(What can I say?)
(What can I do?)
Three a.m., it's me again, wouldn't you know
Things would have to end this way
I did my best by perfect guest knew when to go
Perfect, you knew when to stay
Come on, tell me that you're lonely dear
I've been feeling down some too
After all this time now, I've made it clear
I've been waiting just for you
(What can I say?)
Oh, to make me know baby
(What can I do?)
Ooh, show me that I care
(What can I say?)
Hmmm, got to have your number baby
(What can I do?)
Do-oo-oo-oo
Can't you see the people just stop and stare?
Don't it make you wonder why?
I just happened to be standing there
Can't you see it in my eyes?
(What can I say?)
Hmmm, you got me actin' like a fool girl
(What can I do?)
Ooh, stop making like a little school girl
(What can I say?)
Could be your lucky day, baby
(What can I do?)
Hmmm, let's talk
(What can I say?)
Ahh, talk to me girl
(What can I say?)
Oh, to make you know baby
(What can I do?)
Oh, to show you that I care
(What can I say?)
Ooh, I'm down on my knees
(What can I do?)
Please, please, please, what can I say?
[Fades to end]
(What can I say?)
(What can I do?)
Ooh, what can I do?
(What can I say?)
What can I say, b-a-b-y
Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees Album Lyrics
Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees Lyrics
Writer: BOZ SCAGGS, DAVID PAICH
Copyright: Lyrics © Spirit Music Group
Copyright: Lyrics © Spirit Music Group
Georgia
Georgia
I swear
I've never seen such a smile
Gorgeous enough
To make an angels heart run wild
Your lazy eyes and small town lies
Have got me in your spell
Your drive-in boys and backseat noises
Oh you learned so well
Oh oh oh
So how was I to know
You got me you got me... by now
I swear
I've never seen such a smile
Gorgeous enough
To make an angels heart run wild
Your lazy eyes and small town lies
Have got me in your spell
Your drive-in boys and backseat noises
Oh you learned so well
Oh oh oh
So how was I to know
You got me you got me... by now
Georgia
Your daddy was high
The night he dreamed of you
Georgia the stars were flying
The night that you came through
Christmas in your eyes
Oh what a nice surprise
Oh oh oh
And now I miss you so
But baby I'm comin' back to you
Georgia
We will be together dear
If they ever let me out of here
They will say that its not true
But I did it all for you
Georgia
Won't you tell them for me dear
Georgia girl
I never lived through a night like that
Sure enough
Got your loving where I like it at
Moonlight through the pines
Oh oh oh
But how were we to know
That wasn't moonlight
They were searchlights
Oh no
Georgia
We will be together dear
If they ever let me out of here
They will say that its not true
But I did it all for you
Georgia
Won't you tell them for me dear
Georgia
We will be together dear
Oh my dear
If they ever let me out of here
Writer: WILLIAM R. ROYCE SCAGGS
Copyright: Lyrics © Spirit Music Group
Copyright: Lyrics © Spirit Music Group
Jump Street
Dawn came sneaking
Like a skinny snake
The harder they go
The harder I ache
Get so high
Got so low
Somebody tell me
'Bout this debt I owe
Like a skinny snake
The harder they go
The harder I ache
Get so high
Got so low
Somebody tell me
'Bout this debt I owe
West side bomber
Looked like a comer
Looked like I'll be back at school
Put two on the nose
And look how she goes
Little trained squeeze
Look like a fool
Rock on..
And I'm gone
Stone gone
Said you can forget about me
And I'm gone
Stone gone
Working girls
Just tryin to get ahead
Somebody's bound
To end up dead
And honey
You better stop coming down on me
On me
Stop
Jump Street
Sally comes creeping
At the break of dawn
Can't figure out
Whose side I'm on
Bomber comes back
Like a ringin' a bell
Knows a good thing
And she knows it well
Well enough best left alone
Wish your mamma
Had kept you at home
Wish your mamma
Had kept the evidence
Worryin' about the Feds
Has crucified me for dead
She wish I was dead
Well I wish I was dead
But I'm gone
Stone gone
As gone as I can be
And I'm gone
So gone
Don't look much
Like a Saturday night
Honey
Don't look for those flashing lights
But baby
You'd better stop coming down on me
Stop coming down on me
I don't need it
Stop coming down.. on me
OW!
Jump Street
And I'm gone
Stone gone
You can forget about me yeah
I'm gone
Stone gone
So long
Workin girls
Just tryin' to get ahead
Somebody's bound
To end up dead
Honey
You better stop comin' down on me
Stop your comin' down
Stop comin' down on me yeah
Stop comin' down on me
Look out funk...
Jump Street... [etc]
Writer: BOZ SCAGGS, DAVID PAICH
Copyright: Lyrics © Spirit Music Group
Copyright: Lyrics © Spirit Music Group
What Do You Want The Girl To Do
So you think the girl is crazy
To eat up your lies like it's good
(Your lies like apple pie)
(She don't even cry)
She is not a fool
She's just tryin to do
What her heart says do
To love you
To eat up your lies like it's good
(Your lies like apple pie)
(She don't even cry)
She is not a fool
She's just tryin to do
What her heart says do
To love you
And as you take to the wind
(to the wind again she breaks down)
And as she breaks down within
(within within)
She waits for you patiently
Hoping that some day you'll see
All she really wants to be
Is yours and yours alone eternally
What do you want the girl to do
Don't you know you're breaking the child in two
What do you want the girl to do
All she really wants is you
She knows what you are
Still she'll be your queen if you'll let her
(Just say the word today)
Oh if you'll let her
(Build the world around her)
Now and then you'll promise
All the way-out things you're going to get her
(You will see you will see)
Maybe she knows better
(So damn glad you found her found her)
As she watched you come and go
(All your show)
And as she watched your promises erode
She waits for your patiently
Hoping that some day you'll see
All she really wants to be is yours and yours alone
Eternally
What do you want the girl to do
Can't you see you're breaking the child in two
What do you want the girl to do
All she really wants is you
What do you want the girl to do
Don't you know you're breaking the child in two
What do you want the girl to do
Can't you see you're breakin' the child in two
Writer: ALLEN TOUSSAINT
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Harbor Lights
Son of a Tokyo Rose
I was bound to wander from home
Stranger to whatever I'd awaken to
I was bound to wander from home
Stranger to whatever I'd awaken to
Spun the wheel took a shot in the dark
One way ticket and a runaway heart
A sailors dream came true
The night I dreamed of you
Through the neon doorways
Down the stony streets I fell
All hands high side all eyes a wreck
I followed
Sailing shadows reds and blues
Curtains drawn but I saw through
The window to your soul
And I found you
Whoa oh oh oh
The harbor lights of Venus
Shining through the breeze
That brings me back
To you my love
To you my love
To you my love
My eyes must be betrayin'
But that lonesome jukebox playin'
Somethin' 'bout the harbor lights is callin' me
Back to some Jamaican bay
Doesn't seem so far away
Keep the change
But I'll repay these memories
Dawn came in this morning
Like some old junked out melody
The words she spoke as we awoke
Still haunt me
"What you feel too
May reveal you
Let me steal you for my life"
Whoa oh oh oh
The harbor lights are of Venus
Shining through the breeze
That brings me back
To you my love
To you my love
To you my love
Whoa oh oh oh
The harbor lights of Venus
Shining through the breeze
That brings me back
To you my love
To you my love
To you my love
Whooo oooh oooh hooo
Writer: JIMMY KENNEDY, WILHELM GROSZ
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Lowdown
Baby's into runnin' around
Hanging with the crowd
Putting your business in the street talking out loud
Saying you bought her this and that
And how much you done spent
I swear she must believe it's all heaven sent
Hey boy, you better bring the chick around
To the sad, sad truth, the dirty lowdown
Hanging with the crowd
Putting your business in the street talking out loud
Saying you bought her this and that
And how much you done spent
I swear she must believe it's all heaven sent
Hey boy, you better bring the chick around
To the sad, sad truth, the dirty lowdown
(Whooooo, I wonder, wonder, wonder, wonder who)
Taught her how to talk like that
(Whooooo, I wonder, wonder, wonder, wonder who)
Gave her that big idea
Nothing you can't handle, nothing you ain't got
Put the money on the table and drive it off the lot
Turn on that ole lovelight and turn a maybe to a yes
Same old schoolboy game got you into this mess
Hey son, better get on back to town
Face the sad old truth, the dirty lowdown
(Whooooo, I wonder, wonder, wonder, wonder who)
Put those ideas in your head
(Whooooo, I wonder, wonder, wonder, wonder who)
Come on back down earth, son
Dig the low, low, low, low lowdown
You ain't got to be so bad got to be so cold
This dog eat dog existence sure is getting old
Got to have a Jones for this Jones for that
This running with the Joneses boy
Just ain't where it's at
You gonna come back around
To the sad, sad truth, the dirty lowdown
(Whooooo, I wonder, wonder, wonder, wonder who)
Got you thinking like that boy
(Whooooo, I wonder, wonder, wonder, wonder who)
(I wonder, wonder, wonder, wonder who)
(Say whooooo, I wonder, wonder, wonder, wonder who)
Ooooooh look out for that lowdown
That dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty lowdown
(Whoooo I wonder, wonder, wonder, wonder who, ohh, ohh)
Got you thinking like that
Writer: DAVID PAICH, BOZ SCAGGS
Copyright: Lyrics © Spirit Music Group
Copyright: Lyrics © Spirit Music Group
Its Over
Best of friends
Never part
Best of fools has love forever
From the bottom of his heart
So why pretend
This is the end
You'll have to find out for yourself
Go on ask somebody else
Why can't you just get it through your head
It's over
It's over now
Yes you heard me clearly now I said
It's over
It's over now
I'm not really over you
You might say that
I can't take it
I can't take it
Lord I swear
I just can't take it no more
(Go away)
Go away
(Far away)
So far away
It's too late to turn back now
And it don't matter anyhow
Cos you were right
I'm to blame
Can't go on the same old way
Can't keep up the same old game
Why can't you just get it through your head
It's over
It's over now
Yes you heard me clearly now I said
It's over
It's over now
I'm not really over you
You might say that
I can't take it
I can't take it
Lord I swear
I just can't take it no more
(Why can't you just get it through your head
It's over it's over now)
Yes you heard me clearly now I said
It's o, o, o, o
Why can't you just get it through your head
It's o-o-over
Yes you heard me clearly now
Clearly now
So clearly now
Never part
Best of fools has love forever
From the bottom of his heart
So why pretend
This is the end
You'll have to find out for yourself
Go on ask somebody else
Why can't you just get it through your head
It's over
It's over now
Yes you heard me clearly now I said
It's over
It's over now
I'm not really over you
You might say that
I can't take it
I can't take it
Lord I swear
I just can't take it no more
(Go away)
Go away
(Far away)
So far away
It's too late to turn back now
And it don't matter anyhow
Cos you were right
I'm to blame
Can't go on the same old way
Can't keep up the same old game
Why can't you just get it through your head
It's over
It's over now
Yes you heard me clearly now I said
It's over
It's over now
I'm not really over you
You might say that
I can't take it
I can't take it
Lord I swear
I just can't take it no more
(Why can't you just get it through your head
It's over it's over now)
Yes you heard me clearly now I said
It's o, o, o, o
Why can't you just get it through your head
It's o-o-over
Yes you heard me clearly now
Clearly now
So clearly now
Writer: DAVID PAICH, BOZ SCAGGS
Copyright: Lyrics © Spirit Music Group
Copyright: Lyrics © Spirit Music Group
Love Me Tomorrow
You say that you love me anyway
But I know its not in your eyes
You say you can take it night and day
But I know its an alibi
But I know its not in your eyes
You say you can take it night and day
But I know its an alibi
Dejon where did we go wrong
You said that you'd be mine
Till the end of time
Love me tomorrow
Love me tomorrow
Love me tomorrow
Love me tomorrow
I say its a sad sort of play
When you never get to my lines
You say that I'm better off this way
But I know it's all in your mind
Dejon where did we go wrong
You said that you'd be mine
Till the end of time
Love me tomorrow
Love me tomorrow
Forget all your sorrow
Love me tomorrow
Dejon where did we go wrong
You said that you'd be mine
Till the end of time
Love me tomorrow
Love me tomorrow
Forget all your sorrow
Love me tomorrow
Writer: DAVID PAICH
Copyright: Lyrics © Spirit Music Group
Copyright: Lyrics © Spirit Music Group
Lido Shuffle
Lido missed the boat that day he left the shack
But that was all he missed
And he ain't comin' back
At a tombstone bar, in a juke joint car he made a stop
Just long enough to grab a handle off the top
Next stop Chi town, Lido put the money down, let 'em roll
He said one more job ought to get it
One last shot 'fore we quit it
One for the road
Lido
Whoah oh oh oh
He's for the money, he's for the show
Lido's waitin' for the go, Lido
Whoah oh oh oh oh oh
He said one more job ought to get it
One last shot 'fore we quit it
One more for the road
Lido will be runnin', havin' great big funnin' till he got the note
Sayin' toe the line or blow it and that was all she wrote
He'll be makin' like a bee line, headin' for the border line, goin' for broke
Sayin' one more hit ought to do it
This joint ain't nothin' to it
One more for the road
Lido
Whoah oh oh oh
He's for the money, he's for the show
Lido's waitin' for the go, Lido
Whoah oh oh oh oh oh
One more job ought to get it
One last shot then we quit it
One more for the road
Lido
Woah oh oh oh
He's for the money, he's for the show
Lido's waitin' for the go, Lido
Woah oh oh oh oh oh
One more job ought to get it
But that was all he missed
And he ain't comin' back
At a tombstone bar, in a juke joint car he made a stop
Just long enough to grab a handle off the top
Next stop Chi town, Lido put the money down, let 'em roll
He said one more job ought to get it
One last shot 'fore we quit it
One for the road
Lido
Whoah oh oh oh
He's for the money, he's for the show
Lido's waitin' for the go, Lido
Whoah oh oh oh oh oh
He said one more job ought to get it
One last shot 'fore we quit it
One more for the road
Lido will be runnin', havin' great big funnin' till he got the note
Sayin' toe the line or blow it and that was all she wrote
He'll be makin' like a bee line, headin' for the border line, goin' for broke
Sayin' one more hit ought to do it
This joint ain't nothin' to it
One more for the road
Lido
Whoah oh oh oh
He's for the money, he's for the show
Lido's waitin' for the go, Lido
Whoah oh oh oh oh oh
One more job ought to get it
One last shot then we quit it
One more for the road
Lido
Woah oh oh oh
He's for the money, he's for the show
Lido's waitin' for the go, Lido
Woah oh oh oh oh oh
One more job ought to get it
Writer: David Paich, Boz Scaggs
Copyright: Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Spirit Music Group
Copyright: Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Spirit Music Group
Were All Alone
Outside the rain begins
And it may never end
So cry no more
On the shore a dream
Will take us out to sea
For ever more
For ever more
And it may never end
So cry no more
On the shore a dream
Will take us out to sea
For ever more
For ever more
Close your eyes ami
And you can be with me
'Neath the waves
Through the caves of hours
Long forgotten now
We're all alone
We're all alone
Close the window
Calm the light
And it will be all right
No need to bother now
Let it out let it all begin
Learn how to pretend
Once a story's told
It can't help but grow old
Roses do lovers too so cast
Your seasons to the wind
And hold me dear
Oh hold me dear
Close the window
Calm the light
And it will be all right
No need to bother now
Let it out let it all begin
Alls forgotten now
We're all alone
All alone
Close the window
Calm the light
And it will be alright
No need to bother now
Let it out let it all begin
Throw it to the wind my love
Hold me dear
All's forgotten now my love
We're all alone...
Writer: WILLIAM R. ROYCE SCAGGS
Copyright: Lyrics © Spirit Music Group, BMG Rights Management
Copyright: Lyrics © Spirit Music Group, BMG Rights Management
Silk Degrees is the seventh solo album by Boz Scaggs, released on Columbia Records in February 1976. The album peaked at No. 2 and spent 115 weeks on the Billboard 200. It has been certified five times platinum by the RIAA and remains Scaggs's best selling album.
Silk Degrees spawned four singles. "It's Over" (No. 38), "Lowdown" (No. 3) and "Lido Shuffle" (No. 11) made the Top 40, while "What Can I Say" peaked at No. 42.
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Boz ScaggsSilk Degrees spawned four singles. "It's Over" (No. 38), "Lowdown" (No. 3) and "Lido Shuffle" (No. 11) made the Top 40, while "What Can I Say" peaked at No. 42.
Genre(s): Blue-eyed soul, R&B, disco
Producer(s): Joe Wissert
Length: 41:32
Released: February 18th, 1976
Year: 1976