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Better Not Look Down - Live (1981/Royal Festival Hall, London)
Joe Sample • Will Jennings • The Crusaders • B.B. King • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
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Folks, I've been around and I've seen some things
People moving faster than the speed of sound
People moving faster than the speed of bullet
People moving faster than Superman all day and all night
And I won't say if it's wrong, if it's right
Because it's pretty fast for sound
But I do have a few words I'd like to pass along
The course of this song
And when I think about it, it goes something like this
You better not look down
If you want to keep on flying
Keep the hammer down
And keep it full speed ahead
You better not look down
Or you might just wind up crying
You can keep it moving
If you don't look down
An old girlfriend of mine showed up the other day
This girl had lived for love, in love, over love
And under love all of her life
If the arrows from Cupid's bow that were sticking in her heart
Had been sticking in her body
She'd look like a butterfly
And she asked me, she said
"B.B., do you think I've lived my life all wrong?"
And I thought about it
I really didn't want to give her no bad advice
So I thought about it
And this is what I said
You better not look down
If you want to keep on flying
Keep the hammer down
And keep it full speed ahead
You better not look down
Or you might just wind up crying
You can keep it moving
If you don't look down
You know, I was walking down the streets of sunrise one morning
In London, England
And I saw this long Rolls Royce
Pulling slowly down the streets
And in this Rolls Royce was the Queen of England
Looking tired, just got back from a party
And she leaned out and she said
"Aren't you B.B. King?"
She said, "B.B., sometimes it seems like it's so hard
To try to pull things together
Can you tell me what you think I ought to do?"
And I thought about it
You know you can't give a queen no bad advice
So I thought about it
And I thought about it
I thought about it
And I thought about it
Thought about it
And this is what I said
You better not look down
If you want to keep on flying
Keep the hammer down
And keep it full speed ahead
You better not look down
Or you might just wind up crying
You can keep it moving
If you don't look down
Better not look down
Tell us how it was, Mr. B.B. King
Thank you
Thank you