Ball and Chain
Melissa Etheridge
S-sitting down by my window
Oh, looking at the rain
S-sitting down by my window now now
All around I felt it
All I could see was the rain
Something grabbed a hold of me, honey
Felt to me honey like, lord, a ball and chain
Yeah, hey you know what I mean
But it's way too heavy for you
You can't hold it tomorrow
Say, whoa, whoa, honey, it can’t be
Just because I got to want your love
Please please please please, whoa please
Please whoa, honey it can't be
Just because I got to need you daddy
Please don't you let me down, no, please
Lord!
Here you gone today, but I wanted to love you
I wanted to hold you, yeah
Till the day I die
Till the day, till the day
Yeah, hey hey all right!
Say, whoa, whoa, honey this can’t be
Not anything I ever wanted from you daddy
Tell me now, now, now, now, oh, tell me now
Yeah i say, whoa, whoa, honey this can't be
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, yeah yeah, hey!
And I want someone that could tell me
Tell me why
Just because I got to want your love
Honey, just because I got to need, need
Need your love
I said I don't understand, honey
But I wanna chance to try
Try, try, try, try try try try
Honey when everybody in the world
Wants the same damn thing
When everybody in the world will
Need the same lonely thing
When I wanna work for your love, daddy
When I wanna try for your love, daddy
I don't understand how come you're gone, man
I don't understand why half the
World is still crying, man
When the other half of the
World is still crying too, man
I can't get it together
If you got a cat for one day, man I mean, if
You, say, say, if you want
A cat for 365 days
Right you ain't got him for 365 days
You got him for one day, man
Well I tell you that one damn
Better be your life, man
Because, you know, you can say, oh man
You can cry about the other 364, man
But you’re gonna lose that one day, man
And that’s all you've got
You gotta call that, man
That’s what it is, man
If you got it today you
Don't want it tomorrow, man
'Cause you don't need it
’cause as a matter of fact
As we discovered in the
Train, tomorrow never happens, man
It's all the same fucking day, man
So you gotta, when you wanna hold a sigh
You gotta hold him like it's the
Last minute in your life, baby
You gotta hold, whoa, whoa, hold him
'Cause someday some weights gonna
Come on your shoulders, babe
It's gonna feel too heavy
It's gonna weigh on you
It's gonna feel just like a ball, ball, ball
Oh daddy and a chain
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