Soul

Dan Bern

Are you gonna scribble in the dark with a marker or do you gotta have the latest pen

If you tell a good joke and somebody laughs do we gotta hear it over again

If you give someone a present is it just to make 'em happy or just to keep 'em at bay



Are you gonna follow your soul

Are you gonna follow your soul

Are you gonna follow your soul

Or just the style of the day



Win a penny, lose a penny, here's a penny, penny, penny penny's gonna come and go

How many years will you sit there waiting for the wind to change how it blows

Do the skeletons in your closet all got 20 pairs of shoes to choose from, baby



Are you gonna follow your soul ...



Now I feel the changes coming down between you and I

Lions gotta roar and monkeys gotta bonk

Birds gotta swim, fish gotta fry

It's just a question I ain't necessarily leaning either way



Are you gonna follow your soul ...

Now I feel the changes coming from the north

Old Man Winter's gonna blow us off the porch and back inside



Every time I go downtown I see something beautiful behind glass

All the money in the world won't buy back a day of your past

I hear that you been crying

I wanna tell you that it's OK



Are you gonna follow your soul ...