Conflict

by Bill Cosby

From the album: To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With

Track 2 of 5 on To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With (1968).

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Lyrics for Conflict

Of course, there's a whole conflict going on Between mind and body anyway You know, you got, for instance, now Think, the mind is weird, It digs to just look at things That are going to hurt the body For instance, if you're walking someplace and it's dark And a guy jumps out of an alley Like your body is ready, already the body has turned Ready to make it, but the head is still looking at what it was You know? And the body says, hey, don't be looking at that Let's watch out for the poles shooting up out of the ground Mind and body don't get along at all It is the mind that says to the body, or to the hand Don't turn that light on when you've got to walk from the bedroom To another room and it's pitch black That's weird, man, you should have more sense than that But the mind is really egotistical I know my way around this house Don't turn that light on And the hand says, what? The light said, don't turn the light on, I know my way around Meanwhile, the toes are saying, hey, no, turn the light on Turn the light on, will you please? Man, I'm not going through this again

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