Old Soul Lyrics

• I don't wanna romanticize another time that's gone by
• But I have to be honest and tell you that
• I am an old soul, sold,
• Some Nina Simone is gonna put me in the zone
• Quicker then some talk of Petrone
• Or Crystal or Pistol it's oh so tedious
• I want to hear some tunes
• Like strange fruit with meaning in
• I want to hear the wolf howling and the waters muddy
• I want it to dance, want it to make me cry but also funny
• Feeling that inner city blues, Marvin's the town crier
• Some soul-to-soul, some azwad with dubfire
• Some Gregory Isaacs, a little touch of Dennis Brown
• I love the soul but nothing moves me like that Reggae sound
• Jamaican blood, sound system upbringing
• Our black american cousins are big influences
• On the songs we are singing.
• It's all Soul with Africa at it's base
• So Fela and Masakela, Makeba play from the same place

• I remember, I remember
• Do you remember?
• I remember
• I remember, I remember
• Cause I'm just an old soul
• I'm just an old soul
• I'm just an old soul
• Do you remember?

• I'm quite sure the right chords are a cure for disease
• If music is the food of love, let us feast
• An open appetizer, whose songs cannot retire
• The legend Stevie Wonder comes bursting out through the wire
• The main course, of course, is Hendrix and Marley
• James Brown will get down and start the after-party
• After dark is only Pendergrass,
• Grab a partner and do the slow-grind wallpaper dance
• There is something about the old sound on the analogue
• And real musicianship that we just can't carry on
• Or maybe I just am an old soul romanticizing
• About the good old days when Miles Davis was a commercial artist
• When singers could sing soul
• And had a message
• And if you saw them live they sounded better than the record
• But how would I know I was not even on the globe
• When most of these artists rocked
• Simple, I'm an old soul

• I remember, I remember
• Do you remember?
• I remember
• I remember, I remember
• Cause I'm just an old soul
• I'm just an old soul
• I'm just an old soul
• Do you remember?

• Old souls, old souls
• Old souls, old souls
• And it feels like
• And it feels like
• Like I've been here before

• Are you like me, are you an old soul?
• Do you only like music from before you were born?
• When you're listening to records
• Or contemplating the questions
• Do you ever get the feeling that you've been here before?
• Do you find yourself talking about the kids these days
• Then have to remind yourself about your actual age?
• If it's only Reggae or Soul since you were five years old
• A little Blues, a little Jazz
• You know you're an old soul

• I remember, I remember
• Do you remember?
• I remember
• I remember, I remember
• Cause I'm just an old soul
• I'm just an old soul
• I'm just an old soul
• Do you remember?

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