Album: Ten Years After – Rock & Roll Music to the World (1972 – Chrysalis)

We did some rock and roll up in Texas
And the folks from the coast towns said
You better watch yourself up in Texas
Or you, you might just end up dead, boy
But the people I found
Grooving to the sound
Of rock and roll music in the air
We all had a ball
With no hassles at all
Pretty soon I’m gonna go back there

I’m singing
Rock and roll music to the world
Rock and roll music to the world
Ain’t no relation
To the United Nations
Keep rock and rolling to the world
Give peace a chance
Get up and dance

When I sing
Rock and roll music to the world
I’m gonna scream
I’m gonna shout
Get my emotions
And work them all right out

I wanna live
Just like I give
No need to fight
Wait for tonight
When I sing
Rock and roll music to the world

Rock and roll music to the world
Rock and roll music to the world
Ain’t got no calling
Except for balling
Rock and roll music to the world
Don’t need no boost
Just turn me loose
And I sing
Rock and roll music to the world
I tell the truth
I ain’t no star
I only shout
And leave the rest to my guitar

Rock and roll music to the world
Rock and roll music to the world
Ain’t no relation
To the United Nations
Keep rock and rolling to the world
Don’t need no boost
Just turn me loose
And I sing
Rock and roll music to the world

Album: Ten Years After – Rock & Roll Music to the World (1972 – Chrysalis)

You know, tomorrow I’ll be out of town
Baby, before the sun goes down
There’s an agent and he’s made a bet
That I’ll be sitting on a jumbo jet
Baby, I’d like to stay here
Baby, I’d like to play here
But I made a deal
And though it don’t seem real
Just another day
I’ll be three thousand miles away
I got to pay my dues
You know I sing the blues
Got to do my thing
All I do is sing rock and roll

You know, tomorrow I’ll be on my way
Flying through an other day
Places turn into a dream
I can’t remember where I’ve been
Baby, I’d like to stop here
Baby, I’d like to drop here
But in a month or so
Then I will have to go
But it does no good
Still it’s in my blood
I got to pay my dues
You know I sing the blues
Got to do my thing
All I do is sing rock and roll

Album: Ten Years After – Rock & Roll Music to the World (1972 – Chrysalis)

Choo choo Moma, won’t you ride the train?
My life without you is just misery and pain, come back to me
I’ll treat you best I can
Choo choo Moma, you should have a choo choo man

Choo choo Moma, won’t you ride a rail?
I need your loving, can’t you hear me wail, come back to me
You know I love you so
Choo choo Moma, won’t you get a choo choo home?

Choo choo Moma, won’t you ride the track?
I need your loving, won’t you bring some back on home to me
I need your loving, babe
Choo choo Moma, don’t you know you drive me mad?

Choo choo Moma, you’re a cheery thing
I love you, baby, can’t you help me sing, come back to me
I want you back again
Choo choo Moma, won’t you get a choo choo train?

Album: Ten Years After – Rock & Roll Music to the World (1972 – Chrysalis)

I never really understood religion
Except it seems a good excuse to kill
I never really could make a decision
I don’t surpose I ever really will

I can’t relate to any power structure
Where ego is the driving energy
I let mine go long, long time ago, now
When I decided that I would be free

Only thing I understand is living
The biggest sacrifice to make is death
Once you’re dead, there’s noting left for giving
The life means fighting your every breath

Album: Ten Years After – Rock & Roll Music to the World (1972 – Chrysalis)

You can’t win them all
‘Cause sometimes you fall flat on your face on the floor
You can’t win them all
It’s no good at all if you feel that your life is a bore

You’ve got to hang loose to keep from the noose
And you’ve got to learn to use your brain
You’ve got to live right and keep to the right
Then, you’re free if you don’t go insane

I’ve seen a lot of people
They’ve all blown it out
You can’t win them all is what they all shout
You’ve got to keep tryin’
Got to stand up a gain
You can’t lose them all, babe
‘Cause one day you’ll win

You’ve got to have taste or life is a waste
And you don’t ever tune yourself in
You’ve got to keep on or they’ll get you, my son
And they know that you just can’t win

Album: Ten Years After – Rock & Roll Music to the World (1972 – Chrysalis)

Well, I’m standin’ at the station
And the rain don’t make a sound
Got a Bible in my pocket
Cause my plane was just shot down
My mind is all confusion
I believe I’m in a play
Throw my Bible out the window
As the train goes on i’ts way

Gonna leave my blues behind me
Gonna find another town
Gonna try and find some people
Who this time won’t bring me down
As I step out of the carriage
The station looks the same
As the one I left behind me
Though it has another name

Album: Ten Years After – Rock & Roll Music to the World (1972 – Chrysalis)

It’s a cold and winter’s night and the rain is falling down
It’s so cold, cold outside, snow is laying all around
There is blackness in my window, and the silence is the only sound

Well I’m sitting and I’m thinking though I like to watch T.V.
It just fills my head with garbage that my eyes ain’t surposed to see
Got the turned off T.V. blues now, but I’m lonely as you see

Well I’ve got a worried feeling, all the pain and misery
Well, it’s happenning in the world now, even though I cannot see
Though my body is now with you, still my mind is runnning free

There’s just nothing I can do now, though I search from day to day
But the truth is so hard to tell you, and you know it, anyway
It’s a cold and winter’s evening, I wish my blues would go away

Album: Ten Years After – Rock & Roll Music to the World (1972 – Chrysalis)

I’d like to reach out to you
And learn just how do you do
So we can still relate
I’d like to open my mind
So you can come in and find
How we communicate
There’s a chemical reaction
And it’s causing an attraction
From you to me
I am not one for convention
But I have a good intention
For you from me

Rain is falling and a thunderbolt is crashing through my head
And there’s people and pain all around me
Someone is calling and electric sparks are everywhere I tread
My life, it seems, is a sequence of dreams
And there’s people and pain all around me

I’m going down in a black elevator
‘Cause the big masturbator’s got his eye on me
I’m going down ’cause my brain is on fire
And my soul is a liar ’cause I tried to be free
Tried to be free, tried to be free…

Freedom in your mind you can have when you dead
Freedom in your life just depends on your head
Freedom in your heart can alas never be
‘Cause no one on this earth has been born to be free
Born to be free, born to me free…

All of my life I have tried to be free
All of my life I have learned all I see
All of my life I have searched for a clue
All of my life I have tried to be true
Tried to be true, tried to be true…

Album: Ten Years After – Rock & Roll Music to the World (1972 – Chrysalis)

You give me loving that I can’t return
You give me money that you know I’ll burn
I’ll give you something that you can’t give back
Then, I’m moving right on down the track
You’ve given everything you’ve got to me
But, still you cannot really set me free
My life is changing and I’m on the run
I’ll see you later when I’ve had some fun

I keep running, ’cause I know the score
You’ll never find me coming back for more
I’ll catch you later ’cause I’m gonna split
You give a lot, I only need a bit
You give me loving that I can’t return
You give me money that you know I’ll burn
You give me loving just for your own sake
You only give it so that you can take

You give me loving and it’s plain to see
You wanna give it to me all for free
But, I can’t take it ’cause you need it back
The art of giving is the one I lack
You give me loving and you drive me mad
You give me money and it makes me sad
‘Cause I meed freedom more than I need gold
And so I’ll leave before I get too old

Album: Ten Years After – A Space in Time (1971 – Chrysalis)

There’s someone somewhere who can’t go on
Their life is crying, it’s all gone wrong
What can I say now to help you through
Except to say that I’ve been there too?

Your soul is aching, you can’t see it through
But time is healing each day you do
Keep looking forward, forget the past
It’s up to you now, don’t let it last

You got to wake up, shake up
You got a right to live
Shake up, don’t break up
You’ve got a lot to give

You’ll wake up one morning, you start to feel good
The sun in the blue sky looks like it should
‘Cause time is a healer, it’s strange but it’s true
So, keep looking forward, the sun will come through

You got to wake up, shake up
You got a right to live
Shake up, don’t break up
You’ve got a lot to give