Everybody's Gotta Pay Some Dues

歌詞

If ever I have a son in life, I'll call him in one day Sit him down upon my knee and here is what I'll say You might lose your lover, people do sometime Oh, but it won't make sense for you to sit around cryin' Son, don't you know that when you fall in love Sometimes, you're gonna have the blues Well it may take years, but you're gonna she'd some tears 'Cause everybody's got to pay some dues, now, now Everybody's got to pay some dues You might have money, yeah, and a big fine car It don't matter what you look like, no, no it don't matter who you are Son, don't you know you can't win all the time Sometime you're gonna have to lose Just as long as you live, you got to take as well as give 'Cause everybody's got to pay some dues, now, now Everybody's got to pay some dues Whoa whoa whoa (Whoa whoa whoa) Yeah yeah yeah (Yeah yeah yeah) Yeah hea hea hea hea hea (Yeah hea hea hea hea hea) Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah (Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah) [Instrumental break] Well now, everybody's got to pay some dues, yeah don't you know it now, Everybody's got to pay some dues Make no mistakes now son about the things I told you I don't want you to think, yeah yeah, that I'm tryin' to scold you Son because I know you got to fall in love sometime Be careful who you choose 'Cause it's sure my son before your life is done You'll find that everybody's got to pay some dues, yeah don't you know it now, Everybody's got to pay some dues ([repeated in background to fade] Dues, got to pay some dues, got to pay some dues) I've got to pay, he's got to pay You've got to pay and she's got to pay No matter what you do, I say There is gonna come a day When you gonna have to pay Cain't nobody get away from dues Yeah yeah yeah now