I Wrote A Simple Song - Billy Preston

I wrote a simple song

With simple words and harmony

Wasn’t very long

Before a star, I was bound to be

I didn’t care if it made the charts

I only wrote it for you and me

They think they’re so smart now

They’re not as smart as they want to be

They took my simple song, yes they did

They changed the words and the melody

Made it all sound wrong, yeah

Now it sounds like a symphony

Who told them to mess with my

Oh now, who gave them the right, I wanna know now

That song was personal

Because I wrote it for you

It’s yours and mine, girl

Mmm, girl

Oh Lord

I don’t care if it makes the charts, y’all no

I only wrote it for you and me

They think they’re so smart, yes they do

They’re not as smart as they want to be

Who told them to mess with my, oh now

Who gave them the right, I wanna know

That song was personal, whoa

I wrote it for you

It’s yours and mine

Yeah, yeah

Oh, oh