Dan Bern - Soul Lyrics

Are you gonna scribble in the dark with a marker?
Or do you gotta have the latest pen?
If you tell a good joke and somebody laughs
Do we gotta hear it over again?
If you give someone a present
Is it just to make 'em happy or just to keep 'em at bay?

Are you gonna follow your soul?
Are you gonna follow your soul?
Are you gonna follow your soul?
Or just the style of the day?

Win a penny, lose a penny, here's a penny
Penny, penny, penny's gonna come and go
How many years will you sit there waiting
For the wind to change how it blows?
Do the skeletons in your closet all got
Twenty pairs of shoes to choose from, baby?

Are you gonna follow your soul?
Are you gonna follow your soul?
Are you gonna follow your soul?
Or just the style of the day?

Now I feel the changes coming down between you and I
Lions gotta roar and monkeys gotta bonk
Birds gotta swim, fish gotta fry
It's just a question I ain't necessarily leaning either way

Are you gonna follow your soul?
Are you gonna follow your soul?
Are you gonna follow your soul?
Or just the style of the day?

Now I feel the changes coming from the north
Old man winter's gonna blow us
Off the porch and back inside

Every time I go downtown
I see something beautiful behind glass
All the money in the world
Won't buy back a day of your past
I hear that you been crying
I wanna tell you that it's okay

Are you gonna follow your soul?
Are you gonna follow your soul?
Are you gonna follow your soul?
Or just the style of the day?