Down and out in London   Los Angeles and Paris, too, uh-huh   I drank a river in my time   To get on through, yeah      Well, the night, it rise above you, rise above me   And the blues, they swirl around me      To the heart of soul   You got to bleed a little while you sing   Lest the words don't mean nothing, no   Get to the heart of soul   Gotta get to the heart of soul, yeah      Get to the hip, now baby   'fore the hip get to you, lil' woman   Try to bend me out of shape   Can't tell me, can't tell me what to do, little honey      Well, the night, it rise above me, rise above me, yeah   And those blues, they swirl around me, ooh, ooh      To the heart of soul   You gotta bleed a little while you sing   Lest the words don't mean nothing, no   Owe, get to the heart of soul, yeah   Gotta get to the heart of soul      You gotta bleed a little while your singing, yeah, yeah, yeah   Lest the words don't mean nothing, no   Get to the heart of soul, yeah   Baby, heart of soul, owe      From the delta   Down on the river   We need some heart of soul   In the world today now   A little bit of heart of soul now   In the world today   A little bit of soul now   A little heart of so-so-so-so, soul      You gotta bleed a little while your singing, yeah, yeah, yeah   Lest the words don't mean nothing, no they don't, no   Get to the heart of soul, yeah   Owe, baby, heart of soul      What I want   Is a heart of soul   What I want   What I need   Is a heart of soul now   What I want   Heart of soul yeah   What I want baby is a heart of soul   You got the heart, you got the soul   You got the heart of soul      You got the power, you got the heart   You got the soul