Dear Helen,
I must be one of your oldest fans…or maybe I am just stuck in the past as I seem to repeatedly go WAY back for the songs I share.
My first thought was Think by Aretha Franklin. It throws me into an aging-related existential crisis to think that maybe others don’t know this song…or don’t know who Aretha is.
I mean even my spellcheck doesn’t recognize the name “aretha”! Sheesh!
I’ll be 70 years old in 21 days, but I remember exactly where I was when I first heard this classic…I was a VISTA Volunteer in a tiny Juke Joint outside Atlanta, where I had the extreme pleasure of witnessing the Queen of Soul, a patron herself of said tavern, spontaneously perform Do Right Woman…acapella!!
Hey, it might even be a song you could add to your list of mood and thought-changing music!
Love to you Helen!
Think by Aretha Franklin
Think about what you’re trying to do to me
Think (think, think)
Let your mind go, let yourself be free
Let’s go way on back when
I didn’t even know you
You couldn’t have been too much more than ten (just a child)
I ain’t no psychiatrist, I ain’t no doctor with degrees
It don’t take too much high IQ’s
To see what you’re doing to me
Think about what you’re trying to do to me
Yeah, think (think, think)
Let your mind go, let yourself be free
Oh, freedom, yeah, freedom
Freedom (freedom), freedom (freedom)
Freedom, oh freedom
I could answer you but I won’t (I won’t)
I was gonna change, but I’m not
To keep doing things I don’t
Think about what you’re trying to do to me
Think (think)
Let your mind go, let yourself be free
Playing games, taking score
Trying to make other people lose their minds
Ah, be careful you don’t lose yours, oh
Think about what you’re trying to do to me, ooh
Think (think)
Let your mind go, let yourself be free
And I need you (don’t you know)
Without each other there ain’t nothing people can do, oh
Yeah, oh baby, think about it now, yeah
(Think about, ah me, think about, ah me)
(Think about, ah me, think about, ah me)
Oh, come on, baby
https://helenswordsoflife.com/2018/07/07/song-lyric-sunday-theme-for-7-1-18-2/
Thanks for sharing a GREAT classic! 👍💯💯
Great song .. heard myself singing silently along to the tune in my head .. as I read the words.
Nice one. Such meaning! Visiting from the SLS group. Happy Sunday.
Thank you SO much for this. As soon as it started playing, I was smiling and crying at the same time. Aretha is in a league of her own. Such a classic! <3
Oh YAY!