I Wanna Know Why
(Tyler/Perry)
(Original Album: Draw The Line, 1977)



kickin' down the road
feelin' mighty slowed
with the likes of you

gettin' mighty spaced
never had a taste
of what you're goin' through

I can't bitch
went from rags to riches 
then to ragtime screamin' the blues

(chours)

I wanna know why
everybody's good intention
try to make a fool out of me
I wanna know why
everybody's good intention
gotta make a fool
gotta make a fool
try to make a fool out of me

swing low sweet cherry o
when a strange love showed me the way
ya see morecan't keep a score
when the whore's comin' on for the play

E. Poe eatin' crow
wonder if he knowed that the raven was mad
time passedand words lost the last
of the best thing he ever had
oh play roughcan't get enough
so they try to make a fool out of me, lordy

ain't foolin' me
ya ain't ghoulin' me
ain't foolin' me
ya ain't ghoulin' me