Isaac Hayes - By The Time I Get To Phoenix (full version) | Текст песни

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• By The Time I Get To Phoenix (full version)

Awwwwwww, yeah.
Mmmmmmhmmmmhmmmmhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

I'm talking 'bout the power of love now.
I'm gonna tell you what love can do.
You know when they say love makes the world go 'round, that's the truth.
Love can make you or break you.
It can make you laugh or make you cry.
It can make you happy or sad.
Aw, it can hurt real bad.
In a case of jealousy, love can make you mad. Oh, yeah.
Now everybody--everybody's got his own thing.
Everybody's got its way of doing a thing.
Now we should attempt to do a tune that is very popular, it was written by one of the great young songwriters of today.
Now I don't know what he's thinking about or what inspired him to write a tune, but it's a deep tune.
There's a deep meaning to this tune, because it shows you what the power of love can do.
Now I should attempt to do it my way, my own interpretation of it.
Like I said, everybody's got his own thing.
I'm gonna bring it on down to Soulsville.
Now I want you bear along with me for a few minutes while I set it up.
Now I want your imagination.
I want you to travel with me.
Oh, come on, come on, come on.

This young man was raised in the hills of Tennessee.
When he reached the age of maturity, he moved to the West Coast.
And he fell in love when he got out there to this young girl.
Aw, man, she was out of sight.
She was bad.
And then they started dating, and then the inevitable, became engaged and got married.
Mmmmmmmhmmmmmmmhmmmm.
They were happily married.
That's right, they lived in L.A.
Awwww...The power of love was upon them.
But you see, girls, I don't mean to come down on you, but this man loved this woman so...He could rarely say love is blind.
He could see no wrong. No, no, no.
He worked every day and sometimes he'd pull overtime, double time, triple time.
He bought everything that this woman's heart desires.
Everything that he could wreak and streak.
He spent his last dime on women because he loved her.
And you know, girls, you can take love and kindness sometime for weakness.
And she took it for granted.
She said, "I got a fool and I know I got a fool, but I got a good thing."
Yeah, she was standing around on the corner, you understand, meeting with her friends.
She would go to beauty salon, get her hair fixed.
She'd go shopping and she would brag about her good thing that she's got. Yeah.
And she took doubt on it.
See, ain't nobody gonna believe what to tell him no way, fool.
Aw, yeah, girls, you would like that sometime.
But one day, one day, the old boy got sick and he had to come home.
I don't have to tell you what he found.
Oh, yeah, it hurt him so bad.
He said, "Baby, Mama,...Why?"
That's all he could say.
That's all he could say. He was hurt.
But she said, "Aw. Go on fool, you're doing it, but the man wasn't doing it, but that's the only excuse you can give him."
He said, "Mama, I can't take it. I got to leave you. I'm gonna leave you."
He packed his rags, you understand, and started out the door.
And when he reached the driveway, you understand, he went there begging just like my man Tyrone Davis.
And he said, "Oh, Mama, Mama, Mama, can I change, oh, my mind."
You see, the power of love was upon him, and he came back.
Oh, yes he did.
When she tried to straighten up, she said she was gonna straighten up.
She got a little job to help him out with the bills, too, but that was just a sham, because he found it again and again. It's seven times he left this woman and seven time he came back.
Aw, but you know, the heart can take so much.
That's right. You can kick a dog around for so long, and he'll get tired. He'll turn.
Adn he taken all that he could stand.
In the eighth time that this went down, he said, "Mama, I got to go."
With tears in