of having nothing to do
I love Patti LaBelle. She oversings alot but that's cause she can. Her voice just soars as if everytime she sings she's praying. Love her. Her version of If You Don't Know Me By Now is amazing. The live version has her saying this:
Sometimes you think you all knowing about them.
I think its kinda like your ego gets in the way, and you take for granted somebody just knows what your all about my dear and they just don't. You break your back, and you break your legs, and you break your faith, trying to make these people know you in life.
But somehow, they just don't want to try to. So you say to yourself, “Is it something I said? Is it something I done? Is it the way I look? Is it the way my clothes come unfasten?”
And if that turns you off baby then you aint worth me anyway.
So you fasten your clothes, you check your speech and you check you drag and everything else, your face…
And you find out you're still in trouble. So then you say to yourself, “Self is it worth it?”
Sometimes you think you all knowing about them.
I think its kinda like your ego gets in the way, and you take for granted somebody just knows what your all about my dear and they just don't. You break your back, and you break your legs, and you break your faith, trying to make these people know you in life.
But somehow, they just don't want to try to. So you say to yourself, “Is it something I said? Is it something I done? Is it the way I look? Is it the way my clothes come unfasten?”
And if that turns you off baby then you aint worth me anyway.
So you fasten your clothes, you check your speech and you check you drag and everything else, your face…
And you find out you're still in trouble. So then you say to yourself, “Self is it worth it?”