Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow (1971)

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Track List (links jump to lyrics for that song):

Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow
Friday Night, August 14th
Funky Dollar Bill
I Wanna Know If It's Good To You
Some More
Eulogy and Light



Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow

{G Clinton, Eddie Hazel, Ray Davis}

Free your mind and your ass will follow
The kingdom of heaven is within
(x3)
Open up your funky mind and you can fly
Free your mind and your ass will follow
The kingdom of heaven is within

Freedom is free of the need to be free

Free your mind and your ass will follow
The kingdom of heaven is within
(x4)
Yeah

Free your mind and your ass will follow (your ass will follow)
The kingdom of heaven is within
Whoaaaaa!
Free your mind (will you free your mind?)
And your ass will follow (and your ass will follow)
I have never, never never
Never in my life
Have this given to me

Free your mind and your ass will follow
?
Not like you
You are as free as you want to be (your ass will follow)

Well, I discovered that this life that was gettin' to me
Is not really mine (Free your mind and your ass will follow)
If it were mine, I would have fun all of the time
I'm very disgruntled now
Now, I want a way out, now
I have to find a way
I have to find some way out
Free your mind and your ass will follow (x2)

Give it up, give it up (free your mind and your ass will follow)
Give it up and give it to me, baby

I'm calling you love
Love
?from my heart

Free your mind and your ass will follow

Wowww!
?

Free your mind and your ass will follow (x2)
The kingdom of heaven is within
Free your mind and your ass will follow (x3)

Get it on!
Free your mind and your ass will follow
The kingdom of heaven is within
Free your mind and your ass will follow
The kingdom of heaven is within (x5)

The kingdom of heaven is within (free your mind!)
The kingdom of heaven is within (free your mind yawf)
The kingdom of heaven is within (x6)

The kingdom of heaven is within (are you satisfied?)
(x4)
The kingdom of heaven is within
(I wanna know! Free your mind and your ass will follow)
The kingdom of heaven is within (I Really care)
The kingdom of heaven is within (x2)

The kingdom of heaven is within
I'm so confused about it all (x2)
I'm so confused about the whole thing
I don't understand
I don't understand nothin'
I don't know what I feel
I can't feel me, I can't live me, I can't be me
My mind, it does not belong to me
I'm so confused (x2)
I can't hear myself
I can't hear myself calling for help
I can't free my mind
So my ass can't follow
Someone help me
I got to get help
Here's my arm
Help me escape
I don't want to (x3)
I can't free my mind
No, no, no
They won't free me
I can't run
I can't get out
I can't free my mind (x3)
I'm so mixed up
So mixed up
What time is it? (x3)

Resurrection, free of charge
I can't hear me (x2)
Free your mind and your ass will follow
I can't
Free your mind and your ass will follow
The kingdom of heaven is within (x4)
Free your mind and your ass will follow



Friday Night, August 14th

{G Clinton, Billy Nelson, E Hazel}

Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah Ah! Hey!
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah Ah! Hey!
Friday night, August the 14th
Old lady luck smiled down on me
My income tax return came through
I put old 47 in the ?
I know that I probably should not
Matter of fact I probably could not
Buy all the good time meant for me

But then, Friday night, gonna be a memory
You know that the whole wide world will remember me, yeah
You find a little pussycat to come and see
Then I close my eyes and I'm free??
I know that I probably should not
Matter of fact I probably could not
Buy all the good time meant for me
Yeah!
Yeah

Friday night, August the 14th
(x4)

Well, I know that I probably should not
Matter of fact, I probably could not
Buy all the good time meant for me
Yeah!

Ah-ah-ah-ah Ah! Hey!
(x8)

Hey pussycat come and see
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah



Funky Dollar Bill

{G Clinton, E Hazel, R Davis}

Funky dollar bill
U.S. dollar bill
(x2)

You go to school
To learn the rules
On how to love and life your life
But think about it twice

The pusher push, the fixer fix
The judge acquits
The junkie leads his life
For the dollar bill
Funky dollar bill

Funky dollar bill
U.S. dollar bill
(x2)

You don't buy a life, you live a life
A father learns much too late
He was a-never home
He worked two jobs, never stayed at home
He had to, 'cause
His love life was gone

For the dollar bill
(x3)
U.S. dollar bill

It'll buy a war
It will save a land
It pollutes this air
In the name of wealth
It'll buy you life
But not true life
The kind of life
Where the soul is hard
My name is dollar bill

Funky dollar bill
U.S. dollar bill
(x7)



I Wanna Know If It's Good To You

{G Clinton, B Nelson, E Hazel, Clarence Haskins}

I wanna know if it's good to you, baby
When you do what you do to me
I know that it must have been good to you, baby
'Cause it sure feels good to me

I don't know what you been doin'
But it's got my whole world groovin'
Since we met everything keeps movin'
Because of you

Said you blow my mind, you sure look fine
You make my heart beat sweeter than
The honey that replaced the rain
Since I met you

I wanna know if it's good to you, baby
When you do what you do to me
I know that it must have been good to you, baby
'Cause it sure feels good to me

Oh! Do you feel the fire in your veins
Every time you call my name?
Do it give you the pleasure
To be the reason for me feeling good

Oh!
Yeah
Ah Ah Ah whooaa!
Yeah (x3)
Look out here I come (here I come)
Right back where I started from
Look out here I come
Right back where I started from
Whoa
Yeah
Look out here I come (here I come)
Right back where I started from
Yeah
Look out here I come (here I come)



Some More

{G Clinton, Ernie Harris}

Much quicker? than science fiction
Is this pain, ? my new affliction
Waves of pain are sweeping through me
Just tell me who would ever believe me
Rather than believe it's all so easy
To cause me to suffer all this grievin'
I blame it on something that can't be explained
I said that I've got a new kind of pain
I've got headache in my heart, heartache in my head

Each and every single day
Money is ? in some sort of way
Forget all the doctors being absolutely certain
For months for me they can't find what's hurting
When the pills that the pain brings on
It's got nothin' to do with the fact that you're gone
You ain't the reason why I don't sleep at night
It's only because I'm trying to fight this
Headache in my heart, then I got a heartache in my head



Eulogy and Light

{E Harris}

Our father
Which art on Wall Street
Honored be thy buck
Thy kingdom came
This be thy year
From sea to shining sea

Thou givest me false pride
Funked down by the riverside
From every head and ass, may dollars flow
Give us this pay
Our daily bread
Forgive us our goofs
As we rob from each other

He maketh me to sell dope to small children
For thou art evil
And we adore thee
Thy destruction and thy power
They comfort me
My Cadillac and my pinky ring
They restoreth me in thee
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of poverty
I must feel their envy
For I am loaded, high and all those other goodies
That go along with the good god big buck

To your horse
A ? grows there
Ahead in time, the unexpected soul-searching beam of the strobe
But now, the stairway looms
And as I rise
The cries of kittens, gray, make way
For there, now near
Here now, gone, alone
I feel my wrist, it flicks the switch
No lights reveal the room or me
She sees, then panics, grabs a light
I scream, silent comforts that are not heard
I panic, for I have not said a word
Hysteria hold the room in sway
I run, I back away, to hide
From what?
From fear?
The truth, the light?
Is truth the light?