Lookin' In Lyrics - Singles - Bobbie Gentry

Can't seem to settle down 

Maybe I'll just hang around 

But every time you pick me up 

I guess I take you down 

But here I am again 

You'll take me back and then 

It won't be long till I'll be gone 

Upon my way again 

So I spend my days thinkin' up new ways 

To do the same old thing 

Seasons come and go without a name 

And I spend my nights in the bright spotlights 

Wishin' I could let the people know 

Can't win or lose unless you play the game 

Sittin' in the airport, awaitin' on my plane 

Nothin' to do for an hour or two 

So I try to find a message in a picture I drew 

In the corner of a letter from a boy I knew 

Off the plane and through the rain into a limousine 

The traffic's slow so I miss my show 

But lookin' out the window somehow I know 

That they're about to play my record 

On the radio 

So I write another song as I go along 

To let you know just where I been 

Don't want to meet myself at the masquerade 

You can tell in the verse if I get worse 

By the chorus I may be fine 

A line, my friend, can end the kind charade 

Layin' in my hotel room, wantin' to be alone 

Needin' the time to rest my mind 

But they bring in another stack of papers to sign 

And L.A.'s awaitin' on the other line 

So I'm packin' up and I'm checking out 

I'm on the road again 

Feeling like I'm bringing pen to mind 

But the words will come to me in their own time 

Tumbling and stumbling over in rhyme 

And the ugliest word that I ever heard 

My friends, is sacrifice 

It's an easy out for all you should have been 

And if there's one thing 

That I just can't bring myself to compromise 

It's blamin' somebody else for the state I'm in 

Oh, but then again 

Daddy never loved his baby girl, no how 

Ah, what's the difference now