The Way of the World [Song]

  Uploaded by GYPSY MUSIC | Published on Jan 8, 2020.  

THE WAY OF THE WORLD
By Gypsy

Spoken words: In this life of trying to please people, it leaves you without the choice of pleasing yourself.

Life was meant to live, it was made so easy
It was meant to do things you want to do
But some people think you must follow their direction
And you have to do what they want you to
Them alone have the blueprint for living
The things you should do, them alone must tell
And if you should follow in their direction
They make your life complicated like hell.

Somebody going to love the things that you say
Somebody going to hate you for saying it that way
Somebody going to love the things that you do
Somebody will hate you for doing them too
Somebody going to love the way that you look
Somebody going to find you look like a mook
Nothing you could do, it's out your control
That is just the way of the world.

You see, if you trying to please everybody
Something wrong with you, you have to be mad
Take a walk to the sun, that might be more easy
But trying to please everybody is hard
You might just end up like little Jack Horner
Everybody pulling you in a different corner
At no time in life would you be at ease
If everybody you trying to please.

Somebody going to find that you are real brilliant
Somebody going that that you have real class
Somebody going to find that you are a genius
Somebody going to find that you're a real ass
Somebody going to find that you are kindhearted
Somebody going to find you callous and cold
Nothing you could do, life must take its toll
That is just the way of the world.

This world's made up of over seven billion
You must understand that you are just one
Nothing that you started is ever finished
Nothing you think you finish is ever done
Somebody always there to criticise it
They know exactly what you should do
This pleasing business so complicated
Sometimes in life you can't even please you.

You just tell yourself you ent saying nothing
But something inside you say you must talk
You just tell yourself from here you ent moving
But something inside you tell you to walk
You hungry like hell, you going and eat something
But something inside you say you too fat
Nothing you could do, you can't even please you
'Cause the world is made up like that.

Somebody going to love the things that you say
Somebody going to hate you for saying it that way
Somebody going to love the things that you do
Somebody will hate you for doing them too
Somebody going to love the way that you look
Somebody going to find you look like a mook
Nothing you could do, it's out your control
That is just the way of the world.

Somebody
Somebody
Somebody
Somebody
Somebody
Somebody
Somebody
Somebody...

Source: The lyrics posted on this blog are often transcribed directly from performances. Although it is my intention to faithfully transcribe I do not get all the words and I have a knack for hearing the wrong thing. Please feel free to correct me or to fill in the words that I miss by dropping me a message via e-mail. I'd be forever grateful. Thanks in advance! 
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A Note From The Gull


Thank you, Gypsy.   

"Patria est communis omnium parens" - Our native land is the common parent of us all. Keep it beautiful, make it even more so.

Blessed is all of creation
Blessed be my beautiful people
Blessed be the day of our awakening
Blessed is my country
Blessed are her patient hills.

Mweh ka allay!
Guanaguanare

Old Man And The Donkey [Song]

Uploaded by Clynton Mann
OLD MAN AND THE DONKEY
By Mighty Sparrow

Well an old man, a lil boy and a donkey was in some difficulty
Going Tunapuna from Port of Spain where they just complain a bargain
Old and feeble, he decide to ride and had the little boy walking by he side
When he reach by Success Village, the crowd start shouting, "Advantage!"

Old may, ey, you old criminal !
Old man, you ent got no conscience at all !
Get off the jackass, you too damn advantageous!
You on top the ass like a king and the poor little boy walking!

Well, the old man ready to please everybody, right away, jump off the donkey
Lift up the boy, put him on the donkey and he start walking the journey
It made him feel good, although they criticise, he gave up his ride and let them satisfy
When he reach by Morvant junction they start calling him a stupid old man.

Old man, ey, you dotish old fool !
Old man, like you never went to school?
The little boy young, he should be on the ground,
But he on top the ass like a king
And an old man like you walking!

Now the old man decide to please everybody, none of them must ride this donkey
So the next thing he do, he make the boy come down and both of them walking in the sun
Man, they soaking with beads of perspiration, all their ambition is to please everyone
When they reach the Croisee again, the whole of San Juan start to complain.

Old man, ey, ease the load off your feet!
Old man, you have a jackass to ride and beat!
Don't hold the tail ----------- you should be in jail
You behind the ass suffering and a bareback jackass walking!

They made a last try to please everybody, two of them climb on the donkey
But in Champs Fleurs they met some folks up there who found them very unfair
Ring the police now, somebody say, call the SPCA, don't let them get away
---------------- to make bacchanal, charge the old man cruelty to dumb animal.

Well the moral of the story is plain to see
Please yourself because you can't please everybody
Don't be ashamed when them newsmongers call your name
Stay on top the ass like a king
They go talk but you still riding.

Source: The lyrics posted on this blog are often transcribed directly from performances. Although it is my intention to faithfully transcribe I do not get all the words and I have a knack for hearing the wrong thing. Please feel free to correct me or to fill in the words that I miss by dropping me a message via e-mail. I'd be forever grateful. Thanks in advance!
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A Note From The Gull

Thank you, Mighty Sparrow. Dedicated to the unjustly beleaguered.

"Patria est communis omnium parens" - Our native land is the common parent of us all. Keep it beautiful, make it even more so.

Blessed is all of creation
Blessed be my beautiful people
Blessed be the day of our awakening
Blessed is my country
Blessed are her patient hills.

Mweh ka allay!
Guanaguanare