From the album Natalie...Live!

By Marvin Yancy and Chuck Jackson

I'd like to think that the music and the songs 

That you're hearing tonight are really about life

And you know, it's not always sweet

And every now and then it rains on your parade

And I think that we should talk about those things

Because then we know how much we really have in common

Sometimes you think you're the only one out there who has problems, huh

Let me tell you something, be not dismayed

Because you got to go through some of the bad

To get to the good  

I want you to help me say it tonight 

(Hee--hmm---mm)

Now this song is not really a negative song

It's got a positive vane

Because it says if I had the second chance

Oh, I'd do it a whole lot different

How many of us can say that tonight

Ha, ha, oh, yea (Hoo, hoo, hoo--, hoo, hoo)

(Hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo)

But right now, right now, right now (Hoo, hoo)

I got to tell ya (Hoo, hoo)

Well, (Hoo, hoo) I'm feelin' kind of bad, yaul

Uh, I'm catchin' hell livin' here alone, mmm, hmm

I never realized, oh Lord

That you mean so much to me

What am I gonna do about it

I'm catching hell livin' here alone, mmm, hmm

I just want you to come back, Baby

Come back, cause' here's where you belong

Oh, yeah, you know if I could replay 

Background repeats:  (Hoo---, hoo--)

If I could just replay 

That home scene again, oh well

You know that I would never, never, never say it again

That our love, our love was at it's end

And oh, you know that I would

Kind of ease--- on back, yes, I would

And let confusion pass on by

I took a fool's way out,

Oh, yeah, without one good reason why

And I'm catching hell, I'm catchin hell

Lord I'm livin,' livin,' livin' here alone

It's a shame I'm livin' alone

Well, I didn't believe this could be, no, no

There's a whole lot of pressure on me all the time

I'm----catching hell, well, well

Livin' here alone, lone, lone, lone, lone, lone, lone

To tell you the truth, to tell you the truth, uh

I'm going out of my mind--oh, yeah

Lord, do you hear me tonight

(This is my story, well, yeah, yeah this is my song)

I don't have too much more to say (Said it, said it)

(Said that song so sad) Except that 

Somebody told me that if you've got something that's good 

(Oh, hold on just a little bit)

To ya and you don't use it, you just might loose it

Background repeats:  (Hoo---, hoo---)

Ah, do you hear me tonight

Cause' it's so sad livin' alone, livin' alone, livin' alone

Hold on to your good thing, hold on

(Well, well, well)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah----

Oh, Lord, Lord, ooh, ooh, ooh, Lordy,Lord

You don't know what it's like

Catchin' hell, Woh, oh, oh, woh, oh, oh

Woh, oh, oh, woh, oh, oh, oh

No, no, no, no, no, no

I don't think we realize what we got til it's gone

You know you can find yourself wakin' up 

One morning, the sun shining, oh 

The green is gone

The thrill is gone

Oh, and you're so all alone

Nobody to call you on a telephone, 

Oh, oh, oh

Woh, oh, mmm, mmm, hmm

I'm catchin' hell

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