John Mayall Album

Mayall

Man's a filthy creature
Raping the land and water and the air
Tomorrow may be too late?
Now's the time that you must be aware
Nature's disappearing
Polluted death is coming, do you care?

Garbage going nowhere
Soon the dumps will spread to your front door
Lakes and rivers stagnant
Nothing lives or grows like years before
Nature's disappearing
The world you take for granted ... soon no more

Read about pollution
Make manufacturers uncomfortable
Boycott at the market
Containers that are non-returnable
Aluminum, glass or plastic
Eternal waste that's not destructible

We're of a generation
That may live out our natural time
But as for all our children?
Born to suffocate in human slime
Nature's disappearing
And we are guilty of this massive crime

Mayall

You must be crazy woman
If you don't believe that I love you
When you cry and get unhappy
You don't know how it hurts me too

With a little understanding
We'll get to know each other's ways
With a little bit of patience
We'd never have unhappy days

I love your lovemaking
Never knew it could be such a game
If you ever left me lonely
I know I'd never be the same

You must be going crazy
If you don't believe that I'm with you
If I had to live without you
I don't know what I'd ever do

Mayall

Lying awake in the darkness
Your voice is sad in my ear
Now that I've just put the phone down
How do you expect me to sleep with you so far away?

I'm calling the desk for a taxi
The night is so black with the rain
All of my friends are still sleeping
They would never know I was planning to be gone again

I'm the night flyer, I'm waiting
Somebody get me a plane
Airports at night always empty
I smoke too much sitting here

I'm coming home to you darling
Out of the darkness till day
Though you will tell me I'm crazy
How do you expect me to sleep with you so far away?

Mayall

I've traveled the world and had no time to rest
I've played for people every day
Living from a suitcase from town to town
Till my nerves began to fray
Dreaming of the day I'd stay at home

I feel like I've been on the move too long
Eight years of on the road
Got me a place in the burning sun
Found me the way to go
I'm building up a house to make a home

Found a great love I was looking for
Two people now are one
Her clothes in the closet and her with me
Everything is always fun
Once we had a house but now it's home

Build up your rooms and decorate your walls
That's all you have to do
Work in your way till you find your peace
And life can be made for you
It's good to fell the peace and quiet of home

Mayall

Possessive emotions creeping up on me
I wish my emotions had less jealousy
Don't want you to be with nobody else but me
Wherever you are that's where I want to be

Is it wrong to feel this way?
Jealousy go away

When you are out shopping and I'm home alone
Possessive emotions make me wish I'd gone
I look for your car lights coming up the hill
Want to tell you I miss you ... just can't get my fill

Possessive emotions make me feel so low
Don't want to be lonesome 'cause it hurts me so
I've got to be with you everywhere you go
If you talk to somebody I just got to know

Is it wrong to feel this way?
Jealousy go away

If I didn't feel this way about my girl
That she was the only one in all the world
I wouldn't be caring for her quite so strong
Maybe it's why my love has been going so long

Get my lips to a bottle every once in a while
Now everything's crazy, I got a great big smile
But the question I'm asking
Where did my legs go?

Vision doubling and trembling, I'm getting dizzy with light
I got the laziest feeling, I'm feeling all right
But the question I'm asking
Where did my legs go?

Will you pour me another, 'cause I feel like a king
If I tried to go walking it would be a good thing
But the question I'm asking
Where did my legs go?

I'm a lunatic whino, I'm a talking machine
I'm wide awake sleeping, is it really a dream?
But if it isn't a dream then
Where did my legs go?

Took the car and drove off the hills
Saw the flashing lights and saw them die.
I left behind society that kills
Me and Nancy waved them all goood-bye.
I took the car the sun was going down

Saw the changing colours of the sky.
An old Apache canyon our camp-ground

Secure and safe together made us sigh.

Took the car and filled the trunk with wood.
Took it back and made of it a fire

To be a child again would be so good
Me and Nancy warm in our desire.
Took the car and drove it everywhere
Through the land where all the west began.
Desert wind was blowing in our hair

Me and nancy running hand in hand.

Mayall

I'm crying
Yes, I'm crying
And I just don't know
How it's all going to end
I'm thinking back a long time
When I hit my woman down
It was a bad bad evil night
When I realized what I'd done
It was way too late, too late
Too late for words and I'm crying

In torment sometimes
We hurt each other so bad
Nobody to turn to, no going back
No such thing as God for us
No more to touch her body
No more to stroke her hair
All I can do is break down in tears
I'm crying and wondering
Where am I now because of what I did
I just don't know and I'm crying

It was a long time ago
The pain is over now
But I still think back sometimes
And remember how I cried
I was crying

Mayall

My pretty girl is sitting in her room of red
My pretty girl lying on her furry bed
Pretty as the moonlight
I only want to treat her right

My pretty girl doing something to her hair
My pretty girl dressing up with special care
Pretty as the moonlight
I only want to treat her right

My pretty girl making me feel her man
My pretty girl hugging me when she can
Pretty as the moonlight
I only want to treat her right

My pretty girl sleeping in the still of night
My pretty girl glowing in the candlelight
Pretty as the moonlight
I only want to treat her right

Mayall

My loving woman and me lying in the sand
We're on a holiday out in a foreign land
Sunny day
We can play
Lazing by the deep blue sea
Happy now that we are free
This is how it ought to be
We are on our own

Go underwater and see another world of green
Fishes go by and I get to wondering where they've been
Sunny day
We can play
Lazing by the deep blue sea
Happy now that we are free
This is how it ought to be
We are on our own

Take out a boat and paddle it around the bay
Pressures from the world seem to fade away
Sunny day
We can play
Sailing on the deep blue sea
Happy now that we are free
This is how it ought to be
We are on our own