Cantaloupe Island - Freddie Hubbard

Round' here lately it's been rough Too much heartbreak not enough love I've been doubtin' if I'll ever find myself again And I worry I won't ever be enough Oooh I've been searching for the truth And then I tell myself Whatever don't kill makes you tough Can't tap out when the times gets rough I know it ain't easy but the only way that we get stronger Is get a little burnt yeah take a little fall Hurts like hell when you're goin' through it all Get knocked down but we get back up Whatever don't kill you makes you tough tough Whatever don't kill you makes you tough tough Aw yeah I've been beat up black and blue I've been broke a time or two I've had nothing left to lose But then my faith pulled me through No more searching for the truth And now I tell myself Whatever don't kill you makes you tough Can't tap out when the times gets rough I know it ain't easy but the only way that we get stronger Is get a little burnt yeah take a little fall Hurts like hell when you're goin' through it all Get knocked down but we get back up Whatever don't kill you makes you tough tough Whatever don't kill you makes you tough tough We fall down we get up It's how we do it where we from We got us we got love We tough We fall down we get up It's how we do it where we from We got us we got love We tough Whatever don't kill you makes you tough Can't tap out when the times gets rough I know it ain't easy but the only way that we get stronger Is get a little burnt yeah take a little fall Hurts like hell when you're goin' through it all Get knocked down but we get back up Whatever don't kill you makes you tough tough Whatever don't kill you makes you tough tough We tough we tough

So here we are now, guitars and drums High and lowdown just some Dharma bums Gate mouth would tell you rehearsal's overrated Baptists will tell you it's all predestinated Between the devil and God, between the first breath and last Somewhere under heaven with no future and a hell of a past We in the mud and scum of things, moaning, crying, lying At least we ain't Lazarus and had to think twice about dying At least we ain't Lazarus and had to think twice about dying So here we are now, still preceding grace We ain't easy to look at and keep a straight face Inspired by Rimbaud ain't angelic Influenced by the dead, just gets you psychedelic So here we are now kinda like abandoned dogs Wrapped up in Gunnysacks and singing cast iron songs We're weird old America, we're grinning with sharp teeth We're beautiful on the surface and rotten underneath

My rooster crows at dawn My rooster crows at dawn Don't do nothing when the dark come on You know it don't seem right Ah, it don't seem right Bird oughta do something about it gettin' night I ain't the criminal kind I was never the criminal kind I just do a little pilfering from time to time It was around Muscle Shoals It was around Muscle Shoals I was crawlin' in a window, I got shot full of holes So it was at that time It was at that time I decided to forgo my life of crime So I got me a guitar Oh, I got me a guitar I play all night for some money in a jar I got me a suit of clothes I got a suit of clothes I rarely get home before my rooster crows My rooster crows at dawn My rooster crows at dawn Don't do nothing when the dark come on