Solo In Soho

It was a rainy night the night the king went down
Everybody was crying it seemed like sadness had surrounded the town
Me i went to the liquor store
And i bought a bottle of wine and a bottle of gin
I played his records all night
Drinking with a close, close friend

Now some people say that that ain't right
And some people say nothing at all
But even in the darkest of night
You can always hear the king's call
You can always hear the king's call

Well they put him away in memphis
Six feet beneath the clay
Everybody was crying
Everybody said it was a plain grey day

Me i went to the liquor store
And i bought another bottle of wine and another bottle of gin
I played his records all night
And i got drunk all over again

Now some people say that that ain't right
That ain't right
And some people say nothing at all
I say nothing
But even in the darkest of night
You could always hear the king's call
You could always hear the king's call

I wonder if you're lonesome tonight
And i'd rather go on hearing your lies
Than to go on living without you

Now some people say that that ain't right
And some people say nothing at all i say nothing
But even in the darkest of night
You could always hear the king's call
You could always hear the king's call
You could always hear the king's call
Now the stage is bare and i'm standing here
They might as well bring the curtain down
I cried the night the king died

"we all must beware of the yellow pearl"

The yellow pearl control, attack, attack, attack, attack
Yellow pearl
It is foolish to venture into strange enchanted places
If they aren't the places you want to be

Attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack
Is what we lack

We will arise
We will control
We will command
We will patrol

It is foolish under the guise of love and liberty
That we should capitalize and rob and fell
The poor for the socialistic tree

We will arise
We will control
Attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack
Is what we lack
That's what you lack

We shall arise
They will arise
We shall control
They will control
We shall command
They will command
We shall patrol
They will patrol

We must fight back
We will arise
They will arise
We will control

We are now living in a situation
Where that self same situation depends on the yellow pearl
Attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack
Is what we lack
We will arise
They will arise
We will control
They will control
We will command
They shall command
We will patrol
They will patrol
Arise
Yellow pearl's upon us now
We must fight back

We will arise
They will arise
We will control
Attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack

Is what we lack
Is what we lack
Don't trust in liberty
To save your soul
It is genocide to let liberty lose control
Control
We must decide
Control
We the yellow pearl we will control

Oh won't you send a letter home
To say i'm living on my own
Girls
I need someone to love
I need someone
Girls
It's true i've been telling you all these lies
And i can't understand it
Why i've been telling thee all these lies
If you know it's a fact
Then you know i want you back
Girls

I need someone it's true, i need you
Girls
It's true for me there's you
Girls
Got class, i need her fast
Girls
She's been telling me all these lies
And i can't understand it
She's been telling me all these lies
That girl don't love me no more
Oh girl

I had to write this letter
To tell you how i came to meet him
He was sweet and i loved him
Now each time we meet i can't seem to forget him
I feel so depressed

Lost love of romeo
Casanova has finally lost out on love
I'm jealous of his past

Oh won't you send a letter home
Say i'm living on my own
Girls
I need someone to love
I need someone to love
Girls
With class, that's fast
Don't move slow
Girls
Oh no not alone oh no
Girls
For me
I've been telling you all these lies
And i can't understand it
I've been telling you all these lies
I must have been crazy
Girl
Oh girl

My dream any sadness, sorrow or gloom
Your laugh that fills the air
With the scent of the sweetest perfume

You feel so good
You just don't care
I lay awake night crying
Because my dream may not come true
You see i love you
Please this is my one and only dream

Girls
Girls
Who's fast, she's got class, she loves last
Girls
She's not slow
She won't go
She won't leave you, alone
Girls
Don't leave me alone

Stop this lying
Stop this cheating
Stop treating me like i am some
Kind of fool over whose eyes you can pull the wool
You're not so cool
Remember it's to me you are speaking

Stop cutting
Stop hurting
Stop this dirt
About you lifting up your skirt
To any man dressed in pants with shirt buttons undone and flirting

When you are so low down in soho
There is no hope no how
No place to go
You will go along
Some people say i'm a crazy kind of fool
But be that as it may
You always treat me cruel
Solo in soho

Stop talking
Stop eating
We can't go on meeting
And greeting
Meeting and cheating and meeting
And sleeping you know that's deceiting
And that's only repeating

When you are so low
Down in soho
There is no hope no how
There is no place to go
But you will go along
Some people say i'm a crazy kind of fool
But be that as it may you always treat me cruel
Solo in soho

If you see stevie wonder tell him i hear
If you hear stevie wonder tell him i see
I don't want no songs for plants
I want songs for me
I don't want no songs for plants
I want liberty living in the city

If you see the doctor tell him he's king, dr. martin luther
If you see the doctor tell him he's still king, you too muhammed ali
But this bad black boy won't be blown away by anything
Yes this bad black boy won't be blown away by anything

There are people in this town
That try to put me down
They say i don't give a damn
But the people in this town
That try to put me down
Are the people in the town
That could never understand a black man
Don't take it no more
Don't take it no more
Don't take it no more

There are people in the town
That try to put me down
They say i don't give a damn, damn
But the people in the town that try to put me down
Are the people in the town that could never understand a black man
Don't take it no more

If you see robert johnson, you too robert marley, robert mugabe
Now tell him i hear
If you see malcom tell him i'm next, vexed
If you see jimi, jimi hendrix
If you see my brothers tell them it's clear
I've been living on the wrong side
Now i hear
Don't take it no more
I don't take it no more
Mr. joshua nkomo
Don't take it no more
Jomo kenyatta, oh no
Don't take it no more
Haile selassi, rastafarian
Don't take it no more
Professor longhair
Don't take it no more