Commodores

Released: January 1, 1974

Songwriter: Gloria Jones Pam Sawyer

Producer: Pam Sawyer Gloria Jones

[Chorus]
From the moment you're born
You're on the line, line, assembly line
Keeps on messing with your mind

[Chorus]
From the moment you're born
They take your fingerprints
The way you think
Got you down in pen and ink

[Verse 1]
They tell you you can do your very own thing
Ooh, but try people, see the hurt it bring, yeah
Soon little boys learn to be ashamed of tears they cry
If a girl wants a football, someone must go in and ask her why

[Chorus]
From the moment you're born
You're on the line, line, assembly line
Keeps on messing with your mind

[Chorus]
From the moment you're born
You're on the line, line, assembly line
Keeps on messing with your mind

[Verse 2]
Look at the kindly lawyer whom you turn to when in need
Steals with the other lawyer making underhand deals
The judge gives his judgement with his holy book
Doesn't always go by facts but really how you look

[Chorus]
From the moment you're born
You're on the line, line, assembly line
Keeps on messing with your mind

From the moment you're born
You're on the line, line, assembly line
Keeps on messing with your mind

[Verse 3]
Life should be beautiful glow
There'll be no tomorrow if we don't change the world
Life, we gotta try to change
To save our future children, the ones we haven't made

[Speaking]
From the moment they're born
You know, from the moment they're born

[Bridge]
They're on the la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la line

[Chorus]
From the moment you're born
You're on the line, line, assembly line
Keeps on messing with your mind

From the moment you're born
You're on the line, line, assembly line
Keeps on messing with your mind

From the moment you're born
You're on the line, line, assembly line
Keeps on messing with your mind

From the moment you're born
You're on the line, line, assembly line
Keeps on messing with your mind

[Instrumental break]

(One, two, three, four)

[Chorus]
From the moment you thought
You're on the bad line, assembly line
Keeps on messing with your mind

From the moment you thought
You're on the bad line, assembly line
Keeps on messing with your mind

From the moment you thought
You're on the bad line, assembly line
Keeps on messing with your mind

From the moment you thought
You're on the bad line, assembly line
Keeps on messing with your mind

Commodores are an American funk/soul band, which was at its peak in the late 1970s through the mid 1980s. The members of the group met as mostly freshmen at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) in 1968, and signed with Motown in November 1972, having first caught the public eye opening for The Jackson 5 while on tour.

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