Artist: Bobbie Gentry
Song: Lookin' In
Verse
[G]
Can't seem to settle down
[C]
Maybe I'll just hang around
[Em] [C] [D]
But every time you pick me up
[Bm] [G]
I guess I take you down
[G]
But here I am again
[C]
You'll take me back and then
[Em] [C] [D]
It won't be long till I'll be gone
[Bm] [G]
Upon my way again
Verse
[G] [C]
So I spend my days thinkin' up new ways
[D] [C]
To do the same old thing
[Am] [Bm] [G]
Seasons come and go without a name
[G] [C]
And I spend my nights in the bright spotlights
[D] [C]
Wishin' I could let the people know
[Am] [Bm] [G]
Can't win or lose unless you play the game
[C] [D] [C]
Verse
[G] [C] [G]
Sittin' in the airport, awaitin' on my plane
[C] [G] [C] [D]
Nothin' to do for an hour or two
[C] [D] [G]
So I try to find a message in a picture I drew
[C] [D]
In the corner of a letter from a boy I knew
Verse
[G] [C] [G]
Off the plane and through the rain into a limousine
[C] [G] [C] [D]
The traffic's slow so I miss my show
[C] [D] [G]
But lookin' out the window somehow I know
[C]
That they're about to play my record
[D]
On the radio
Verse
[G] [C]
So I write another song as I go along
[D] [C]
To let you know just where I been
[Am] [Bm]
Don't want to meet myself at the
[G]
masquerade
[G] [C]
You can tell in the verse if I get worse
[D] [C]
By the chorus I may be fine
[Am] [Bm] [G]
A line, my friend, can end the kind charade
[C] [D] [C]
Verse
[G] [C] [G]
Layin' in my hotel room, wantin' to be alone
[C] [G] [C] [D]
Needin' the time to rest my mind
[C] [D]
But they bring in another stack of papers to
[G]
sign
[C] [D]
And L.A.'s awaitin' on the other line
Verse
[G] [C]
So I'm packin' up and I'm checking out
[G]
I'm on the road again
[C] [G] [C] [D]
Feeling like I'm bringing pen to mind
[C] [D]
But the words will come to me in their own
[G]
time
[C] [D]
Tumbling and stumbling over in rhyme
Verse
[G] [C]
And the ugliest word that I ever heard
[D] [C]
My friends, is sacrifice
[Am] [Bm] [G]
It's an easy out for all you should have been
[G]
And if there's one thing
[C] [D] [C]
That I just can't bring myself to compromise
[Am] [Bm]
It's blamin' somebody else for the state I'm
[G]
in
[C]
Oh, but then again
[Am] [Bm] [G]
Daddy never loved his baby girl, no how
[C] [G]
Ah, what's the difference now
