The Ability To Swing

Everybody talking
 talking pretty hard
 everybody talking
 'bout singing from the heart
 if you want my opinion
 it doesn't mean a thing
 if you havn't got that
 ability to swing
 yeah, the ability to swing.
 everybody thinking
 thinking pretty hard
 everybody thinking
 'bout singin' from the heart
 so listen up already
 I'm sayin' it again
 if you havn't got that
 ability to swing
 ah, the ability to swing.
 dreams, take 'em away
 go it alone, honey Rome wasn't built in a day
 but now it's a ruin, the joke has worn thin
 and it isn't cool to abuse the ability to swing.
 everybody working
 working pretty hard
 everybody working
 at singing from the heart
 if you want my opinion
 it isn't worth a bean
 if you you ain't in posession
 of the ability to swing,
 friends, send them away
 go it alone, honey Rome wasn't built in a day
 now it's a ruin, the joke has worn thin
 and it isn't cool to abuse the ability to swing.
 but each beat send me deeper under
 each beat send me more to sleep
 heart melts ice and heart spells danger
 don't hold your breath boy
 'cause it don't come cheap.
 everybody looking
 looking pretty hard
 everybody searching
 for a meaning in my art
 I'll level with you bucko
 it isn't worth a bean
 if you ain't in posession
 of the ability to swing
 the ability to swing
 mmm, the ability to swing.