Can't Take It With You When You Go (Live @ Sugarshack Sessions)

You can't take it with you when you go (no)

No, you can't take it with you when you go

Collect your silver, collect your gold

But in the end, what will you have to show?

'Cause you can't take it with you when you go (go)

I was born at quarter to two in the morning

In the best suit I ever worn

With my first breath, I sang out a warning

To the world I had arrived

And I cried out when I first saw the light

I was blinded

I had been so in love with the darkness

But adjustment is just part of life

And everywhere I looked, everything was changing

And every moment, a new face was appearing

And steering me, clearing my path to the next phase

Of the maze of unfolding awakening, shaking me

And then I drank from the heart of my mother

And heard the song from the soul of my father

And further I flew and into this new world of opportunity

Moving me, forming and informing me, so

Tell me, teach me, show me everything I need to know

'Cause you can't take it with you when you go (yeah, baby)

I was a punk little teenager tormenting my mother

With all the mistakes I made

Yeah, but I never once put a possession over a person

That's just how I was raised

And I labored in a full time job for minimum wage

But my savior was this guitar

Said aloha to these new slave traders

I'll never again waste another drop of perspiration

On a corporation no matter what they pay, no

And I don't need no Christmas bonus, I don't need no raise

'Cause it won't do you no good in your grave (no, it won't)

No, it won't do you no good in your grave

Go break your back, go on, slave away

To count your coins up at the end of the day

But it won't do you no good in your grave (no)

And when I grew into what they refer to as a man

I was told I had to have a plan

I never really understood why

Oh, but I told them I would try

It seems this system is just designed

To make you want shit you don't really need

Fill your heart with greed

Plant a seed of separation in your soul

Just remember, happiness can not be bought or sold

And you can't take it with you when you go

(No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no)

Children listen please, yo, let me say my piece, oh

Growing up is a disease, don't you catch it, yeah

Can't take it with you when you go (yeah)

No, you can't take it with you when you go

Collect your silver, collect your gold

But in the end, what will you have to show?

'Cause you can't take it with you when you go (no)

You can take my love with you when you go (c'mon)

And I'll take your love with me when I go

And hand in hand, we'll leave this land

And go wherever the trade winds blow

And we'll take this love with us when we go