Gil Scott-Heron - The Other Side, Part I lyrics

Sometimes I feel like I'm just wasting time Looking for another side Sometime I feel like I'm losing my mind ‘cause there ain't No other side Sometimes I'm just spinning my wheels, ain't no big deal Morning, there's another side Sometimes I feel like I'm just standing in place, ain't no real race Ain't no other side Life is like a circle and you end up where you started If you end up where you started ain't no other side Yeah, but if life is like a curtain that I'm 90% certain that I'm looking through at something Yes, I'm almost touching something on the other side Yeah, the opposite of new is old The opposite of young is old Seems like everything has got another side Yeah, but young ones want to be old ones Old ones know what they would do if they was young ones People ain't never really satisfied People ain't never satisfied If life is like a mirror then the nearer you get clearer You can see it so much clearer Feel like you know about the other side My friends all swear that they know What I should do with my life How I should run my life What should be happening with my life They're on the other side They're on the outside I'm on the inside Things always look so much better on the other side Four O'clock in the morning They don't know All the things I been needing They don't know Breaking out in a sweat And they don't know Feeling down And they don't know They don't know the other side I need to go home Momma could change it Daddy could help me Yes, I could go home Yeah, Momma don't need to see me this way Know me this way Touch me this way Love me this way Find me this way I can't go home I'm saying I don't want to call him I don't want to know him I don't want to need him I don't want to feel it I don't want to know But I know, know know Hey, home So I say tomorrow Tomorrow [repeat] I'm going home Tomorrow ain't coming Tomorrow will always where it was Tomorrow [repeat] I need to go home Maybe I could start all over at home Without the whispers Hanging on me Pulling on me, rolling with me Pulling on me Yes, I'd like to go home Without the whispers