Just My Soul Responding

Song Just My Soul Responding
Artist Smokey Robinson
Album The Solo Albums: Volume 1

Lyrics

[00:17.34] Happy Birthday to you
[00:22.48] Happy Birthday to you
[00:27.77] Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
[00:33.18] Happy Birthday to you
[00:42.50] A few years ago on my birthday
[00:48.12] I had just become twenty-one (I remember)
[00:53.09] I had a lot to live, said I had a lot to give
[00:59.13] Til a man comes to give me a gun
[01:03.71] And though that war he sent me to didn't claim me
[01:08.77] If I'm bitter don't blame me
[01:11.62] It's just my Soul responding
[01:17.58] Don't you try to tell me I'm un-patriotic
[01:22.19] I deserve an explanation
[01:27.65] I can't help but wonder
[01:30.68] If you really got it
[01:33.04] It's just my Soul responding, Soul responding, Soul responding...
[02:10.98] This land once belonged to my father
[02:15.48] And to his father before him too
[02:20.72] Let me tell you now, I'm on a reservation
[02:23.70] Living in a state of degradation
[02:27.05] What's a Soul suppose to do
[02:31.42] Cause I want out
[02:33.01] My human rights
[02:34.14] Are now in doubt
[02:36.74] When it's just my Soul responding
[02:41.99] To seeing little hungry children in the Land of Plenty
[02:47.62] Just my Soul responding
[02:52.84] To doing lots of needing
[02:55.97] But never having any
[02:58.00] It's just my Soul responding, Soul responding, Soul responding...
[03:30.36] I was born and raised in the ghetto
[03:35.52] On the run down side of the track
[03:40.52] And there are forces who do everything they can do
[03:45.84] To hold me back because my skin is black
[03:50.96] Oh, but more and more I mind
[03:53.17] Hell, It's about time
[03:56.51] It's just my Soul responding
[04:01.72] To being second-class in a land I helped to form
[04:07.35] Just my Soul responding
[04:10.98] To too many roaches and not enough heat to keep my babies warm
[04:18.07] In this land I helped to form
[04:20.75] I've got too many roaches, and not enough heat to keep my babies warm
[04:28.75] It's just my Soul responding, Soul responding, Soul responding, Soul responding
[04:44.52] It's just my Soul...
[04:53.19] Soul responding...