call me narrow-minded
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a¢æ?Cause I'm not loose and indiscreet
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But people lying down always get blinded
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By people standing on their own two feet.
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Life is just a shadow
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That I just can't seem to find sometimes
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But I guess I'll make it
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a¢æ?Cause I found out that it's really in my mind.
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You shouldn't take it too seriously
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a¢æ?Cause it really ain't gone' last too long
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You really only got two choices
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You can lay down and be weak
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Or you can stand up where you're at
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And still be strong.
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Tomorrow depends too much on today
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And yesterday - all that gentleman is to you is gone
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All you find out looking back
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Is the fact that both of us was wrong
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Both of us was wrong.
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You're talking right to me
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But you really ain't saying a thang
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You're pouring muddy water on me
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Trying to convince me it's rain
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You're talking to me crazy
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But you're trying to make me feel insane.
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You're like a Sunday family
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Digging animals in a zoo
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But while you're looking at monkeys
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Monkey's looking dead at you
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Two people getting done
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Trying to figure out who's doing who.
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If you're throwing dirt at people
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You got to get some dirt on you
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I got to take a tone of lies
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Just to get an ounce of truth from you
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You're like a man loving Jesus
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That says he can't stand a Jew.
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Get on down and play the dozens
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Talk about four folks
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From your mamma to your cousins
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You down there,
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You know what I'm talking a¢æ?bout.
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You
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Bill Withers |