The Sight Ain't Free

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Reviewed lyrics for The Sight Ain't Free.

I was a young girl

When I first saw the flame

Saw trouble coming down

before trouble had a name.

Folks called me crazy,

and they called me wise.

Funny how a woman gets believed after everybody dies.

I loved a man once,

Lord, he begged me to quit.

He

said that sight was evil

and I've been chained to it.

So I turned my back and tried to live

without the pain.

Then the day we needed answers,

I never saw him again.

No, the sight ain't free.

No, the sight ain't kind.

It'll show you what's coming,

but it won't change your mind.

Give me one more drink,

let the old girl see.

I buried too many people to let tomorrow bury

me.

Quincy had a warning

Quincy had a chance

I saw guns on the horizon

Saw the gunners advance

Some believed my vision

Some just left and cursed

Then the shooting started And the worst became the

worst

They call me my mama now

But I wasn't always tame

There was a time they whispered Murphy

The mad woman's name

I don't swing fists much anymore

These old bones ain't what they were

But I've still got one thing left That the

young folks never learned Oh, the sight ain't free

No, the sight ain't kind It'll show you what's

coming

But it won't change your mind Give me one

more drink

Let the old girls see

I buried too many people Let tomorrow Bury me

So bring me that jet child

And turn down the light

There's ghosts in the doorway, and they're asking me

tonight

I can't save everybody

Lord knows I tried

But maybe I can see tomorrow

Before tomorrow decides.