B. B. King - NOBODY KNOWS YOU WHEN YOU'RE DOWN AND OUT lyrics

Still wandering

Keeping my sanity

But they won't let me dream to live or live to dream

I'm still envisioning I'm singing to herd of thousands

Soul searching for the few things that will make life all right

Pointless persecution, interrogate the hype

Pretending I'm respecting who I secretly fight

One to the right

Push me to the side

Two minutes to decide what I'm say tonight

One to the right

Push me to the side

Two minutes to decide what I'm going to do with my life

Replacing ideals that would break trust down

I'm the king of apathy don't care to wear your crown

Brain children , the lemming, they suffocate my rise

Standing on hilltops, smiling, watching me breakdown'

Cutting through the fabrics of this physical relationship

The understanding was the part they decided to skip

They have the same eyes but they see things a little differently

Some blind themselves and some open their eyes to the world you see

Went to sleep on a bed of nails

You were so smart covered up your trails

Your mouth is dry and your life is stale

You always have a gun if all else fails

Sex is never just sex again

Why can't a partner just be your friend

Can we converse without a fight

And will it really matter if I spend the night

Not a pre-madonna rock star just being my crazy self always

Then you shun me to the corner cause I choose not to participate

My thoughts are running wild got to let them free emancipate

You thought you had me trapped but there is one more move, checkmate

Spent all my time on popularity and I accept my duality

But I'm growing out of it