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I've been around and I've seen some things |
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People moving faster than the speed of sound |
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Faster than the speeding bullet |
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People living like Superman, all day and all night |
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And I won't say if it's wrong or if it's right |
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I'm pretty fast myself |
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But I do have some advice to pass along |
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Right here in the words of this song |
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You better not look down if you want to keep on flying |
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Put the hammer down, keep it full speed ahead |
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You better not look back or you might just wind up crying |
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You can keep it moving if you don't look down |
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An old girl friend of mine |
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Showed up the other day |
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That girl have lived in love and for love |
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And over love, and under love all of her life |
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If the arrows from Cupids bow that had |
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Passed through her heart had been sticking |
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Out of her body she would have looked like |
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A porcupine |
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And she asked me |
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"B. B. do you think I've lived my life all wrong?" |
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And I said, "The only advice I have to pass along |
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Is concealed in the chorus of this song" |
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"Girl, better not look down if you want to keep on flying |
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Put the hammer down, keep it full speed ahead |
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Better not look back or you might just wind up crying |
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You can keep it moving if you don't look down" |
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I was walking down the street |
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At sunrise one morning n London, England |
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And there was a very large Rolls Royce Limousine |
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Pulling slowly along the street |
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And in that Rolls Royce was |
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The Queen of England, looking tired |
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Just go back from a party |
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And the Queen leaned out and |
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She said, "Aren't you B.B. King?" she said |
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Oh B.B., sometimes it's so hard to pull things together |
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Could you tell me what you think I ought to do? |
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And I said |
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"You better not look down if you want to keep on flying |
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Put the hammer down, keep it full speed ahead |
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Better not look back or you might just wind up crying |
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You can keep it moving if you don't look down" |
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