Songwriter: Barry Gibb
Producer: Bill Shepherd
Ah...
Well, I been working up a fever trying to
Straighten up the mess in my mind about this place
I can't contain myself anymore
Can't you see it's written all over my face
Why don't you get on your feet
It's about time you got to think
What ever happened to peace
Well open your eyes and you'll see children laughing
Voices singin', hearts a-beatin' ah...
You're always talkin' right and talkin about
The world and its corruption and moral decay
But what you gonna do about it, nothing
'cause you're more like children than children while they play
Why, you're so clean through and through you won't shake hands
With a negro who's maybe cleaner then you
Well listen around and you'll hear children laughin'
Voices singin', hearts a-beatin' like they always do
So what's wrong with you, ah...
You're so blown up with anger about the world
You write the songs about
Yet you don't even know your neighbors name
Now you want to go the the moon and live there
When you know it'll only end up the same
How can he give you any gratitude
With your endless sickenin' attitude
You strive to get ahead
But you leave each other dead
Can't you see, children laughin'
Voices singin', hearts beatin' like they always do
So what's wrong with you, ah...
Children laughin', voices singin' hearts beatin'
Children laughin', voices singin
Well, I been working up a fever trying to
Straighten up the mess in my mind about this place
I can't contain myself anymore
Can't you see it's written all over my face
Why don't you get on your feet
It's about time you got to think
What ever happened to peace
Well open your eyes and you'll see children laughing
Voices singin', hearts a-beatin' ah...
You're always talkin' right and talkin about
The world and its corruption and moral decay
But what you gonna do about it, nothing
'cause you're more like children than children while they play
Why, you're so clean through and through you won't shake hands
With a negro who's maybe cleaner then you
Well listen around and you'll hear children laughin'
Voices singin', hearts a-beatin' like they always do
So what's wrong with you, ah...
You're so blown up with anger about the world
You write the songs about
Yet you don't even know your neighbors name
Now you want to go the the moon and live there
When you know it'll only end up the same
How can he give you any gratitude
With your endless sickenin' attitude
You strive to get ahead
But you leave each other dead
Can't you see, children laughin'
Voices singin', hearts beatin' like they always do
So what's wrong with you, ah...
Children laughin', voices singin' hearts beatin'
Children laughin', voices singin
more tracks from the album
Brilliant from Birth
- Theme from Jaimie McPheeters
- Top Hat
- And the Children Laughing
- Born a Man
- Monday’s Rain
- Glass House
- Where Are You?
- Tint of Blue
- Lonely Winter
- Butterfly
- Paperback Writer
- I Was a Lover, a Leader of Men
- Somewhere
- Ticket to Ride
- The End
- The Battle of the Blue and the Grey
- Can’t You See That She’s Mine
- You’re the Reason I’m Living
- Spicks and Specks
- To Be or Not to Be
- Lum-De-Loo
- Forever
- You Won’t See Me
- The Twelfth of Never
- Second Hand People
- Peace of Mind
- Claustrophobia
- How Love Was True
- All by Myself
- You Wouldn’t Know
- Hallelujah, I Love Her So
- Terrible Way to Treat Your Baby
- I’ll Know What to Do
- Daydream
- I Don’t Think It’s Funny
- Take Hold of That Star
- Timber!
- Wine and Women
- From Me to You
- Like Nobody Else
- In the Morning
- Don’t Say Goodbye
- All of My Life
- Could It Be
- Just One Look
- Jingle Jangle
- You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
- I Want Home
- I Love You Because
- Coalman
- Playdown
- I Don’t Know Why I Bother with Myself
- Big Chance
- How Many Birds
- Exit, Stage Right
- Follow the Wind
- The Three Kisses of Love
- Everyday I Have to Cry
- Yesterday’s Gone
- Cherry Red
- Turn Around, Look at Me
- Storm
- I Am the World
From the albums
Bee Gees popular songs
- How Deep Is Your Love
- Stayin’ Alive
- You Should Be Dancing
- To Love Somebody
- I Started a Joke
- More Than a Woman
- Too Much Heaven
- Night Fever
- Words
- Tragedy
- Islands in the Stream
- How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
- Massachusetts
- Emotion
- You Win Again
- New York Mining Disaster 1941
- Alone
- I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You
- Holiday
- Love You Inside Out
- Nights on Broadway
- Rest Your Love on Me
- World
- Jive Talkin’