With Pen in Hand

by Aretha Franklin

From the album: Let Me in Your Life

Track 7 of 11 on Let Me in Your Life (1974).

Duration: 5:08

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Lyrics for With Pen in Hand

With pen in hand You sign your name Today at five I might be on that train You'll be free And I will be alone Alone (alone) If you think we can't find the love we once knew If you think that I can't make it all up to you Then I'll be gone You'll be on your own On your own (your own) And this is what I wanna know Can you take good care of the children? Can you take them to school every day? Can you teach them how to catch the fish And keep all of the bullies away? Can you keep them away? And tonight as you lay in your lonely, lonely bed And you try to tell me that when you look at the pillow Where I laid my head With your heart on fire Would you have no desire (have no desire) To kiss me? (To kiss me) To kiss and kiss and kiss and kiss and kiss me And if you can forget The good times we had If you think that the good The good outweighs the bad Then sign your name And I'll tell you what I'll be on my way My way I'll be on my way Yeah, I'll be on my way, baby You know I'm the one, you gonna want me back My way (sign), sign (my way, sign) You know you love me And you know that I need somebody to love (sign) Baby don't sign (my way, sign) Baby don't sign (my way, sign) Baby (my way, sign) Baby don't sign, don't sign

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