The Ability to Swing

Everybody talking

Talking pretty hard

Everybody talking

'Bout singing from the heart

If you want my opinion

It doesn't mean a thing

If you haven't got that

Ability to swing

Yeah, the ability to swing

Everybody thinking

Thinking pretty hard

Everybody thinking

'Bout singing from the heart

So listen up already

I'm saying it again

If you haven't got that

Ability to swing

Ah, the ability to swing

Dreams, take 'em away

Go it alone, honey Rome wasn't built in a day

But now it's a ruin, the joke has worn thin

And it isn't cool to abuse the ability to swing

Everybody working

Working pretty hard

Everybody working

At singing from the heart

If you want my opinion

It isn't worth a bean

If you you ain't in possession

Of the ability to swing

Friends, send them away

Go it alone, honey Rome wasn't built in a day

Now it's a ruin, the joke has worn thin

And it isn't cool to abuse the ability to swing

But each beat send me deeper under

Each beat send me more to sleep

Heart melts ice and heart spells danger

Don't hold your breath boy

'Cause it don't come cheap

Everybody looking

Looking pretty hard

Everybody searching

For a meaning in my art

I'll level with you bucko

It isn't worth a bean

If you ain't in possession

Of the ability to swing

The ability to swing

Mmm, the ability to swing