Amos Lee – Keep It Loose, Keep It Tight

Keep It Loose, Keep It Tight, I actually wrote in Glasgow, Scotland. Um I was just getting on tour with Nora Jones in 2004, I think in Europe and it was my first time I ever been over seas and sorta like in a – in a culture I was used to. And I was sitting in my hotel room one night and it was something a girlfriend at the time she was – she was thinking about how to keep it together, you know. I’m not sure that I’ll ever achieve the balance of Keepin it and Loosing it. Keeping it tight – that’s the idea. ( Background voice – spinning out ) Okay cool man.

Well I walked over the bridge
Into the city where I live,
And I saw my old landlord.
Well we both said hello,
There was no where else to go,
‘cuz his rent I couldn’t afford.

Well relationships change,
Oh I think it’s kinda strange,
How money makes a man grow.
Some people they claim,
If you get enough fame,
You live over the rainbow.
Over the rainbow..

But the people on the street,
Out on buses or on feet,
We all got the same blood flow.
Oh, in society,
Every dollar got a deed,
We all need a place so we can go,
And feel over the rainbow.

But sometimes,
We forget what we got,
Who we are.
Oh who are are not.
I think we gotta chance,
To make it right.
Keep it loose,
Keep it tight.
Keep it tight.

I’m in love with a girl,
Who’s in love with the world,
Though I can’t help but follow.
Though I know some day,
She is bound to go away,
And stay over the rainbow.
Gotta learn how to let her go.
Over the rainbow.

Sometimes we forget who we got,
Who they are.
Oh, who they are not.
There is so much more in love,
Than black and white.
Keep it loose child,
Gotta keep it tight.
Keep it loose child,
Keep it tight.

Keep it tight,
Keep it tight,
Yaa..

Amos Lee – Keep It Loose, Keep It Tight – From The Album: “Amos Lee” 2005