Singin' the Blues Too Long - The Rascals

You’ve been singin' the blues too long

Why don’t you try and find a different song?

Mm-hmm

Been singin' 'bout the blues too long, now

Go on and get yourself a brand new song

Hey

You know it’s time to make some changes, baby

Changing all the rights from wrongs

You been lying awake all night

Trying to think what you should do

Mm-hmm

You can’t sleep a wink at night

Wondering just what you should do

Well, I got to tell you

Wondering never solved a problem, baby

And only you yourself can pull it through

And I got the answer right here

You know, it don’t take much (oh yeah)

To kick yourself free (yeah, yeah)

You got to know where you’re going (oh yeah)

And to trust in me

Do all the things (oh yeah)

That you think are right (yeah, yeah)

And there’ll be love right from the morning (oh yeah)

Peace all through the night (oh yeah)

Whoa whoa whoa (oh yeah)

Singin' the blues too long

Come on, child, it’s a little song

Got no time

I think it’s time you travel on

And you can come, uh, with all of us, too

Wha!

(Oh yeah…)

How come you’re singing the blues, baby?

Don’t you see all the love and the peace and the happiness that’s going around?

And we think that it’s, uh,

Time to make some changes

After all, 1968

Changing all the rights from the wrongs

Listen, baby

Come on

It gets better (oh yeah)

Every time you try (yeah, yeah)

And once you got it (oh, yeah)

Can’t be denied

No time to waste (oh yeah)

No time for faking (yeah, yeah)

And if you don’t think so, you don’t believe me, baby (oh yeah)

I want you to know that you’re mistaken (oh yeah)

Oh, oh (yeah, yeah)

Come on

Too much of the blues around

Got no time for being down

Whoa, oh, please

And I think

I think I got the answer, baby

I want you to

Get up in the morning

Look all around

See the love and the beautiful things that the Lord has put here for us to

Groove on, yeah

It’s easy once you try, baby

All you got to do is look inside

Whoa (yeah, yeah, yeah)