Thursday, August 28, 2014

Steve Perry - "Live My Life Again"

Here's a southern soul song with a beautiful message that needs to be heard!  I've been hitting repeat and playing this over and over. (It sounds as if the writer of this song is speaking from experience.) Steve tells both old and young people to get off drugs because they will kill you. Drinking, gambling, cocaine, crack, reefer, smoking, running around - it's no good for you. Look at the graveyards he said - they are filled. Now isn't that the truth!  Take a look at these lyrics. Oh, if I could live my life again!!

If your life is messed up
You better make a change
Don’t let nobody fool you
Even you gotta change
Somebody said this to me the other day
Oh I never will forget it
If only I could live my life again
Ah what a change I would make for my own sake
I’ll find me a job, put my money in the bank
And then I’ll stop running around
With every woman in town
I’ll do anything right now
If I could live my life again
If I could start all over again

Listen, I used to be married, oh what a family I had
Tres little girls and two little boys
My wife packed up and left me
She even took my kids
I’ll do anything right now
If I could live my life again
If I could turn back the hands of time

You see, I was talking to a young man
The other day and this is what I heard him say
Drinking, and gambling, cocaine, and crack
I won’t do that no more
Even reefer y’all, I don’t smoke that no more
And then I heard him say this
I’ll start this with all my so called friends
Even all of my scandalous kin folks
I’ll do anything tonight
If I could live my life again
If I could turn back the hands of time
I got one more thing I want to say
To all of you young people in the world
See there’s a whole lot of young people in the world
Who don’t believe in nothing
But young people while you have a chance, remember this
Drinking and gambling
Cocaine and crack
Reefer and smoking
Running around ain’t no good
Listen, give it up
If you’re on drugs, give it up
Give it up
Don’t let nobody fool you
Give it up, say this to yourself - everybody
You’ve got a chance, I got a chance
Everybody got a chance
You’ve got a chance, I got a chance
Everybody got a chance
If you’re on drugs
Give it up
Old people,
Give it up, don’t let nobody fool you
Give it up
Young people, I don’t care who you are
Give it up…

Enjoy!
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