I Wanna Know Why

(album: Draw The Line - 1977)

Kicking down the road
Feeling mighty slowed
With the likes of you

Getting mighty spaced
Never had a taste
Of what you're going through

I can't bitch
Went from rags to riches
Then to ragtime screaming the blues

I wanna know why
Everybody's good intentions
Try to make a fool outta of me

I wanna know why
Everybody's good intentions
Gotta make a fool
Gotta make a fool
Try to make a fool outta of me

Swing low
Sweet cherry o
When a strange love showed me the way

Ya see more
Can't keep a score
When the whore's coming on for the play

I wanna know why
Everybody's good intentions
Gotta make a fool outta of me

I wanna know why
Everybody's good intentions
Gotta make a fool
Gotta make a fool
Try to make a fool outta of me

E. Poe
Eating crow
Wonder if he knowed that the raven was mad

Time passed
And words lost the last
Of the best thing he ever had

I wanna know why
Everybody's good intentions
Gotta make a fool outta of me

I wanna know why
Everybody's good intentions
Gotta make a fool
Gotta make a fool
Try to make a fool outta of me

Oh play rough
Can't get enough
So they try to make a fool out of me, lordy

Ain't fooling me
Ya ain't ghouling me
Ain't fooling me
Ya ain't ghouling me