What They Say - Chris Smither

They say the good die young but it ain’t for certain

I bin good all day.

I ain’t hurtin'

Not in any way

I’m too old to die young

I shouldn’t talk too loud

Bad luck is preying on the proud ones

There’s nothin' like lying in a graveyard

To teach you to hold your tongue

(Guitar turn around)

They say the Devil was an angel back in the beginnin'

So was I. Nobody’s pinnin' any hopes on me

I ain’t sayin' that they ought’a

I didn’t wanna change but the road kept slidin' in a funny way

And I kept ridin' on it anyway

Sometimes you do what you gott’a

What they say.

What they do

They’ll swear it is.

They’ll think it’s true

When they think at all but they ain’t willin'

If they cain’t think of what to say, they talk anyway

It’s all cliché, fast food for the brain but not too fillin'

(Guitar turn around)

They say time and tide will wait for no-one

The time it takes one tide to go one time

Around the world would leave you spinnin'

But the race is on between the tide

And the people livin' right beside it

No-one's drownin' yet but they ain’t winnin'

If words were wisdom, we’d all speak

And smarten up from week to week

Just sayin' «live and learn».

There’s nothin' to it

Friends in need are friends indeed

But the friends who think of what we need

They hardly talk at all.

They just do it

They hardly talk at all.

They just do it